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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.

    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.

      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?

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

      Is the right answer!

        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.

          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

          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.

            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.

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

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

                  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. 😅

                      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

                        Homegrove Boomkat and Bleep are great for a cheap price, usually below Bandcamp, and always below Juno or Traxsource.

                        Good call on Bookkat! Just picked up a load of stuff on Watergate and other labels. Is Bleep worth trawling thru?

                            Well worth checking if something you’ve found elsewhere is there for less.

                            SM001 Is Bleep worth trawling thru?

                            …not been on there a while, but used to be great for old/obscure Warp stuff

                              It has been Beatport and Bandcamp for a long time - I need Bandcamp to step up and integrate with Rekordbox because the Beatport link stuff is working extremely well for me.

                              Bandcamp, Juno, Beatport and for more accessible stuff I have a subscription to Mixupload. Unlimited monthly downloads in FLAC for £8 a month. Not so good for more underground stuff but a huge back catalogue and pretty good for the more mainstream type tracks, the stuff that will hit the Beatport Charts is always there. Can’t imagine the artists are getting much though for that price.