nicksneddon I’ve fairly much given up on Traxsource/Beatport at el, Bandcamp however is a goldmine
Music shortage
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.
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.
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
IndustryStandard
How much is a 12″ these days. When I stopped buying it. It was about £6
Whatever “prog” is actually called these days is boring imo. 95% of the prog/breaks tracks in the last year are also boring.
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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.
Be more selective Hanners ffs. Pull yourself together.
…I always buy a lot more than I play, and there are generally only a handful of those that I mix with that will make it to the ‘keepers’ folder, but I think that’s one of the luxuries of digital formats.
Being much more selective in the first place isn’t really a solution though… sometimes I’ll sit on things for a while that I’ve thought were meh the first few listens, then decide that they are fucking genius when I’ve lived with them a while (or heard somebody else play!). More often than not, these are the ones that are the keepers too.
Fuck off Flares
Normally let tracks build up to about 50 over maybe 3 months and buy them, can’t remember any of there names like I could maybe 5 years ago make 2 or 3 mixes out of them and listen to them when in work or driving
Dubman about double that now. a tenner if you’re lucky.
The days of £3..99 12s from Our Price long gone…..i even remember getting tunes from Forbuoys newsagents when a kid. 12inchs like Depeche Mode for about a quid
) I still look for tracks and love the challenge of putting them together.