🔥 Crates Revealed: DJs Review Crate Hackers Sets

these are Vegas Headliners these are editors for direct music service one of the longest lasting record pools in America I'm not just bringing in some snobby hipster DJs I'm bringing in some DJs who are really vocal and fun and light-hearted and more importantly if you've listened to their podcast before extraordinarily educational it's a rare opportunity to get well seasoned and very nice Pros who are willing to help look over your shoulder and peek into your crate and just say you know what ma

ybe this song needs to go or I would play this song we just want to see your Sado history we want to see maybe a Spotify playlist We want to see a notepad document anything that just shows a history a crate a performance something that you need an extra pair of eyes on let's have some fun tonight let's start hacking Drew fuse take your pick of who you want to critique I don't care whoever wants to go first I was really hoping if I'm being honest I was hoping to see someone that mayy played a wed

ding and wanted to just see now we're of course you're all going to see you might have done something because Aunt Jan was a Bugaboo but we we still want to just make sure we're just going to run through it as well so whoever you guys pick I don't care I I can't the first person we have here is DJ Ray with his hand raised radio would you mind we'll do this extended Q&A so maybe help me Host this bring in DJ Ray I've unmuted Ray's getting down what do you got for us you have a maybe a Sado histor

y or you have something you can share on Zoom with us what do you got man I got it all we're going to go into Sado my crates are horrendous I'm trying to work trying to use crate hackers build a go-to playlist I have an ideal so actually I was working on it last night I have what I would like it to be and then you're gonna see what it really is right now which is really bad I gotta find a way here we go share a screen I'm gonna make you a co-host go ahead yeah do do what you want you you pick yo

u want to go crates you want us to look at your crates you want us to look at a playlist you pick just like create management in general yeah let's go let's do with that all right so let's have Ray get ready to share his screen on Zoom I'm gonna if anybody has any issues with how to do Zoom sharing please look at radio's comments in the chat he'll guide you through it but if you have your hand raised like Ryan and Kon do do just DJ Ray is doing get ready to share and then now looks like Drew and

Fs will be ready to critique this crate go ahead guys is it being shown right now it's being shown all right perfect first off my problem is right now it's reading what's current L on my Mac so I have these crates saved there's a Sado file that exists like on the actual hard drive that I really don't want there so I'm getting ready to plug in I just bought a solid state which has everything I'm going to plug it in right now at this very moment so you're going to see it load up and you're going

to see like everything that I've been working on probably like the past five years or so which is like a huge mess so it's loading currently right now so I got like just goto theme crate with like ideas of stuff that I want to do and try where we at so these are like all my crates over here on the side I tend to organize like buy events specifically weddings Prelude music seating music ceremony cocktail hour formalities dinner I've got stuff for like salsa stuff I did for homecomings 2000s alter

native rock like I'm trying to build up there mostly they're all events from last year I tend to hit the reset button every year I just haven't done it cuz I was so burnt out that I was like I don't even want to focus on this but I started recently doing it so Secret Sauce is something I got from like digital Dave that I've been like emulating his crates or his recommendations So currently let me go to the bottom this wedding crate that I have right here is essentially what I'd like it to mimic

I can go to a wedding crate I've got Prelude music that are separated for like 80s and this is like Vitamin String piano guys you know when it comes to Prelude music I got stuff ideas for the ceremony like k& d Wedding March cocktail hours I'm trying to separate by like genres but most recent recently I did JD and Breeze wedding I've got like this open dance kind of concept here generally it's more of like a general crate management how to set things up properly I'd like it to be where I can go

oh I'm at a wedding here's a wedding crate let me do something for like open dance and I've got different subg genres so hit me with hey it's you're definitely getting going there's it's all over the place so what I like to do is I have a lot of what you have where I have a wedding crate and it's broken down inside of that wedding crate just like you have what I you just leave all of yours open that's where for me would be confusing is I would close just like the master folder you don't need to

close everything just close the master folder okay that makes sense but then so for all of the either if you have a previous wedding I would put a new uh Master folder that would say past weddings and then I would put all of those inside of that to clean that up so that you could always leave that closed and then the same goes for upcoming weddings as you're prepping them so that when you go to the next gig you don't have to see like you're I don't know how I would ever possibly get through the

eight billion crates you have without being able to close some of them the thing I think that's important is you got to keep it somewhat simple and then what you're already doing I feel is you're already grouping your weddings like you're making stuff specific to your Weddings But in my opinion I would want to keep all of my party music in one area so like maybe per the couple the wedding I'm I'm going to put like requests for party music in that folder maybe ceremony songs but like all of my mu

sic when I'm playing the party I'm keeping it in one area whether I'm playing a bar a club a wedding I'm always going back to that same area so I don't have list and list and lists of crates of like where I'm scroll where it's I only want to be searching my party crate I don't want to be searching my crates to find the crate that I need to be into so do you have one party crate for I'll I'll show you my Sado if you want to see it please man bring it on all right yeah how about you show uh yours

fuse and I'll show my setup I need to stop sh you need to stop screen share so they can share their screen you'll need to stop your screen share so they can share their screen okay let me see this now okay all right so you guys see my Sado right here yeah so all of my main music for like party is in this club folder right that can shut and then it's hip-hop House Rock top 40 transition twerk trap whatever I don't use the twerk or trap too much that's that that all is just an old way but then I g

o through these folders all the time and stuff that I'm not playing I dump into Club meh where it's like it's the same stuff but it's just older versions so I still keep it all but I don't play at a club me all the time maybe if you're at a residency and you're just going through tracks on your board and you want to change it up you yeah all of this is in one giant crate here see that so Club met is in electric eclectic collection is all in one giant crate so I can play out of this all folder he

re if I really want to but to get more specific if I'm playing like a spot that's more eclectic music I can go into my eclectic folder if I'm playing basic party all that stuff is right here in my club folder so let me close these again Glen is requesting a club meh crate a club meh crate is just stuff that's like just maybe that was hot two or three years ago explain we already know me it's just me and let's see when I scroll down I have a lot more like sub folders for parties or stuff that I'v

e done old wedding folders kind of like what when you open these folders it has so this is Samantha and Mike their wedding that I played right it has intros best man's stuff like everything's tracked out for that specific wedding and then I just put it in old wedding Kyle and Shelby another wedding ceremony all the ceremony stuff reception cake cut fam slow songs like all that there's everything I do I try to make it as like idiot proof for that wedding as possible but then once the party opens

