New Releases CDPOOL Global and Dance May 2013 and random DJ Lesson

0:00 Some more new releases for you from CDPool

Alright ladies and gentlemen, some more new releases for you from CDPool. In this video we're looking at Global May 2013, track 1, disc number 1. The idea behind these videos is to give you, well I suppose yeah, a glimpse of what to expect on the CDs. Also a couple of tips and tricks as well. Kit I'm using, it's a set of cam KCD 550 USB and also a mixer from cam, the K160 USB mixer as well. Track one, disc number one. And I'm going to sort of float through these tracks and see what we can find. Try and do some form of mix. Now I haven't got any headphones plugged in here. This is my first tip. Sometimes it's not advisable but it's another idea of being a little bit more open to the sounds that you hear. Not using any headphones and just randomly selecting tracks.

Playing them over the track that's playing, they may be at time out of sync, out of key, but it also, it will give you an idea of what the tracks sound like with the track that's playing through a speaker instead of headphones. They see straight away. Don't like that. A little bit too much going on there for me, so I'll do the track. I think what I'll do here is sort of a drop. Now a lot of people out there do not know how to beatmix. It's not the easiest thing to do in the world, but then again it's like anything in life. If you can do it and it's easy for you, then it's easy for you. If you can't do it, then you can't do it. I've said this quite a few times before, a lot of people are great at playing violin and some people haven't got the foggiest even which way it goes. Right, so what I'm going to do is put this to search and go through the track. Going towards the end of the track now.

2:54 You can do this sort of technique as well even if they're not beatmatc

So what I'm going to do now is no beatmatching, it's just dropping the next track in. What I would have done, I would have done what you heard earlier through my headphones. Make sure the levels are correct and I can even do that by visually looking at the LEDs. If you are partially sighted or visually impaired then of course you will need to use your headphones for this. You can do this sort of technique as well even if they're not beatmatched. Straight drop, bang from one to the other. When I do my gig logs and I'm using my camera, it's very difficult with one hand to do everything you need to do. So of course what I try and do is some kind of transition. Quite often they're very short and snappy. Alright, track number here from disc number two. As ever, I'll put a hyperlink in the description, take you directly to the CD4 website. Right, let's find another one on track number one now. Just going to pause that. I like that sound.

4:52 Very big change there, but again, very random

To the next level again, when you bring the other track in, take out the mid from the side that's playing. So, kill switches is as soon as I bring the next track in, I'm taking out the mid from the track that's playing and as soon as I then stop that cut in, I bring the mid back in on the track that's playing. Alright, now I'm just going to bring this one in. This one here is track number two from disc number one and I'm bringing it in On the high, not the low. Very big change there, but again, very random. Wang this forward a bit. Let's get some cue points on this. I feel like having a bit of fun mashing up this track. Okay, so what was going on there? Very simple, set two cue points, one on the low, one on the high. And with using the up-fader as well, you're just getting that tiny, subtle part of the beat in, not the whole thing, not something like this. What you're doing is you're just getting that bump, bump, bump by using the up-fader.

7:23 You're only getting that one tiny beat

So of course when you're pressing cue, your up-fader up and you're only getting the first tiny bit. You're only getting that one tiny beat. Okay, we'll put this one forward a little bit, put back onto search. At least it's what you find, they're very, very uplifting, soulful, garagey kind of things. Very, very, well, what I would class as beautiful tunes. I'll be honest with you, some of them are like, should be in a Lyft or cafe bar. I'm only being honest but generally they're very good. Number eight here, taken from disc number two. I think again if you listen to this cut, this cut epitomizes the way the global releases are put together. Finding those deep, dark and secluded underground tunes that can imagine some guy in a really smoky atmosphere in some basement somewhere chugging away on Alberton Live and just getting this monstrous beat down. Wonderful.

