Time to Get Creative in the Mix DJ Underground CD Pool March 2019

0:00 European market, comment, away

Right, so before we go into the tunes, I'm always badgering companies for bits of kit to give away free guides and for nothing. Maybe you do or don't know, but during Christmas, I'm always giving away controllers or something. Now, I'm hoping that this month or maybe next, I'll be able to give away some CDs or a twin CD from CDPool. Now, the sad thing is, I'm sorry, it will only be for the European DJ market. Simply because the Americas have their own kind of CD pools and it's just the way it is. So if you do watch my videos and you're in Europe, then stick around because during the course of the next few weeks I will be giving you info on how you can win a double compilation of whether it be Global, Underground, Club, Urban from CD Pool.

Once again, it will only be for the European market and I'm going to promote it through a video. Maybe all you've got to do is put a comment down there and if I choose your comment as the winning comment, of course I will make sure where you're from and then I will send that to you and of course it's going to go to you. So if all of a sudden your address is in Wisconsin or like in Texas, then you're not going to get it. On the other hand, if your address is in France, in Germany, in England, Ireland... In Bulgaria, then sorted. Right, now this is from the Underground releases from CD4, a track entitled Get Busy. What I'm finding with this month's Underground series, it's very sort of techie so far. Nice kind of vibe and feel to the tunes. Yeah man. This one here is perfect, the original mix. Alright, so with today's technology, you can pretty much do a mix that is...

2:34 Seamless by pressing a couple of buttons, but then maybe it's too good

Seamless by pressing a couple of buttons, but then maybe it's too good. Maybe it's too clinical. Here's an analogy for you. Let's imagine you're at home and you cook yourself a homemade burger. So you buy the meat, you chop it up, you add a bit of onion, you add some salt and pepper, vegetarian burger as well. You make your own bread and you make a burger and you know exactly where it's from because you made it. And it's probably going to be, it's probably going to taste better. On the other hand, you could go to a chain store, not chain store. You could go to a fast food place and buy some manufactured fodder that's manufactured fodder. That's, I'm not saying that is exactly what DJing is like if you use a sync button, but quite often the mixers have got no soul.

When you do a mix using your ear and it's slightly off and it's a bit chunky and floppy and droppy and like I've out-beaten it just a bit rough, it's got soul because it's real because you did it. And that's what I try and teach people. Be real, be yourself. The more you can use this and the less you use all the buttons and the program, the more life your mix will have. Trust me. Even if the beat goes off slightly, or it's maybe a little bit out in some way, or you do a spin back out of time, it's just got more life to it. Instead of snap, snap, snap, everything in time. We don't want mixes regimented all the time. We need them to have life. Put you inside the mix, right? Okay, so let's find another tune this one.

Again, if you want any info on these tunes, check out the link right down there to CDpool.com. These are the underground releases for March 2019. Boom! Man, I've been doing this for a while now. Right, let's have a look, see what else we got. I'm going to choose a random track. Not that one because that's not going to go. Yeah. In fact it will go with this break. What I'm going to do, I'm just going to speed it back a bit because I want to loop So I'm going to go to quantize mode to make sure the loop is here perfectly. There's me saying about it being off and on, and I'm going to quantize. But then again, it's good to do quantized loop because you do want that loop to be seamless. If the loop is a millisecond out, then every time it goes around, it's going to be a millisecond out. So once, one, twice, two, three, four, seven, nine, 22, 100.

5:31 Can you stop going around?

Can you stop going around? Thank you. Right, okay. I think I was a little bit out of time as well. But I formed a loop in the break which was the entire break and then I was using the cue loop and halving that loop. So we're almost like taking the loop and giving it more energy by reducing it, reducing it, reducing it until eventually you go... Oh, sometimes I do! What an idiot. Actually, most of the time I think what an idiot. So, imagine in the bus, you know, all of a sudden loads of people quiet and you go... No, seriously, sometimes this is life is about living. Have you ever been on a bus, right? And you just sat there. I want you to really appreciate the space you're in and that you can do what you want when you want to do it because you're real and you can just do shit.

As long as it's legal. Of course, this is legal, but you'd look an idiot. But then it's a lot of fun. You're sat there on a bus, everyone's quiet, looking at the phones, they're doing their own thing, and all of a sudden you go... Look at you, are you nuts? But then, are you really? Because you're just making a point of saying, fuck you lot just sat there being boring, I'm just going to be mad. Sorry, I'm mad. OK. Got a nice kind of flow to this one. OK, this one here... This is Getting It and it's spelled G-E-T-T-I-N, no G. Getting, Getting It. It's the original mix. Oh! Oh! It's got, it's funky as well, this tune. It's just got a bit of funk to it, love it. Okay, so... Which is Ultra, U-L-T-R-A, and then Micron, M, small i, C-O-N, edit.

9:48 And just drop a funky beat

He spell edits F, G, C, Y, W, V, L, S, O, D, O, F, F, P, U, P, Y, O, U, R, S, T, G, S, N. Ooh, horse ride! I'm going to do a random tune here now. This is harmonically but just like the first part and just drop a funky beat. Pretty close. Yeah it works. This one's Surrender Extended Mix. Why has it gone up? Sorry. Okay. Oh, right, I'm going to stop that. Okay. Emergency, the VIP mix, I do believe. Oh, there was just a part where it just went like... Just imagine, you know, bus ride. There you go. Like that. But you don't. You get up and just... Not that you want to do that really because it's very, very silly. But check this out. Right, let me show you something about a rewind. Now, a lot of people like rewinds, but when they do a rewind, they like mess it up and it's like where they stop the rewind, it just doesn't work in time with the track. Let me show you how you can make it in time with the track. So let's imagine you've got a track playing on the right-hand side and you know damn well this tune.

Is going to cause some serious damage on the dance floor, so at the drop I'm going to set a hot cue. Okay, so I've got the drop. What I'm going to do now is go back a bit. Just make sure that's on the one. One, two, three. Oh no, there. Right, okay, so...

14:36 Let's imagine now we're before all of that, two buttons there and

Okay, so what I've done, I've done a hot cue on the drop and I've done a hot cue before the drop but in time and phrase. So, let's imagine now we're before all of that, two buttons there and... Okay, so by now you're getting the whole crowd creaming their knickers. They're like, that'll be urban! You're just giving it some shit. Come on! Okay, what you've done there is you've given the rewind that's in time. Because when you do a spin back, you'll stop at any point. So you could be anywhere. But if at least once you've done your spin back and then you hit your hot cue, you bang on the money in time and in phrase. Oh, what a tune, man. And if they want the drops, you've got it there as well. All right, check out cdpool.com, March.

Underground 2019. Bunch of badass tunes here. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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