How much money do you spend on new tunes a week roughly

[Maxted]

where in london are you based and what do you play.

Checking that djcity website it seems like their MP3's are ripped from vinyl, are they having a laugh. No way I'd pay a subscription for that sort of rubbish.

MP3s ripped from vinyl will have better quality than most of what you buy, if they are ripped and compressed correctly - which they are from there.

I'm based in Camden, play electro, breaks and dub.

[hesitant]

Checking that djcity website it seems like their MP3's are ripped from vinyl, are they having a laugh. No way I'd pay a subscription for that sort of rubbish.

I subscribed to DjCity a while back. Worst mistake ever. The quality ain't bad but the selection of tunes is awful. If you are into Hip Hop then I'm sure you would like it but for House, Techno etc its just plan crap. There are plenty other subscription based sites out there.

[Maxted]

I subscribed to DjCity a while back. Worst mistake ever. The quality ain't bad but the selection of tunes is awful. If you are into Hip Hop then I'm sure you would like it but for House, Techno etc its just plan crap. There are plenty other subscription based sites out there.

Any that are better for house/electro? I like Djcity for a lot of the top40 remixes and remixes of old tracks, they seem to have things i don't see elsewhere (Like mymp3pool).

[ohmydaze]

MP3s ripped from vinyl will have better quality than most of what you buy, if they are ripped and compressed correctly - which they are from there.

I'm based in Camden, play electro, breaks and dub.

how can the quality be better when a track is pressed to vinyl then copied to digital? It doesnt make sense. Also I am pretty sure copying a track from vinyl to then go on and sell would be illegal. I didnt look into the exact workings of the website, but I did a search for one of my favourite artist Lucky Date, which came back with one result, which was his remix of Latin Fever original by Wolfgang Gartner which as far as I am aware wasnt released and is given away for free by Lucky Date on his soundcloud page. So I'm just interested in how djcity get money back to the artists for stuff like this, I'm a bit anal about it having run a record label and like to make sure people are getting the money they deserve.

I'm interested in finiding perhaps some subscription based website for electro. however most of the time these things dont tend to be the best deal in the world.

[ohmydaze]

how can the quality be better when a track is pressed to vinyl then copied to digital? It doesnt make sense. Also I am pretty sure copying a track from vinyl to then go on and sell would be illegal. I didnt look into the exact workings of the website, but I did a search for one of my favourite artist Lucky Date, which came back with one result, which was his remix of Latin Fever original by Wolfgang Gartner which as far as I am aware wasnt released and is given away for free by Lucky Date on his soundcloud page. So I'm just interested in how djcity get money back to the artists for stuff like this, I'm a bit anal about it having run a record label and like to make sure people are getting the money they deserve.

I'm interested in finiding perhaps some subscription based website for electro. however most of the time these things dont tend to be the best deal in the world.

also dude I'm not having a go or anything at you about djcity, only found out about it today and just interested by it as it seems a bit fishy to me is all.

[Curious People]

£90 a week - spread between my local record store (phonica) and discogs

[Ciar2001]

£50 a month depending, this month it's going to be double that as I am buying more than my usual genre

[ohmydaze]

£50 a month depending, this month it's going to be double that as I am buying more than my usual genre

what genres you buying?

[Ciar2001]

Deep House maybe some Tech and probably lots of Disco re-edits along with some Soulful house, aimed more and the show i do now, can play pure Deep but i prefer to change it up a bit.

[Maxted]

how can the quality be better when a track is pressed to vinyl then copied to digital? It doesnt make sense.

In theory you have much more control over the sound ripping from vinyl you can control exactly how the track is sampled, the degree of compression, push the noise floor down to kill the vinyl hiss and receive a track with a much better dynamic range. If you get something produced straight to mp3 it has already been (over*)compressed.

* usually the case with most modern music.

As for Djcity, i'm still on the fence about it, i do want to find something better but everything else out there has very few tracks i'm interested in already listed.