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About 95% of what I'm listening to at the moment is from this year, as there has been plenty of great stuff out.
The other 5% is CDs I'm ordering from Discogs; early '90s trance, prog rock, techno and drum 'n' bass, mostly. |
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| Adam420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
A few weeks back my list of favourites from 2011 was looking a bit sparse, but it's starting to come together now. The music I'm listening to is a decent mix of older stuff and up-front material. I do spend a fair amount of time trawling on Beatport and other sites, though. |
Do you actually have a list? |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| I totally disagree. There's lots of banging tracks out that were prorduced this year. |
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| pozz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Bierheld
That's what I was trying to get at though. If you're looking for a particular sound, for example a good trance track, you're automatically committing yourself to hours of tedious beatport trawling. If you look a bit further into what you actually like about that trance sound, and start searching in the electronica section for tracks that have similar properties. You might come out a happier man. |
For sure, but one of the driving points made in the op is commitment to a particular sound. question is: is it only these days you have to trawl? was it true in other eras? is it true in other genres? was it ever true? |
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| Adam420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
I totally disagree. There's lots of banging tracks out that were prorduced this year. |
None of which you know about considering the filth that you call music in your sets |
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| DoctorLW |
| quote: | Originally posted by Adam420
None of which you know about considering the filth that you call music in your sets |
Really bro? Not that I've listened to his sets, but I completely agree with his statement that there have been a lot of great tracks this year. |
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| Alex |
| quote: | Originally posted by Adam420
None of which you know about considering the filth that you call music in your sets |
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| Adam420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DoctorLW
Really bro? Not that I've listened to his sets, but I completely agree with his statement that there have been a lot of great tracks this year. |
Haha it was just a joke. Of course there have been many great tracks released this year, it's just that the ones he'd most likely be referring to are crap. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
I totally disagree. There's lots of banging tracks out that were prorduced this year. |
'nuff said.
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| Tweak |
| quote: | Originally posted by SPANIARD
Yeah, it really, really sucks to find a track that says released today but was originally released in 2000 that would have made your set perfect. |
Why is this even an issue? Half the problem with music these days is its seen as being disposable. You can't listen to or play a track if its mroe than a couple of months old?
Good saying about 2 kinds of fools when it comes to music;
This stuff is new, it must be good
This stuff is old, it must be better.
Of course when you're trawling for a particular very specific sound for a set it's going to take a while, that's where you have to have a good knowledge of artists and in my experience know your labels, to help narrow the search as much as possible. I've spent weeks trying to find a certain feel to bridge different genres, but damn it feels good when you find it. |
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| SPANIARD |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tweak
Why is this even an issue? Half the problem with music these days is its seen as being disposable. You can't listen to or play a track if its mroe than a couple of months old?
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I think you may have misunderstood what I meant. I agree with you on the listening/playing of older tracks (hence why I mentiond that most of the tracks I'd list would not be from 2011). My point was on the topic of new music which has been released/produced present day.
I would go a step further and say I'm even for DJ's playing older tracks if they weren't outplayed when they were released and could make the set all the much better. The issue I raised from which you quoted me as saying was in the context that I was hypothetically browsing for tracks I would use at a gig. From a personal stand point, I think playing a night which doesn't have a classics or retro theme should consist of having mainly newer tracks (you have a basis to debate that, I'm just giving you my 2 cents). That isn't my opinion based on how to get seen by Armin or Tiesto, that's my honest opinion on a great strategy to keep interested in your hobby as playing tracks you've heard thousands of times over can lead to unhappiness.
This is in large part to the music I like (various types of trance, prog house etc) and want to believe there is enough of it out there to create a set with limited older tracks. It would be ignorant of me to speak on behalf of other genres so I thought having people more familiar with things I'm unaware of could contribute to making this a useful thread combining all ends of the spectrum. I hope you didn't take this as believing my intent was to create an older vs.newer thread; apologies if that's what it you understood. |
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| pozz |
| quote: | Originally posted by SPANIARD
if I were to make a top 10 or even 20 of my favorite tracks I've listened to this year it would be mostly composed of stuff that was not produced in 2011. |
so nobody else finds this true? |
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