Hi!

It always amazes me when I think I have found a new, really cool track that very few have heard of, then Google it to find out that it was played several months ago by at least one or two more or less well known DJs. This brings me to my question.

How do you find new music?

I have the usual tabs listing new releases from several of the major download sites like Juno, Traxsource, Trackitdown, Beatport and so forth, that I regularly check. Yes, I do skip through a lot of DJ sets every week. Still I seem to miss out on a lot of good, fresh new music, usually to be discovered months later. That is frustrating.

Really into Minimal, Tribal, Tech type of House at the moment.
Tips on where to find fresh music are very welcome

Regards,
Hugmac

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not gonna tell you

actually, forget the usual places

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Haha, I guess it has to be learnt the hard way, and that is perhaps why few people want to share their sources! Thanks for your answer anyway

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I swear there is a new thread about this every week.

Dig through record shops.

Dig through the interscapes.

Yep. You have to dig now more than ever. Much more music and much more coverage of tracklists and sets.

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It must be a tragedy to find out that the track you've just heard and enjoyed is actually couple of months old. And that all the djs have already played it!!! Oh, the tragedy! It automatically downgrades its rating and discards it towards "tracks older than couple of months that nobody even mentions anymore" folder.

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Originally posted by alexf actually, forget the usual places

This.

A lot of stuff that gets played these days is promotional stuff that doesn't get released until several weeks/months (and believe it or not, in some cases years) after.

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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.

How do I find good music? Well, its a proper combination of good things.

For me, its:

Discogs + friends + Itunes + Music CD / record stores + one specific p2p program which I am not going to tell you

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Originally posted by sljiva It must be a tragedy to find out that the track you've just heard and enjoyed is actually couple of months old. And that all the djs have already played it!!! Oh, the tragedy! It automatically downgrades its rating and discards it towards "tracks older than couple of months that nobody even mentions anymore" folder.

pffft

I don't listen to anything unless it came out that week

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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 Magnetonium one specific p2p program which I am not going to tell you

I bet it's eMule

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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 I bet it's eMule

No, but I'll give you a hint - it was founded by one of the Napster guys right after Napster was taken over by RIAA folks. Its the greatest p2p program known to man ... and I've never ever even needed to use those jaded torrents.

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