I just scroll back up here and then I go to my Club folder and then that doesn't say that I don't have simple stuff I have down here singal bar where it's pretty much this is like an idiot proof folder if I'm getting stuck in my club folder up here I can just scroll down and this changes all the time too and then some of it doesn't change but so if I'm like stuck in my all folder here which let me tell you this folder has 2300 songs in it total so there's a lot in there too and I do a pretty goo

d job of trying to reset that why I like doing it this way is if I add new songs Just into house I can search by recently added and what I've added or same with top 40 I personally like doing it this way it makes the most sense to me again this doesn't mean it's right for everybody but this is just the way I do it so in general do you keep your crates organized by BPM it seems that's like your default setting right usually I'll just search by BPM yeah so if you want to transition to something hi

gher do you have like a trans folder right here yeah so that's the way I do it and then everything is going to be tagged in the the title as well if I have a slam or like a dropin edit I can search over here let's say slam so then I have all these slam edits in in that club folder that can get me from one place to another really quick or some of them are titled drop in so all these drop in edits and then like I do stuff for the Reds so I have a whole folder down here that's just Reds and then it

's like ceremony music if we do a ceremony I have fil music here and then I have like low medium high drop in I'm sorry it drop in is that the same as slam slam Ed okay no need to BPM it or mix it it's just a slam a rise and a fall something like that the BPM would just be whatever the BPM of the edit would be and then as long as it's a slam you can just drop it in from wherever I've seen some use slam edits or drop ad and Sh if they're the same or not the grid would probably just be off a littl

e bit or you'd have to change the grid to be the first downbeat once that little slam went in that would be the trick of it real quick let's get Kon to stand up next and then I've got Jay da Travis bizzel and a couple of DMS in my inbox I'm happy to show mine next after that and then we can get back to everybody just so we could so we're all on the same page yeah stand by here thanks a lot DJ Ray appreciate it man let's go ahead and get Kon I liked him he was a good way to start it out he came w

ith questions Kon you're hanging out with Drew and fuse tonight go ahead hi good night everyone Thanks for allowing me to share I really appreciate it for to share okay here we go s real quick before we get started with his mine took me one day I was so tired of doing the crates the old way of how I had it which didn't really make a whole lot of sense it took me like five solid days of wake up to go to sleep to get the music just to where I needed it to be so it's it takes a lot of work to weed

through that all so before 2000 I used to play in a different way I didn't do any play playlist I didn't believe in it I used to just do everything by the fly I used to know my music very well I used to know how to which songs to move from what genres the next what Blends very well but after having Co I found myself playing at an event and I can't remember anything so I came AC CR across crate hackers which has been a really big help so what I do from time to time whenever I have any event I'll

jump into crate hackers I'll check the the playlist that I have there I'll check to see what I have there are some crates that I depending on I might have a last minute booking I'll jump there I'll grab some stuff and I'll have these crates here which I'll go back from time to try to sort out into my main into my playlist crate so this is one here that I just dump some of the crates in that I haven't gotten a chance to put somewhere yet I'm in New York a DJ a couple of the bars and and the pubs

and the restaurants there I store their their list there depending on what they' like for us to play there and it sometimes it's a little bit similar sometimes it's different for example SDK they have a little show thing that they have going on and they want these particular songs so I try to organize it just to make sure that I keep it consistent in terms of the key moments for the night but in terms of my regular playlist it's right here I have this have this here two the two mostly used secti

on of that is really the wedding section Al I have ceremony stuff here so I have Prelude then a ceremony main this is just music I I like to play before people getting sitting and then I get specific in terms of like room entrance briad entrance that kind of stuff cocktail guess walking is just music before the reception just set on a really upbeat tone before we get started and then the regular stuff BR I I'd like to just jump in real quick everybody's that I've seen in the two a lot of people

aren't retagging their stuff so I see like in the artist just says 80s fun and then in the song it's like Paula Abdul this or this I feel like every single song you need to actually put in the artist and then you need to actually put in the song There's ways that pays off later down the road but you need to retag every single one of those songs like you like I said you have some of the artists not on this specific one but on that last one it just said 80s I don't know who that artist is until I

look at the song but now I'm looking again I want to not be looking at my laptop I want to just be able to play faster a good way of saying it is if I were to jump on the laptop should be almost or if your laptop's organized well person B should be able to jump on your laptop and kind of know where they're going okay I get what you're saying yeah that's one of the things with my music I I think I have too much and the reason why I say that I'm thinking of probably just taking everything off and

dumping it out I'm from the Caribbean I'm from Jamaica we hoard music you actually look really organized considering what you're telling us all I can say is you could tag better if I'm just looking at it specifically I think you could tag a little bit better and then maybe go through it and you don't have to delete or not hoard anything just put it on an external and get it out of s and just have the stuff that you're going to play regularly in Sado and then slowly start putting everything back

you know what I mean okay so clean out and build back because before all I used to this is if I scroll down you'll see how I used to store stuff before it's by genre for example Dance all I'll store it by a year what I'd like to say is okay we were just having this discussion at dinner the other night for and how do you mix dancehall are you g to go oh I'm not going to mix a 25 record with a 2080s record no if they're both dope you're going to go back and forth on it right so like the way that y

ou have it to me I can't it doesn't work because I can't go oh let me dig in that 2015 crate for that one track and then go back to what how do I even know what I don't have every year memorized so for Dan all Dan is is a little bit different from how other mus Club are made in other countries for dance hall they'll make a rhythm and then you'll have eight or 10 artists goes on the same beat no I understand that I collect a lot of danceall yeah so what we do here is I use a comment section and f

or example this is a rhythm it's called pretty looks so basically all the artist that who sings on the pretty looks Rhythm or beat I would tag that song so if I'm playing that particular Rhythm I will know all the songs and in 2 hours I'm saying you're right but still like in 2000 but but in 80 what if you're in you're searching for just that rhythm you're not necessarily you're organizing it by year when you're playing it by Rhythm are you following what I'm saying I do I do you should the orga

