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  • November 9, 2011 at 7:57 pm #9597
    U31
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    I dont especially look for new music, i get ideas from other DJ’s mixes or if i am searching its on Discogs for odd or unusual remixes of stuff i already have

    November 9, 2011 at 9:59 pm #9606
    Jem
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    Usually an hour or two of an evening once a week.

    I find the difficult bit limiting myself to just buying a few tracks!!! With music so cheap and accessible these days it’s easy to go overboard…

    November 10, 2011 at 1:21 am #9608
    Arbite
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    I don’t go out specifically looking for new tracks. I do however listen to various mixes from other DJ’s and pay attention to a couple of people on soundcloud. If I hear a track I like, I buy/download it, then go ahead and do all my beatgrids/cue points for them later.

    November 10, 2011 at 3:09 am #9611
    R33BOOT
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    Thanks guys. Yah it’s easy to go way overboard and that’s what I’m doing, just downloading and downloading and downloading, and not really focusing on just those tracks I really like or ‘should’ be playing. Guess some discipline is in order!

    November 10, 2011 at 5:54 am #1002097
    Pär Hessler
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    I spend almost all my free time seraching for new tracks, running them through a various of progs, tagging them and so on. 20-30 Hours/Week roghly.

    November 10, 2011 at 6:57 am #1002098
    softcore
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    About 5 – 10 hours weekly. I think 30k of music for DJing is too much and maybe the reason you are finding yourself hard to keep up with it.

    November 10, 2011 at 2:26 pm #9627
    signal_lost
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    I spend too much time looking for new tracks.

    Used to browse the latest additions on Beatport every day. But the fact that more than a hundred tracks get released on Beatport each day had me losing many precious hours…

    Now I use a record pool, so this allows me to have a chosen selection of the latest tracks but also the popular ones. I still go on Beatport from time to time though, but way less than before.

    Plus, I am an organisation freak, so the new tracks proper tagging part is also time consuming!
    (I guess I should really do a huge clean up of my collection. Just saw iTunes had a “Last played” column… Gonna be useful to find tunes I’ve never listened to or some old things I can prune.).

    November 10, 2011 at 2:45 pm #9628
    R33BOOT
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    Guess everyone is a bit different.

    Softcore: yah 30k is way too much, that’s ALL my music. But I have tags set in the ‘group’ column in iTunes to separate my tracks for using on DJ gigs, and occasional weddings. So if I tag a track ‘Single [C]’ thats for ‘club’… A smart playlist in iTunes shows all those tracks with that tag, and those are basically my DJ’n tracks. But I still have like 5,000 of those which is too much, and probably 10k+ tracks I haven’t even tagged, listended too or gone through in iTunes as well as just sitting on my HD waiting for attention… freaking nutz…

    Signal_lost: Same here w/ organizing… freak too… reason why I want to kick this ‘addiction’ of spending hours upon hours of looking and digging through tracks, cause then its hours and hours of tagging, and hours and hours of beatgridding and making cue points, etc… which I haven’t even started yet.

    I’m curious to what Record Pool you are part of that has tracks which Beatport has?

    November 10, 2011 at 3:59 pm #9635
    D-Jam
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    I’d look around every few days, but I’ve been lazy the last two weeks since other aspects of my life has been busy.

    November 11, 2011 at 6:14 pm #1002115
    CaptainMorgan13
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    Easiest way I’ve found is by listening to online radio stations while I work my beige job. The great part about these companies is they often stay on top of what’s new or will play some stuff that you may have not heard before. I prefer http://www.slacker.com, personally.

    November 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm #9717
    VinnyBlanc
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    I work in a quiet office where everyone is ear-budded up doing their thing. I keep a notebook with me at work and in my down time im constantly scowering my music collection. By the time I get home I have pages of
    Delete this song, Bad Qual reDL, sample idea, spelling error, etc..

    If only I could edit GET INFO on the fly I’d be all set. But it really is quick to make these changes first thing when I get home

    November 11, 2011 at 9:02 pm #9719
    Kyle_G
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    I at least try to devote some time during the week to look for new tracks, the sorting of tracks however has gone by the wayside.

    Do you think I could get TLC to come and do an episode of “Hoarders” about my music collection?

    November 11, 2011 at 9:36 pm #9721
    Chris Carruthers
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    I really need some new ideas for this. At the moment I’m only using beatport, I usually give their sales charts for my preferred styles a quick listen and then decide I don’t like them, so then I listen through the DJ charts for the same styles and usually find tracks I like. It’s worked so far, but always wonder if I could be doing more.

    November 12, 2011 at 12:54 am #1002119
    DJ GRE
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    Caru, post: 9717 wrote: I really need some new ideas for this. At the moment I’m only using beatport, I usually give their sales charts for my preferred styles a quick listen and then decide I don’t like them, so then I listen through the DJ charts for the same styles and usually find tracks I like. It’s worked so far, but always wonder if I could be doing more.

    Usually if I find an artist that I really like… say for instance Diplo, I will look up and see if they’ve got a website, blog etc, in diplos case the maddecent.com site and My music searches then just kinda wander from there… that’s when I find great stuff. twitters been a godsend for being right on the ball about new releases and usually artists will have a free download up for a while.

    November 12, 2011 at 3:28 pm #9738
    U31
    Member

    Caru, post: 9717 wrote: I really need some new ideas for this. At the moment I’m only using beatport, I usually give their sales charts for my preferred styles a quick listen and then decide I don’t like them, so then I listen through the DJ charts for the same styles and usually find tracks I like. It’s worked so far, but always wonder if I could be doing more.

    Mixcloud is the best for this, find a mix with a good set of choons you like, and click through the tags on the tunes, to find other djs using a tune you like and see what they have mixed the tune with.. make a note of the ones you like, click on the “Buy ” tags to get a copy of the tune , dead easy…
    Unless you go on some handsome sexy god of a dj’s mixcloud profile – called something like Ulysses i think,
    the sounds he mostly uses might be a bit harder to get your hands on legally.. 😉

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