the "house" section on beatport

[kiss-o-matic]

Nobody uses trackitdown? I've always found their featured tracks to be better than beatports, and their tech house section has a lot of what Beatport would put in techno, which I like. On the flip side their techno section is a bit hard.

[re8]

.. the ones on Juno Download are a lot better, plus I reckon Juno is a lot easier to navigate too...

+1
Though there are still some labels (mostly IT labels) that insist of putting Commercial Trance in the House section. & you'll get remix EPs with different styles in House when there is only 1 House track in 7 on that EP.

[kiss-o-matic]

One other thing that might help Beatport navigating: if there's even one track of a type of genre and you're browsing by release (the default) you will get all the songs. I find this awful. Click the "View All" button on the left and you'll only see *tracks* corresponding to that genre. Still far from perfect, but better than the default I've found.

[BradCee]

It's all based on perception I guess, and that's one of the biggest issues with organizing music by genres on a site like Beatport.

Where you might see it as tech house, I might view it as techno, and another will label it minimal and so on.

I only go to Beatport/Juno/ect. when I know what I'm looking for, never to dig. I have other ways of digging.

don't know about beatport, but when you set something up on juno you have to fill in what genre you class it as, so majority of it is based on the labels perception.

if this is the case for beatport then is it the slightly lesser known questionable labels, who are too lazy to label outside of house?