- Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix)” will probably always be my favorite wedding dance song. People get some jazzed when it happens. Throwing down hard with rowdy dance moves at “sippin’ on coke and rum” and “freakin’ weekend.” Love that jam.
- Kelly - ignition acapella. 1083 Total Listeners, Bitrate 192 kbps.
Formed in 2012, the all-male acapella group has had considerable success in recent times, being the opening act for Trinity Ball and playing to crowds at Electric Picnic. The group has earned their success through singing largely popular songs in acapella, a tradition that remains quite new to the Irish music scene.
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Digital DJ Masterclass owner Sushil writes: “I having hard time trying to use an acapella to transition between two tracks with my Traktor Kontrol S2, because of course the controller only has two decks so I can’t use a third deck for the acapella like you might on a four-deck controller. I tried using the Remix Decks but found it far from straightforward. Please could you give me some suggestions for how to acapella mix with a two-deck controller either using the Remix Decks or some other way?”
Digital DJ Tips says:
Mixing acapellas is not something we can teach in a quick answer here (indeed, we’ve got a whole course about it – the Acapella Mixing Masterclass) but I can give you some tips, and then throw it open to the readers for more ideas.
Firstly, practise quickly changing the outgoing tune for the incoming one on the same deck. If you do this at the right point, a few seconds of silence while the acapella is playing away is no bad thing. This is how we used to do it back in the “two Technics” days and it can add lots of drama to your set.
Secondly, don’t let the Remix Decks confuse you. Using say a 30-second acapella loop or chorus on one of the sample slots, you can approximate a third deck, and as long as you beatgrid the acapella correctly (the tricky part, but then again you’d need to do this anyway if you’re usaing sync), it’ll be easy to perform.
Finally, you could always experiment with a long delay effect to effectively loop a section of an acapella while you switch tunes; although this isn’t something I’ve ever experimented with myself, I’ve seen it done to great effect.
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So, over to you: How do you use acapellas of transitions in your DJ software without resorting to a third deck? Any ideas or developments of my ideas that you can share with Sushil below would be great ly appreciated!
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When I think of the “Ignition” music video, an image of R Kelly in an oversized Celtics jersey is conjured up in my mind. There is a long gold chain hanging from his neck, and Nick Cannon is behind him on decks. The dance floor is filled with dancers filmed in slow motion, and there is an occasional white fur coat to be seen. Somehow, 14 predominantly white male undergraduates from Trinity do not naturally make their way into my mind.
In the recent RTÉ documentary, Inside Trinity, Robert Sommerville of the Trinitones noted that the group has a bit of a “bad boy reputation”. Formed in 2012, the all-male acapella group has had considerable success in recent times, being the opening act for Trinity Ball and playing to crowds at Electric Picnic. The group has earned their success through singing largely popular songs in acapella, a tradition that remains quite new to the Irish music scene. In their ongoing efforts to maintain their notoriety, the group has recently decided to take a new direction with the content that they produce. This evening, they will release their own video version of “Ignition”, with their own unique Trinitones flair.
In undertaking such an infamous song, Trinitones decided to enlist the help of Dublin-based music videographer and director Christian Tierney. Having recently worked with the likes of James Bay and Gavin James, one would naturally assume that Tierney would have been slightly apprehensive to be working with a group of students. Speaking to Tierney, however, it is evident that he wholly enjoyed the deviation from his tradition style of work: “I never thought I would be making a parody of R Kelly’s “Ignition” set in a school disco. But sure look, there is a first for everything. You have to expand. It was great, it was really fun. It’s nice to be able to have a bit of fun with a video rather than it being a real serious narrative thing.”
For the Trinitones, having such a well-known Dublin director involved in the production was something to get excited about in itself. Having previously released covers of the likes of “Teenage Dirtbag” and “Stacey’s Mom”, the group were ready for a new approach to their videos. Surprisingly, “Ignition” was not the initial obvious choice. “We thought through a few ideas, and we didn’t think along the parody line until last minute. We always just think about Trinitones as a group need to achieve something in a video when there is a story involved because “Dirtbag” had no story. But then, we were watching the [“Ignition”] video, and that stupid shot of the head rotating happened, and Rob [Sommerville] was like ‘no, we need to do a parody’”, Neil Dunne, this year’s director of the band tells me.
Making videos is a distinct way for the members of Trinitones to remember their time singing with the group. Indeed, it is a way for them to visually encapsulate what it felt like to be a part of the band. This year, a parody of “Ignition” will provide the Trinity students with exactly the narrative they were looking for. For Tierney, choosing “Ignition” meant choosing “the most quintessential 90s outrageous video. It is almost a parody of itself”.
If R Kelly’s video is quintessentially 1990s, the Trinitones’ version aims to be quintessentially Trinity. Filmed in the squash courts of Trinity Hall, R Kelly’s nightclub appears to be something more of a teen disco. Trinity Hall residents happily provide the necessary slow motion dancing, while the Trinitones themselves are dressed in oversized jerseys and furs.
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Having Tierney take full control of the video allowed the group to focus on their performance. Discussing the filming itself, the director was full of praise for the group: “I was really surprised at how natural they were. Sometimes when I’m doing narrative videos it takes a while for artists to find their comfort zone. With this kind of video, when you are just taking the piss and having a bit of a laugh, if they don’t really go all out and really really get into it, it can look really really awkward, but from the very beginning they were giving it everything. I think that is what made it work out so well.”
The video goes live at 6pm tonight. It’s the remix to “Ignition”, hot and fresh out the kitchen, just not as R Kelly might have imagined.