Can someone explain to me how beatport releases work? When I am looking for music on beatport i select the genre I want, select view tracks and listen to everything starting with the newest first. I have however found repeated instances of items that were released today actually came out 6 months or even a year ago. I have also seen the odd case of a track being listed as released today at $2.49, only to run into the same track on beatport released a year back and offered for sale at $1.49.
Good music is good music but I want to know that if something is advertised as released today that it’s not in fact just a re-release.
Am i missing something here?
I have been using the next beta for a while now. Purchased a track on “day of release” 2 nights ago. Was looking for a youtube link to share it with friends this morning, only to find it was released in 2010!
beatport has a system that not even beatport understands. Same track, different label - different price? ‘Exclusive’ releases that are available elsewhere? ‘New’ re-releases? Bizarre genre allocation? Nevermind the PATHETIC copyright restrictions.
Sometimes it goes by when it was released on beatport or when the release it’s on this time was released. If it’s not the artists original single or album then I wouldn’t trust the release date on any site.
Territory restrictions may not come especially from beatport but from the deals labels may do with one or different distributors. It may also come from the deal asked from one or another contractor.
different labels may release the same track(s) sometimes at different times, sometimes you have access to the same release from two different labels but selling at a different prices because of their prices policy.
some labels specialises in re-releasing ‘older’ tracks, or even a track can be released by the same label but in remastered version or whatever fancy reason.
exclusives may be for a territory, a period of time, a format, whatever really
genre allocation is tricky for a lot of tracks unless you’re using sub-genres of sub-genres of sub-genres, etc…
That’s not really new, certainly not coming only from Beatport’s fault. That was the case before with vinyl too (I used to work for a distributor in France for a short period of time). The main difference here is that we get a more global view on what’s going on.
but it’s simple to deal with…beatport in one tab, discogs in the next. Also, sometimes different label’s versions of tracks sound different because they use different masting engineers (or will further squash an already mastered track to make theirs sound louder than the other label’s copy of the same song).
While I give them a lot of money and generally agree with a lot of things they do…and really like their extensive collection of music…Beatport is yet another example in this world where “best” doesn’t necessarily imply “good.”
