by the time a track hits a record store or goes online, is it already to late to be unoticed?if its a big track, i can only asume that this track would have already been played out, and floating around for months before it ever hits stores.......????

pretty much, yes. sometimes you find a gem that no one had heard of, but usually by the time its pressed to a full release, its been out for a while.

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Originally posted by CosmoKid pretty much, yes. sometimes you find a gem that no one had heard of, but usually by the time its pressed to a full release, its been out for a while.

well your goin to the wrong record shops

good record shops will sell a wide veriety of stuff, not just big releases! they buy a lot of upfront promos and unreleased tunes too, you just need to get out there and look for them.

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Originally posted by wee_rooney well your goin to the wrong record shops good record shops will sell a wide veriety of stuff, not just big releases! they buy a lot of upfront promos and unreleased tunes too, you just need to get out there and look for them.

True

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Too late for what? Good music is good music. If you like a track, you should buy it and forget about who else is playing it.

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Originally posted by FirstBorn Too late for what? Good music is good music. If you like a track, you should buy it and forget about who else is playing it.

My exact sentiments.

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Originally posted by FirstBorn Too late for what? Good music is good music. If you like a track, you should buy it and forget about who else is playing it.

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Originally posted by FirstBorn Too late for what? Good music is good music. If you like a track, you should buy it and forget about who else is playing it.

this post could be inserted ina thousand dif threads

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Originally posted by MR STROKE by the time a track hits a record store or goes online, is it already to late to be unoticed?if its a big track, i can only asume that this track would have already been played out, and floating around for months before it ever hits stores.......????

You've gotta remember it's in the interest of the label to sell as many copies as possible, so if they've got a good tune on their hands they're gonna do their best to get it to as many big DJs as possible, which isn't particularly difficult, so the chances are some of them will start playing it if it's good.

Obviously there are exceptions. A lot of the time when I find a really good I think is a bit exclusive, I then suddenly find everyone knows about it! If you can find tracks that are usually being played in sets of other genres that would work in your sets, that's a way to bring something people might not have heard, even if it's quite a well-known tune in another scene - plus it gives a bit more variety and a slightly more original sound to your sets.

But I couldn't agree more than with the "if it's a good tune, play it" comment.

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It would help if the average dj didn't consider spinning exclusively what he had seen in other djs tracklists.

It kills me when people just try to buy something cause every top jock is playing it.


Why did crate digging ever have to stop ?

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Originally posted by jdat It would help if the average dj didn't consider spinning exclusively what he had seen in other djs tracklists. It kills me when people just try to buy something cause every top jock is playing it. Why did crate digging ever have to stop ?

i never dl livesets. only buy albums and make a point to nearly never look at the tracks. i just hunt tunes down and im still cratediggin!!

its not dead yet.

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Thats why I feel that digital is the future, because DJs can get the tracks they want much faster. Sure there are whitelabels out there, and professional DJs get copies of records months before they are released. Sometimes it takes 6 months to a year for tunes to come out, on either vinyl or MP3/WMA etc. It would make sense for more tunes to come out on MP3/WMA first and then vinyl, since it is so easy to post tracks on the net, but takes longer to press a record. For us amatuers, unless we want to play "old" stuff (and I put that in quotes because it seems like anything that has been out for 6 months or more is "old") then digital is the way to go......