nizing it by year when you're in the rush in the moment to find it almost doesn't matter if your tags were correct and you had that year in the tags like right now it's showing your location in Sado like I would turn that off and I would put the year on okay I again I sto playing like that so this is just me hoarding the music here but if the tags are correct the other thing the other point to be made is that you could use a Smart crate you could search the word dance hall you could search 1980

to 89 and all that music would come up right away too yeah so I do it I do it different now so for example this folder here if I'm playing a dance dance all I'm doing 90s Dan this way this is awesome yeah so I put the track so if you see action here that's a rhythm and these are all the hot songs they they have more songs but at this are the ones that would typically be the bangers and then IED this thing here where I just separated them so again if I'm playing I can always go down like here som

e of them are by BPM some are not but this is just by the Rhythm and yeah see I I love that way all you're I don't even know what you're specifically asking but to me this looks awesome I could play off this really well like fuse was saying easily could jump on and work through the set I go so far as to say number one I would go to New York to watch this guy play because he's got so many Heavy Hitters in his crates number two it's amazing to see how he's got the go back to your entrance crate th

at you were showing us earlier he's got instrumental stacked up on top of the original so just right there on the Fly he can grab and extend and loop he's got do do you download a lot of instrumentals yeah so again when I used to be in Jamaica before a lot we have this habit of getting for example like the instrumentals from the US and then we try to play the Jamaican songs on it wow and that kind of add a little flare in our set so it's always the case so it's old Jamaican DJing way of doing th

at so since I got here I'm learning I I think he's learned it pretty well guys don't you say drew fuse you're you look incredible I if you have a specific question I'll answer it otherwise everyone just look at his crates and there problem solved for the rest of the day like you killed it you're you're doing you want to bring in a few more I've got a few more stacked up for us but Drew you said you wanted to show off your crates hey Kon one in the chat for Kayon everyone thank you for sharing yo

ur screen with us would you mind to unsharing all I would say is maybe a little less that's all I would say yeah I'm definitely working on it it's going to take me probably like a month because I'm G to have to rip everything out and then add it back be a little careful because you have you've already done a lot of the work so if you rip it out you're G to restart over maybe you want to go see which crates you want to keep and then start from there or I don't know exactly where the start point i

s but you've done a lot of the work so I wouldn't want to restart all of that work hey Ryan get ready to share your screen and step up on stage with Drew Infuse in a minute here but first Drew do you have permission to share your mine this is my favorite part I I'm gonna be really honest I've known Drew f is liver since I've known Drew specifically for as long as crate hackers has been around and he to me has always been the most organized DJ I've ever seen aside from me if I were to have a a cl

one this would be my second brainchild pay close attention take screenshots this guy's amazing walk us through it dude Aaron thank you you're I've gotten so much from just watching Aaron but I overdo it I think ultimate the first step as I would always just say com in down it comes down to all the tagging has got to be correct all the way across you know I only have the file I have every everything that's in my Sado I want the song and I the song in the title tells me exactly what it is the arti

st tells me exactly what it is BPM key and then the plays and then my genres are all broken down into like very searchable stuff and then you know the album I always put whoever the editor is comment I leave open I was tagging a bunch of stuff but that's not and then uh date added I think is important the other stuff the file name I don't think that's as important I would probably take that off so you can just go on the side here and take the file name off so I just don't really need that inform

ation and if you ever need to find something you can just hit command R And Then There It Is shows you where it is the finder but yeah I have mine I have mine breaking broken down into right now I'm doing clubs and uh weddings so wher is one of the bars that I do so here's I only want the stuff on the screen that I want to see I want to see the song I want to see the artist I want to see the BPM the key and the plays that's all this is still here if I need to search over but this is really just

for search so I could go so it's like a master folder I basically just play out of this if I see that only pop is working then I'll jump into the pop or the country or whatever is for that bungal I have I I save a lot of my sets these are all just past sets I save if I played a set I liked it I'll throw it in this sets anytime I go back there it's like pretty safe I could just jump in and these are all the sets that I've played in the past this one I already I've already formulated this crate so

it's not broken down to all the other stuff because it's fairly specific Club smart crates like I we were trying to say earlier if you tag correctly you don't have to do anything the this smart crate say 20 if I hit edit it's based off it contains anything that has the number 20 in the genre and then we dance meaning for for weddings and so then that's broken up so if I do a wedding it's I could basically just see all of this but for the most part I just play out of the master crate and then it

has all of the hip-hop and I leave this blank crate right here if everyone's going crazy and then I could just be like everyone's going crazy to two you kind of drag 2005 and then just play out of that so it's kind of like my little short cut way to get around real quick but really just being able to shrink everything down quick and get open it if I need to otherwise I'm only playing out of that one folder that I need to play out of we don't have as much time to talk about the whole process but

you also put as much time and thought process into your Spotify playlist as you do your Sado playlist is that correct yeah it's exactly what everyone was saying about all of their so pre-made so these are like pre-made Spotify playlists so ceremony cocktail dinner everything that we've ever done past weddings so everything that this every wedding just about for the last I don't know 15 years or no I'm just kidding Believe last five years but yeah it shows all their stuff everything that they se

nd me so I don't want this in my Sado I only have 8,000 songs in my Sado that can all live over here I don't want all this junk in there I I only need to see what I'm going to play and I play a lot of different venues I get everything out that I don't want to see anymore so hey Drew do you clear your history s yeah at close out every single time same can you say the importance of that the importance of it I I hear guys that keep their history so that just shows the blues that whatever's blue tha

t they've already played to me doesn't make any sense because you're basically doing what if you didn't have how are we saying this correctly fuse if you if you did your job and you didn't have an excessive amount of files that's what all those blue files are so you wouldn't need all the other junk yeah yeah and you're going to be able to track stuff a lot better if you're clearing your history you're going to be able to see how many times you're playing something you can export the history from

just that night if you're not if you're not let's say you had a great night somewhere and you never clear your history but you're never going to be able to go and grab just that and put it into a folder or somebody's going to say you can you just got to scroll up and then know that's what somebody's going to say I I just think it's invaluable that be able to see what I did every night same we really want to be here to see your guys' stuff we're just showing you if we're going to get similar que

