Music shortage

Homegrove

Start of the pandemic all streams were seemingly full of great music. So for me this seems like a recent issue.

erik

It goes like this every so often. Loads of great music about on promo at the moment, so the drought won’t last long

Dubman

It’s been pretty poor year for albums also apart from Awe kid’s - Body Logic

alistair

New Daphni and Daniel Avery albums should be good based on the pre releases

SM001

This is the 1st proper summer where Covid hasn’t been an issue. I’m guessing most producers have been gigging over the past several months and haven’t been in the studio much?

Homegrove

SM001 this makes sense.

nicksneddon

Im not quite on the same wavelength musically as a lot of people on here, however Ive had the same problem for years now. I just play the Traxsource 100 while im pottering around the flat and Im lucky if 1 or 2 releases grab me. even the DJ top 10s are slim picking nowadays

On the other hand Im finding Bandcamp a lot more useful especially if im after older stuff – I managed to blag the whole Flapjack records back catalogue ( 114 releases ) last night for about 60 sheets which should keep me busy for a long while

erik

nicksneddon I’ve fairly much given up on Traxsource/Beatport at el, Bandcamp however is a goldmine

seanc80

Its shocking at the moment. Really bad. Has been for quite a while if you ask me

bosstrabs

Some absolutely boss garage out this year.

SM001

Homegrove When Covid hit producers/DJ’s were in the studio all the time which is why we had a year or 2 of an abundance of great tunes.

bosstrabs

This is a beauty…

alistair

SM001 pity so little of that good music made it on to a dancefloor.

baggers44

ScottBailey looking forward to it mate. i am not nearly so discerning and am still randomly acquiring tracks like a crack addict fumbling for a fix ! There is the odd nugget in there but agree that in the main there is dross, which is why i have delved into the darker side with the dub techno thing - which is so different that more tracks seem fresher to me than in the prog/techno space.

Homegrove

On an average month I buy about 70-80 tunes. I did my monthly back up (copy everything to two separate external hard drives) yesterday, and August I had bought 29 tunes.

Dan

Homegrove Jesus….I buy about 10 wavs…that’s it.

IndustryStandard

Im seriously considering moving onto one of the subscription services for a monthly fee. Anything decent I tend to buy on vinyl anyway and given a lot of the tracks i buy dont seem to stand the test of time/are much kop I may just sack off buying digital tracks. Only bummer with that is losing my Itunes playlist management if I move onto say Beatport subscription

Dubman

IndustryStandard
How much is a 12″ these days. When I stopped buying it. It was about £6

IndustryStandard

Dubman about double that now. a tenner if you’re lucky.

Lightfoot

Homegrove Not getting that vibe at all, but I know I play a lot more melodic / Italo than most on here. Just got to keep hunting, there is good stuff out there.

Cankles-McJeggings

Dan

I’m the same , can’t imagine how much shit would be in that amount every month.
Nowadays I will listen to a track maybe 5 or 6 times to double make sure I want it. Some months I’ll only buy 3 or 4. I still buy vinyl but only older stuff filling in gaps and even then that will get sent to my mums to go into the vault.

Homegrove

Dan it’s an addiction. Vinyl days I got about 30 new records every month. That was a lot more money than a good month for me now. 😂

mono-stereo

Whatever “prog” is actually called these days is boring imo. 95% of the prog/breaks tracks in the last year are also boring.