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he does have a point, youtube has a TON of music, even rips of rare records . I've found plenty of stuff through youtube. It's one of the tools in my shed.
Personally I'm not a fan of wading through 1,000's of random new releases on Beatport so I do the following:
Once a day I go through two of the top 100 charts (moving from Trance, Prog House, Techno, Tech House, Electro House, House, Indie, Deep House, and Minimal) and once a week I go through the artist charts from the last seven days.
From those I write down artists and labels to go through the entire back catalog of - which I usually knock out 1-5 a week depending on how much material each has.
I find this to be a good method of staying up with the new and digging for hidden gems from the past. I think there's more hiding in Beatport's back catalog than any of us imagine, and I think it's more of a game of how to tap into that than anything else. Not saying Beatport is the be-all end-all (and it shouldn't be the only place you look) just what works for me on the site 
I've actually been in the habit of simply going through each track of each genre I'm interested in one by one. There's simply so much quality material that I would otherwise be missing out on if I were to take a more overview oriented approach like the one outlined above. Obviously, the unfortunate drawback involved is the wading through countless amounts of mediocrity, but the gems I've come across make it a completely worthwhile investment of time.
That said, it really isn't as cumbersome and time consuming as it sounds, so long as you view them all as tracks, and use the arrow keys instead of the cursor. It's also fairly quick going through tracks one by one in the less populated genres, as opposed to Techno and Tech House.
As for YouTube, I tend to only rely upon it in the event that the Beatport sample does an inadequate job of giving me a sense as to whether or not a track is worth picking up (which doesn't happen often, really)
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| Originally posted by bas When has anyone ever said that? Eh? Not necessarily. The top 10 indie dance/disco section on Beatport had Black Van's Yearning  Although Beatport's general top 10 is absolute garbage  |
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| Originally posted by Woonyxoxo One minute Beatport samples are waaaay better to judge if a track is good |
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| Originally posted by Chimney No. But I prefer my high quality FLACs. Can't understand how the hell people can "listen to music" on that shit. |
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| Originally posted by Woonyxoxo We are talking about finding new tunes, not about actually listening. Youtube quality is far enough to judge if a track is worth buying or not. |
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| Originally posted by nefardec he does have a point, youtube has a TON of music, even rips of rare records . I've found plenty of stuff through youtube. It's one of the tools in my shed. |
There's been several times I've searched Youtube for tunes/samples and couldn't find them.
I don't use Beatport for the simple fact I think it's crap!
I have a system using Trackitdown & DJ download that works for me.
I have configured my recommendations to labels and artists I like in TID.
Probably spend a couple of hours a week sifting through new releases in a variety of genres.
There are some songs that hit the spot within 20 seconds of listening to them. Others you know are shit by listening for a minute or so.
Once I've saved them in my basket in TID, I come back to them a day later and listen to each sample in full (probably about 15 - 20) From that I whittle down to the few that I like and buy through DJ Download (It's cheaper except for albums)
I will spend a 1/2 hour browsing through Beatport and Audiojelly to listen to any exclusives.
This place is a good way to source music also. Just by reading through threads on here, you can recognise a name of an artist of a track you liked and go from there.
There is a handful of podcast's I listen to as well as other mixes from forums.
I guess it boils down to how much time and effort you are willing to dedicate to your craft......how much you know your own sound......and whatever works for you.
Although I often do random searches on Beatport to try and find something interesting (which can be as simple as typing a word into the song name search), what I like about Beatport is how you can quickly cross-reference everything you come across. If I hear an interesting remix I'll check out that remixer's page and will hunt down every label they've worked on and everyone they've collaborated with, which will usually turn up a couple more names to repeat the process on. Anyone interesting gets added to My Artists or My Labels. I'm also starting to put anything interesting in the Hold Bin for future reference.
I definitely agree with giving it a day or two before actually purchasing the tracks. If I find something I like I'll put it in my basket or on hold until a few days later, then give it another listen to see if I really like it. You'd be surprised; about half the music I originally liked when I listened to it I end up not getting.
+1 on the hold bin - usually when something catches my ear I stick it in the regular cart, then later that day I go through all those and send my top picks to the hold bin. Instead of waiting a couple days though, I let em' marinate in there for two months along with loads of other tracks. This makes it cheaper since tracks drop in price by .50 cents every month - plus this way if you still want it 2 months later you know it's solid and not just a track of the moment. I break this if I want something fast for a gig or radio show though.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Although I often do random searches on Beatport to try and find something interesting (which can be as simple as typing a word into the song name search), what I like about Beatport is how you can quickly cross-reference everything you come across. If I hear an interesting remix I'll check out that remixer's page and will hunt down every label they've worked on and everyone they've collaborated with, which will usually turn up a couple more names to repeat the process on. Anyone interesting gets added to My Artists or My Labels. I'm also starting to put anything interesting in the Hold Bin for future reference. |
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