stions to like how we're stacking stuff I want to see someone's like specific crate where it's has 20 Pitbull songs in it or maybe a wedding set that you already did and we could burn through that wedding set in order we got a cou stacked up for you here I've got we got Ryan here standing by if you wouldn't mind turning on your camera Ryan that'll give us the green light that you're ready to go and then after that I've got a somebody who slid into my DMs earlier he might be a little embarrassed

to share it but he still wants to get you're not of approval hey Ryan welcome to create hackers you're hanging out with Drew and fuse can you share your playlist with us tonight thank you for having me um where you from man New York but Upstate New York like an hour away from the city so oh allow me to co-host standby he has it he has it thank you is it working or um I'm not seeing the screen share but I see I can hear you let me see oh it's telling me I have to quit and reopen to Ryan I'll put

your I'll put you you in line log out log back in give yourself some permission to do I'm going to share what somebody sent me earlier some thank come back in and raise your hand and we'll call you up for sure cool New York representing that's so cool all over listen we're GNA go over to my second monitor here and I received a couple of screenshots now this is somebody who did a wedding cocktail party and might want to consider doing this in the future again I was really proud of it and just wan

ted to see if perhaps maybe you would also be interesting I was thinking it was somebody else but I already know who this one is let's take a look here screen okay oh stand by there it is Drew fuse here's the first one this one comes in so funny I know this this cocktail playlist it was from a certain Sunday in Key West I think on the 18th I wouldn't know for sure but DJ command I think was that command that's rightand definitely the the Louis Prima Pennies from Heaven gave it away especially wi

th the science of selling yourself short there by Less Than Jake so wait are you telling me are you telling me the person who sent me this djed your wedding he did he did this was your playlist you did you customize this look the band's a great DJ but I had a vision for the cocktail hour of what I wanted and I I may have sent him a four hours worth of music via Spotify what I like they were all ideas and command did his own thing I'm trying to picture just like the wind is blowing everyone has b

ubbly and fuse is wearing Maybe white suit I was wearing black there he is there he is right there he's got his hand up let him in here nobody has anything bad to say about this playlist if they did they're muted right now they can't talk [ __ ] on it I thought I just wanted to share that with you guys if anything that the playlist is a Vibe you know what I'm saying I'm saving it I'm gonna I'm gonna use it for sure it was a good mix of everything mix of everything I I'd have him as my wedding DJ

man I want to have a custom curate for me what's Up DJ demand how you been Jason not bad just had a little road trip to ke West and recovering from that right now but yeah had got a chance to party with these guys it was awesome but uh well would you do me a favor and get the chat riled up for us for fuse's wedding day let's get him riled up he's we did a little uh recap coming up he absolutely killed the wedding he's so good such a awesome DJ yeah we had a blast he let me do my thing for the d

ancing part but they gave me a he gave me a playlist for cocktail and all the background stuff and I loved it so I was like he said you could just play the Spotify list I'm like no I'm actually mix this so it's in a playable order right there worked outy it is oh take a look at it okay one more time take a look at it because that was the that like that was the order that I played cocktail in pretty much so love song by 311 over here okay one see the far left has the numbered order yeah okay oh d

ude I am making a crate out of this one well demand did a live mix that he said he was putting out the live mix recorded be up soon okay we're definitely making it Crea of this for the team Jason thanks for hanging out with us man DJ demand you got it I'll let you guys back get back to it available for your wedding with the help of fuse Manus playlist let's Ryan is see if we can bring Ryan back once again Ryan go ahead and uh turn on your camera you got permissions yeah I think it should work no

w go for it my friend let me go ahead and un share my screen all right let me see yeah there we go all right is it working now it's working all right so you guys answered a lot of questions just from the two that you guys went over already but I feel like I just have more of a specific question of so I have my crates by genre and then also how you guys said by year but I have a lot of music three terabytes of music that I got from because I started when I was like 14 and I had a DJ partner he wa

s like here's all my music so he just gave me all that and I literally never organized it like this this is like the most organized I've been and I just like more the question is like how do I don't even know narrow down all that music should I have like in my crates like right now I've had narrowed it down to like the bangers only sometimes at a wedding or something you need those like 11 song on an album that someone just asked for randomly no you don't need those you you can put him on an ext

ernal and just leave him on the external in the background and then if Auntie Sarah comes up and ask for that that that track that you're saying you could plug it in but ask yourself in reality I'm really asking you if she comes up and says play the this track what is the likelihood you're going to play it I'm being very serious if the dance for is cracking they ask for that request what's the likelihood you're going to play that song that's true don't have it on your Sado get rid of it because

it's just leave it on an external or be able to download it stream it yeah but there's no reason to have it that's true so do you think this way of having my creates it seems like for me since the way I was working to now it's like definitely worked out more especially I have opening set at prime time kind of more like Club style but also works at the wedding do you recommend this style or like you think I I love how you have all your stuff you're organized you're actually tagged correctly insid

e of all of the stuff I guess if you want to really narrow it down I think straight curation meaning like this specific nightclub putting all those tracks into that and like curating it even deeper and same for weddings instead of just playing out of an all crate because you can't really read the crowd or go fast you can't find that track true okay and then I guess last question so you said put all those songs Just on an external and then I feel like I'm still building The Heavy Hitters bangers

and then just bring those over as I need them so on on here go to your history or I'm just saying in your history do you have a ton of playlists like my history up here yeah you have like previous years and all that stuff yeah anybody else getting anxiety looking at his flashing battery going 9 yeah I literally see that let's see how long we can go right yeah I have everything I never cleared it out like how you were saying but what I mean by this is I would start with maybe organize see your or

ganization's so good that this is going to be difficult to do but maybe what I would do is on inside of I'm sorry I'm going to go back a little bit close that history do you have the play count your in this master window do you have the play count yeah it should be right here okay I would organize by play count okay hit the if you hit that then I would take everything that has zero plays and I would throw that on an external and then but I feel like that also my problem too I feel like since I s

