Mobile DJ's Chop a 7" Tune in Most of the Time CD Pool Dance October 2018

0:00 Just got back from the BPM show October 2018

Alright guys, just got back from the BPM show October 2018. If you were there, you would have known it was mental. It was absolutely fantastic. A lot of good, happy people, smiley faces, loads of kit, loads of knobs to twiddle around with and press buttons and flashy lights. Big shout out of course to CD Pool who were there. This is a little bit of an insight into the dance compilation they've got for October 2018. You probably do know this track, it's... how can I put it? It's a bit of a remix of a very, very, very well-known old school 80s group. Let's put it forward a little bit. Need I say any more? Now in this video what we're going to do is we're going to mix the notes. We're not going to beatmatch, we're not going to do anything like that.

The melodies of the track. So we have Cher, Gimme Gimme and on the right hand side we have a track entitled The Notion. Bearing in mind all of these tunes can be found on the dance releases for October 2018. There will be a link to CDPool in the description. So what I've done with the The Notion track is I've just got to a part here. Have a listen. Okay so forward a bit. Very simple. Now notice as well The pitches are exactly at the centre point, so I'm not beatmatching them. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to find the notes in each track that works. Now, transitions like this are very often the sort of transitions mobile DJs will do. Because if you're playing... Alright, these aren't. Let's just do that. Where are we now? We've got three minutes and forty-odd seconds left.

2:31 Hand side

So on the left hand side, the Cher track was a six minute track so you're looking at the extended version. On the right hand side, the Notion is a little bit more like a radio version so it's a shorter track. Now generally with mobile DJs who are playing the very commercial poppy old school sing-along tracks, quite often they are... The radio versions, the 7-inch versions, so there's very little time to form that mix unless of course you want to spend hours and hours by yourself locked in a room getting some form of loop together which between me and you is an absolute waste of bloody time. Right, so let's have a listen. Okay, so let's go to, let's try Mr Paul Oakenfold, a track entitled Only Us. Let's have a listen to it first.

4:02 Let's skip it forward a bit

Alright, let's do a bit of a test here. Now, let's do one transition first and then we'll do a second one. You tell me which one's the best. Some people are going to go none of them. Don't give a shit really. Right. Listen. 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Oh my goodness me. Now if you'd have done that on a dance floor at a wedding, people would now be looking at you thinking, what on earth is the DJ doing? You've gone from this kind of high energy sort of full-on loads of music, loads of melodies happening, To something that's just a beat. That doesn't work. Let's skip it forward a bit. Go back there, because that was beginning and end of a phrase. So let's catch it just there. Nope, not touching the pitches. Okay, slight lift there. But all I've done, I've tried to listen to the music and also at the same time chop in phrase. Okay, so here we've got Paul Oakenfold.

Featuring Little Nicky, Only Us. Alright, let's cue that one up. Let's try Faith in Love Extended Mix. Now that's the one. One, two, three, four. Two, three, four. Two, three. I think it was actually. One, two, three, four. Two, three, four. Yep. Okay, so we can capture it there. Let's do it there. Alright.

6:41 You know, no one's perfect

Let's get rid of all those. Let's try again. This is it. Sometimes you listen to the middle of a track, you just skip it through and you go, oh my God, where is it? You know, no one's perfect. Let's have another listen. Let's go back a bit. Okay, so there's a 1 there. We can tell that's a 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3. Okay, so there you go. Proof in the pudding there. Sometimes it's a good idea to go a little bit further back into the track to find out where you are in the track and then count from the point where you know you are in the track, count forward and then you can work out the rest of the structure of the track. Makes sense? Hope so. Right.

Wait till the end of the vocals here. Again, the dance series are full on, you know, very commercial dancing music, loads of melodies, loads of vocals. Straight in with another track. Okay, Faith In Love. Now don't forget there is a link in the description to CDpool.com. Once again, to Rob, to the entire crew, Tim... Thank you very much for going. It was an amazing event. We had lots of fun and you should have been there because if you were there, you could have got a little bit of discount. These two guys, you know, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, show them some money and they will stick to protocol. Nah, it's all about sticking to protocol. Everyone gets the same deal. It's about CD pool, tunes that you love, practice and enjoy.

Bigging up this tune by the way, nice sort of bass line. I'd like to hear this on a big sound system. Thank you.

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