Radio Style Transitions Using Urban Cuts from CD Pool January 2020

0:00 You can't beatmatch to save your life

Right, so you can't beatmatch to save your life. You have no idea how to do it. You just like, you can't do it. Now, these are going to be what I would class as sort of radio mixes. The sort of mixes you would hear or transitions you'd hear on the radio. That's why they're called radio. Anyway, right, so I'm using the Urban releases from CDPool for January 2020 and they look a little bit like that. These are the CDs. If you are interested in taking part with CDPool, there is a code in the description of this video. Use that for a first-time user and you can get 50% off your first downloads. Terms and conditions apply. It's not for everything, but go and check it out. So I've got here a little bit of a tune here, Stormzy featuring Headline One, Audacity, Explicit. Okay, so...

I am going to, during the course of this video, not touch the pitch controls. So I'm going to leave them in the centre. Alright, there you go. Now I've already got one ready. This one here by the way is track 1 from CD number 1 and I'm going to be using track number 4 from CD number 02 which is City Girl. That's what it's called, the Black Milk remix. These videos, apart from sort of a few demos with a tutorial as well, it's hopefully going to give you an idea of what to expect on the new releases. Now the urban is your grimy, your bit of two-step in there, sometimes you've got some like mellow R&B and you've got sort of that modern day style chart kind of hip hop style as well. Let's put this forward a bit.

2:35 So I'm going to wait

So I'm not going to do effects or anything like that, it's just like a transition. There, simple as that. Now why can I get away with doing something like that? Why? Well, listen to the beginning of this track again. There's no beat, there's nothing. All you've got is a nice melodic sort of introduction and that hopefully worked well with the last track. Okay, spin this forward a little bit. Better tune this. Okay, gotta be a little bit more careful with this next one so I'm going to wait for the break. Let's go forward a bit. Let's go to the next break. I'll tell you what, I'm going to try something slightly different. Let's go back to... Let's get right to the melody there. Hold on. There. That's where I'm going to bring that one in. But... There. So snap the next track straight in.

4:41 Again, I'm not trying to use any effects or anything like that

Oh, we had a bit of an uh there. So, don't really want to chop up the vocals. Snapped it straight in. These aren't the kind of transitions I'd be doing with a dance floor full of people. This is like your chilled out, laid back radio style mixes or let's say chops or cuts. This one here is track number five from Discord numero uno which is, let's have a look, a track entitled Don't Stress. Now again, I'm not trying to use any effects or anything like that. It's simply from one side to the other. So you can even do this with vinyl turntables and a really cheap mixer, okay? Also the main thing I'm trying to do is make sure that I don't cut out vocals in a nasty kind of way as in someone's just about to finish a sentence and I cut that sentence out. Try and make sure that they finish what they're saying before you bring the next one in.

7:51 I'd say this is DJSKT featuring the young man, Sir T, Move Your Body

This one here is track number six, which is One Night in Paris. Wow. Oh, I'm loving that vibe, man. Really reminiscent of like that sort of late 90s, early 2000s sort of soulful house garage feel. Loving it. Oh my God. Goosebumps. Big time. Loving this cut, big time. Loving it! Loving it! Gotta do a mix here. I said I wouldn't but you just never know what happens. Again, another one. It's got that sort of two-step kind of garage feel from the late 90s, early noughties. Loving it! I'd say this is DJSKT featuring the young man, Sir T, Move Your Body. Really good selection this month in the urban releases. Loving it! I'll tell you what I'm going to try and do. It's going to something that's a little bit slower.

10:07 Going from a slow track to a fast track and losing their steps

Again, I've waited till they finish either a sentence or the end of let's say the chorus or the verse. You know you can chop the chorus or the verse or a sentence but you've got to be very careful. The best thing to do is wait till they finish that little rhyme and then boom, straight into the next one. Here, this is Gecko, a track entitled literally the explicit. Okay, we'll do one more and this is from CD number two, this is track eight. We'll do one more from CD number one. Okay, so what I'm going to try and do here is even though this is very slow, I'm going to make sure that when I bring the next one in, it's on the 1. So when people are dancing, they're not going to be... Going from a slow track to a fast track and losing their steps. They're still going to be dancing in time, it's just that their dancing speed will all of a sudden go fast as soon as I bring the next one in. Okay, finish off here with IP5.

A lot of really good tracks now in the Urban releases for 2020. A lot more kind of your two-step, soulful, like four to the floor house music. So liking it, very good. Let's speed this up a little bit.

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