Just downloaded soundcloud for mac and am not following anyone but it’s seems like a good idea just to follow people and just leave music on to see if i hear anything popping out. Any tips for people to follow on soundcloud? or hypem?
Does anyone use twitter to find new tunes or do you usually just browse around?
Was watching an interview with A Trak and he said quite rightly he’d rather see someone be original with 12 tracks instead of just filling their hard drive with as much music as they can get their hands on so i’m going to try and conserve what i download so i know whats on my computer and it’s all good quality.
Just dig and dig, not much more to it. You’ll end up listening to tons and tons of crap, but when you find those gems it’s worth it.
There’s no quick and easy way to go about it. Sure you’ll find some staple artists and labels, but you should never stop digging otherwise you’ll become stagnant.
ill tell you tho, if i hear something i like on GDD, i tend to download it or other tracks from that artist from beatport, juno, wherever i can find it. so IMO blogs are fantastic because just as following artists on beatport, soundcloud, in a random pandora mix (GOD I LOVE PANDORA, especially ato work) or what have you, i found that alot of the things on sites like GDD are right up my alley, so its kinda like the other more “conventional ways” of finding music like looking at other artists on a label, but more with other artists with simmilar sounds.
as long as you pay for it in the end, its all good, so whats the harm with previewing the track first before you buy it? cause chances are if you dont like it youre not gonna waste your HD space on it to keep it “just because it was on a music blog and its free”
I agree. I also particularly like beatport because well, it’s nice IMO.
What it comes down to is selection, and learning which artists are who you like, and in turn the labels.
I’ve also gotten more than a couple BANGER tracks off soundcloud, not by free download, but contacting the producer and letting them know what I was about. Most people are pretty chill about that stuff, esp. when they are starting out. Reaching out and TALKING to people is the key.
Just sitting back and expecting good unique things to come to you WON’T happen.
I like some blogs, but I find MOST are absolute garbage. Even the tracks they post up, or producers they talk about, aren’t things I particularly care for. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love a good tune no one has heard. But the sheer reason stuff gets “big” on beatport and the like, is because the tunes are GOOD.
For instance, I’ve been following Calvertron (mostly electro house-ish wobble stuff) for years now, introduced him to all my buds with his track “dwarf porn” when I first heard it. Progressively watching him put out some BANGERS over the last year or so, and hell, his Dubstep track even hit #4 on beatports charts.
Shit like that makes me wicked happy, seeing someone I feel I personally discovered succeed brutally and their musical talent getting out to more people.
I wouldn’t say go search deep and dirty underground tracks, but just fill your collection with ALL the songs that you feel speak to you, big or not.