Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Its June 18th, 2005, I'm at the Skybar
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Originally posted by MarkT
if you've ID'd one DJ in particular...you can try tracking them down personally, contact their booking agent or try going through the label(s) that have released stuff in the past. I know someone that contacted some little label in Europe for a particular mix and the DJ responded, was happy to be contacted, and just sent them the track, lol. nice!
Got several tracks like that which weren't and will never be released.
Over the past few months I've been collecting a LOT of promos that will never see the light of day... I love having unreleased tracks
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
basically i just listen to the beach boys these days, saves a lot of trouble
Jul-02-2009 05:41
Ash Parajuli
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: 3 steps ahead of you...
just like anything on the net, there is a lot of shit stuff, like porn for example. lot of crap out there but if you look hard enough you'll find quality gems, that's the same with beatport, women and anything else really =)
Jul-02-2009 07:08
Ni-Cd
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2006
Location:
Jenny's right...you gotta put in the time to find the rare gems. That's part of the work that comes with wanting to be a DJ. How many times have you been at a club and a DJ drops a sic track you've never heard before and the place goes OFF? They don't go to a website called "They'veNeverHeardThisTrackBefore.com" and buy em up. It's the digital version of searching through old record cases, only you don't have to leave your bedroom or jammies.
You gotta risk it to get the biscuit!
Jul-02-2009 11:56
ChemEnhanced
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Milton, ON Canada
Welcome to the growing popularity of the music...but don't worry....this is good for the music.
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Jul-02-2009 12:49
cammaxwell
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Toronto, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by Djsketchbag
No i do not, i searched tech house, techno, electro, house, breaks, nu disco ..... and nothing
edit: i did buy 30$'s worth of tracks but there just okay
If you only spend 2 hours and searched through 6 genres then you didn't dig deep enough. Beatport is FULL of shit, you really need to dig through to find anything of quality. That's why I spent about an hour a day going through that days releases, if I wait and do it every week or two I won't have time to find anything good....
Originally posted by VERTiG0
basically i just listen to the beach boys these days, saves a lot of trouble
lol
Jul-02-2009 17:18
MissNick
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Irvington, A Midwest Metropolis
Go to a record store and dig. A REAL record store. I am always amazed at how a track from 2000 that someone sold back to the store is hotter now than it was back then. You can always record it to a wav file yourself if you don't have the ability to play records.
At the Guv yesterday I heard quite a few "older" tracks being played and folks were getting DOWN to them.
Screw beatport. Go do your own thing so you don't sound like everyone else. Beatport is turing the DJ community into a bunch of radio stations playing the same tracks in different orders. I prefer to be the indie station doing my own thing.
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Jul-02-2009 17:30
Skipper
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2002
Location:
I hardly ever shop for music anymore, but when I do, I find beatport increasingly overwhelming because there is just so much garbage on there. It's pretty easy to spend a few hrs on there and not come away with much that really grabs you - just the volume of new releases now is insane.
I think juno.co.uk sells digital now, maybe try there. I've always liked their selection.
Jul-02-2009 18:40
Vanos
Underground
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: TECHNO/MINIMAL/TECH-HOUSE
i only buy in extreme cases but imo, pretty easy to find good tracks once you know what u r looking for.
Favorites feature is amazing. I have like 150 of my favorite labels in favorites and lots of artists. This kinda removes the need to go through beatoport every day. Because you can see new releases in your favs for each particular week. So that way it takes like an hour a week to go through new releases and you do not really miss much stuff because most of particular kinds of sound that you like are likely released on a particular group of labels. Other then that I check minimal top 100 from time to time, just to see the tunes that i might have missed and like once a month I check dnb/deephouse/chillout/tech house/techno/psy trance/electro/dubstep/prog house/trance so I know whats going on at least on the surface in those genres.
So yea, IMO once u know where to look and if you actually buy tunes of bp shouldnt take you over two hrs in a regular week to stay on top of the game.
Jul-02-2009 18:46
SgtFoo
Ableton & ProTools addict
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vaughan, Canada
This is why I miss the vinyl days.
On another note, you should understand that there are MANY more DJ stores for music aside from Beatport.
Originally posted by Djsketchbag
Okay so i just spent 2 hrs on beatport going through new tracks and haven't found anything are people just getting lazy putting out the same shit that's been done before like its kinda sad
Peep Sasha's remix of "Jetstream" by the Doves. Fucking shit hot.
Also, I second Skipper - Check out Junodownload, I've always liked them.
I'm not even going to bother plugging CDJShop.com though LOL
