As my record collection grows, I am having more and more trouble looking for specific records I wanna spin. I was wondering how you guys arrange your records. Alphabetically? or some other way?

hmmm, i usually have a bunch of my records in one box next to my home setup...

i arrange them by style (trance, hard trance, techno, etc). i never really thought about it much but i dont usually have problems finding a certain record. if i am spinning a particular style then i know the tune im looking for will be in the same category in the box

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i dont arrange mine... i pretty much know where too look for a record i wanna play...

yea by style.

DVS - can I have the tracklisting for your techno mix? Those tracks are fucking sick!

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I spin 2 different genres...progressive house (for my lounge gigs) and trance (for my club gigs). I have the 2 separated in my crate. But I have "sections" for my progressive house I have a section with percussion intros, a section for melodic intros, and one for filler/tribal/overlay tracks. The outgoing songs outro will determine which section I pull from. I have cardboard cutouts dividing the sections, nobody sees them when I play live, I wouldn't care if they did anyway, its just easier for me to have this kind of organization. I guess I kind of have my trance subdivided as well. Some of my cheese (the slower stuff) is in the front of the trance section, and the heavier/faster stuff is near the rear of my crate. Its all personal preference. I'm pretty damn anal so I prefer my crate to have some kind of organization.

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Originally posted by mikefasssy DVS - can I have the tracklisting for your techno mix? Those tracks are fucking sick!

Cheers

Its actually ripped from a much longer mix i did a while ago (20 min rip was the only thing i could fit on my webspace).. once i get the full mix uploaded somewhere else i will post the details along with the tracklist

shouldn't be too long a wait mate

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I arrange they in how new they are, that way I know where my newest vinyls are. They may be arranged in groups(styles. like 5 new techno tracks and then 5 new hardtrance tracks

Last edited by DJ Ezzian on Dec-03-2002 at 20:54

i sort mine by label, then by energy
i play hard house
and basically, i can sort my labels by energy, cause usually i buy similar tracks from the same label
so it's not so energeic labels near the front, then as you get towards the back it's gets harder and harder
and then my hard trance fills the back of my case

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i also organize mine by category - progressive, trance, and psytrance/goa crates, with newer records usually towards the front. works well for me.

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style/genre

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Basically like everyone said the easiest way is to put all your tracks with less energy at begenning and the ones with most energy at the back and group them by genre obviously ;D

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yeah do what everyone else said but something i discovered recently that has helped alot is if you find two tunes mix REALLY well together put them together (keep them next to each other) it serves as a great reminder and possible direction to where your set is going...

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