More in Depth Look at Folders BY Vibe for the New DJ Underground February 2019

0:00 I've got a bunch of tunes here and I'm going to skip through them

Right, this video, by the way, I'm going to go for a run in a bit. Yeah! And it's pouring outside. Right, this video could be quite long but hopefully it will help you to construct your sets. Now I've got a piece of paper there and I've written happy, deep vibe and sad. But I've also written them in different colours so it's a lot about the visual aspect. So I've got a bunch of tunes here and I'm going to skip through them. So if I just go to the first track, this is Agent C, Damn 2. What I'm going to do, I'm going to listen to a little bit of this tune and I'm going to try and get a feeling of how it makes me feel. Does it make me feel happy, sad or is it a deep vibe? Now, I'm not thinking about key here or style, genre or anything.

I'm just thinking about what it makes me feel, how it makes me feel. Okay, so track one, I'm going to put just the number one. It'll probably take a long time to do all of these. So I'm going to put a one next to deep vibe. Okay, let's go to the next track. Here is a track entitled Show Me Something.

Quite uplifting.

Actually, even though it's got that kind of new age sort of bass line, it still makes me feel happy. I like it. It's got a nice kind of skip to it. So happy one, get my... Blue pen and put number two there. All right, let's go to number three. This one here is Ghetto Blaster, deep. So number three, I'm going to write down with my pen. Make sure I put a line in between one and three because it might end up looking like 30, mate. You don't want that really, do you? Didn't have to blow the bloody doors off. Sorry, right. Okay, that's an old one. Number four here, which is Please Stand Up. Sounds like someone farting. Okay, number four is Deep Vibe. There's a lot of deeps there. No sound yet. Hey, no sound. Okay, this is track number five.

2:54 Number six

Deep Vibe again, number five. And let's go to number six. That was That Sound. This one here is Animal.

Okay, so track number six. All right. Now... Well, all right. I'll talk a little bit more about this very shortly. Number seven.

Sounds a bit like Dean B in the house.

Maybe you get... Probably get... Oh, no.

There's a good old dubstep. Oh, drum and bass dubstep. Oh, well, there you go.

I know it's got that sad vibe to it. I'm just going to put sad in there. Number seven. Okay. Because it's got that sort of mellow kind of feel. Okay, track number eight here. Doing It.

4:08 Track number nine, which is

Ooh, that's making me feel happy. So track number eight, happy. And go to track number nine, which is a track entitled Girls, Justin Hobbs.

Sad, definitely sad. I know it's deep. But it's got that kind of low energy sort of feel, which isn't a bad thing. That's track number nine. Okay, track number ten. We'll do a couple more. Track ten and then eleven. This one is called The Way. Kevin McKay.

One more. We'll do one more. There. This is Higher Self by M.A.N.T.

There will be info on these tracks in the description, okay?

Oh, my God. I like it. It's making me feel happy. I like that. Okay, so what's the point in all of this? Now, many, many DJs are grabbing a whole bunch of tunes and they are putting them in some form of software that will put them into keys. Then... They're bunging them in folders in a certain key and that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that because it means you don't have to spend hours trying to find a track that will go with the one you're playing. You're skipping through that one now. No, no, no, no. To find something that's in key, it's, you know, bring it out of a folder. It's in the same key as the other one and mix it in. That's fair enough. But what you have to understand is that the folder that you have in one key,

The tracks can vary in feel and energy and vibe. So, firstly... I've done this with a few tracks. Now, you may have to do this with all of the tracks you play. It could take a long time. But it's a bit like keeping fit. I'm going to go for a run in a bit. I don't go out all day and run or cycle. Well, actually, I do cycle all day. Yeah, sorry. No, I do actually sometimes. Right, alright. No, I can't really say that now, can I? Sod it, I'm going to. Okay. Don't really, unlike me, go out all day and keep fit. And then... No, actually, this is a good one. I will go out all day cycling, come home. But then I don't then spend the rest of the week doing nothing. I will still go out cycling a little bit during the week. Exactly the same analogy.

You don't really want to go out all day, do something, one thing all day, go and try and keep fit and then the other six days just sit there in bed and lie down expecting that that one day is going to keep you fit. It probably won't. It's actually doing... The reverse. Because you're stressing your body out for one day and the rest of the time you're relaxing little bits at a time. So if you think about it, if you've got like 1,546,000,000 tracks and one, you don't want to spend all day just going through them. Actually, you have to be very quick. Just do a few at a time. You know, every... Make it like in the morning you get up, you go for a poo, you have a wee, you spank the missus, you drink a cup of coffee well, I do.

8:01 You go from a minor to a major key which gives that natu

Anyway, black eye yesterday and then you spend 20 minutes just doing a bunch of tunes and then that's the way you go. Alright, so what's going to happen once you've done this? Well, let's imagine you have now got in this virtual folder that you've decided to call happy, sad, deep, soulful, whatever. You probably have two or three hundred tracks. So inside that folder you will then put them into key and then you'll have subfolders in different... keys. But all of the tracks will have the same kind of vibe, feel and energy. So when you're forming that mix you can go, for example you're looking at the crowd and they want to be... They want to have this euphoric moment and you're in A3 and you're in the deep folder from A3 you know you can go into

The other folder and get an A3 or an A4 or an A5 even if you want that really big jump and give them some balls. Alternatively, A3 to B3. You go from a minor to a major key which gives that natural kind of energy boost in a mix. Try this. Now this is something else. When you're doing a set try and go into the major scale and you will see the difference on the dance floor. People smile. It's happy. It's more of a feel of euphoria and love and happiness instead of that... deep, sort of vibey moody kind of you know like... I can't call it unnatural really. It is natural but when you do major keys all the time and keep away from the minor... Sorry. Start again. When you do minor keys all the time and keep them from the major then the whole set is very moody.

All right? Now the tunes I've been using are from CD Paul February the underground releases there will be information in the video but spend a bit of time doing this and it will help you when you're out there and all of a sudden you've got a bunch of people in front of you and they want to be uplifted. You don't then have to... Oh man, all these tracks are in A3 I've got to sort through 100 of them. No. You'll go straight to that folder with a natural euphoric kind of feel and you know you'll bring out a track in the key that complements the one you're playing and you know damn well. I'm sure that whatever track you pull out is going to have the energy and the vibe that you want. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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