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best way to find new tracks?

hey, how do you guys go about finding new tracks? like before they get famous and played by most DJs.
do you just go around record stores and listen to new releases?
or is there another way?

i just go to record shops and check out as many whitelabels as possiable. Honestly i hope the tracks i buy will not become popular.

could you actually do this on online stores as effectively?
also, do new tracks get released on vinyl and cd? or just vinyl?
thanks!

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could you actually do this on online stores as effectively?

If they have white labels, yes.

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also, do new tracks get released on vinyl and cd? or just vinyl?

Some do get a cd release, some don't. Depends on the label i guess.

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thanks!

You're welcome.

Re: best way to find new tracks?

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Originally posted by high elmo hey, how do you guys go about finding new tracks? like before they get famous and played by most DJs.

One reason why the "new releases" for us bedroom DJ's are famous and played by the big DJ's is because they get everything before release to the market. Its a way for the label to research tracks for release, test them, see if the scene will accept it. And if these tracks are, then we as the bedroom DJ have the chance of picking them up in the record stores months later after they have been thrashed by the biggest DJ's at some of the worlds biggest events.

Most of the time if you are stumbling threw the white labels, you have a CHANCE of gettign something that was HUGE, but if it was huge it was released 99% of the time. You just got a used white-label copy of it. finding a white label in your local shop will rarely be something thats gonna be the next Motorcycle or Traffic track... which alot of DJ's (especially on TA) like, something new, that not many ppl hear, but that are still really good. but 'most' of the time will never make it huge...

I would defineatly spend more time looking through the white-label section at my local shop, that is of course if my local shop was any good... I have a hard enuf time getting major named tracks, let alone stumbling across a GOOD whitelabel...

Good luck with your vinyl hunting.

Cheers
J: Digital (yes I finally came up with a new DJ moniker )

Certain online sites are great about releasing promos pretty early (still after the pros get them tho..).

If you really want distinct tracks you have to go crate digging and find some old gem that nobody will know or good tracks on smaller lables that for one reason or another didn't get played by the big names.

I also listen to DJ sets regularly and look up on the tracklist. So if I hear a song in a Sander Kleinenberg set for example, if it's the first time he's played it, it wouldn't be "HUGE" or anything yet...So hopefully you can find it somewhere and burn it onto CDR and then be rocking it!

And then you can be one of those @sshole Djs that tells people "yeah it's the new promo from bedrock, they sent it to me last week". Hahaha


~Sean

If you want to hear some good music, pre-release so you know what will be coming out and to buy before it ever gets popular listen to the special record label radio shows on Ministry of Sound. These record labels come in, spin their newest stuff to get interest in the label. Ministry of Sound is also pretty good about showcasing brand new up and coming hits. Also, check out the essential mix, essential selection and judge jules radio shows on BBC's radio 1. The site allows you to hear old shows so if youve missed it, it is always available on demand. Pete Tong and Judge Jules are pretty good about playing stuff before it comes out. For instance, Judge Jules had and was playing the Cry Little Sister track 6 months before its release.

I check every night the latest releases in Trance on online-records-stores... ...if I find a lot's of good tracks in 2 weeks and I have money than I order them... ...sometimes I go also to record-stores where I buy more underground-stuff which not so many people know.. ...but If I want to get like the latest single of Tiesto or Paul than I go online...

...I also have a List of Tracks that I really like, but can t get online or in store... ...here I look every Thursday on Ebay (www.ebay.de)where you also can get a lot ofvery rar records...

i listen to Above & Beyond, Armin Van Buuren's, and all the GDJB every week so i know whats new and what to look for in a record store. Whitelabels are becoming more and more rare so, get some perks in the bus and keep reading this forum!

If you hear a tune you like then try and track it down- its one of the best things. I love it. I was a vinyl miner and crate digger long before i could mix.

For example, all the Radio 1 djs have tracklists posted (www.bbc.co.uk.radio1/dance), so if im on my way to work at 8pm on a friday and pete tong plays something i like, ill check the tracklisting and see what it was. If im not sent it by my promo companies, then ill hunt it (i normally do anyway).
With upfront stuff, you have to be quick- stores may only have a couple of copies, or just one copy of certain tracks.

On a tracklist - having (white label) normally means double the fun /ball ache tracking it down. There are tunes from 6 yrs ago i still havent found (not many but a few) but they will turn up eventually. (anyone got a copy of cosmic man- crstal dreams handy?- $$waiting)

Check the bargain bins in local record stores too, and charity shops/jumble sales too- you never know what you might find in the most unlikely source- not likely to find upfront tracks here, but you might find some 'almost big' or not forgotten tracks there.

And if its just a pure white with no sleeve or info and its cheap, then gamble and buy it anyway- ive found some amazing tracks doing this, both upfront and classic or just plain good but 'never big'.
Its all one part of the way to forge your own style and identity as a dj-


p.s it helps having good local stores- one of chemicals stores is 5 mins from my house...

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Originally posted by Freak Check the bargain bins in local record stores too, and charity shops/jumble sales too- you never know what you might find in the most unlikely source- not likely to find upfront tracks here, but you might find some 'almost big' or not forgotten tracks there.

this is the most sound advice ever, especially for beginning djs. u find so many hot trakcs that never went huge and they are usually marked down to 3, 4 dollars a record. i just recently picked up like 20 records from the used bin, previewed em all and it turns out some a rare and worth mad dough if u part with them, plus old whitelables cast aside. used records own.

white-labels are amazing. At all my local shops I tryto preview the white-labels as much as possible. I've actually found rather amazing tracks that way. Even the new and very underground/independent labels put out some very decent tracks that you'd never get on online stores. That's prolly why I don't yet shop online-record-shops.
Used records are gold too, if you have the right sources. I gaze around the selling forum on TA for ppl selling classics I've always wanted.
The only trouble is that you need the cash. If your local record stores put the same price on ANY black wax in the place, white-label or not, you gotta pay for it. I run intothe problem of spending my months budget for wax on the new stuff that I need and not have enough to pickup the white-labels. Oh well.
Keep collecting, never stop. Eventually the collection of records becomes so big, that REALLY OLD big timeless classics that haven't been played in years can be "brought back from the dead" so to speak, and temporarily re-used again.

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