tarted organizing it there's some stuff like maybe a different version that I didn't play like I had so many different versions so like I have as you see right here like a zero play count and I just have this doesn't have it because I already erased it like stuff that I didn't need but at least start going through the zero count then and that's how that's going to be the the fastest way to like get rid of everything the fastest way to start gonna be okay that's the word everybody needs to hear o

kay you're not deleting it right you're getting it out of Sado if you're really scared put it on in a folder in your on your desktop right and that way you don't have to carry an external around with you just get it out of Sado and then if you're like oh I need that bam it's on your folder you just search it in files and then throw it back in okay makes sense I think cool Ryan thanks a lot man thanks for hanging out with us I'm glad you have I'm glad you're opening yourself up like this because

it goes to show that you're willing to learn you're willing to try and I know a lot of DJs have been in that situation before where yeah it definitely changed my life honestly just organizing and stuff so I've been like really strict on it it's been like probably a month two months just like how can I get it better how can I get it better fuse any thoughts I just think that we as DJs a lot of times forget people want to get to this next thing and they often forget that the most important part is

the music and if the music if you're if you find yourself playing a lot and you're struggling of even if you're playing two three hour 4 Hour sets and you're struggling for an hour two hours or not knowing how to get from set a to set B you need to help yourself out and start organizing stuff in a way that is going to help you get from place a to place B even if that's starting small like that singals folder I had it's that's a if I get stuck and now it's I can take that folder and start puttin

g stuff in there that I'm playing all the time or whatever what take if you're going to gig for the next month and you're going to play a bunch of different gigs you can use that as a starting point of what you're going to go with if you're going to redo all your crates well if I just played a gig every Friday and Saturday for the last month chances are I've got quite a bit of music in there that I'm gonna play Andor be fine with until I can get more time together to organize the crates yeah one

of my clubs I'm playing just off of the last five months of sets that I did all off the top and I curated just from playing live that's all I'm playing out of I could get rid of the rest of it and just play off of that so start somewhere listen I have Jay Dow and I believe Travis Bizzle he might be around Jay go ahead and unmute yourself and feel free to share your screen if you're still up how you been dog I didn't even I sent you everything so I didn't even have anything up yet oh you send it

to me in the chat so hold on one second I just I sent the S oh that's right you did it in the slack yeah go ahead and bring that back up for us I'm proud of Jay personally I think he does a great job working with cray hackers and you wanted to share one that was give us a little back story on this one I mean it was actually just a live set that I did and it was a pool hall/ dance area and basically I needed to work to gain these people over to the dance floor while they were doing other things

like standing around at the bar or whatever so I dropped feelers and then it turned into a fun time I love that okay yeah Drew and I always like to call that that when we're fishing in the crowd You're Just Fishing and you're hoping something's going to hook exactly what I did all right Sado I'll just log in Sado we all have those nights too where We're Just Fishing all night long and nothing hooks some nights it's like that I call that the tail spin it was the first time I was ever there so I l

ike I basically just had to learn everything so can you guys see that now so I was just dropping basic songs that I knew I can mess with people and get them doing some things and then Segways that are already done so the regulate I keep forgetting was like something that people probably wouldn't know but they'd listen to it and then be like oh that goes into regulator and then it hits him with regulator where do you guys want me to start because this is like four hours I mean just keep scrolling

yeah yeah all right stop for a sec all right into that fresh prints fantasy great did how did that wonder wall and third ey blind do so there was it it was a pool hall so I started just sprinkling The Rock and like people started single a little bit to the Oasis one which as soon as that caught them and it was it's like more of a tropical house remix yeah I know that one so as soon as they started giving me something to that then I was like all right I got them in the Little Rock so let me just

sprinkle some of that stuff in too something I see and I don't mean to tell you what to do too hard but something I we're playing a lot of the same tracks and I think Drew would agree with that but one of the things that I think when I see stuff like this and I think it's a mistake a lot of DJs make personally I think it when you go from a song like Get Low and then then you're back into Morgan Wallen and then you're back into Montel Jordan and then back into a rock song Sometimes what I try to

do because you're hitting so much so quick I try to I would rather group The the more hip hoppy songs together and then more group the few rock songs together that's something that I do and it sometimes it doesn't seem so abrupt to people that are like halfway paying attention like if people are playing pool and they hear one song and they're like oh I like this song and then you switch it and it goes into a hip-hop song and they're like wait what and then it goes back to rock you know that's o

ne way I I I find myself that it makes things smoother is by grouping like tracks does it feel a little shoehorned in that we have to start playing things like Morgan Wallen in otherwise open format sets it feels I caught that watching scooter play a couple of months back scooter played live at DJ Collective and he was in a set very similar to this but then all of a sudden Morgan Wallen kicks in I know he's a chart topper I know the girls love him but it does much like Jay Dow's situation he's t

rying to keep a lane of familiarity but it feels weird trying to put country music now because it's hot can I ask a question if I'm looking at the set just like what F said you have you're you have such a great going on like it's like this list is so good and then I understand the feeler where you're like [ __ ] it let's try something new and then you get the sing along and it starts working I probably would have leaned into it a little bit more now the little John maybe you were just like oh ma

ybe I should get back to it and then it didn't work because they were feeling it so I can understand the one off where you're like okay [ __ ] it let's go back but the late the last night could have been a request I just think I would have followed it up with another country song or gone into Taylor Swift That's Country adjacent or Miley Cyrus that's Again country adjacent that's it's in that same she's like country by relation so what I will say is I was going stem heavy on this okay so I only

played semi- Charmed I think I probably used get Low's BackBeat and then went into Morgan Wallen with get low on a stem okay okay so I was really hitting this hard in like mashing up and getting people quick to try to figure out what it is so like I agree with you 100% cuz I'm all over the place but with the ability of stems these are almost every single one of these songs early if you see I'm not playing very much of the song they're all stems so paint the picture of the night one more time eve

rybody playing pool it's a pool hall everybody's chilling are you trying to get them on the dance floor or you just trying to keep them there I'm dropping breadcrumbs that's exactly what I'm doing just to see what they want for later on and I'll skip ahead like I know loving on me and stuff like that is going to hit and get people moving or it should at least so I'm like okay then I used a couple of these and then I'll go down more so you can see where they actually started dancing cuz like I dr

