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Anyone else finding it harder and harder to find good tracks?
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| Targus28 |
Been really struggling with this lately.I seam to go through the beatport tracks, and there's just so much mediocre stuff its really hard finding anything decent, its hard work.Same with track it down, and Juno download.
Does anyone have any suggestions and tips on finding good tracks without trolling through thousands of digital releases?
Looking at DJs mixes can be good, but i find a lot of the time the stuff is unreleased! |
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| paulversuspaul |
| I did too until I learned to stop at all using beatport. Best suggestion is message boards, dj mixes, and podcasts. |
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| Salegon |
If you can't find decent actual tracks by yourself, start recommendation tracks on TA :gsmile: or use discogs(genre, year) to find similar tracks or simply search for older tracks.
As for me, I still haven't found actual tunes which I like as much as my prefered music(progressive house 1999-2002) but I recently managed to discover tracks from 2006-2008 which I quite enjoy. |
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| Rodri Santos |
| even if you search where you should the ratio of "oh my god what a track" tracks found is significatively smaller than a few years ago, i don't search that much nowadays for music for my own pleasure but in a 2 hour set i may only find one of this kind of tracks. |
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| stevö |
this is the core reason why EDM has been in a slump for a long time - too many producers, too many tracks.
(forget the media saying EDM has had a recent resurgence, its a load of crap. the scene is NOTHING compared to what it was in the 90's)
but there IS really good music still being made, better than ever maybe.
here's what's working for me:
1. STOP using beatport, junodownload, trackitdown, etc.
2. use SOUNDCLOUD. pretty much any producer that exists on the online retail outlets is on soundcloud now, but the real value to me are the unsigned/unknown producers:
find the producers you like and click "follow" on them. on each producer, go through their list of people that they follow. on each of those people, listen to their tracks. i tend to enjoy the unknown/no name/unsigned producers, the ones who give their tracks away for free, because a lot of times these people are making music just for fun and are not motivated by money or trends or outside influences to fit into any particular scene/genre. when you find a producer you like, click follow.
if you want to take it a step further, if the producer is not famous and doesnt have a lot of people following them, go through the list of people following them.
when you're done with that, go through all of the producer's favorites to find some good stuff that way too.
the web network or tree of producers can branch even further when you follow people that are followed by people that you already follow, and so forth. its limitless.
you can also look at your dashboard every day to see people's new tracks and favorites. when someone in your dashboard news feed keeps upping or favoriting crappy tunes, unfollow them, so they will no longer clutter and distract your newsfeed of nice tracks coming to your doorstep, so to speak.
i recommend ignoring any track that is not free for download. you can find very experimental tracks and really interesting musical ideas being explored by producers that are not trying to fit into any box or mold. also, you can find a whole scene that is parallel to the one most of us know, where producers have completely written off bearport, junodownload etc, and have no intention of ever even trying to sell their music or try to compete in a system that is corrupt and false and oversaturated. |
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| Targus28 |
This is great nice 1, and thanks to everyone else for the tips, time to start working! |
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| Adam420 |
| You just need to know who the good labels and producers are so you automatically start to filter out the crap. I can usually see crap before I can hear it. If a label has a certain track record it's usually a good indication to me. It's complete bull to say you shouldn't use Beatport though. |
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| Mattsanity. |
Producing is only for a select few. Just because you bought software and equipment, it doesn't give you the privilege to start producing.
Cut it out. Do some carpenting. Go roll a blunt. Paint a house. Anything other than producing. |
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| paulversuspaul |
This is great!!! |
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