Personally, I’m a part of ZipDJ, a $50 a month record pool service.
I’m still pretty new, and am looking for maybe alternatives. I’ve always been told record pools would be the best deal financially, however sometimes lacking in song selection.
So my question to you all is, How do you get your music?
Any feedback is thankful.
Juno and beatport, when I can get a deal. If not I go for the independent sites and shops. Boomkat, bleep, Rubadub, Surus, Phonica, Hardwax, and chemical which isn’t independent. And if I travel I always hit up a local vinyl shop.
i used to do a lot of beatport digging. then i found some blogs specific to various genres i liked. recently, i found that spotify is actually a pretty good place to discover new music and it let’s you dig pretty deep.
right now i feel like i have too much music so i stopped getting new stuff and started getting deeper into the tunes i already have, which is enough for many, many lifetimes. i have cds i still haven’t opened and about 10,000 records i haven’t listened to lol!
I post a thread “recommend me some ____” and buy whatever people here tell me to
In all seriousness emusic is my go-to stop for music; I search on beatport and juno since the interfaces are nicer but I buy for 49-69 cents a song; the only drawback is you have to subscribe, but the money for your subscription goes to your song purchases so as long as you buy your allotment every month, it’s totally worth it. But if I was playing out all the time and had to have the latest top forty, hip hop, electro, etc, I would probably go the record pool route.
But my favorite way to acquire music is still the vinyl record store
There are any number of ways to get your music on Pandora. We’re always looking for new music to play for our listeners, so we watch all kinds of blogs, radio stations, show listings, charts and things like that. And while we don’t automatically add everything we see in those places, when an artist reaches a certain level of visibility we like to try our best to make that music available on Pandora.
im subscribed to DJCity, but then again i have to have all the newest stuff, currently resident in a club that is all commercial top40, and Djcity has all the latest tracks , and also has a good range of uk funky and uk house for my other needs
Never even visited Beatport. Guess it really depends on the genres you play - I’ve mainly bought stuff from official Bandcamp pages of the artists I like.. As for actual CDs, well, where I can get them online, be it music stores or label shops.