What sites do you use to purchase your tracks for djing?

ScottBailey

Hannu’s got hard drives in different area coooooooooooooooodes

Kells77

ScottBailey I mean, you need a system for both, right? 😂

mono-stereo

https://www.whatpeopleplay.com/ is good for deep house and techno. The UI is well overdue a redesign though.

Homegrove

mono-stereo their staff tips are pretty good.

Along_the_Wire

mono-stereo My eyes!

jb_808

mono-stereo Yeah I use them a lot. It’s worth putting up with the dreadful UI just to avoid wading through a load of shite like you have to on Beatport.

ScottBailey

Kells77 glad you got it! Feared I was going to be hung out to dry on that one! 🤣

Homegrove

Kells77 I have folders for years, and subfolders for months. So not that hard to find a tune, if you have some idea when it was released. I also know which hard drive is the oldest etc.

IndustryStandard

Beatport because I’m a lazy bastard and I’ve built a label/artist feed that’s evolved over the past decade.

If I get wind of a Bandcamp only release I then use that .

Never got on with Juno. GUI is horrendous .

Tune purchasing is a task similar to going to the dentist IMO

Kells77

ScottBailey Ludacris advised a lot of us back in the day 😂

ScottBailey

Kells77 haha! Southern Hospitality still one of my fav’s

seanc80

Hardly a low hanging fruit thread. I was just intrigued if there were any others outside the the main 4 that i should be checking out.
Granted its nowhere near as high-brow as Ed’s paint-with-learning-difficulties kettle drivel.

Smallman1

seanc80 Granted its nowhere near as high-brow as Ed’s paint-with-learning-difficulties kettle drivel.

Is the right answer!

baggers44

Bandcamp
Juno
Beatport

mostly beatport notwithstanding that they are a bunch of cunts for getting rid of the desktop app, overcharge in the UK and made searching for tracks a laborious process.

seanc80

baggers44 agreed re: beatport. Its a fucking shambles

Old-Dutch

Always remember the massive row on GU when Beatport suddenly massively hiked the prices of tracks for the UK site. At the time people were trying to justify it based on the dollar to pound exchange rate.

I’m assuming that the US prices haven’t increased in line with this justification since the dollar and pound are so close these days?

jb_808

Of course nothing beats the good old days of a curmudgeonly counter assistant and paying £10 a track in a record shop. I really miss those days a lot

Phil-McRackin

I remember going into Hard to Find 20 odd yrs ago when it was a room in an office block to get Arkham Asylum. Only bought vinyl to piss about with on my Own belt drives so nearly soiled myself when he said it was £10.

SM001

Phil-McRackin I went over around ’95 when I was only getting into the music. I was there for about 8 hours and spend a small fortune.

mono-stereo I do miss going to my local record stores and been handed a bunch of records. My bank balance does not. 😅

ScottBailey

Phil-McRackin only got up to HTFR once, and although I was impressed with the rows and rows of vinyl stacked high, I was less impressed with them having 10 copies of everything I didn’t want and none of what I did want! Was even less impressed with their customer service too, so just stuck with ordering out of the catalogue from then on in

mono-stereo

The rise of the mp3 and the subsequent demise of the record shop is an example of technology making life worse, at least from a cultural perspective.

Wasily

Bandcamp is good. You can get notifications of what people you follow buy. e.g. I follow SM001 and Sentre…

Dubman

Wasily
I do follow record labels on there. But not people.
Didn’t realise you could to honest.

SM001

Wasily Creep

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