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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J A few weeks back my list of favourites from 2011 was looking a bit sparse, but it's starting to come together now. The music I'm listening to is a decent mix of older stuff and up-front material. I do spend a fair amount of time trawling on Beatport and other sites, though.

Do you actually have a list?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

I totally disagree. There's lots of banging tracks out that were prorduced this year.

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Originally posted by Bierheld That's what I was trying to get at though. If you're looking for a particular sound, for example a good trance track, you're automatically committing yourself to hours of tedious beatport trawling. If you look a bit further into what you actually like about that trance sound, and start searching in the electronica section for tracks that have similar properties. You might come out a happier man.

For sure, but one of the driving points made in the op is commitment to a particular sound. question is: is it only these days you have to trawl? was it true in other eras? is it true in other genres? was it ever true?

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Originally posted by DJRYAN™ I totally disagree. There's lots of banging tracks out that were prorduced this year.

None of which you know about considering the filth that you call music in your sets

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by Adam420 None of which you know about considering the filth that you call music in your sets

Really bro? Not that I've listened to his sets, but I completely agree with his statement that there have been a lot of great tracks this year.

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Originally posted by Adam420 None of which you know about considering the filth that you call music in your sets

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Originally posted by DoctorLW Really bro? Not that I've listened to his sets, but I completely agree with his statement that there have been a lot of great tracks this year.

Haha it was just a joke. Of course there have been many great tracks released this year, it's just that the ones he'd most likely be referring to are crap.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by DJRYAN™ I totally disagree. There's lots of banging tracks out that were prorduced this year.

'nuff said.

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Originally posted by SPANIARD Yeah, it really, really sucks to find a track that says released today but was originally released in 2000 that would have made your set perfect.

Why is this even an issue? Half the problem with music these days is its seen as being disposable. You can't listen to or play a track if its mroe than a couple of months old?

Good saying about 2 kinds of fools when it comes to music;

This stuff is new, it must be good
This stuff is old, it must be better.

Of course when you're trawling for a particular very specific sound for a set it's going to take a while, that's where you have to have a good knowledge of artists and in my experience know your labels, to help narrow the search as much as possible. I've spent weeks trying to find a certain feel to bridge different genres, but damn it feels good when you find it.

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Originally posted by Tweak Why is this even an issue? Half the problem with music these days is its seen as being disposable. You can't listen to or play a track if its mroe than a couple of months old?

I think you may have misunderstood what I meant. I agree with you on the listening/playing of older tracks (hence why I mentiond that most of the tracks I'd list would not be from 2011). My point was on the topic of new music which has been released/produced present day.

I would go a step further and say I'm even for DJ's playing older tracks if they weren't outplayed when they were released and could make the set all the much better. The issue I raised from which you quoted me as saying was in the context that I was hypothetically browsing for tracks I would use at a gig. From a personal stand point, I think playing a night which doesn't have a classics or retro theme should consist of having mainly newer tracks (you have a basis to debate that, I'm just giving you my 2 cents). That isn't my opinion based on how to get seen by Armin or Tiesto, that's my honest opinion on a great strategy to keep interested in your hobby as playing tracks you've heard thousands of times over can lead to unhappiness.

This is in large part to the music I like (various types of trance, prog house etc) and want to believe there is enough of it out there to create a set with limited older tracks. It would be ignorant of me to speak on behalf of other genres so I thought having people more familiar with things I'm unaware of could contribute to making this a useful thread combining all ends of the spectrum. I hope you didn't take this as believing my intent was to create an older vs.newer thread; apologies if that's what it you understood.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced any party from 2003 and back I only remember bits and pieces...i've combined those memories into one awesome party

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Originally posted by SPANIARD if I were to make a top 10 or even 20 of my favorite tracks I've listened to this year it would be mostly composed of stuff that was not produced in 2011.

so nobody else finds this true?