MUSIC FOR MOBILE DJ'S VIDEO 3, Nothern Soul . Background Music

0:00 Style of music known as Northern

Alright folks, another video in a selection I'm doing entitled What Music to Play at a Mobile Disco. What music to play for a mobile roadshow. Now these videos are for demonstration purposes only and of course they're for tutorial reasons, that's it. Now in this video I'm going to concentrate on a style of music known as Northern Soul, but more importantly the non-commercial side of Northern Soul. And also this is maybe one video in a selection I'm going to be doing on... Background music for mobile purposes. Now, first and foremost, when you're playing background music at a mobile function, try and keep the volume low and also try and stay clear of commercial pop and well-known songs. Try and stick to music that maybe people haven't heard of that much. Now, I'm going to pause the camera, I'll show you the equipment and then I'll give you a few tips.

1:17 Tracks, in other words it'll play all the tracks

And the best way of moving forward when you're playing, let's say, background music, all type. OK, the mixer I'm using here is from Cortex. It's the Mix R1U. And then I've got this guy here, the Pioneer MEP7000. Now, I'm just going to pause the camera again and we'll have a closer look at this area here. Now again, this is a bit of a tip for you. Now let's be honest, when you're playing background music, maybe you would like to be there and press start, stop, start, stop. Or maybe you'd just like to disappear for half an hour. Now of course, by disappearing for half an hour, you've got to make sure that the track you're playing is an extended mix or maybe the CD that you've got in the player will play through its entire track.

Tracks, in other words it'll play all the tracks. Now on a lot of CD players you've got this thing here, AC. What we need to do, we need to disengage the AC, the auto cue. So by pressing that, holding it down, that disappears. What that means now is that when I press play on track number one, as soon as track one has finished, we'll go to track two, three, four, five, six and so on. Now there's a guy also on YouTube known as, I think it's Jeremy2424. I'll put his YouTube username in the description. He's done one video on what's known as a flip-flop feature. That's basically when you have two players or one unit and you can play one track on one side, then it'll go to the next, the first track on the next side, then it'll go to the second track on the first side, second track here, third track, third track and so on.

2:39 What we've got here is this guy

So in other words, it gives you a little bit more time for playing the background music and also it means you don't have to press start and stop all the time. OK, now what we've got here is this guy. Now this is known as Northern Soul. Maybe a lot of the tracks on here aren't that well known but of course if you turn the music down and it's background yes, this style is relatively fast. A lot of the tracks are fast Very uplifting and it will also start to get the crowd ready and bubbling. Now let's play the music. Now I'll give you a tip here. If I turn that down, if we imagine now we're in a mobile situation, of course logically the music would have to be a lot louder to please a vast amount of people, but the volume is set at that level and I can have a relatively good conversation with myself and you can hear me. But have a listen now.

I'm now going to start shouting, so of course it's more difficult for you to hear me. Now one tip, when you're playing background music, the emphasis is in the words, background music. So don't have it loud, have it background, audible so people can hear it but at the same time they can communicate with each other and have a bit of a natter. Let's just flick through a couple more of the tracks.

What I'll do, I'll put the name of this album in the description as well. Okay, bit of an idea here on background music and also a tiny look at Northern Soul. Practice and enjoy.

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