opped it down into I did the levitating into tub tub dumping just to get out of 22 Taylor Swift cuz it did not work and then straighten to crank that the college girls are coming out more and more and they're just all about Taylor Swift so they only need to hear a little bit of it no I play every Taylor Swift song and that's the one that flops for me yeah if you see I only played 50 seconds of it yeah yeah so I I made a hook only version of it that I played and it still flops but everything else

works and a lot of the so I do a bar stool night so a lot of the girls are 22 okay so that's the niche I'm not judging that song at all I I would have play I play it every night I'm just saying it's the one that kind of fall actually like I said earlier I think all these songs are like songs that I'm playing so then I'm then I'm doing a throwback set cuz it really started whatever kicking off with the single alongs and the move wrong and stuff like that then we get into the Drake sexy can ey gr

ills and then I did the Lose Yourself to get a sing along and then I cuted right into fire burning build the dance floor right off the bat cuz they had the energy from Lose Yourself hey I want to compliment you on something that uh i' I talked to multiple DJs about lately is uh I've had DJs tell me that they'll they start at 70 and then by the end of the night they're at 1:30 and I just I don't understand that at all how it just seems like it would take so long before you're at like this peak ti

me whereas at least I want to compliment you on that you're like you're jumping around bpms it's not only about the BPM I'm so I've learned so I would I used to be probably when I stopped doing just BP and I really got into the slam edits I really got into the Epic intros because I can slam those in or scratch them in like the grill song I you're right in you just SL in what city is this again this is Boston okay one one thing to just again it's all a matter of taste and I know East Coast West C

oast it's a whole thing right but overly doing the slams where I also try and tell people like have you ever gone dancing and I'm being serious like you don't have to go dancing but stand on the dance floor and just go how abrupt sometimes if it's like starting and stopping right like I'll see a DJ where it's just oh I'm constantly like moving for girls it's a thing where it's just constantly moving and it's in their head but if you're just stopping and starting and stopping it's it's so abrupt

that might be what's [ __ ] them up versus the playlist the playlist could be crushing that could just be something no I'm not saying that's what you are I'm not listening to you I'm just throwing out ideas no you're good and it's a valid point because you can do it but I didn't really have any dancing until fire burning so it was more standing around and then I was like all so they started really engaging at Lose Yourself question this whole hour though you were doing mostly hip-hop before that

mostly but why didn't you jump into the the pop poppy stuff earlier because I didn't need like I did with the shup and all that other the stuff I was throwing it back a little bit sh is so old for a college crowd it was old people playing pool and then the younger people started trickling in so that was I was on at 8:00 I'm playing whatever and then at 9:00 9:30 everybody starts coming in so then you're really getting into a house music and sing alongs and bonjie Boston everybody knows and then

we're just hitting them and then back right down from I want to dance with somebody flopped surprisingly but it is what it is so then when I R into a sing along right into moment for life and started going Throwbacks because they started working like crazy how long is the set and what was the hours it was 8 to 12:30 I believe 8 to 1230 I think it's a great set I just think me personally I tend to start I like to just bring the girls out right away so I tend to start poppy pretty out the gate an

d then and then I course correct with hip-hop but that's just from the venues that I've been I play at is that's usually where we're at what's your region again where are you based out of Drew I'm in Southern California and a lot of Beach City stuff and that's just my my train of thought is playing to the girls so I tend to start pop and then if nothing's working that's when I start playing hip-hop and then I leave the hip-hop to like peak hour fuse what are your thoughts when you see this yeah

like I said I think there's a lot of the songs that we're playing we just play them differently and it's a lot more jumpier than I like to be personally it's more jumping from here to jum jumping from there with pretty quick too in a lot of ways which I'm a fan of quick mixing and all that but sometimes I think sometimes you got to let things breathe a little more to to do more for the crowd you have to not necessarily let songs play faster but maybe stay in a certain Tempo a little longer where

as like I might stay between 120 and 128 for 10 minutes but I might play 20 25 songs before I jump around so much I'm looking at this [ __ ] better have my money Rihanna at a time stamp of 218 and you're already into the next song 45 seconds later and that's go ahead I have I have a whole money like word play okay it now yeah yeah yeah so it starts with gold digger and basically I just do a money name play on on all of that forget what I said then that makes sense it's a routine there yeah yeah

that's a mini routine wow you see my point though sometimes you don't want to get too absolutely no I was a couple people showed up that knew me and they they brought some energy at that point so I was just like all right I'm going to show off a little bit Yeah here he goes I mean Jay D going into Flex mode Boston style look out the looks awesome I I just maybe and you can never judge anything by any one night like we're all going to do it we've been drinking we doing the thing like you can't sa

y anything like any anytime I see like a Nicki Minaj in between like a Shawn Paul and another Nicki Minaj it's like just maybe switching those and like backt backing them and then going into like you had inure or Calabria Nicki Minaj temperature and then another Nicki Minaj so maybe switching the temperature in between that and just little tiny tweaks maybe putting your playlist in I would take your whole crate put it in uh a crate right take your whole uh set put it in a crate and then just twe

ak it from there go oh I did I didn't see that I did this let me pull that out let me pull this here and then just like refining it as you go and then just saying as you're looking at the crowd oh that didn't work let me take this out and put it in a bside crate or whatever I think the song selection is great for me and like Drew is mentioning it's more just like the getting from one to the next like you said Lose Yourself was crushing it which that's when it started going for me in my brain I w

ouldn't go Lose Yourself as crushing it now I'm going to play uh fire burning on the dance floor that wouldn't in my brain that wouldn't be and if I was out there dancing too and the momentum was starting to build and then that happened I would probably be like what's going on but I I think all the song your song Choices are great I think that there's all party music in there so that's just my opinion though I'd be there front row that's my favorite I've seen him perform live and yeah he's very

stem crazy he's uh two channel fader extraordinaire I could see his his DNA all over it yeah yeah the money side look good yeah it did it did okay we got one more we got time for one more and I am honestly having an absolutely educational and fun night it I didn't think that this was going to pop I didn't realize so many people were going to to be brave enough and I I love how your the way you your criticism is so constructive one in the chap for Drew andus we got time for one more I'm questions

