I used to use compilations. Find a compilation with some stuff I knew on, and other stuff I wanted (new mixes of tunes I knew, tracks I'd heard about). This way I'd get some reliable stuff and expand the artists I knew. Now I buy less compilations and keep my ear open. I read a lot of music sites, and music forums. Read up on dance music history. Buy music mags to keep up with new tunage. And listen to the recommendations of my friends.

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> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
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> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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First and foremost, I browse online, I check juno.co.uk and beatport.com every day, looking for new stuff. I've also begun label whoring a bit Been obsessed with the Subtraxx label lately (check out a tune called Basscore ) DI.fm is also great for finding new tracks. Since I sit by my computer about 5 hours every day, I always have some music on, and whenever I have nothing particular to play, I listen to digitally imported, and write down the names of songs I like / record parts of them to ID.

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Originally posted by Zombie0915 Anyone care to reveal their music purchasing budget?

About 75 to 100/month

Last month I got a few singles from amazon:

Perpetuous dreamer - The sound of goodbye
ATB - Seven years
Three Drives - Carrera 2
Major League - Wonder
Blank & Jones - Cream
Astral Projection - Ten

Next on my list next month:

Cosma - People on hold
1200 mics - Heroes of imagination
X-noize - Mental Notes
Xerox and Illumination - XI
Astrix - Eye to Eye

+ a bunch of mp3s

Almost all of the music I listen came as a reccomendation from another person. They will tell me about a song they are currently listening to and I will check it out. If I like the artist I will try to get more music by them.

I get my music by listening to web shows and getting the tracklists on TA. I also browse beatport and audiojelly.

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First and foremost for me would be live sets ie radio. My fav. DJ playing my fav style etc etc - but as with all big name DJs, they play stuff that isnt released yet. So I do the next best thing - find music that is somehow related to the unreleased tracks from the tracklist, in hoping that it would be somewhat of a similar style [or to my liking].

For example, I listen to a Christopher Lawrence set, he plays a new unreleased track by Nicolas Bennison, it's not out yet so I check out what label he's on, and that's Propulsion Records, I then begin to research the artists tied to that label and expand from there on.
Like branching out within a branch.

TA and online record stores play a vital role in this. So yahhh, the intarweb is the way to go.


Although this wouldnt entirely be the case for trance, magazines have had help greatly in search for the latest classical, jazz or opera albums. Magazines such as Gramophone and BBCMUSIC give out a demo Cd each issue with samples of the top 10 major releases of the month.
The only major source of classical music exposure is FM radio, and most of the time, they don't play new releases - there may be a handful of segments that do - but no one is there to stream-rip it or whatever [as if anyone would want to do that anyways] for later listening [if you've missed the show].

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-Usually beatport, audiojelly, track it down or dance tunes.
-And for cds gemm.com is good, and then theres ebay and amazon.
I use these for live sets:

http://www.mixes.dj/www/downloads/l/50/0
which is $5/month or $20/yr for unlimited downloads of livesets with a couple a hundred live sets to choose. And there's also:

http://www.djsets.co.uk/
this site mails you live sets on CD in compressed format, theres about 7 live sets on the CDr, they have an ok selection. -good buy?? depends on what your after.

That's how I discover music and acquire good tunes.

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Reccomendations from people who I think have a similiar style like me (in TA of course), looking in tracklists of DJs I like, and just randomly listen to tunes I see in here, in Top 10 threads and stuff...

wow, now there doesn't seem to be a genereal theme at all, seems half of you are shop hunters and the other half find out about their tunes through radio and recomendations from tracklicksts and magazines and stuff.

This is getting pretty interesting, the recomendations that first get posted on this site must come from those shop hunters though, it looks at if they are the root source of most of the song titles that get posted on here, like they filter everything from the store, then the reast of the population on the site filters through the recomendations given here, and the stuff that remains is what becomes the 'classic' tunes.

Maybe that isn't how it works, but its fun trying to guess.

Oh, also, I often check out www.djmixes2k.com, they offer a lot of mixes for free, and usually there's a tracklist that comes with it. (if not, the people at the forum usually provide one a couple of days after release).

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Originally posted by Zombie0915 wow, now there doesn't seem to be a genereal theme at all, seems half of you are shop hunters and the other half find out about their tunes through radio and recomendations from tracklicksts and magazines and stuff. This is getting pretty interesting, the recomendations that first get posted on this site must come from those shop hunters though, it looks at if they are the root source of most of the song titles that get posted on here, like they filter everything from the store, then the reast of the population on the site filters through the recomendations given here, and the stuff that remains is what becomes the 'classic' tunes. Maybe that isn't how it works, but its fun trying to guess.

i think you would probably find a big difference between the tastes of people that listen to radio / livesets for music...and those that search for it in record stores...

i'd probably say that the people that are store hunters, for the most part, probably have a wider taste range and therefore cannot find all the types of music they want via radio stations and livesets.