Some September 2020 Club Tunes Review

0:00 On the odd occasion it's good to give some disclaimers

Right, so on the odd occasion it's good to give some disclaimers. Now, first of all, some of the kit that I use has been given to me for free. But I use that word free lightly because they don't give me kit and say, there you go, goodbye, thank you very much. No. Not many people do that anymore. There aren't many people out there that will give you something for free and just walk away and think, goodbye. No. There has to be some form of return. And of course the return is me promoting the kit, showing it off, demos, tutorials and the like. So when I use that word free, of course I am not paying for the items with money. But I am paying for the items with my time, okay? So if anything, it's almost the equivalent of someone going out, working hard, earning some money and being able to buy something. Except with me, it's the other way around. I get things given to me and then I have to work for the fact that that stuff, thing, music was given to me. Now CDPool, no different.

CD Paul have been looking after the Ellaskins site for over 10 years. Now, if I wasn't happy with CD Paul, I wouldn't bother, alright? There have been other companies, music companies, who've contacted me and I've refused them because I don't need them. I have everything I need with CDPool, with ZipDJ and with WeMix.eu. So WeMix.eu I use for video files, ZipDJ I use for an eclectic mix of anything and everything. It's like delving into a new dimension and finding something exciting and going that shit hot. And with CDPool, it's down to basics. They will give you, you know, if you imagine, you've got a bunch of bananas, alright? You don't want the bunch of bananas, you just want them peeled and the banana in front of you. That's what they give you. They don't give you stuff to work on, you've got to go and look for things and trawl around the web trying to find the tunes you want. No. They find the cream of the crop and they give it to you. Alright.

2:37 I'm going to play track one here from the Club Series from September 2

So, that's just the disclaimer. So if anyone says, oh here he goes promoting again, well you know what? I am! There you go. Right, so I'm going to play track one here from the Club Series from September 2020. Now when I first heard this, and I swear on my life here, I thought Purple Disco Machine. Guess what it is? It's not Purple Disco Machine, yeah it is. It's Purple Disco Machine, okay, a track entitled Hypnotized. Now, as soon as I heard this, I thought, you know what? This sounds like Purple Disco Machine. And it was indeed, because it's got his style. Now, I'm going to stop the music there, just in case copyright issues and all that sort of stuff. But basically what you find is you will have producers who have their style, they have their stamp. So you could hear...

20 tracks from different producers, and if you knew those producers, you could almost work out who's made what track, even if you've never heard them before, based on the style of the track. And what Purple Disco Machine seems to do, he's a producer stroke DJ, he's mixing up modern day styles with almost like an 80s feel. And one of his stamps of approval, let's say, is where he has this fall-to-the-floor beat, just dum-dum. There's something about it. If you listen to a lot of his tracks, they're very similar in the structure of how the beat is put together. OK, so this is track number one. This is hypnotised from Purple Disco Machine. So I'm going to put the camera here. You know what? I like punk. I like just moving things around and real.

5:12 Player, seems

Okay, we've got track seven coming in, disc number two, which is Back to Then. It's the club mix. I'm not doing phrase mixing or anything like that. Something I want to talk about as well is the master tempo. Now, I have talked about this before, but I think the more we can get it out there, the better. It's probably one of the best effects of all time. Because what it does, it keeps the key of the track. And if I demonstrate, if I press master tempo, not only is the track slowing down, but the overall feel, the energy seems to be dipping. And that's because the music is dropping by semitones as you slow it down. Listen, speed up. Speed up. Also, the music content seems to be rising. Now, I don't know about you,

But I think the CDJ-1000 Mark III was like the last step before we got into like the digital sort of player era. Now I'm not saying what's going on is bad or good, but we are getting now into an era of everything seems to be done for you. You know, a laptop now will do it all for you. A player will do it all for you. This is why, in a way, I'm sort of enjoying going back to basics. Vinyl turntable and a player like this. It's, you know, to me, this player here is something that, and if you've got one, look after it. If you haven't got one, try and get one because this is real, this is tactile. You can still use CDs. I just like this. And you've got a screen there that will give you a little bit of information, but you can't really rely on the BPM because it's got 132 there and it could be 132.7, 132.8. So you've really got to still use your ears. Right, so I'll just slow it down. We're going to find something now in disc number one. Okay, I'm just going to check this one in. This one here is track number three from disc number one.

7:37 There's my head in that house today

Walk on water. I'm just hoping that I'm not going to get some kind of, I don't know, email from YouTube saying, sorry but you can't have this video because you've used music from people and it's like, I'm just playing tunes, I want people to listen. There's my head in that house today. Never mind. Track number 11 from disc number 2, Only You, DJ Licious. I like the beginning of this, have a listen. Comes straight in with that nice melody, liking it. I'll nudge it forward a little bit. Now again CDPool can give you, you can buy the hard copies or you can buy the downloads and if you are interested in joining CDPool there's a link in the description alright, check it out. Try number 11 there. I'm going to slow that down a little bit. Number 6, extended mix. The artist is Who, but it's W, H and a zero. I like that, that's cool. Alright so the club series is more your up-tempo

10:24 All those buttons

Big room, vocals, a lot of expression and vibe and energy. Not as cheesy as the dance series but it's just they seem to have a little bit more depth to them. The dance series is a little bit more like girly, cheesy, poppy club remixes whereas this is the sort of tunes you would expect in a more of a I suppose professional nightclub if that makes sense. I don't know, maybe. Okay, we'll do one more. I'm using, by the way, this mixer from Formula Sound which is the FF 2.2L. It's only a two-channel mixer but it's spot on. If you're the sort of person who doesn't want something that people walk in and look and go, wow, isn't that amazing? Look at all those buttons. But you know... You're hardly going to ever touch any of them. You're the sort of person who wants something where the person or company who's made it has spent more time thinking about the inside of it than the outside. So it's a little bit like buying a hypercar that's just a shoebox. It looks crap on the outside, but it'll get you from A to B in one second. This is the same.

When you look at the top, it doesn't look much. But then when you listen to the quality and you do a bit of research on how it's been made, then you go, I get it. I mean, we've got low, we've got low mid, high mid and high. And high pass and a low pass filter. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to put your comments in, like and subscribe and hit that notification bell as well. Again, if you don't like this video, put a thumbs down. I don't care. You can do what you want really. If you like it though, thumbs up, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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