CD Pool Urban June 2019 Preview and a Look at Loops

0:00 Urban releases, club, cdpool

Right, so in this video I'm going to be using some of the Urban releases from CDPool from June 2019. Now very quickly as well, if you are a new DJ or for that matter even if you're an established DJ and you're looking maybe to start getting some sort of compilations of the styles you like, then go and check out CDPool. Now what they will do is each month they will compile a bunch of folders if you download them. Or the hard copy on CD of styles. So for example, you can have dance, you can have more sort of underground deep house, you can have clubby music and in this case, for this video, you can have urban releases which is a bit of two-step, bit of soul, bit of R&B and hip hop and rap. Those sorts of genres.

And CDPool is designed for the working DJ and, of course, you need to be living in or around Europe. So if you're in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and so on, you're good to go. If you live in America, sadly, you are not allowed to get the CDPool releases simply because of issues... I shouldn't say issues, no. It's just because you will have... it's not issues at all. It's because you will have in America your own CDpool style websites. So they're probably just as good, go and check them out and like I said if you are living in Europe then of course you are good to go with CDpool. There is a link in the description right down there. Now the Urban releases are slightly more different. to let's say the club releases and the underground because the urban releases seem to have a lot more radio friendly tunes so what does that mean well let's imagine you have a club track now normally with a club track if you mention the word of you've got the club mix of a track

The difference between the club mix instead of, let's say, the radio mix of that track is the radio mix will be designed for daytime radio. So you're looking at three minutes, 23 and a half minutes long, whereas the club version will more likely be five minutes and above. So what you will find on the urban releases, you do tend to have more of the radio friendly tracks or lengths. So this does bring in a bit of a dilemma because if you want to start doing long transitions, how can you make a long transition with a radio version? Because you will have a lot of vocals and the worst thing in the world is to have vocals over vocals. The analogy there, it's a little bit like having three people in a room, one person is listening and the other two people are trying to...

2:54 Exactly how you can get around

Talk to that one person and tell them completely different stories. You can't. It's just, shut up, you talk. Right, right, you shut up, now you talk. It's exactly the same when forming a long mix. So follow my moves now and I will explain exactly how you can get around that. Okay, so let's imagine we have on this deck here, we have the extended version of a track. That's playing. On this side we have, no actually I'll do it the other way around because I've already done it here. I will explain that as well. So let's imagine, you see this is all random but it's good fun. Action, camera, none of that, no script, it's just me going, right, press play, what do I do? Right, I'll show you. Right, so we have on this side we have the extended version of a track. It's six, seven minutes long.

Lots of long phrasing, 8 bars, 16 bars, so we've got plenty of time to mix in the next song. On the other hand, this side, we haven't. We've got the radio version which is maybe 2 or 4 bars and vocals comes in. So what do we do? The crowd are listening to this, the volume's up, that's playing. We bring our next track in, we know it will mix in harmonically and it sounds good but we haven't got those long phrases. So what we do is we form a loop. And that's what I've done here. Have a listen. This one, by the way, is Wiley and Stefflon Don, a track entitled Boasty. There's my loop. That's it. Okay, so what this lets me do now is just bring in this track very slowly and I can spend as much time as I want bringing this track in. And then once the transition is complete, all I do then is I come out of the loop. And that's it.

4:48 Loop loop, basic files, extended version

There, it just so happens that this track anyway has got a reasonably long kind of introduction. There we go. But what happens then if the third song we want to bring in is the extended version and we want to mix the extended version into the radio version? Actually, that isn't so bad because what that means is that even though you've got vocals going on here and short phrasing, you should really theoretically have longer phrasing in this track which means you may have vocals going over the long phrasing but that doesn't matter so much because in the extended version, so long as you don't have vocals coming in and out all the time, as I said earlier, you're not going to have that sort of... 2-way conversation with one person. So what you can do is, let's go back to the Boasty track. I'm going to rewind and press play. Okay, now I'm using the XDJ-RX2 and I'm using very basic files. I'm not using rekordbox. Okay, there we go. All I've done is I formed a loop and I set that in hot cue. So we come out of that loop.

