TRY a DJ Mix After the Chorus and Not the Verse CD Pool January Dance 2020

0:00 Got the dance cuts from CDpool January 2020

Alright guys, got the dance cuts from CDpool January 2020. Got track number 5 from disc number 1. Using the CDs, quite often you see me using the MP3s. You can download these tracks but today we're using the CDs and that's what they look like. Okay, so we have Never Let You Go, MK Remix, track number 5 from disc number 1. I'm going to bring in track 3 from disc number 2. Galantis and Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton. A track here entitled Faith. Now, a demonstration here, we're going to see what happens here, what the vibe's like. At the moment, we have in practically every track, you've got chorus-verse, chorus-verse, chorus-verse, chorus-verse and so on. Now the verse is a little bit like the story and the chorus repeats itself. So whatever's in the chorus, you generally hear again and again and again.

2:19 Chopping that track out too soon

This is like the verse, and this is like the chorus. So let's go back a bit. I'm going to try an experiment here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to bring in Galantis over the verse, after the verse, and see what it sounds like, and then maybe try the chorus and see if it sounds any different. So let's wait for the verse to start. Alright? Okay, but what I found there, it's almost like it really did sound as though I was... Chopping that track out too soon. What I'm going to do now is do the same mix, start the Galantis track at the same time but this time I'm going to wait for the chorus to play and then bring in the Galantis track. Let's try it at that point there. So I don't exactly know but maybe we're halfway through the phrase of the chorus. Let's give it a go. Now to me that sounded a little bit better. It's almost as though I'm letting that track

5:00 And definitely better than this one

You know, complete the round. If it was in a race, I haven't stopped it halfway through. I said finish your race, go to the end and then let's start the next race. So that, to me, that, the second transition sounded a lot better than the first. Okay, track number three here from the Dance releases, CD4 January 2020. Let's find something from disc number one. Maybe number nine. Okay, now I'm starting to bring this one in. Okay, quick chop there. That sort of worked, sort of, but again I'm going back, thinking back to the last transition where you've got chorus verse, chorus verse, chorus, bang, straight in with the next track. So it was almost as though the euphoria of the mix, the second mix I did seemed a lot better than the first one and definitely better than this one, alright?

A bit of an experiment going on here. This one here is track number 10 from disc number 1, which is Martin Slovig and Roy Woods, Juliet and Romeo, the extended mix. Again, all of these can be found on the CDPool website. Check out the link in the description and if you are a DJ in and around the European Union and you're thinking of taking part... With CDPool using them, if you're a first-time user, there's a code in the description. If you use that, sorry, you can get 50% off your first load of downloads. Terms and conditions apply. It's not for everything, but if you're going to delve into CDPool and you get a whole bunch of tracks, you could potentially save a lot of money with your first-time subscription.

Let's find something on disc number two. And the dance releases, again a little bit more cheesy, more handbaggy, uplifting, always loads of vocals, very flamboyant. Again, the sort of tunes you would hear in a pub, club, before like a main set in a big underground sort of dance night. You're going out with your mates, you've got a party atmosphere in a fun bar somewhere. These are the happy sort of dancy tracks you'd hear.

7:34 Just wait for my phrasing

Go towards the end of this one. Again with the DNS 1200, what you can do, you can quick jump, so you're jumping through the track. Just wait for my phrasing. That track finished exactly in time and in phrase. You should have seen that because the LEDs just died at that exact point. Now if you're not familiar with phrasing, phrasing is all about sections of the track. And if you're confused about where a new phrase starts or finishes in a track, generally it's going to be the end of the chorus, the beginning of the verse, the end of the instrumental break, the beginning of the instrumental break and so on. This is track number four from disc number two. Which is LMC, Te Amor, the extended mix. Okay, we'll do one more from disc number one. Flight change there. Finish off with this one here, Crystal.

10:11 Chris James, a track entitled Get Back To Love

Don't want to drop that. Okay, Chris James, a track entitled Get Back To Love. This is the Steve Smart remix. I don't, when I say I don't normally like this sort of style, it's probably for me, for my own very personal taste, a little bit too sort of handbaggy but then very often you hear a track and there's some parts of it, I think... I like it. This, I can cope with this. Definitely. There's a lot of good production going on here. Liking it. Okay, DJM 450. Let's have a little bit of sweep. Okay, there what I did. I used the sweep and turned the colour effect style from 12 to 3 o'clock while the sweep was engaged. Now, most DJs will do that, but... Slight difference here. Instead of engaging and then moving, why don't you move first and then engage? So now I've turned the dial. Now I'm going to press sweep. Listen. So instead of a natural progression of the sweep, what's happening or the effect is you're getting the effect straight in instead of slowly having it move into the sound. Again, we'll do that again.

This time, engage, move it all the way up, sorry, move the dial all the way to the high position, press the sweep, 5, 4, 3. Don't forget, check out the link in the description to CD4, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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