WTF Beatport!!

[MelloState]

I know all I need to know about trance thanks. I used to play it before I knew any better (94-97).

if you say so, trance has changed alot since then.
Also I would then wonder about Pete Tong and his likes since he's 52.....

[backtothefront]

Emusic ftw.

I'd forgotten about Emusic, remember being very good value and good catalogue of music. Might have a nose again.

Juno is v good, I don't use Junodownload very often but in my vinyl days I would place a weekly order on Juno since the day the company started trading vinyl after developing from being a dance music resource. The text based website was brilliant and easy to navigate in the dial up days.

Traxsource is my main online store of choice as I play Soulful/Deep House but it can be expensive for the promos therefore I wait until a discount code pops up. I have to say iTunes is not a bad place for released tracks and the quality is good enough for club/bar use IMHO and the price point is better.

Beatport obviously is a big noise in the digital music trading arena but I do feel they've edged more to the commercial side of dance music which probably suits the domestic US market and you just have to look at the charts and featured tracks/artists to see where their leaning is. The genre tagging is not the greatest either but I guess that is subjective.

[DJ G-REG]

Most of the time if you can wait 2 or 3 weeks on the Beatport "exclusive" tracks for $2.49 they will be on iTunes for .99 or $1.29.

[backtothefront]

I know all I need to know about trance thanks. I used to play it before I knew any better (94-97).

I'm significantly over 30 and don't mind a bit of trance, what are you saying?

[Jack Bastard]

if you say so, trance has changed alot since then.
Also I would then wonder about Pete Tong and his likes since he's 52.....

It really hasn't changed that much, a few new presets here and there, it's still basically that big chords->snarerolls->2 minute breakdown->snarerolls->big chords sound that came about in about 98. It's too formulaic a genre for me.

I used to like it was that sort of euro tech-trance sound, like old Prolekult and Noom records but then all that sort of split into techno and trance and, well, fuck trance

As for Pete Tong, he's an awful dj who plays terrible music on the most part. As I said, never trust anyone over the age of 30 still into it (no offense Backtothefront ).

[Jack Bastard]

If you play house music then you really ought to be checking Stompy Backtothefront, it's got as large a selection of deep/soulful house as Traxsource. Personally I exist on a diet of mostly Stompy, some Beatport, some Traxsource and a little Juno for re-edits.

[MelloState]

It really hasn't changed that much, a few new presets here and there, it's still basically that big chords->snarerolls->2 minute breakdown->snarerolls->big chords sound that came about in about 98. It's too formulaic a genre for me.

I used to like it was that sort of euro tech-trance sound, like old Prolekult and Noom records but then all that sort of split into techno and trance and, well, fuck trance

As for Pete Tong, he's an awful dj who plays terrible music on the most part. As I said, never trust anyone over the age of 30 still into it (no offense Backtothefront ).

wow so much hate

[Jack Bastard]

How is an accurate summation of the structure of most post-98 trance tracks and a paragraph extolling the virtues of old Euro tech trance 'hate'?



I'm guessing you're not exactly an old hand at all this dj business.

[Jack Bastard]

Pete Tong is an awful dj though, you can call that hate, or you can just accept that I've seen and heard him enough over the course of my life to have a valid opinion on him. He's fucking terrible.

[MelloState]

All im saying Jack, is you're in the wrong place to start hating on music and telling people that if they're over 30 they need to change their taste in music or they are not trusted. im sorry
I guess i will never be "trusted" when I grow old since I love trance..... You know your comment on that was stupidly placed and was uncalled for. Guess you wouldnt know since you wouldnt trust yourself if you kept with listening to trance now would you?

Also YOU MUST BE A BIG SHOT DJ
/end sarcasm