in the chat I'm sorry we'll do questions right after our last guest and I'm gonna check in up all the way up in Canada we're gonna go to Canada right now and hang out with Tim Tim you wanted to jump in and get your crates critiques with dman Hughes yo yeah I would be honored all right so I feel like I need to set a little bit of background about what I do yes I got a little I got tired of playing out so I play like Zoom parties yeah and so a lot of this is like corporate you guys can see Sado o

kay yeah right yeah so like C look at like impressive tagging super impressive tagging and yeah and good crates so just everyone that's been asking that is definitely step one just make sure your tagging is right yeah so like I have a a bit of a un I should be on this more but I started move everything away from titles and putting them in the comments but so I'll label things as eight mix so I know it's eight bars to mix versus just like a single or if it's four bars or 16 or 32 like I just I kn

ow it yeah and then keep things clean so what I do is I need to like educate these companies about music so like I do themes so this was like a cheese set and this is just some of the N I think this is music that is all of it's so it's hilarious I'm going to play this if I'm going to be serious I love the that's my cheese set I don't know if Toronto's very oh you want us to judge the cheese set or the other option is we can go into dance hall but I don't know no I'll look at the cheese set I thi

nk Super sharp and cheddar like cheesy I think it's good you're hitting them the nail I guess I would if I was going cheese I would just probably he was doing some word plays and some other stuff like that's where you could really that up is having some cool little routines in the cheese I definitely should have been doing that that's where you could really I don't see any Mambo Number Five Drew 30 minutes I only have 30 minutes out of time and that's like also like a couple minutes for people t

o come in because the zoom it only takes minutes and your years are all over the place and shees just goes anywhere right just anywhere we used to do this uh this night called the whatever party and the idea of the whatever party was they're all party hits they're all top 40 Classics they're just all across the board whatever so this to me fits that perfectly yeah I is this supposed to be in a specific order that you're pled it oh yeah this is yeah this is literally like a mixable crate okay it

it I guess if I'm going to pick it apart just because you're asking us to you go from Fast to slow and so I don't know if you're like I guess if I was having everybody walk in I'd want to build up the the momentum and not drop the momentum I know you're going into a little bit of singalongs but I feel like you're just like slowly like tanking it if you will yeah that makes sense I always yeah yeah I'm the same I always try I always try to build then reset then build then reset that's it's like t

he roller coaster you it starts slow to get to the top of the first Hill and then it drops you and then you're slow back up again and it drops you that's the way I always look at it something I like to say is I like to I like to DJ like Mike Tyson's punch out I like to be the little kid and it's like how many uppercuts can I get in so every uppercuts oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] [ __ ] duck oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] it's just fast and it's just [ __ ] makes a meme out of that just punching

them into the ground so is that how you end the night though no but you're building up to a moment right and you're slowly slowing it down to it when they get in I have I have 30 minutes to make I have 30 minutes in in my head I think open to close sorry I think more like prime time to close so I'm like I'm trying to figure out like what do I do in 30 minutes I feel like I have to send off I don't know I'm not going to play Heavy Hitters at the end of the night but 30 minutes is a very small amo

unt of time like I really probably should end on high energy I even like my life sets it depends on like the place I play but still it's always building building and then if I have let's say I know the last 10 minutes like it's last call that's I'll just like change the mood all the sudden and start I don't like to gradually wind it down for the last hour I I want to keep it up and then be like all right now it's time to slow it down another thing I would say is most people don't understand BPM

so when I see this you do have a lot of single bels at the end of the night so it's not necessarily 100% slowing it down and getting depressing people are only going off of uh a sing along at 97 could have just as much energy as a song that's 130 yeah so what's another one you've done since we've looked at the cheese are these other ones on the side the other ones you've done yeah these are all like so every month I try to do a theme so I I just started like doing this last this is the company u

h okay but anyway so I I started with the cheese one then the next day was like St Patty's which was mostly like just some songs and then I just went into some older like R&B when we did when we did a St Patty's Day and there wasn't enough stuff we started doing using green or beer songs anything that was related to that so there's deeper Dives than you could do into this would you do that at a company like this is say Patty's party yeah hell yeah I would all day it's drinking that's what it is

Green Day is green beer like it's green like it's a green day yeah no you're right definitely no worse than 420 yeah I I wanted to go back to the cheese real quick I had an idea you have a little set that I do is so you did that Britney Spears I do just like a whole run of kind of Britney Spear Court hooks boom and then into something else or if it led off of crazy go into uh crazy [ __ ] or something into that go into a word play to get somewh else I think with the cheese the whole idea of it i

s that it's so offthe wall that you're just like throwing them hits and you just keep it going yeah so I think you could dive I would say you could dive deeper but yeah the idea is there for sure I will say this I don't know if anybody caught the background of Tim but he's got the very very limited edition crate hackers neon behind him which indicates he's part of the Inner Circle I don't know if you know this but Tim is feverishly working behind the scenes with Austin and Glenn on a very import

ant project Tim would you to elaborate yeah know this is V4 this is uh a lot of this is a lot of like Blood Sweat and Tears right now I'm not going to lie we V4 of crate hackers You're Building V4 crate hackers V4 Banger button was pretty fun too it was that was that was great but V4 is really I'm excited for this V3 is great it works we're going to we're unlocking the we're taking the Cuffs off now like we're getting serious oh slap it around a little bit are you incredible like the I know that

