CD Pool Last Look at the CD Releases 2022

0:00 I kept these CDs for an opening, like an unboxing

Ladies and gentlemen, it's an end of an era for CDpool. Now, I kept these CDs for an opening, like an unboxing. Now, I'm not sure if these were the actual last CDs that they were selling, but these definitely are the last ones that they sent me. Return address, Devonshire House, 223 Upper Richmond Road, London, SW156SQ. You can find that address on their website anyway, cdpool.com. So if you do or don't know, I have been sort of, you know, helping to push the tracks from CDPool for a very long time, very soon after I started making the YouTube videos. The reason being is because I just like the way they work. I love their product. I love the music and the multi-mix of genres they push out. So you can see these haven't been opened. So let's do this. Right, I think these were from last year as well. So here we go. Yes, November releases Underground House Radio. Now again, I'm not sure if they did the December releases, but I am practically 9900% sure.

2:25 Is, yes, your club style

Dance Hits of November The DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. Is, yes, your club style. So, you know, when you go out, you'd expect to hear these in a pretty good nightclub. Bit of vocals, but mainly sort of, you know, melody, bassline, you know, pumping fall-to-the-floor sort of sounds. Underground, left-field, twisty, bendy, sort of a couple of D&Bs in here maybe. Techno, trance, progressive, some experimental basslines in there as well. House. So what have we got? Beyonce. Stormzy, we've got the 1975, what else have we got? We've got Ray and we've got Drake. So just to name a few, gives you an idea.

Now even though they're not doing the CDs anymore, there is a silver lining which I will explain at the end of the video. House, let's choose, all right, we'll choose the first one this time. CD1, okay. A name you should have heard of, Marshall Jefferson, Cole Lawton, HP Vince. And then they compiled those and put them on the next month. Now, even though some DJs may say, oh, they're November, they're old. I honestly think the days of having a CD with tracks that are two, three, six, eight months, ten months, two or three years old isn't old anymore because... There are so many tracks out there that I haven't heard, you haven't heard, that could be from 20 years ago.

6:54 Dances, what have we got?

So really now it's about us digging back in the past, finding those tracks that really rock your boat. Chucking them in a set and people go, wow, where's this from? I mean, this is an amazing tune. How new is it? And you can say, well, it's 15 years old. I mean, there are some tracks from like the early 90s that are absolutely banging and you can chuck them into a modern day set and get away with it and people wouldn't know the difference. Underground. OK, Tom Enzi, DJ SKT featuring Miller Falls, a track entitled Drip. What else we've got?

Body Positive, a track there which is number 10. Bearing in mind this is CD number 2. It's such a shame really in a way that they aren't using these anymore but it is what it is. Okay so let's go through now the club series. What have we got? A track entitled Never Let You Go, Closer, Feed Your Soul, Numb, Losing You, Bamboo Spice, Freedom. And, hold on, let's put that there. Beats, again, more soulful R&B, hip-hop and the like, track entitled I'm Back, explicit, and again with the beats, you're more likely to get swearing, let's be honest. Okay, track here, number eight on disc number two, Closure, Little Sims here as well, and KC... Posse. Now, all of these tracks that I'm talking about, if you go to the website, you can look at the entire playlist. Just go to, for example, November releases 2022, Dance, and you will find Sigala, you'll find Nicky J, you'll find Bonka, you'll find, what else? Elton John and Britney Spears. Amazing. Anyway, alright, and the dance hits. Let's have one more look.

A look at this. So dances, what have we got? We've got Sigala, we've got Ryan Ennia, Elton John and Britney Spears again, we've got Bonka. So again, what you're seeing is you do sometimes overlap the tracks but then, you know, you have got tunes out there that are very clubby but at the same time on the radio or you may have a track that is a sort of tune you could play at a wedding but then you could go out and dance to it on a Saturday night. Alright, so there you go. These are all the CDs. Now, it's a shame that they're not compiling these anymore. But if you go to the actual website, what you'll find is you may go to say the house selection. And at the beginning of the month, you may find there's three there. But then if you go two days later, there'll be seven. Two days later, there'll be 10, 15 and so on. So they're always updating the tracks. Now, they may not personally be producing CDs anymore.

But again, it is completely legal. If you are paying for the tracks, you are allowed by right to, of course, copy those tracks. And if you have been used to like me using the CDs and you've still got a disk drive, make sure you keep a laptop with a disk drive because they're slowly moving out. You know, the system wants you to download everything or should I say the system wants you to use the cloud. Like I've said time and time again, make sure you own hard copies. That's so important. It's so easy to just stream. Don't just stream. Have hard copies. So again, going back to what I was saying, you can download your tracks. You've got them on your laptop. Make sure you get a copy on a hard drive. And then of course, why not get copies on CDs if you're like me, old school, and you still like using the hard players. Anyway...

That's it. So there you go. Now I will be doing another video playing some of these. Okay, so thank you very much for watching. Don't forget there will be a link in the description to cdpool.com. Bearing in mind as well, I have said in the past they don't just do up-to-date tracks. They've got a back catalogue of club classics and also a great back catalogue of the sort of tunes you play, let's say at a typical commercial wedding. Alright? Thanks for watching, practice and enjoy.

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