Remix a Track with the Kit and FX You Have You Dont Need High End DJ Stuff

0:00 Sorry about the wobble

Right guys, sorry about the wobble. I'm using my phone now. Seems to be one of the easiest and quickest ways of doing street, well actually videos now. So I've recently bought myself an iPhone 11 Pro and I am loving it because the picture quality is great. Saves me using a camera which you can upload, download, mess around and all sorts. Now I can just use the phone, upload it. Right, so I've got a tune here from Karmic Power Records. It's KPR318, Kami Love, DJ, a track entitled Sunlight. I'm using the club mix. As soon as I heard this tune, it just reeked summertime. Soulful, vibey, chilled out, great vocals but, you know, don't trust me. Listen to it for yourself. Alright, so I'll play it first of all and then when I played it, it gave me the inspiration.

For this video. So, and also big shout out, thank you very much to Karmic Power Records for letting me use their tunes. Of course Mr Lenny Fontana, love you brother, thank you. Right, really nice, sort of like, very melodic, soulful, chilled out bass line as well. It's wonderful. Almost we've got the vocals, it's very much like Paris from Inner City from back in the day. So much like Paris.

1:37 Track, producer, intro

Anyway, it inspired me to make this video. Back in the day a producer made the tracks, the DJ played them and that was pretty much it but very soon late 80s early 90s the producer started to be a DJ as well but the trouble is the DJ then who wasn't a producer could only play records and at best if they wanted to do some kind of a remix two turntables two pieces of vinyl and form some kind of transition. But now you can do it on the fly. Now, all right, got the XE here but even if you've got a Mix Track Pro or DDJ 400 you can still do some kind of remix so basically I'd say pretty much everything I do now on this you can emulate on a Mix Track Pro yeah and a DDJ 400. Simple run-of-the-mill entry level bits of kit.

4:19 Hour, minutes

So what i've done here is i've got a loop uh um that i've made from the beat of the track the last part of the track i've got a bit of sweep on there so it's sort of cut out the base it's almost editing the track and then i've got a cue point where the drop comes in after the intro so if we listen to the intro now the track i love that intro love it now we've got an echo okay so for example notice it's slightly off beat i'm not using quantize here what i should say i'm not using the rekordbox software that will sort of snap it in time for me so let's try to tap it in time hold on it's the echo i basically got then we can filter in the drum machine something like this you could spend an hour just having a mess around and maybe

57 and a half minutes of that hour would be just wasted time but then again it wouldn't be it's about practice and enjoy because that three minutes of inspirational vowel work and that'll work will be worth it because those tiny few minutes inside the hour might not be at the end or the beginning or the middle it could be dotted around that hour so you could have oh take that little bit that little bit that little bit and chuck it all together you see now the sweep sound is amazing

You see what i'm going to do i'm going to cut up the beat now and i'm trying to act like a drum machine and sort of production software making sure my timing is not only in time but my phrasing is right as well and all about phrasing check out some of my other videos but basically if you're not if you're new to djing and new to phrasing you're like what the heck's your about phrasing just think of the magical numbers which is 4 8 16 24 and 32. the rest is history and don't forget please like subscribe and share videos like this because it just helps the whole dj community practice and enjoy thank you

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