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is there ANY quality control going on at Beatport?
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| DJMaytag |
If so, it sucks. If not, there needs to be. I had what I thought would be a bright idea, to go through the entire library of music in my main genres (downtempo, progressive, house) for the past 2.5 months to see what releases I missed since I last bought some mew music. All was fine and dandy with Downtempo, as I found a ton of gems ($150 worth) over several hundred releases but...
WTF is going on with Progressive House? I'm scrolled through to page 281 (releases from now back to Dec 21, a months worth), which means I've sorted through over 3600 tracks so far (and of about 3000 i swear I only heard about 6 different songs). TWO DAYS OF SEARCHING THROUGH ALL THIS CRAP, AND I'VE ONLY FOUND ABOUT ***TWENTY*** TRACKS WORTH A DAMN?!?! That's one half of one percent of all the tracks I've listened to thus far!!!
I thought things were bad when I was a vinyl buyer, only ever bringing into the store about 8-10% of the music I listened to before I ordered. I cringe at the thought of doing this all over again in the house genre... |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| The trouble is that Beatport will label just about anything "progressive house" provided it has a 4/4 kick and is around 130bpm. You get a huge amount of crap in that genre category. |
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| Lews |
I could be wrong, but isn't it the labels that tell Beatport which (of Beatport's genres) the songs are?
************, as Tocqueville said: excellence dies with democracy. Democracy here being bedroom DJ's. I think that makes sense, I don't know. |
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| Adam420 |
| Hehe I hear ya man. Yesterday I went through 100 pages of Techno only to come up with maybe 5-6 tracks I ended up crating. Best solution is to keep up with releases day to day but that's impossible for a lot of people to do. At least one or twice a week if you don't wanna fall too far behind. |
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| woscar |
| Yes, Beatport classifies anything they don't know how to classify as "Progressive House". It's like a huge dumpster. |
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| DJMaytag |
I don't think keeping up frequently is going to help the fact that the amount of copy-catting going on amongst producers is at epic proportions right now. I swear that there are maybe six songs that every single producer is trying to make their tracks similar to.
i like variety, but I'm not hearing it on Beatport at least. I'm not sure if it's their fault (taking anything from any label) or the producers supplying music to the labels. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
To be fair, if I had the money and the inclination, I could buy five or six prog tracks a week. The is on there, it's just a case of picking out the good labels and artists.
Copycat producers have always existed. You just heard less of them before because a physical record shop can only accomodate a few hundred records, not a few thousand. |
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| Adam420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJMaytag
I don't think keeping up frequently is going to help the fact that the amount of copy-catting going on amongst producers is at epic proportions right now. I swear that there are maybe six songs that every single producer is trying to make their tracks similar to.
i like variety, but I'm not hearing it on Beatport at least. I'm not sure if it's their fault (taking anything from any label) or the producers supplying music to the labels. |
Fair enough, and I can see how in your case it would be different seeing as how you were shopping for progressive house. Oscar is right on, it's pretty much like the Beatport dumpster into which a lot of tracks seem to be sent, often with few or no uniting features among them.
That's actually why I've been kinda holding off for shopping for new prog house tracks. I get a few from the labels/artists which I know, or if I happen to come upon them by chance, but otherwise I'm quite intimidated by the thought of having to go through so many crappy releases to find anything remotely interesting. |
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| DJMaytag |
it would be nice if they would give you an option to filter OUT things like ing compilations. it really pisses me off how much space these ing things take up, plus, they'll sell you a track off a compilation for $2.49 when the song is 4 years old and is available for $1.49 (if you do a little digging).
i'd love to see Beatport add the ability to hide certain producers and labels. i've got a ton that I just immediately skip over. |
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| Ben Brown |
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i'd love to see Beatport add the ability to hide certain producers and labels. i've got a ton that I just immediately skip over. |
that is actually a great idea. thumbs up |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ben Brown
that is actually a great idea. thumbs up |
Armada and all its sublabels come to mind... |
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| chrissundive |
I've got mixed feelings about this. On one hand searching new releases in uplifting trance for me is pointless. Theres so much rubbish and copy and paste stuff it makes me sick.
I tried a couple of times to find something in "new" and "recommended" but only ended with a headache and a bit of depression :/
On the other hand I myself had problems submitting some of my tunes to beatport (that was the labels problem). Now its done, but there were some issues there.
About copy and paste stuff and copycats ... it really should be controlled somehow. I always program my tracks form ground up, but the menace of 14 year old kids slapping arp progressions in midi files from the internet into Nexus or other great sounding romplers (usually pirated from torrents by the way) really kills trance as a creative genre and digital distros for me.
It also makes the advertising (and paying for advertising of course) necessary if you want to get noticed in the sea of generic trance sounds ... which I'm really sick of as well.
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