Originally Posted by
mostapha
My hit-rate is pretty atrocious compared to when I was on Vinyl, but…whatever. When Beatport alone releases like 50 pages/day and I have multiple genres to browse, it gets hard. I just jump through things quickly in the top-100 and some DJ's lists…jump through the pages and pages of crap. If a track doesn't grab me within 2 seconds, I'm not going to listen to the rest of it…the only tracks that 2-second rule doesn't count for is if I'm familiar with the Artist or (less frequently) the label or when the track was recommended by someone (IRL or Online…not in a top10) who's taste I know and trust.
Then, I move everything from my crate into my hold bin and use beatbot on the ones that don't suck…usually that finds one or two tracks…and remove the ones that do…wait 24 hours and go back to it and see what I want to consider…with a 10-second cutoff including jumping around.
It's my 3rd pass before I actually listen to the full sample of the song.
I also avoid artist albums like the plague, because they almost always suck…if an artist album comes out and a song or two doesn't suck, it'll be in the top-100.
I purposefully try to ignore what labels my tracks are on. If I can remember a label 2-3 days later while trying to forget it, it means there are enough of their tracks that I like that I can start thinking about maybe looking into their back catalog…same with artists.
For Techno artists (just an example–just finished a techno set), I remember Umek, Slam, Fergie, Pole Folder, Faithless, Cirez D, Marco Bailey, and, well…that's about it. For Techno labels, I remember 1605 (because it's the model of a Urei mixer I liked) and Bedrock…and, umm…that might be it. I own a lot more tracks than those artists and Labels. By purposefully ignoring things like that, I'm more confident in listening to something produced, remixed, or released by an artist or label that I remember.
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