When you purchase new music do you…
When you guys purchase new music do you buy what you like and what you think will work together or do you buy in relative key?
When i buy music it’s strange because the majority of it has zero relation apart from it is house/tech-house/techno..
I just buy what ever track catches my attention and usually i have quite a few tracks i can mix in with it.
I buy what I like and pay no attention to what key it is when I buy it.
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I listen to a bunch of tunes on beatport. This is usually a 2 or 3 day event. Couple hours a day.
select 30-40 songs.
Keep listening to the one after each other until I can’t find anymore to remove from my cart.
search for a few more if I cut alot.
always listen to final bunch.
Then I buy them.
This is how i develop my “sound”
I usually use djcity.com for my top 40 stuff, but this past couple of months I have restored to emusic because it seems to have what I would call “rare” files. Alot of tracks found on youtube have slight variations that make them unique and I find that emusic.com has alot of those. Very important if you have a sticky old lady about what she wants to hear. haha
I buy what I like. Key is no worry and really shouldn’t be. I couldn’t imagine not buying a track because it was in a certain key.
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Whatever I can use to play at the club. Whether I like it or not. 50% of the time I do not like it. 
But it makes people dance, so I buy it an play it.
I use to buy only songs I like, but that translated to empty dance floors at times.
Yeah I pretty much do it like Ryan Leo said. Id like to find another pool like dj city though Alot of the remixes are getting shitty and redundant
I hear you on that one.
key doesn’t influence my purchases.
Time of day, Day of the week, Mood, scenery, Weather, Menstrual cycle, Ninja training, Wife, alcohol, Money.
All of the above influence my purchases
long story short. If I like I buy.
never even thought about it…if you do you are limiting an already limited source…
I never look at the key of a track and rairly look at whats playing. I just go off what I’m hearing. If I like it then it’s in the cart. It’s only when filtering down just before check out do I start to take note of names, labels and artist. I think it expands the range of sounds I buy doing it like this.
I could care less about the key.. once you start getting a solid connection thats never really a problem. Not for me at least
I usually go to beatport or itunes, and then I just do it by genre. Like 3 glitch songs and ill find 2-3 that will kinda go with them but more in the dubstep area, then find a few songs to kinda mix with them in house or another genre. I just kinda chain it all together when i’m buying, not saying ill use them together in a set
Interesting, I just went the opposite. Now I only buy what I like, and not having songs of a certain genre has cost me some gigs, but I enjoy what I do a lot more. I’m moving in june to a place where what I like will be appreciated in the clubs I like so I figure if I have to hold out till then, so be it.
if it’s not in c-major, i ain’t buying it!!!
it depends what you do… id your a typical club/bar dj… you kinda need to be able to give requests of all the late music… if you play underground clubs you usually know your own genre… I ditched the whole “trying to keep everyone happy” attitude and now I play what I think sounds good… it has made me start enjoying it a lot more at the end of the day its a hobby not something that keeps a roof over my head… (the lottery does that 
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i tend to just buy… lots… in fact too much, i think i have a problem! i checked my bank the other day when i was going to go to the pub and got the fright of my life, spent about £80 on beatport!
This obsession with key detection and mixing in key following a wheel needs to stop. Its importance is blown hugely out of proportion.
What xone said, it’s just another resource to use.