Some Urban Tunes with Simple Transitions from CD Pool July 2018

0:00 More new releases here from CDPool

Alright guys, more new releases here from CDPool. We're looking at the July releases, 2018 of Urban Styli. So you've got a bit of hip-hop, R&B... A bit of soul, you know, it's the new school mainly of the urban tracks that you can expect to get around today. Don't forget, check out the link in the description to cdpool.com. By the way, this is very important. To get any of the CDPool releases, you must be a working DJ. That's called a talkover. Alright, also with these videos as well, what I try and do is give you a bit of a demonstration tutorial as well. A lot of transitions for mobile DJs are based on a chop from one bang straight to the other. Generally, a mobile DJ who does the likes of weddings and whatnot will play the 7-inch version because very few people, mumsies and dadsies, want to hear a 32-bar beat intro of a track because they'll get bored so they want to hear bang, they want to hear the track straight in.

One track's playing, the next track is blended in. So for the partially sighted, I now have my two hands overlapping each other. My left arm is the one track, the hands overlapping is the transition, my right arm is the other track. So in a way you've got three tracks. You've got the first one, the transition which is the second track, and the third one. And the second track is the important one because if that doesn't sound... Half decent. If that middle bit does not complement the right side or the left side, it's going to sound terrible. So what most mobile DJs do is you'll just do something like this. Put my two fists together. Now explain that for the partially sighted. There is no transition. All you've got is a chop from one bang straight to the other.

1:59 We're going to bring in Bum Bum

What you need to do though is make sure that the transition is in phrase and also in key. If it's not in phrase, you may get vocals over vocals. If it's not in key, it's going to sound a little bit dodgy. Alright, so this one here is Get To Know You. We're going to bring in Bum Bum. I think it is the remix. Okay, a kind of a transition there. What I'm trying to do is maybe just blend them in without having to form an overlap kind of mix. This one here is the remix. Don't forget every single track that I'm playing now will be on the website. Just go to the Urban Releases for July 2018. And not only these tracks will be there, but all of the others. So I've only just chosen a few here. Okay, let's speed this one forward a bit. I'm going to go back a bit before that rap comes in and I'm going to bring in the Queen Inya Daya Ghetto, or D-Ghetto, beg your pardon, Daya. Let's diss it.

4:44 This one here is emotional explicit lyric version

Yeah, volume was a little bit high on the left side but there you go. Okay let's just beat this forward a bit. So the urban releases is modern day soul, R&B and hip-hop etc. This one here is emotional explicit lyric version. Okay, what I'm feeling here is maybe to exit this track, leave it with a bit of an echo to bring the next one in. I think you'll get the idea as well, so I'm going to speed it forward a bit. That works. That was good. This one here, icon explicit remix. Okay, now we've got a track here that may be very difficult for some people to work out. How to count in time with the track. The beat's all over the place, but listen. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four.

6:42 We're going to finish off with a track here entitled So Fine

Pretty much just the MP3 file, that could be say 118. But we're getting close to, you know, the same BPM as a slow house tune, yet it feels quite slow and that's because the production of the beat makes it sound slow. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Yeah, it's gone up to 190. Okay, alright so we're going to finish off with a track here entitled So Fine. Nice bit of filter on here I reckon. And also with using some effects. You see a lot of DJs do this. You know they're spinning it up and down, up and down. Try and use the effect in time with the track. So there, even though I'm adding an effect, if done correctly it sounds part of the track.

Now that is the great way of using effects, or that's how you should use them. So it doesn't sound as though, yeah, guess what, the DJ's using a bloody effect. It actually sounds part of the track itself. That's the difference between someone doing it correctly and just messing around, alright? Now I hope that's been a help. Don't forget to check out the link in the description to cdpool.com, Urban Releases, July 2018. And by the way... What are you doing next month? Because if you're not doing much, at the beginning of August 2018, go to East North Castle to Lakefest because there is a rather nice festival there. I'm in charge of the dance tent and also the secret wooded disco. We've got the likes of Express 2 there and quite a few other very good DJs as well as, like I said, there is a secret wooded disco which you've got to find it.

The music finishes at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's a family-orientated festival, but of course having a dance area now means it's, let's say, a little bit more like the dance culture is getting in there, okay? A whole bunch of my friends are going to be there. We've got some banging tunes, all kinds of dance music. To the Lakefest website will also be in the description. Alright, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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