9:28 Track 8, this is number 2

Track 8, this is number 2. Alright, think of a number. Yeah, I'll go there. Right, this one here is track 6. Let's just bring back track 8 back in. Sorry. Wacky time signature. Again, no headphones. When you haven't got any headphones, this is my personal opinion, you're sort of... You have to think more. You've got to think more. You have to think outside of the box. Have you ever seen that picture? Like that, like that. Top, bottom, sides and there's dots in it and people think, oh, what do you do? It's actually... The picture is about thinking outside of the box, not inside the box here. Track number 6, disc number 1. Alright, I'm going to try and find something in disc number 2, still on the global, and then we'll go to the dance releases. Picking up here now is the beginning of this track. There's not much going on, there's not much beat at all. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to take away... On this mixer by the way, we have treble, we have high middle, low middle and bass. So...

11:50 Track 11 disc two

I can actually add my own bass now, my own bass beat over this track even though there isn't one there. All right, we've got the beat there. Let's do this again now. This is the track, track six disc one. The next one is track 11 disc two. Bam, bam, instead of bam, bam, bam, I'm doing bam, bam. Again it's all about timing. I want everyone to be active, okay? Gap key and the whole lot but I don't care. Well no, I do care but again. Demonstration. Let's get a search, track number 11 here. Let's find the dance releases. Okay, so the next one now we're going to have a quick look at the dance releases for May 2013. This one here is track number 11 from disc number 2 from the global release. It's slightly more uplifting which could be a good sort of transition track from say your garage house feel into a more sort of dancey clubby kind of Ibiza style music.

15:01 In Ibiza, there's clubs for any type of genre you can imagine

But again, even in Ibiza, a lot of people think Ibiza is uplifting hands-in-the-air stuff. In Ibiza, there's clubs for any type of genre you can imagine. Yes, they will even play Top 40 Cheese, but generally you find that sort of stuff in the fun bars and places like that where people get pissed prior to going to the very expensive clubs where drinks are extortionate price. Track number one, if you're not familiar with the dance releases, they are... What I would class as the cheesy, poppy kind of dance. Or they've got that cheesy, poppy kind of dance feel. But a lot of the tracks you listen to on the radio are three and a half minutes long and by the time you've started listening to them they've finished and the DJ starts talking a load of rubbish. These on the other hand are about seven minutes or six minutes or five minutes. A lot more. There's a lot more going on here. Times vary from...

17:23 This one here is track number 1 taken from disc number 2

4 minutes 12 to over 7 minutes, so enough time to go to the toilet. To their own of course. You see the sad thing is if the likes of Radio 1 picked up on this, they might have done, I don't know, and played it incessantly then it would be a huge hit and everyone would think how wonderful it was. And the only reason that's happened is because they injected it into your mind and made you like it. Such a shame. Sorry, I... sorry. Go away! Right, this one here is track number 1 taken from disc number 2. And again, if we have a look, this is Bowie Jane, Miss You, Hate You. It's the 7th Heaven Club Mix and it looks a little bit like that. Alright, we're going to search through this. A bit more darker, a bit deeper down here. Now it's gone to that cheesy bit, taken from disc number one. Okay, what I'm going to do, I'm going to find one more track from disc number two then we'll call it a day with this. Again, what I've got to explain to you is these kinds of videos are a few tips, a few tricks also showing you the tunes but

Even though I'm explaining certain things, a lot of people may agree, some people may disagree or even a lot of people will disagree, some will agree. It's always a good way of finding out how other people work as well. So another good tip for you, go and watch loads of videos of other DJs mixing because you will get plenty of tips from other people. You probably look and think, that's a good idea, I like that, I'll incorporate that to my mix.

20:02 Finish off here with track number eight

Okay, finish off here with track number eight. I think you know this one by now. Here's in the charts. This is more of a dancey kind of version. See, this isn't too bad. Put it forward a bit. As well, what I'd like you to do, if there are any tracks that you don't like, let us know. Any tracks you do like, let us know. And if there are tracks that you don't know the name of, There's a program out there, you can get it on your tablet, definitely your iPhone or your Android. It's called Shazam! And what you do is that will listen to a certain part of the track and if it's out there on the web, it should let you know what the name of the track is. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much. A bit of a spin back.

And then hit on the cue point. So, however much or however little I spin back, so long as I hit the cue point in the right time signature, it will always be in time. Practice and enjoy.

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