For the past couple of years, my record buying has generally consisted of buying old vinyl on discogs with a few visits to remaining shops that still sell vinyl.
Now I've made the jump to Traktor and the world of MP3 downloads I thought I'd sit down last night with the laptop and headphones with the intention on buying a load of new tunes. I used various sites including beatport, juno and redeye with no real indication of what I was looking for so just browsed through 'new releases', and found very little I actually liked.
I used to use Bailey's show on 1Xtra to find out about decent new music but now that's been axed I'm just wondering what other methods people use to find out about decent new drum and bass music. I don't like the stuff Friction is pushing, I rarely see anything on this forum anymore, and the "DJ TOP TEN" section on beatport seems to contain a whole load of rubbish.
I closed the laptop last night after an hour and a half and bought absolutely nothing, leaving me a bit disheartened about the situation. I miss the days when I could spend a couple of hours in a records shop going through all the latest vinyl - I'd always end up coming away with a couple of bags full of records, having turned down a load more which I would have gladly taken away If I'd had the money. Now I find myself with the money to spend, but can't find the music to spend it on. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. Just wondering how other people approach the situation and their methods of buying music today.
I currently buy from Surus where I can and Beatport otherwise. I check both sites daily to reduce the chance of things passing me by and, particularly in Beatports case, to cut down the amount of time I have to spend wading through utter sewage in one session.
The reason I use Surus is because I know the artists and labels get a better cut, the reason I use Beatport as it has just about everything and out of all the sites I've tried over the years it's currently by far the best designed and least buggy (take note dnba).
I hear new tunes in various podcasts and mixes posted here/elsewhere, also subscribe to a ton of people on soundcloud. Also when I'm out in a club, which is increasingly rare these days, I'm always hassling DJs for ids.
Follow loads of DJ's / producers I like on Soundcloud. Listen to their mixes and new productions and get track ID's for tunes I like then go on to Beatport and find them and start looking at the label its out on to find similar stuff. Find another good release, follow the producer on soundcloud, repeat process.
Also if a track gets ID'd in a mix I like I see if the producer is also on Soundcloud (usually is) and follow them too.
Occasionally just go wading through the millions of new releases on beatport etc
Sounds like I need to get properly involved with Soundcloud.
I just couldnt believe how much utter tripe there was on beatport - do some of these producers have no shame/ears?
None of the online record shops seem to have any decent kind of order going on. I've always found that even buying records from chemical/redeye that it's all just a mess really unless you know exactly what you're looking for.
The thing I hate the most is having to trawl through so much shit, it's not like you can just search for your favourite producer either because the majority of people I used to rate don't even producer anymore.
I am pretty much done with buying new Drum & Bass though, Discogs is the closes I will ever come to a record shop again
Beatport is pretty much useless for having a casual browse, every 2-bit piece of shit gets sold there and it's too much hassle trying to uncover a nugget of gold in all the sewage
Sounds like I need to get properly involved with Soundcloud.
I just couldnt believe how much utter tripe there was on beatport - do some of these producers have no shame/ears?
None of the online record shops seem to have any decent kind of order going on. I've always found that even buying records from chemical/redeye that it's all just a mess really unless you know exactly what you're looking for.
Pretty naive if you think there's not a lot of bad music being released if i'm honest, given the state of popular music nowadays.
Quite surprised you don't know where to look either.
Thing is, the more shit I trawled through, the less time I spend actually listening to the track sample, to the point where I was just giving each track about 2 seconds from the drop to decide if I liked it
there are only 10-20 new releases everyday on any scene, its not hard to keep up with them after a cuppa and a smoke, and only have to listen to 10secs of them to know if they are good
I dont mind sifting through loads of tunes as its one of my procrastination past times at work. I check chemical records and there don't seem to be that many tunes released each week to be honest. Only takes 10-15 mins of skipping through once a week to keep on top of things surely?
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