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How to find good stuff ... again (pg. 2)
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| [N]ûk|êû[Z] |
for me, a few years ago.. i was bang up to date with everything that came about. i knew who my favourite DJ's were.. so id tune in to the likes of ID&T radio, and listen to live streams of DJ sets at festivals, id be able to Id most of the tracks, but the rest of them would be ID'd by other people in the 'tracklisting section' of this forum, so id find out about tracks from there.. and from that i'd see track by producers id never heard of, then id stumble across a live set recording by this person, and download that, and search for tracklistings for the set, and so on and so forth.
also, knowing your preferred labels, and artists for them labels helps.. most artosts will make stuff for other labels also.. and from that you can assume that if your fave producer makes a track on this label that you have never heard of, the label that you never heard of must release stuff of a similar vein to the stuff you like, so you can focus on their releases aswell, and also focus on the artists that produce on that label will likely make for other labels, and so on... |
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| woscar |
| I do the same, and also with artists. Often they release a rogue gem on some obscure label that you could miss. |
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| woscar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
I just follow a few producers onto different labels and end up somewhere really far (and oftentimes a few years in the past) from where I started and end up stumbling onto something great. |
Yeah, this happens to me too. Following the "Users also bought" links don't give good results most of the time, but sometimes I end up listening to some amazing stuff from like 1997. :p |
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| Adam420 |
| Another thing to mention about Beatport - it's good to know which releases are also on vinyl - I find that there's a greater percent of quality releases in that pool. A lot of those usually use a scanned picture of the record's label, so often it's easy to tell. |
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| Sykonee |
I usually rely on Juno for my random browsing. A lot of times I'll think, "Hm, that cover looks interesting...", and check it out. I've discovered some really great stuff that way, like Ultimae Records.
Alternative methods:
Browsing Discogs
Browsing Last.fm
Browsing the local stores (sadly a rarity with so many closed now...) |
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| [N]ûk|êû[Z] |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sykonee
Browsing the local stores (sadly a rarity with so many closed now...) |
yeah man, i recently vowed to get back into buying vinyl after as 5-6 year break... went into nottingham [my local city] armed with a few hundred pounds, couldnt find a record shop in which to blow it. the money has since been spent on pizza's, beer, and socks :S
this whole digital thing s me of to no end, sitting on my bastard arse on juno listening to 1 minute samples is tedious and downright annoying as . theres no better feeling that hitting a record shop on a saturday, clutching your weeks wages and picking out a bundle of records from a shelf.. going to a single 1210, picking up the headphones, and listening to them in a shop , amongst other young guys all doing the same thing, with their mates, everyone happy as larry saying "omg this tunes ing immense" etc etc |
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| woscar |
| It's cool and all, but not too practical. :p |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by woscar
It's cool and all, but not too practical. :p |
practicality.:whip:
Still, Amazon's a decent enough alternative to blow wads of coin on music. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| find anything between 1995-2002 |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| last.fm, join a group and just browse what other people are recommending. |
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| TranceOwnsLol |
I go on youtube and search clubs that I like such as Watergate. I've found lots of great stuff by just going on youtube since you can get a feeling of how the track will work on the dancefloor or on a good soundsystem even if they sound quality on youtube is most of the time.
I also try and search of radio stations from other countries and listen to a live stream. I get discover lots of awesome tunes that are only being played and are popular in certain countries like France and Germany for example.
Another way is to go to a CD/record shop and I just listen to some CDs that I've never heard of and if I find a good tune I'll take note of it in my Blackberry and search it up when I get home.
I feel like searching Beatport is just tedious sometimes. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by [N]ûk|êû[Z]
yeah man, i recently vowed to get back into buying vinyl after as 5-6 year break... went into nottingham [my local city] armed with a few hundred pounds, couldnt find a record shop in which to blow it. the money has since been spent on pizza's, beer, and socks :S |
Go on the Yellow Pages website before you set off. I went looking for record shops in Leeds yesterday and could only find one place, but when I looked online afterwards there were two pages of results. Lesson learned.
One thing I did notice was that in-store prices are much higher than online prices. The small record shop I found was charging ridiculous sums for things I could have ordered online for much less. Physical record shops are probably going to become extinct very quickly at this rate, because as much as I want to support them, I'm not paying over the odds and neither will most other people.
As for Beatport, I can often find half a dozen good tracks from an hour or two's browsing. Generally I just look by genre and trawl persistently. I note down good artists and labels and look at who they collaborate with, who they remix, who they share labels with. Note down everything that sounds good and cross-reference. |
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