I sent Drew and fuse a we hype it up every single week on the show yeah bring them on bring on Tim for a podcast I think he'd love the talk I don't know if you do you guys remember does anybody remember an app that was reviewed by can I talk about it no should I if you want it's like one of my biggest one of my biggest failures no whatever dude I I have a lot of respect for this man because he created a software called spin Tools around the co era spin tools anybody remember that the tagging so

ft Ware yeah it was like a library management tool it was just for Sado and it was cuz I hated building Freights in this it's yeah maybe I use it wrong but yeah you've always felt certain things were lacking in music organization and so you came along with this it was like to the best of my knowledge when I remember meeting this guy for the first time he was so efficient with Hyper tagging tagging was his thing and organizing and just file paths it spin tools just seem to know the inner workings

of your library more than Sado did in my opinion but now we got him for V4 it's awesome yeah know it's listen y'all we took up a lot of time for Drew and fuse and I want to get some ones in the chat for all of the people who stepped up tonight and more importantly I want to get some ones in the chat for JW and fuse because they've committed to do the final Tuesday of every month we're still on for that boys oh yeah thanks to everyone that joined and was willing to go again there's no right way

to DJ yeah so this is just us saying hey we think this is a way you can improve from looking on the outside I don't think there's any right way and the same as last time if you guys follow us or shoot the Instagram a message we have a edit pack we'll send over so if you guys send over we do the podcast every Wednesday there's tons of information if you en enjoy this you'll enjoy the podcast and like Aaron mentioned we'll be on here at the last Tuesday of every month if there's something you woul

d like us to do if you thought this was helpful today what we did we'd be happy to do it again if there's something else You' want want to see we're happy to discuss and and do something different too I just love having his energy both of them both fuse and Drew we need more people to collaborate and talk music and I thought tonight was very productive y guys thanks that was a lot of fun I like looking at everyone's crates there's so many different ways to mix andas across get played that I forg

et about too that somebody else plays before we head out I got a couple of quick updates for us little housekeeping notes number one please welcome DJ Dynamics to the crate curation team we just signed DJ if you're not following him on the socials dude crushes and he's already getting trained up on the team to submit some crates number two do not miss out on next week's hackathon because we're going to unveil a new feature that will be available to all a new update a new part of 3.5 that is goin

g to tide you over until 4.0 arrives we're calling it The Magic sorter it's a brand new feature available to the public you must must be live on next week's Zoom to get the roll out of it okay so a brand new feature that's going to give you a little taste of what 4.0 is all about Tim is working hard behind it but I'm going to give him a little extra time he's putting his Blood Sweat and Tears into it as you heard but we have a feature that we've been testing behind the scenes for [ __ ] do you w

ant to see it we still got some people on the screen do we want to see do you want yeah from the iPhone sure says Darren spy okay all right cool can I do that boy Glenn I know you're not H thumbs up can we do it I got the thumbs up from the developer here we go y'all want to see the magic sorder yeah okay let me just oh [ __ ] I can't believe it I'm so excited to drop this are you serious this is so dope okay the sorder is something I've been dreaming of for over two years now and to be honest w

ith you we've only been using it for curators only people who worked behind the scenes had access to it and that's why you're going to see when I pull up the app it's an admin section let me show you what I'm talking about okay so look down here curator tools right this was only for people like Jay Dow for example or myself or other curators who work for us this was only for curators and to be quite honest it's sick because here's what it does you're going to get a playlist and you're going to u

se the sliders to filter the playlist until you have the tracks in mixable order okay so let me show you how that works all right so let's go ahead and pull up any random playlist let's go to H hits USA on Spotify right we're going to click the three dots we're going to share you know how like the Spotify import works everybody's familiar with how the Spotify import works this takes it to a whole new level now mind you hot hits USA look at the order we've got siza we got Benson Boon we got Beyon

ce Texas hold him jack harlo we got this order right I can tell you right now that Red Rum by 21 Savage is about 80 beats per minute give or take Jack harlo is about 105 beats per minute perfect example now keep that in mind when I drop this into the magic sorder I'm going to copy that link and paste it into the sorder okay look what pops up this is a okay let me expand up on this just a little bit more so you can see the inner workings of it so look at this you've got these sliders now that all

ow you to not only adjust the popularity and the mood and the veilance that we've always talked about which is super dope but look if I click sort it's asking you to push this button over here push me please it's glowing underneath my finger I'm going to click it right right like this now look what just happened everything went into you guessed it BPM and harmonic order remember that order we were talking about the red drum from 21 Savage and living uh loving on me it's all the way down here in

BPM order see look BPM it's about as good as it's going to get for the most part it's not perfect now here's the best part this is the Boneyard we call this the Boneyard down here these are the songs that did not make its way into the mixable combination it did its absolute best okay so that's super dope it imagine taking like a Spotify playlist like a cocktail playlist that would normally not be in a mixable fashion now you can like this and you can move songs around let's say I don't like the

song there I want to move it here great oh now once I'm ready I can spit this thing to this one is going to export to the website but what I want to have this do is export back to you on Spotify you follow me so we're GNA take a generic Spotify playlist and we're gonna make it in mixable order therefore you can do so many things with that you could take you could let it ride you could let it ride and it'll sound perfectly segue or you can do your track matching so much more efficiently with the

Spotify import you know how we do the track matching my point is this is such a game changer and it is created such a workflow that allows me Immediate flexibility for harmonic and BPM combinations get ready I'm going to give you access to it next Tuesday with our hackathon we're going to bring Glen back we're going to bring Tim back we're going to bring Austin Austin was the person by the way who uh helped build this for us he's not on the Channel with us tonight but shout out to him shout out

to our team shout out to the Blood Sweat and Tears going into this y'all love it you Ling it ones Herbert one armanii one Jonathan one fuse one Dre one radio one DJ spy perfect attendance one all the ogs one five years strong five years strong five years strong can you believe this we're getting up in it we're getting into half a decade in this little joint check this out I have some major final announcement last announcement before we set you forth and continue hacking this a big one very large

news my friends Joe bun is celebrating five years of the DJ's Vault and of course create hackers with the team please be there because this Thursday night we're going to be live on Twitch and we might be giving away some prizes as we always do I think we gave away a rain one the last time but if you head over to Twitch and search the D DJ's Vault you definitely want to be on board we have DJ Brian bonus and of course Joe bun his Raleigh crew jumping in the mix Mark T so please be there this Thu

rsday night 7 to 11 that's it y'all have you all I can share tonight final words fuse Drew follow us for free edit pack yeah go on the Facebook group free edit pack go on the just give us a message on the Instagram dur fuse show and us up with ideas for the next time yeah please head us up this was this one was a lot of fun for me I I really liked it would just leave everyone with tagging you got to put in the work and get rid of just stuff you're not going to play Aaron said of his whole life b

ut yeah keep doing it and I yeah thank you everyone for joining us this has been a lot of fun we've been really enjoying every month for the CR hackers crew Across the Nation thank you all for joining us tonight On's in the chat and happy hacking peace