How Can You Help Stop a Fight at a DJ Event Gig Urban CD Pool June 2020

0:01 Chilled out, laid back and relaxed

Chilled out, laid back and relaxed. This is Ada playing some of the tunes from the Urban releases for June 2020. Now I have to admit I actually like this one. Now you may think what the hell's going on but I've always been into that afro style sort of beat and this has got all of that. It's nice laid back, chilled out, it's the sort of crossover tune that You can quite happily play, you know, towards the end of the set, last sort of few tunes of the evening where you're winding people down and so on. So let's find something else. I want to talk about that as well in a bit, which is really important. Okay, this next one here is A Minute of Peace for the World. Nice bit of a two-step vibe here. And again, these videos, a lot of them

With the new releases, it's just giving you an insight into what to expect on the new releases. Again, this is June 2020. Tracks from CDPool, I need to say the underground then, the open releases. Okay. Alright, so again, another nice vibe with this one. Now what I want to try and find is on that side. So let's go to Bad. This is the main mix. Now, music is about vibe and energy and how it makes you feel. So every single track will have a different give you a different feel maybe compared to someone else but overall The feel you have may be similar in some ways to the person next to you and next to them and so on. This is why when you play a certain track on a dance floor, the dance floor goes nuts because the tune is giving an energy to a collective amount of people. But if you listen to this now, it's a little bit like kind of Bad Boy and Deep. So...

2:25 This is the explicit version

What I want to try and do is find something that is a little bit more in your face. Let's try better off. This is the explicit version. Okay, this is even more chilled out than the Ada track. I want to find something that's like, ooh, gangster, full on, you know, like hard hitting. California, this one here. This is a nice tune. It's got that old school kind of brand new heavies vibe. Loving it. Nice. This is a good tune. Wow. Liking it. Loving it. Loving it. That is a nice tune. Okay, let's try clutch explicit. Now laid back again. Got to try, oh here we go, hold on. Let's try cold explicit. Not too bad but I know what I want to give an exact idea of what I'm all about here. No, a bit too chilled out there. This is deserted main mix.

5:17 Two-step, UK garage at its best

Look on the bright side, at least I'm going through a lot of the tunes. Do you feel me? The original mix. I think what this proves as well is the Urban release is more into your soul vibe energy low melodic kind of slower BPM so you will have a bit of two-step there but like you know two-step UK Garage Generally though, it's R&B and hip-hop. So, I know there was one I heard earlier on. Let's try Falling. That sounds a little bit... Nah, still chilled out and laid back. Radio style. Flavour of the old school. Let's try this one. Ooh, yeah. Definite remix here. Liking it. Nice. Nice remix. Okay, let's try Flowers. Liking it. Okay. Exactly. Two-step, UK garage at its best. Now, listen to that at the moment. That's telling me it's at 130.9 BPM. So how can we give this tune a lot more energy? At the moment I'm on plus or minus 10% on the deck. And again, the percentage of your pitch adjustment is based, of course, on how you use...

But I'll start again. If, let's say, you're finding it very difficult to change the BPM using the pitch on the track you're playing, it could very well be because you're at a high percentage. You could be plus or minus 1650. If you're at 100, then it's practically impossible. It's not impossible, but it is practically impossible to beatmatch. So the lower percentage you are, the easier it is, the more control you have over the pitch. You want to be sort of tick, sick, tick six or ten percent. All right. But what I'm going to do, I'm going to go to 16%. Now let's start this one here is flowers. OK, that's not too bad. I'm going to cue it there and now I'm going to speed it up to 143. Now listen but more feel the energy.

6:47 Much more energy now by speeding the track up

So much more energy now by speeding the track up. Very important as well, I made sure that the master tempo is engaged. If the master tempo isn't engaged, it sounds like this. Engaged, disengaged. Okay, very important to make sure you've always got master tempo engaged, otherwise it's going to sound a bit like Mickey Mouse on crack or something like that. Okay, this one here, free love. Mickey Mouse, oh god. I heard it, there was a gangster sort of rap tune on here. You watch, it's going to be the last one I play. Okay, hit the spot, let's try this one. Hollywood Love, try this one. That one, I am desperately trying to find something with the feel I want, which is a bit more deep and hard hitting. This is It's Alright, explicit. Like I said earlier though, at least we're going through the track so you can get a good idea of what's on the compilation for June.

Let's have a look. Where is the damn thing? I've got loads of files on here as well. Some of them you can see are not highlighted. That's because I've taken them off the thumb drive, but they're still there. But if I try to play them, I wouldn't be able to because I haven't completely cleared the thumb drive. Let's try Money Explicit.

Moncello, let's try this one, explicit. Maybe because of what's going on around the world everyone's thinking, no, let's keep it upbeat, which I don't have a problem with that at all, I think it's very good actually. Classic Plants.

10:14 This will enhance that argument

If not, I can always find something else. Let's try raw explicit. Right, this is the vibe I wanted. Alright so... I'll let this play for a bit. Alright, now this actually could potentially save you from being hit over the head with a bottle. Seriously, and I really do mean this. Any DJs out there who've been in the industry for a very long time, thumbs up please because I know you will agree with me at end of. There's no ifs or buts, you will. But when you have a dance floor full of people and you're playing... It's almost, people are scared and there's something about the energy tracks like this give. And I've noticed in my experience when you play tracks like this they're a little bit more dark.

You do then get the response of maybe there could be a fight breaking out or let's say there's an argument at the bar. This will enhance that argument. This will make the people be more in tune with, yeah, let's start punching people and whatnot. Now if that's going to happen, then if all of a sudden you bring on something that quite possibly this is in the major scale, this will completely change the atmosphere in the room. And it's more likely to stop any bad vibe and energy going on in the room and just make people think, oh, happy, smile, enjoy. Okay? So if anything, this demonstration or especially a tutorial is hopefully teaching you about how you can change the feel in a room just by changing the tune.

Play something in the major scale. The major scale is far more uplifting and vibrant instead of the minor scale which is a little bit more deep and moody, alright? So what we heard there, the explicit on the right hand side was raw, on the left hand side, ADA. All of these tunes can be found on the June 2020 releases from cdpool.com. There is a link in the description and also don't forget if you're in and around Europe, you're thinking about delving into CDPool. If you're a first-time user, terms and conditions do apply but you can get two months off your first set of downloads. There will be a code that you can use in the description as well. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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