Making a DJ Mix on the FLY Can Be Far More Interesting than a Planed One

0:00 Check out some tunes here

All right, check out some tunes here. These are the Underground Series CD Pull for May 2021. As usual, there's a link in the description. So what I'm going to do is do some kind of mix with the two CDs. But don't forget you get CDs, you can download the tracks as well. You can download I think MP3 WAV as well. So you can get, you know, the good quality or the better quality. Okay, so track one, disc number one here, which is Roger Sanchez Turn On The Music. Now again, the Underground Series is more like twisty bendy kind of, let's say the more intelligent kind of experimental techno-y deep house with a more harder edge. Not really soulful house, even though this has got a bit of soul to it. But again, it's very difficult for some people to define the difference between genres and styles because some of them can overlap. One track could be classed as deep soulful house by someone, but someone else could class it as sort of techy deep house. So yeah, okay, we're going to go into track one on disc two, which is Place I Belong.

Now again, when I do sets like this, again, just for copyright issues, I don't play the whole track, great audio, then mix the next one in and so on. It's really an idea of what to expect from the new releases and also just a couple of demonstrations really. So I'll put this bit towards the end.

1:57 You know, one, two, three, spin back out

Again, so what I try to do there is a little bit of a spin back just before the end of the phrase. So you know, one, two, three, spin back out. I'm trying to tie that in to the structure of the phrasing. And again, a spin back, there are so many different ways, you know, you can do it on, you know, literally on the one, the one and, or the two, the two and, the three, the four, or even the four and. So a slight spin back and then you go into the one. Okay, I'm going to try and find something now on disc number one.

So I waited for the break. This is track four, Danny J. Lewis, Astroa.

This, I'll tell you what, this guy, I know Danny J. Lewis sort of personally, but what a great producer. The guy knows his shit big time.

5:20 Track number two here from disc number two, which is

Okay, track number two here from disc number two, which is... L.A. After Hours by Clyde Pigg.

Sometimes, sometimes it just happens.

Okay, track five here from disc number one, which is Deadlock by M.P.H. This is the original mix.

Liking it.

It's illegal to tell a skid line. See? Okay, so that kind of spin back was almost as I'm starting off slowly. One, two, three, four, and then really giving it a good old tug at the end. We all like a good tug, don't we? For pulling boats out of the harbour. I know what you were thinking. I know what you were thinking.

Okay.

7:49 Just check out Underground May 2021

Don't go away from that one.

Okay. Track number six here from disc number one, which is a track entitled Falling Down. Don't forget, all of these tracks can be found on the website, including the ones that I'm not playing. Just check out Underground May 2021.

9:02 Sounds a bit like some DMV in the house here

Sounds a bit like some DMV in the house here.

See if there's some DMV on this CD.

Oh my God.

Don't get me wrong, I like my DMV, but you know what? That was pretty crap, actually.

Again, what I should have done there probably is set the jog adjust to a lot lighter because when it's set to quite heavy, you know, you spin back and it won't spin back as much as if it's light. Now this one here, what I'm thinking about this, it's got that slamming old school sort of Chicago stroke techno feel. Loving it. Okay, this one here is track number six from disc number two. Which is My House. Oh, what? This has got vibe. Energy.

Oh. I think it's because it's quite fast as well. It's 135, give or take. Yeah, about 135 BPM. 134.

I'll tell you what. CD Paul slamming. Absolutely frigging slamming in May. Wow. Amazing.

Okay, so. If you're not liking it, so once again, My House, don't forget there is a link in the description and if you're interested in participating in the CD Paul delights, check out the link. There's also a code there where if you're a first time user, you get 50% off certain downloads for two months. Okay? Terms and conditions do apply. You've got to be DJ. You've got to be in and around Europe because the Americas have their own CD Paul. So this is really more based for UK, Germany. France, Italy, sort of that European kind of area. All right? Thank you for watching and again, have fun, you know, you know, mixing and using music is about experimenting but enjoying yourself. Don't think that you have to be always precise like a machine.

Make mistakes. All right, go back to basics. The more you abuse a controller and the sync and the features on a controller, the more you lose the whole ethics. Okay? What DJ originate, how it originated, which was just a DJ to turn tables, a bit of wax and having fun. Use that, don't abuse it, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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