i do like the free tracks they give out....

but thats about the only reason i visit that site.

If it werent for beatport, I would just download shit for free so i think its good.

this thread stinks.

Ok...

While I don't know the whole story behind supporters of Beatport as an early business, they do need to set some sort of standard or quota. Bandwidth is not free, although anyone with some technical background does know that bandwidth is cheap.

I think that the problem is that everyone and their mother owns a label nowadays; I'm unfamiliar with exact business quotas Beatport had set for labels but although variety is good, perhaps smaller labels should unite or release tracks under one guise. Just an idea, that might keep them from falling off their charts, that's if Beatport would allow it.

I generally use Trackitdown and audiojelly if i can, beatport prices take the piss now especially on back catalog stuff, do I really want to pay 1.49 for a track that was relased in 1998? Do I bollocks.

It's a business you dimwit, of course they need to cut people who aren't making sales.

Do television shows get kept on the air if no one watches?

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Although these type of threads are annoying...especially coming from a tranceaddict in training...

Has Beatport explained what the logistics of keeping the underperforming labels in the mix of things are? If they arent saving much money by cutting these people off I think its a mistake. The reason why is that these small labels and small artists actually do a lot of evalgelist word of mouth marketing for Beatport, and pimp the shit out of Beatport just because a few of their tracks are on it. I dont get why Beatport would cut off free word of mouth marketers in exchange for housing their tracks, slowing the growth of the site just because some tunes arent selling. And I dont know if people who do want to stick around are going to pimp their own music around so that their music can stay on Beatport, artists do have a sense of pride and dont want to seem desperate to get their music bought/heard.

I think Beatport reasoning might be too many labels and producers are dumping not that great music into the system so its diluting the quality and making it harder for the consumers (DJ's) to find the good music so if the underperforming artists are dropped off then it would let the good stuff bubble up to the top easier. Also I think they are betting that the artists/labels will step up their promotion game to stay on Beatport, which will help everyone involved.

Personally I support Beatport as an integral part of EDM...I guess we will see how this plays out in the next 6 months.

Last edited by LionsLair on Mar-25-2008 at 08:14

there are really plenty of other sources for buying great music


anyways this thing with beatport has more to do with protecting the integrity of their brand by eliminating labels that release shit music


of course the problem with this is they cut off intentionally small forward-thinking labels as well


and then there are some HUGE labels like paduraru's that release a ton of sub-par stuff.



this has little to do with their 'business' and 'sales' though, because they are essentially cutting their revenue too. Like I said, they want to protect their brand and release high quality, professional tracks.


that said, boomkat.com, traxsource.com, and more are your friends

Last edited by nefardec on Mar-23-2008 at 08:51

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Originally posted by nefardec there are really plenty of other sources for buying great music

And if those sites hired talented GUI(interface) programmers and artists they would be able to grow their marketshare and bring competition to Beatport. The best part about Beatport is the interface, its what brings in the traffic which in turn brings in the artists and music which in turn brings in more traffic.

Business wise If I was Beatport i would be licensing out the interface/software to other music sites, its awesome to navigate and enticing to purchase from. Actually If I was running Beatport I would make a Beatport for all Indie/Underground music.