Make a Tech Sound from Just a House Beat and a Look at Some Underground Tracks CD Pool May 2019

0:00 How you can get a beat

Right, got some new releases from CDPool, the underground releases. I'm going to show you how you can get a beat and make it sound like a techno beat, even though it wasn't a techno beat to begin with. Let's have a listen to a little bit first of track one from disc number one. Not much going on there. Right from the beginning. I'm going to just form a loop so I don't have to go back forwards, back forwards. I just want that kick there. Dub echo.

Doesn't sound too bad, but we haven't got that techno vibe yet. Echo here, now dub echo. OK, a lot more techy. The overall depth of the effect is very overpowering on this track. So what I want you to do is do what I can't do at the moment, and that is use an MP3. Because if you've got the same track on the other side, have the track on one of the sides... Clear, open, no effect. Of course the other side you have the effect and then what you can do, you can have the sound of the original track, no effect, playing over the effect, therefore you can get a good separation of sound and you can choose how much you want that techy kind of effect to take over. Make sense? I hope so. Alright, let's go out the loop and House of Virus. Open up, let's spin it forward a little bit.

I mean, it is quite techy anyway, you know. Very sort of progressive kind of tune. Again, with the underground releases, you're looking at the twisty-bendy side of dance music. What I'm doing now is just really sort of going through a few of the tracks. No kind of mixing or anything like that. What I'm gonna do, I'm just gonna play a few tunes and go, what can we do? What can we add?

2:56 Here's a general rule of thumb for you

Okay, next one, track number one from disc number two, Terry Grant, Dancing In My Head. Straight away we've got that almost guitar funky kind of vibe and the House Of Virus tune definitely was a progressive building sort of cut. That track is on for over eight minutes. So, here's a general rule of thumb for you. If you have a track that's three, three and a half minutes, it's a radio version, phrasing is going to be two, four bars. Anything above kind of five minutes, you're looking in the realms of club remixes. Anything longer than six and seven, and you're definitely looking at rather long extended versions, and also the phrasing will more than likely be a lot greater as well. 2 and 4 bars per phrase in radio versions. Club, 8 and 16. When you get above 8 minutes, 7 and a half, 8, you're looking more like 16 and above for the phrasing. I don't have any headphones at the moment so that was a hot look. Okay this one here quite appropriate for today's kind of web thing. This is Instagram, yeah. Club mix. Okay let's speed it forward a little bit. Nice kind of rolling bass line here.

5:10 Random number, choose a number quick

Again, in one of my previous videos I talked about tracks and, you know, where they should be in the mix, you know, beginning, middle and end and so on. This to me, this is kind of a middle sort of tune, in the middle of your set. Alright, random number, choose a number quick. Seven, well done, okay. Game face. Track, sorry, track seven, disc two, game face. Peter Lutz. This is the Di Martini, yeah, Martinelli, Martinelli remix, sorry. I'm not saying that it's a harmonically matched because I'm just choosing random tunes here at the moment. Probably not. Ah, yeah, okay, maybe I'll turn the sweep off. What a flunker. Oh dear, you've got to laugh, haven't you? You've got to laugh. Okay, let's beat this one forward a little bit.

6:46 This is almost in the realms of a big room kind of tune

This is almost in the realms of a big room kind of tune. What is big room? How can you define big room? Generally, big room tracks have got lots of euphoric kind of feeling energy to them. The breaks build and build with loads of instruments and vibe and the drop is just full on in your face. You know, quite often big room tracks, hands in the air, a lot of expression. It was a car, it would be a Trans Am with lights flashing, you know, it would be like an engine, 10 litre engine, just full on in your face. You'd hear it coming pretty much 10 miles away. Okay. 1991 Midnight original mix over there, CD1 track number 6. D&B but almost got that two-step kind of vibe to it. It's quite minimal DMV, I like this. If you're interested in CDPool by the way, then by all means come along to the BPM show this year. There will be information in the description along with of course a link to CDPool. I'll be there on the CDPool stand playing a few tunes and if you want to come along and have a little go...

By all means, but there'll be a couple of thumb drives in there from CD Pools so of course you can use their tracks. So if you're not familiar with their tunes then come along and just have a little go. And CD Pools, well very importantly, they don't just do the new releases. They do radio versions, they do chart releases and also they've got an immense back catalogue of your sort of plop... I nearly said ploppy. Oh fuck. Not dead. Copy tracks and commercials. Oh God, you can see me? No, don't. Old school tunes as well, like your dance classics. Oh God. Help me please. Alright, like it. Alright, track number nine. This one here is for real DJ Rose. Ah, that bass line. Hype, I give hype. Doug Lazy. It's like Doug Lazy. Let it roll. Bit of train spotting going on there.

10:01 I'm going to choose one more from disc number 1

Okay, I'm going to choose one more from disc number 1. We're going to try number 11, a track entitled Breathe. Damn good idea. This one's 7 minutes and 17 seconds. So, let's see if what I said earlier on was correct. I'm going to go and press play first of all. Let's go sort of halfway through or to that sort of break there. And let's start counting from that break. And let's see if we get 16 bars before the change or next change. There. 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12. There you go, bassline's coming in. Proves the point. Alright, don't forget to check out the link in the description to CDPool. Also, to the BPM show that's happening towards the latter part of this year, 2019. And look forward to seeing you there.

Once again, these are the Underground releases, twisty bendy sounds from dance culture extravaganza. Practice and enjoy.

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