I've always been a bedroom DJ rather than a professional and always just messed about with gear like a kid with new toys.
However, I'm now considering putting more serious effort into it and begin to play publicly as soon as I'm confident.
The one thing putting me off as a new DJ is the cost of music. True, individual songs from Beatport and iTunes are not particularly expensive per se. However, the issue for new non-gig playing DJs is that songs become outdated within a couple of weeks nowadays. Therefore to refresh a set almost on a monthly basis can become expensive for bedroom and beginner DJs.
For this reason, I've been looking into DJ music pools. I've currently signed up to Digital DJ Pool for the $1 for 5 days trial, followed by $12 per month if I continue. However, they mostly just have chart/poppy music and remixes of them. A better option seems to be DJ City, but at £60 up front, it's pretty expensive (even though that does last 3 months).
I'm just wondering if anybody is aware of any hidden gems in terms of music pools that has depth of quality as well as reasonably priced. I do have a Spotify Premium subscription but don't believe I can download tracks from there in high quality, plus DJ promos and remixes are rarer there.
Anyone got any pointers?
PS: I've read the DJTT blog post about music pools but just wondering what others are doing.
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