Gerd Bauersfeld

I really love the voice of Monique and the grooves from Black Coffee, together unbeatable!

Artists: Monique Bingham & Black Coffee
Title: Deep In The Bottom (of Africa)
Genre: Soulful House, Afro House
Label: House Afrika

Just had a laugh at your last sentence in the opening Post D-Jam.

“Please only post one new tune, so we don’t end up with an overload of new music to look at.”

Considering the last weeks, an overload of tunes in this topic would be something… for a change.

Title: Need To Feel Loved
Artist: Floral
Genre: House
Label: d:vision

Every DJ-Software has their own way to save cuepoints, beatgrids and all that stuff, so yes, basically you have to set all your cuepoints and beatgrids again when you change your software.
But VirtualDJ can import Serato and Traktor databases as far as I know. Mixvibes Cross can import Traktor data as well.

But keep your eyes open for a software called RekordBuddy 2.0. It promises too convert cue points and beatgrids from one Software to another. (At least for the big players: Traktor, Serato, Virtual DJ, RekordBox, MixVibes…)
Should be released within a couple of weeks.

Lets explain it in more detail:

To convert digital music data in actual music, you need something called a D/A Converter.
That is usually a piece of hardware in your soundcard. It takes digital data and converts it in a analog signal that can be played through loudspeakers, headphones).

The data which is the input for a D/A Converter is always in wav format. (a bit simplified)
(Some D/A Converter have the ability to decompress mp3, m4a etc. before processing).

Difference between uncompressed and lossy data compression.
Back in the day when harddrive space and internet bandwidth was limited, there was a need to shrink those big wav files to a smaller size. Mp3 does exactly that, but by doing it, it has to remove some data from the original. Its a very complicated algorithm, but in the end it removes those data, that is ‘beyond the auditory resolution ability of most people’.

Now:
1. Converting from lossy (mp3, mp4, m4a) data to uncompressed data (wav, flac, aiff):
Increase in filesize, soundquality stays the same. (Can’t get better, the data lost in compression is gone forever)

2. Converting from uncompressed data data to lossy format data:
filesize considerably decreases, you always lose data == sound quality.

3. Converting from lossy data to another lossy data format (e.g. mp3 -> m4a):
filesize changes depending on the format. You even lose more data == sound quality.

But there is a piece of software called Platinum Notes 4 which actually can enhance the quality of your files.
But don’t make the mistake most people do with this program: Input mp3 files and output mp3 files.
Because this is actually the same as my point 3. from above with an additional enhancement process in-between.
(To process the data, Platinum Notes will decompress it (see 1. above), process it, and compress it again)

If you want the best results from Platinum Notes, make sure your output is wav, or preferably Aiff, alac or flac which will preserver your tags.

Beautiful tune:

Artist: Jerah feat. Yves
Title: Dream Maker
Genre: Soulful House
Label: Universal Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEFmS5S4RVo

Hopefully some will join, I want to see as well some other genres Hip-Hop-, RnB, Pop-, Reggae-Djs, show what you got.

Well, I have a really nice tune to share:
Artist: Ayla & Taucher & York feat. Juno Im Park
Title: Free Yourself
Genre: Pop, House
Label: Kontor Records

Lets keep it funky.

Title: Dance Little Sister (Shep Pettibone 12” Remix)
Artist: Terence Trend D’Arby
Label: CBS
Genre: Funk, Soul
Year: 1987

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x10ro0u_terence-trent-d-arby-dance-little-sister-shep-pettibone-12-remix_music

Artist: Human Machine
Title: Encode (Original Mix)
Genre: Tech House
Label: Engrave LTD

Actually their whole Black Mechanism EP is worth a listen. Great Stuff!