Lets Do a Mashup with Some House Tracks from February CD Pool Global Releases 2018

0:00 G'day if you're in Australia or wherever you actually are

G'day if you're in Australia or wherever you actually are. Right, I've got a few tunes here from CD Paul The Global releases February 2018 and I'm going to kick off with actually one of my all-time classic tracks that has probably been around since the dinosaurs but it is a stomping tune. Deja, a track inside of Brighter Days. Now this tune here is... If there was... If there was a way of describing... No, no, I'll start again. Let's imagine that you're about to go on a spaceship to travel to far-off places in the universe and to meet aliens for the very first time and you need to take one track to show them what house music is. It would have to be this tune. I'm sorry, it would have to... If you didn't take this, then I would just like... I don't know, I'd come and see you and tip a bucket of water over your head with one ice cube.

2:13 Here's how I've set a couple of hot cues

To be like Up Yours, you have to take this track. This track is just, it's the one! This is Brighter Days, this is the Masters of Work mix. I mean, just check it out. It's just got everything. This is a tune! Yes! If you agree, thumbs up. Please, please. Uplifting, vibe, energy, soul, bit of gospel, good. Now on the other side I have Bronx Chia, a track entitled All Alone. Here's how I've set a couple of hot cues. But it just so happens, right, I was messing around earlier on. That's the beginning of Bronx, this is the beginning of Kashmir. Check it out. Slow it down a bit. And yes, for all you muppets who are saying, oh, put it back in. I'm going to mess around with it very close. You know how to mix like this, by the way. Get in touch. I do lessons.

4:02 Let's find something else

This is a drop. Oh my god. 124, 123.9. Okay, let's find something else. I'm just going to randomly pick a tune now, okay? And you'll know it is random because over there now on the readout, there's nothing. There's no wave format or anything like that. So if I'd have played this tune earlier on, we would have seen a little bit of a wave format. Okay, so... Okay, let's just chuck this one in. Brazilian style. This is Lifetime. This is the original mix. Now again... The Global releases four-to-the-floor, more mellow, chilled out garage kind of tunes. I'm going to be honest with you now. Completely honest with you. This one isn't doing it for me. No. Okay, let's try Ron Trent and Lona Brazil, Manchild. Yeah. Ooh, yeah. It's like African style here. Another one was Brazilian. A little bit more African. Also sometimes known as Afro House, but it...

6:48 I'm going to let your mind wander there

Again, you know, a lot of Afro house percussion. Okay, but it is African style percussion. You've got to have an ear for it, but there's a difference between the Brazilian style and the African style. The Brazilian... The Brazilian style is nice and clean and, you know, smooth, whereas the African style is a little bit more fuzzy. Oh God! I'm going to let your mind wander there. Yeah, wonder what the hell I'm doing. Alright, so Man Child, this one here, it makes you forget. There, but there you go, never mind. Okay, let's put it forward slightly. Oh, actually that started off really good and then it just went a little bit naff, but it's my own opinion. Just got an idea here. Might work. Okay, let's just skip it forward a bit. I think it was about here. Maybe not.

See how much fun it is sometimes, but just having a little bit of a mess around. A lot of people are very anal about DJing. They've got to be like a machine. That isn't the case. It's about going back in time and seeing what it was like when people used vinyl. There were mistakes. There were hiccups. Now maybe you haven't heard of a DJ by the name of Roger Sanchez. He's, I'm not saying old, old school, but that guy, what he does do is he sticks to his roots. Now, I want you to check out a couple of mixes by Roger Sanchez in The Boiler Room. If you haven't heard of The Boiler Room, then I'm sorry and you class yourself as a DJ, then just stop watching me right now and never go on YouTube ever again. You have to check out The Boiler Room because there you do see a lot of DJs

9:58 Should I spoil it and put it on someone's ring, a Brazilian ring?

How they really play. Some of them will make terrible mistakes, but you know what? They don't care. Other DJs will do this pristine set and you think, my God, that was amazing, but at the same time it's live. This is live. Live streamed and they're all recorded, so if they make a mistake, you can't edit it, it's there. Roger Sanchez, if you listen to him, I think he was in India or somewhere like that in one of his sets. Mumbai, I think it was Mumbai. And you listen to that set and it was rough, but you know what? It was real. It's like chucking your hand into a river in the middle of Africa and pulling out this white stone and thinking, I've got a diamond here. Should I spoil it and put it on someone's ring, a Brazilian ring? On the other hand, should I keep it in its raw format?

There it is. We like it raw. We like it African style with a bit of fuzziness, don't we? Stepping back to what I said earlier. Okay, so let's have a... No disrespect to Brazil. So, let's put what we've got here. We've got Lies. Now, straight away, this is... Alright, already we've got that happy kind of skippy feel. Not that I really want to skip at the moment. There's no bloody room in here anyway to skip, so... Lies the original long mix. Five minutes. I'd say the original medium to long mix. There's normally a long mix and that is about seven. Sorry. Okay, let's skip it forward. I'm going to finish off with Jer, Jer, Jer, Ack. Danny Cobbler original remix. Yeah, like it. Has got that old, definitely old school flavour. House music. Quite slow as well. It's on...

Oh, it's actually 1.22 at the moment, that's why. Normally I should be worrying about 1.23. Now in the background, very nice kind of very subtle melody. Sometimes that subtle melody gives something everything it needs. You know, it's not a full-on piano bang-bang in your face. It's just that little tiny riff underneath the entire track. You know, it's like... It is actually like this. Here's a good analogy for you. It's like walking into a room and having a really thin carpet, yet your foot is cushioned so well until you realise it's the underlay that's making your feet have this warm kind of feeling. But you can't see it, but it's there. There it is. That melody's building now. Love it. Okay, spin it forward a bit. Oh!

12:40 Website, check these tunes out

Oh, there we go. There's that lift. Now this is the sort of tune, these are the tunes I really do love. Wow. Then why isn't it spinning? Let's try the beginning of the track. Let's try that again. Description to CDPool.com and also very quickly as well, CDPool is for European DJs only. You've got to be a DJ, you've got to be working. Go to the website, check these tunes out. As well as of course all the other releases. There are other dance releases, there's your dance, your urban, your underground, your club. Also there are the releases from last month and the month before and the year before. Also what they do is compilations of old school tunes as well. So let's say you imagine you haven't got a good collection of old school classic dance tracks. Go and check them out, send them an email, of course they're going to reply and they will let you know if...

They have what you're looking for. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Digging this.

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