How Do You Decide if a Track Is Good or Not?

0:00 Got some tunes here from CDPool

Right guys, got some tunes here from CDPool. These are the club releases for April 2020. So with all the crap that's going on, a lot of people are trying to do some live streaming and they're running around like headless chickens trying to get some good audio quality. You know, what should you do? There are many ways. One of course is to use OBS which is Open Broadcast Software. Now that's a free downloadable program, OBS, Open Broadcast Software. Once you get to grips with it, you put in the stream key, you add your mic audio input, you can add external webcams and away you go. Of course if it was that easy, everyone would be doing it. It is a little bit intricate and you've got to know what you're doing.

But if you really want to do some live streaming, then why don't you just... Get your phone and use your phone, alright? So at least you can live stream with ease. So if you want to go on Facebook, bearing in mind, check out the restrictions because Facebook does seem to block a lot of people so be very wary. But if you just want to have a bit of fun and live stream, just use your damn phone and if anything, get a wide angle lens, attach that to your phone and away you go. A simple way of live streaming. So, back to the tunes. This track here is entitled Before You. This is the extended mix and this, again, from CDPool, the downloadable version I'm using, mp3s. A link will be in the description of this video.

Right, so these are the club series, a little bit more cheerful. If I was to give a comparison between the other sort of monthly releases, they are a little bit more uplifting and vibrant than the underground. They're not as deep and soulful and melodic as the global. They're not as handbaggy as the dance. They're sort of like in the middle. Alright, so I'm going to go through these alphabetically. Let's go, that's B. Let's go to C.

Contagious. This one here is the Pink Panda remix. That sounds very interesting.

2:29 I'm going through a bunch of tunes, trying to find stuff that I like

Sometimes right. I'm going through a bunch of tunes, trying to find stuff that I like. I will do something like this. So let's imagine now I've just downloaded a bunch of random tunes and I want to choose tracks that I like. So my first port of call is to start at the beginning and have a listen. If I like the beginning, which I do with this, I'll skip it through to maybe the middle.

This is the break. I don't mind this. It's not really my kind of thing. But I like the feel of it. But personally, I wouldn't go out and buy it. But that's my own opinion, alright? Have I contradicted myself there because I just said I bought a load of tunes and I'm now listening to it? Probably have, never mind. Alright, so let's try another one. Let's go back again. C. Let's go to D. Drug In You. So I'm going to load that to the other side. Drug In You, the original mix. Now straight away I'm liking this. It's got that bounce to it. So I'm already liking it. But that doesn't mean to say I will like it, I just like the beginning of it. It's not... It's like it's just got that nice feel to it. Yeah. Skip it forward.

Yeah, liking it. I'm liking how the producer hasn't just thought I'm going to add the hi-hat and just give it a tiny tweak. No, he's gone, I'm going to add that or he or she. I'm going to add the hi-hat and just give it some balls. Yeah. That...

4:13 Very good production on this tune

I'm liking it, very good. Very good production on this tune. You've got a really nice eerie sort of mysterious female vocal over that wobbly bass line and that hard hitting beat. This track got balls. Like it. Ooh! Now this I do like. Drugging you. Very, very good.

Yeah. Yes. Do you know... Right. So... Stop. So what we have here, we have a track that seems very, very simple in its whole outlook on how it's made. Looks and feels and sounds very simple. But it isn't. There's a hell of a lot that's gone into the production of this tune. There's so much. There are layers to it. You know, a lot of tracks today they're made with the beat, the bass line, the melody, the vocals and it stays the same all the way through. Now this one has got all of that but it tweaks slightly. It's just... It's very experimental in the way it's put together and made. I like it. Drugging you. Like that.

Loving it! Okay, so what I'm going to do now... I haven't properly listened to these tracks. So I'm going to form some kind of a mix and the only way I can do that without going through... Will that one work? No, let's do that anyway. All right, okay. So let's go tracks down. Let's try and find something now. I'm going to flick through the tracks.

Okay, that was quick! Let's give it a nice lift. That was... That was random and also that was just potluck. Okay, the one I'm going to bring in is Inside Out. So let's go towards the end of this. This hopefully will give the mix a lift.

6:27 Loop, playing

So I waited for the phrase there but what I'm going to do is if we listen here...

I want that to snap in right at the beginning of that phrase in the Drug In You. And what I'm going to do here is Inside Out. So one way of doing that to make sure I get it bang in time on the money instead of like a slow transition in, I just want it in is to form a loop. So listen...

So I've got that loop playing now so I'm going to play that loop even before the point where I want to bring it in. So the loop is playing say, I don't know, say even 16 bars before the drop comes in so I can get that loop on my headphones in time, in the background with the volume down and then as soon as the drop comes in snap it straight in so boom it's straight in at that point. That's a very quick explanation of what I'm doing but I have done this in a proper tutorial video in the past but anyway let's go to that part of the track again. Let's skip forward...

OK, we're nearly there.

Now I've got that loop playing in the background so now it's ready so all I'm going to do is bring it in.

8:49 I'm liking the look of this one, new look, sorry, new love

OK, Inside Out. OK, I class this as a big room track, it's very euphoric, there's loads going on, big builds, big drops...

OK, I'm liking the look of this one, new look, sorry, new love.

Remix. So if you're still thinking about going into the CDpool realms and you're a new DJ or you're a DJ, a working DJ but you haven't used CDpool before and you live in and around Europe then have a look at the link in the description and also in the description there's a code. Use that code and you can get 50% off your first two months subscription. Terms and conditions apply, it's not for everything but 50% off your first load of downloads

And it's not bad, in fact that's bloody good. OK, let's choose one more. Let's go to... I'm going to do two more. No, I'm going to do three more actually. Let's have a quick listen to Yup. Nice rolling sort of bass line in the background there, very minimal but I like it. OK, let's try a little bit here of a track entitled You Were There.

Let's finish off with Wild. This is the club mix. Ooh. Very different.

OK, so there you go. The club releases from CDpool April 2020. Like I said check out the link in the description. Practice and enjoy.

Thank you. Oops. Oh. Sad you hit it. Practice and enjoy. Practice and enjoy. Yes ma'am.

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