Underground House Mix with rekordbox from Pioneer November 2018

0:00 The Underground series again

Alright, so I've got the XDJ-RX2. I'm using CD Ball Underground November 2018 and just going to do a little bit of a mix. I'm using rekordbox software, so the laptop has got the tracks on and when you do use rekordbox software with most of Pioneer's modern day kit, the kit comes to life. So, you know, the RX2, it can... Now the Underground series again. His twisty bendy sounds, very experimental so very interesting. So this one here like I said, the extended mix. Crazy. Alright what else have we got? Hold on there we're going to go back and we're going to go here. Just listening to a little bit of the track. If you've been through the track on the laptop just have a little sort of idea of what it's like. Very minimal these tunes. This one here is the track entitled

3:16 Laptop because you're looking at something

In the treetop is the original mix. Okay, I've got a break coming here. So much info now. I like the old school but I can see the waveform out here, I can see it up there, I can see it on the laptop twice. It's like too much, it's overkill. But whatever. I can see though why a lot of people like to look at a laptop because you're looking at something but personally I don't like to just go off at a laptop.

4:43 What else have we got?

Alright, what else have we got? Let's have a look. Original mix. Exactly original mix. Like it. Again, what I'm trying to do here is not do like a beginning and end. I'm choosing my time in the track and thinking yeah let's bring it in there instead of like oh just do an eight bar kind of beat mix at the beginning and the end. So this one here, I started the mix at the beginning of a break And then I started the track here at the beginning of a break, and I waited for the beginning of the next break, or the break of the track that was playing, and matched those two breaks together. You get what I mean? Okay. Hope we do it anyway. It might work with this one. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid

A lot going on here. There's a lot going on there, too much going on. I'm not going to do this in a mix like skip it forward, but this is sort of a demonstration stroke kind of stuff. So I'm just going to bring this track more towards the end. There, you see I don't... I want that vocal to finish. So it finishes... Ah, finishes that break. I've already brought it out. Okay, someone here, the original mix.

8:41 Whereas another DJ may bring track 4 at the end of track 3

I think the great thing about tunes these days is that if you gave 20 DJs 100 tracks each, their same tracks, and you asked those 20 DJs to form a mix with every single one of those 100 tracks, every single mix would be completely different. Even if you said mix 2 into 1, track 3 into 2, track 4 into 3 and so on, every DJ would have their own little sort of... Different styles, it may be bringing track 3 in halfway through track 2 and then maybe bring track 4 in at the beginning of track 3. Whereas another DJ may bring track 4 at the end of track 3. It's entirely up to you, it's make-it-your-own, but all you've got to remember is the feel and the energy and the vibe of the mix. The tracks have got to sort of complement each other, okay? Alright, don't forget there will be information in the description about CD4 right down there. Once again, November 2018, the underground releases. Do you know what? We should finish off with a DMV tune. I think there's one here, hold on. Let's just go... Hold on.

10:03 Where it drops

Do you want to go to where it drops? No, I want it there. Take it off quantized for a start. Okay, again that could be an issue you're having where you want to set a hot cue and you know you cue up the track but it's not cuing where you want it to or the hot cue isn't exactly where you want it to. Very likely because you're in quantized mode because what quantized mode will do is it will think, hold on a minute. You're trying to snap it in time there and that's not on the beat. That isn't in the beat grid. I'm going to make sure you get it in the beat grid when you didn't want it in the beat grid. So disengage quantize and then you'll be able to set your hot cue or your loop wherever you want. Right, so... Oh shit, it's finishing. That was funny. That was actually quite funny.

Let's speed that up a bit. Oh well, a bit more practice maybe. Alright, finish off with a DMV tune, Get Physical, the original mix. This one here is Culture Shock. You've got to admit, a bit of DMV drops. What I find with the mobile gigs I do, even if it's like a wedding, you know, to begin with at the beginning of the evening, Everyone's booted and suited, all looking fine and just dapper. And they're there with their glasses of champagne, acting as posh as possible. But by the end of the night come 11 o'clock, ties are off, dickie bows are away, and they're getting down to some D&B. Try it next time you do a wedding, alright? If you haven't ever done it. But at the end of the night, put a few D&B tunes on, and I'll tell you what, most of the time they go nuts. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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