Start the Track in the Middle CD Pool New Look Website Cuts from August and September 2021

0:00 Got some tunes here from CDPool

Alright guys, got some tunes here from CDPool. So I've got a track entitled Do It To It. It's extended mix and it's by Arkraz featuring Cherish. I think that's how you pronounce it. And I've also got here on the right hand side, Felix the house cat and Dave the hustler. So that tune is entitled, if I just press that and load it up again, it should scroll through, Obsession X, The Extended Mix. Now what we're all used to, and it happens practically every single time, you start a track off and you start to mix in from the beginning of the track. Even if let's say you... You don't even use the first 8-16 bars. We are all prone to having a track playing, getting the next one ready and starting it off. But what we can do every time is just start halfway through that track. So have a listen to the track entitled Do It To It first. It's almost like got a nice kind of techie feel to this. Alright.

Now, Obsession X. Right, have a listen to this. That's where I'm going to drop it. Alright, so... Yeah, there. That's where I'm going to drop it. Going to drop it. There. But I'm literally going to drop it in, just straight in. None of this like slow fade. I'm not using rekordbox. If I was, it would be a lot easier. But what I'm going to do, I'm just going to do a very simple loop here. So, there.

2:28 Basically, the loop gives me the option of

Now I don't know if you can hear, I can hear there's a slight sort of click there with the loop. So if I was to let's say play this loop over a track it would indeed eventually go off beat but because this is a quick demo and again like i said earlier if you're going to use if you were using proper software in rekordbox then theoretically that loop should be bang on the money but what i'm going to do now because i've just got a one bar loop listen I can actually start that loop anywhere in the other track so long as I start it on the count of one. So basically, the loop gives me the option of getting it beatmatched, getting it ready, getting it in the background so I can hear it on my headphones and then as soon as I'm about to drop it, volume straight up out of the loop while you're inside that first loop.

Very important this, because if you're going to do a one bar loop, the advantage of that is that you can start the one bar loop anywhere. The first bar, second bar, third bar, fifth bar, ninth bar, a bar, bar, bar, bar. Yeah. But what you've got to do is as soon as that bar starts, come out of it. If you let it play once, then of course you'll be one bar out. So let's just go back. See, in a way what we're doing here is we're taking away that sort of beginning and end, beginning and end, beginning and end. There's nothing wrong with it but it does get a little bit laborious and boring every time you hear a great track and all of a sudden you've got the end bit that filters out then you've got this sort of gap and then the next one starts. Doing something like that just means that you're putting the tracks together in a tighter

5:00 Let's play this and see what else we can find

Format in a tighter way it just niches them up a little bit sort of more smoothly let's say so when you are finally putting a mix together and the listener is sort of sat there bopping away they're not thinking oh yeah we're going to come to the end of the track and now we've got that sort of eight bar outro and oh look the next one's coming in it's like all of a sudden oh Wow, something halfway through has happened. It just gives a lot more interest. So let's play this and see what else we can find. Now what I'm doing here is I'm sort of going through some of the relatively new releases with CD4. Now at the moment they have changed the website. When I say at the moment they have, they've changed it. It's an all-new look, so go and check it out. And if you're interested in, let's say, joining the CD4 team...

Go and check it out, in the description there is a link, there's also a code. If you use that code for the first time, you get, I still believe, two months off your first, sorry I'll start again, you get a percentage off your first two month subscription, alright? Now terms and conditions do apply, I don't think it's for everything, but it's worth a look. And also... If you're an up-and-coming DJ and you would like a back catalogue of old school classics, then go and check them out as well. They've got what I would class as cheesy, commercial, your sort of classics that you played at weddings, and also they've got a whole bunch that is a little bit more intelligent, like the sort of tunes you'd play at a 40th or 50th birthday or 60th birthday party, where they want dance classics and hip hop and soul and R&B classics, that sort of thing.

7:18 Cats are going wild here

This one here is No More Looking Back, I believe it's Dave Penn on the mix. So, cats are going wild here. I've got three kittens in the house and they're just running all over the place. This is quite a nice tune actually. We're going to check this one on now. This is the first time I've heard this. It's a track entitled You by Jay Worrell featuring Cat Connors, extended mix. The reason I like this one is because I've just heard it actually. It's quite funny, sometimes you hear a tune for the very first time and you go, nah, oh, nah. But sometimes it's like, wow. Just that bass line. It's got it, man. It is sort of old school, casual Chicago style. Very good track. Very good track. Sometimes the simplest of cuts make the biggest impression with me. It doesn't have to be big and bold and... Sometimes it's just gotta have that...

And this has got the shit, man. Disco Cat. Ooh! And a nice break. See, it's hard hitting but at the same time you've got really nice female vocals. Like it. Alright, that's it for this video. Don't forget, check out the link in the description to CDPool. I'm playing some cuts from new releases from CDPool. We're looking at cuts around about... August, September time, practice and enjoy. Thank you. Oh, liking this. Oh, that's why. Bloody hell! The cat did a loop. I didn't see that until I noticed the light slashing. The cat did a loop! She did an automatic four-beat loop. Clever cat. See, I could have done that earlier, couldn't I? Two, three, four. Like it. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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