My collection is probably 99% Trance, Progressive and House and <1% Popular tunes of the recent times. After reading where the money making is, mostly non-remixed top40, as to keep the clulb goers happy with the same sh!t they hear on the radio, I now need to up my top40 collection.
I have found a few places for this such as itunes, but only in 256kbs quality. I was wondering if there was a dedicated site for such a thing with 320 kbps top40 tracks? I’ve looked for a while now as well as on here and came up empty handed.
you know, if record companies would just stop making shitty pop music and shove good house/trance/whatever down the public’s throats as much as they do the other garbage they usually pump out, the world would be a much better musical place. The regular top40 crowd are musical sheep: they will listen to whatever the mainstream tells them to listen to, so why not just tell them good music is good music??..just sayin
but yeah itunes is fine and you gotta do what you gotta do to make money heh
Thats true, but i’d say that’s because the mainstream is largely music illiterate. They mistake “catchy” with “good” and by good i mean creative, interesting, well thought out music with at least the attempt at being original. Think about how much effort it takes to write a pop song. Its all the same recycled garbage over and over again passed off as new and fresh. This is a large generalization of course and you’re right there is more to music than house and trance, and there is bad/unoriginal house and bad/unoriginal trance, i’d just say that in the realm of pop music this is more often the norm than the exception.
Why? Well, it goes back to my original point: people tend to mistake catchy with good, and catchy makes money, musical intricacy largely does not because the “illiterate” masses generally cant appreciate it.
I think what this comes down to is people’s musical confidence. Top 40/Mainstream listeners don’t like to stray far from the norm for fear that the music they like isn’t “cool.” If people would just like music for themselves and not because everyone else likes it then this wouldn’t be much of an issue. It’s funny because with acts like LMFAO and Tiesto who are becoming more mainstream, people think this is a new style of top 40. In reality the sound has existed for a while in it’s own genre, but they lacked the musical confidence to seek out more of it and share it.
hey, I DJ a top 40 club and iTunes is OK. But why be just OK? If you’re going to be spinning top 40 you have to do it better than everyone else to get the money gigs. I understand that the money is in Top 40 non-remixed but that does not mean non-edited. I find that edits of top 40 tracks with samples and mash-ups (even though most of them sound like they’re taped together by deaf kids). You’re not going to find these on iTunes.
i know it’s shame, but i would be interested in Recommend me some Top 40 DJTT thread thrust. Anyone agree?
Myself i’m planning to jump into top 40 little bit after summer and try to land some better money gigs and for that just regular Radio Edits won’t cut it. I Need some mashups, edits, pop tracks that aren’t that bad and stuff. Stuff that catches your eye, even though it might be shit.
s’not like i’m gonna rape my precious Drum and Bass with Top 40, it’s more like i’m interested in having dedication to top 40 separately as a genre. Different parties, different clubs, different payoffs and to be honest different bitches.
Only older DRM protected Itunes tracks wont play in Traktor.
Current iTunes downloads will play.
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hey so how do you get around that? my old songs in my itunes that are m4p files have some hits that i cant access and when i try to convert them to AAC in itunes it wont let me…
My goal is to incorporate some of the top 40 into my trance mix. It’s going to be a tough task mashing these two genres, so any help or tips would be appreciated!
