A DJ’s way of finding new tracks is normally their best kept secret lol.. It’s what separates you from the crowd if you have the right music – and the methods vary depending on what kind of genre’s you play. I play a wide variety of music, a lot of “Classics” – not in the traditional sense but to this very particular crowd. But most of the new stuff I find is either in the charts of a bit funkier/occasionally a bit of Deep House or Blues in there as well.
For the charts, I have a weekly look down the chart lists (I’m in the UK) and listen through on youtube. I save links of any tracks I like in different folders depending on how much I like them. Roughly a week after I have added the last lot, I go through and refine it and buy maybe 2 or 3 tracks from that collection.. Also useful for charts are the radio (A, B or C) playlists, which are often published by the radio station online. I tent to use the lists for BBC Radio 1 as that tells me what is being played and how much on the radio without having to physically listen to the radio myself all the time..
For more obscure genres, I use Spotify radio. This lets you upload a playlist, and then Spotify will play a load of tracks similar to the ones in your playlist but (Crucially) not the ones in your playlist. This is great for sticking on in the background for finding new tracks.
For finding remix’s, I tend to use youtube (where most of the ones I have found have been posted), or I find one I like on soundcloud and often in the “Recommended” section there are some decent tracks/remixes. Problem with this is that it is very personal what is a “good” remix and what isn’t – presumably at some point the person who made it must have thought it was “good” enough as they published it!!
It’s really up to you to find you own tricks. These are mine and I am doing alright so far – I hardly ever get requests and have a crowd following me now (I have only been DJing regularily since September) so I must be doing something right!!
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