There we go, I'm back into my loop and now that loop will carry on playing and I mix in my third track. So I hope that makes sense. Again all these videos not only are they showing you the new releases but also I like to give you a few tips and tricks as well. Now I listened to these tracks earlier on And there were quite a few that I liked actually, so I'm going to go to track number 10. Now this is not or this won't, I don't believe it will be number 10 on the downloads or the CD simply because the files I put on here are very basic files and they've been brought to the RX2 via... In alphabetical order, so that's how I'm looking at them now. This track here is entitled Do It and it's the original mix. And this style is known as UK Garage. It's quite uplifting, quite vibrant. It's also quite fast as well. So here we go, I'll just speed it forward a bit. Now what I like about this is that soulful, jazzy feel. I love this sort of style, man. Ooh, this one, this has got vibe.

7:48 Actually I liked was, looks like

Okay, Monster Boy and Downie H, Do It, the original mix. You see, the Urban releases, it's not just slow hip-hop. Some of these tracks have got balls, man. This has got seriously big testicles. Okay, the next one actually I liked was, looks like Monster Boy again and RAF, Be Free. Okay, we'll bring that down. Again, this is just a demonstration on the new releases. I don't want to play too much of the tracks, don't want to take the piss out of the music industry, but hopefully it will give you an idea of what to expect on the release actually. So here we go. Very different to the last track. Very much more deep, but it's got that... There's something about this track, it's like very soulful, but it has got that sort of clubby feel.

Full of smoke, loads of bass, you can't see where you're going, a couple of flashy lights but good sound system. And then the next one I liked was number 16, a track entitled Under Your Skin. Okay, let's check this out. This is the original mix, very sort of Erykah Badu kind of feel, they're very laid back and chilled out. You know, this is the sort of tune You've worked hard Saturday night, you come home, you sit there, bottle of Jack Daniels, big fancy gun. It's happening, this is happening. Loving it, loving it. Okay, 22. Don't forget as well if you check out the link in the description and go to the CDPool website, go to Urban 2019 for June, you'll get all of the tracks that I'm playing as well as all the others and you'll be able to listen to all of the others. There's a soundbite on each track. Okay, the next one here.

11:11 For the double bass, you know

Is a track entitled Too Much, it's the original mix, The Allergies, featuring... and almost like a De La Soul sort of feel here. It's brilliant! It's amazing! And again, you've got that original kind of bass sound. I mean, it might have been made on some form of drum machine or whatever, but you've got... You know, like it. For the double bass, you know. Amazing! Lots of good samples in there. Loving it! Okay, and one more, which is 24, which I've already played. Alright, so once again, if you're into CD4, or should I say, if you're not into CD4, go and check them out. These are the urban releases for June 2019. And what they do as well is every single month, you'll get... A new compilation of Urban, January, February, March, April, May, June, July on and so on. And also the same for some house styles as well. They have these global releases which is more sort of your underground deep soulful house. They have then actual underground releases which is twisty bendy experimental sounds including some drum and bass. You've also got club releases which is sort of stuff you'd expect if you're in Ibiza.

And the dance releases, which is more like bigger and euphoric house tracks, handbag shenanigans and the sort of glitzy nightclub sound. What are you doing by the way at the end of the year? Now if you are in and around the UK there is a show called The BPM Show and that's happening towards September-October time. I will put an exact date in the description. CD4 are going to be there, I will be there with them on their stand and they're going to be doing a little bit of live streaming. I can't say too much at the moment because nothing's set in stone but what will happen is I will be there with CD4, there will be some kit to use and we will be doing some live streaming. So if you want to come along and have a little bit of a go, by all means get in touch.

And also, maybe you just want to talk to them and have a look at the other releases they've got. So come along to the BPM show and I'm going to finish it off with Practice and Enjoy. Muchas gracias. Danke schön. Tusen takk. Thank you very much. And what's the other one? Oh! Tell me what thank you very much is in your language. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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