Urban DJ Tunes December 2020 Master Tempo Off

0:00 It's the holiday season

Alright guys, it's the holiday season. I'm playing the Urban Releases December 2020 and I've always got to be careful for copyright issues. Let me just pause that by the way. This is track number three.

Right, track number three from disc number one which was, let's have a look, Symptoms by Bass Boy featuring Paige Nicole. Okay, so I've always got to be careful about playing these tunes, copyright issues. And if anyone out there seems to think that how come you get away with it all the time? I don't. Very often I'll get videos completely blocked worldwide on the odd occasion. I'll get a video that's say blocked in a certain country. More often than not, if I play copyrighted music, I will get an email saying you're plated cop... plated? Playing copyright music just because. Just giving you a heads up. Don't worry, they'll just be adverts over your video. Now, I think that's a great idea because if the artist is getting revenue it means the artist is getting paid but also, I've said this many, many times in videos.

So long as you're not blatantly playing the entire track in proper stereo for people to copy and you're just like, you've got that track in a mix or you're playing a certain part of the track or like I do most of the time which is I use the microphone. I use the microphone from the camera which is pretty crap audio to be quite honest. If anything, the artist is benefiting or artists from me promoting their music so people can hear the tracks therefore maybe be interested in buying it. It's like, hello? This one here, track number seven from disc two, Got My Mind Made... sorry, Got My Mind which is the DJ mix. Now, these two are a bit of a two-step for you. Again, the Urban release is a multi-mixture of soul, R&B, hip hop, two-step, that kind of feel so it's not house, this isn't house, this is like sort of a two-step almost like a minimal kind of speed garage feel.

Now what I have... actually, I'm going to pause that. What I have done before and I'll do again and again and again. Until it sinks in. Believe me, makes a hell of a difference and this is back in the day what DJs used to do. OK, so I'm going to go to plus or minus 16 again. Let's have a listen to this track at its normal speed. It's got good vibe. Now listen to it.

3:07 I have just increased it tenfold just by speeding it up

I have just increased it tenfold just by speeding it up. But also I've got the master tempo on if I take the master tempo off, it just sounds bad.

Always got to make sure you've got the master tempo on because it will keep the same key of the track. Otherwise, you start having the artist sounding a little bit like Mickey Mouse with his testicles being squashed.

4:49 The reason that worked is because I turned off the master tempo

Not very nice. Track number four here from just number one, which is... Symphonies. No, hold on. No, no, I just played that. Lights out. DJ Zinc and Notion. That'll probably go better with that. Yeah, so that's better. But again, we don't want to do that. The reason that worked is because I turned off the master tempo. Now what happens is when you increase or decrease the speed by any more or less than 3%, you start to increase and decrease the track in semitones, which in turn makes it sound different. So there we actually started to sound different and it was in key there. But anyway. Let's go back to track number four. I'm going to engage master tempo again. Let's go to plus or minus ten. Speed it up again.

Now, a lot of these videos are just really showing you what to expect with the new releases. Don't forget there is a link to CDPool.com in the description. Just love this kind of vibe. This, yeah, it's got me straight away.

Got to tell you earlier on, I went to a place called Averyron. Which is on the West Coast of Wales with my little boy Blaze. We had fish and chips by the harbour. And then we also got a big tub of chocolate Haagen-Dazs ice cream. And we like rinsed that big time. Marvellous. Can't beat some Haagen-Dazs, you know? Oh, love it. Track number seven here. That was track number eight from disc number two, which is a track entitled Ecstasy. This one here, track number seven from disc number one, which is Lockdown. Chris-Shane and Smash, the main mix. I'll just speed it forward a bit. OK, I'm going to finish off with track number ten from disc number two. Very retro style feel to it. It's got that kind of educated, real... A band has been in a studio and made a track.

You'll see what I mean.

7:52 That track, I think it's

You can just imagine now, a studio and a band inside the studio, just, you know, putting something together. That sound there, right? Anyone who knows Casual Relief Records, Green Velvet did a track a while ago for Donna Summer and it was called Flower, I think. Hold on. It's just that sound, uh-oh, uh-oh, that. If you go look at that track, I think it's on Relief Records. Casual Relief Records, Green Velvet. For Donna Summer, it's called Flower, I think. You'll either know or if you listen and find it, you'll go... Love it, eh? Track number ten, which is Know What I Want, the original mix. OK, so we've got a few more days before NYE. Now, I'm going to be doing a live stream, OK? On YouTube from four o'clock in the afternoon all the way through till whenever.

The first DJ is going to be a very good friend of mine, Matt Parsons, DJ Snips. Don't know what he's going to play. He's going to do about an hour and a half. I've got other DJs coming along, so it's not just me. It's going to be two or three DJs hopefully playing a multitude of music. We'll start at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, UK GMT and go on until we're just adding up, I suppose. So that's enough for me. Don't forget, check out the link in the description to see you at www.nye.com, practice and enjoy. Thank you. Nice tune.

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