DJ How to Boost Your Old School Dance Tracks

0:00 This potentially could help you immensely

Right ladies and gentlemen, this potentially could help you immensely. Well hopefully all of my videos do help you and on the odd occasion they make you smile. Now let's imagine first of all you are a new DJ and you're looking to increase your old school dance collection. Well pay attention. On the other hand, you are an established DJ who started, I don't know, DJing when the first Pope was born and you've got loads of vinyl and you've realised now that all of your vinyl is great but then you've got nothing to play it on because you've probably got rid of your vinyl turntables. Even if you've still got your vinyl turntables you don't want to use them anymore because it's a hassle to take loads of vinyl around but you would like to still have those tracks.

Well CDpool have got this. This is the first box set. It's Classic Beats. Now this is from 1 to 20 and I'm going to play you a few tracks from the first sort of few CDs. So what we've got here, we've got a collection of dance classic tracks but it's all styles so don't just think it's house. It is practically everything. So what I'm going to be doing is going through a few of the tracks. This is one of them. In fact this is track number one from disc number one. Inner City Big Fun. It's 7 minutes and 39 seconds long. The BPM is 119 and it's on 10 records limited. So there's a bit of information there as well. Now what they have done here with the box set as well is you can select the tracks via Artist A to Z.

Alternatively, you can go from the title of the track A to Z. Okay, so there's good ways of searching for your tracks. So I'm also going to play track number seven from disc number two which is Ray's Break For Love and that is 5 minutes 24 seconds long BPM 118 from Champion Records. Okay, so we've got some classics here.

2:18 This is what house music used to be

Classic tunes. Absolute classics. This is what house music used to be. Much slow, about the 120 mark. I mean back in the day it was felt as though it was the right kind of BPM. Nowadays, it sounds slow. Okay, what else have we got on disc number one? Possibly one of my favourite old school dance tunes ever. Dance tunes of like forever. Alright, now...

Just pause that. Now let's imagine you have all of a sudden been sleeping under a stone and you've just woken up. You will know this tune. Let's imagine you have never heard music in your life. Someone blocked you. You didn't have any ears. You had no ears. You just had a nose and mouth and eyes and you smelt and etched stuff and looked and you just didn't hear anything. And you've got ears. And you can now hear. You'd still know this track. Let's imagine you were able to wake up your great-great-great-great grandfather, get him out of his coffin and say, Oi! He'd go, I know that tune. It's one of the best tunes of all time. And it goes a little bit like this.

4:48 Just talk amongst yourself, will you please?

Come on. Yes. But you see what I love about this? Guess what? It's the acapella. Now, I have done many, many videos on acapellas. And people are going, where do we get them from? How can you get hold of them? Well, this is an acapella and it's on this series. It's an absolute classic tune. Now let's go and have a look at disc number three and four. So that was disc one. And this is, where are we? Disc number two. So I'm going to put those back. In fact, I'll just put them over here. Just talk amongst yourself, will you please? Right. Okay. So I'm going to put disc number one from part two in there and disc number two from part two in there. Right. So what have we got? Little Louie and Club Lonely Save the World, which is an absolute classic.

Frankie Knuckles, Slow Motions, Bells of New York. Enjoy Anthem. Right. Here we go. Once again, a classic. Now this is the goosebump kind of tune. You know, listen. Monster Cut. Absolute Monster Cut. Okay. What else have we got in here? Oh, number four, Tori Amos, Professional Widow. Another classic. Here we go. Just chuck this one in. Now this one. The Anthem tune is sort of like early 90s. This is more sort of mid-90s. And this track was one of those tunes that when it came out, people grabbed hold of it and just said, you know, I want some of this. It's that kind of crossover tune. It's almost like you could have heard this which you did, Daytime Radio 1, and at the same time it was hammered in the clubs. Brilliant tune.

Just wonderful, wonderful. All right. What else can we find here? Let's have a look. Express 2, good. Gat Decor Passion. Rhythm on the Loose. Oh! Oh, come on. Now this shows you how diverse this series is. Again, another a cappella. Chic and Good Times. All right. Now there will be information in the description on this series that will take you directly to CD Paul. Now, I'll be honest with you. Okay. This series is only useful to you if you are looking for the classic dance tracks. If you are a new DJ and all you're looking is forward, then by all means go and check out the latest cuts. But I want you to bear in mind that as you progress in the industry that we're in, there may come a point where someone will say,

Well, you know, what classic cuts have you got? And if you say, well, the only things I've really got is from today onwards, then they're going to look at you as though you're a numpty. Because any DJ has to know about their history to be able to move forward in the music industry. I hope that's been a help and practice and enjoy. Thank you very much. There'll be more videos like this on this series and the other two box sets very soon. Thank you.

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