Just wondering where you guys get your music, ive checked the reviews on this site for the record pools and i went for DJ city which i think is a good website but for the music i want its alright but its not exactly great.
The music im looking for is the summer/ibiza sorta stuff.
artists like; avicii, Swedish house Mafia, Guetta, tiesto, daft punk, benny benassi & even stuff like calvin harris, example & laidback luke.
if anyone has any suggestions on the right pool’ing site for these artists & Genre it would be much appreaciated.
I look things up on beatport and buy them on emusic and amazon. What I can’t find on emusic I find on beatport or juno. Checking out traxsource right now. But my favorite place to buy music is Amoeba Records
Although I havent downloaded a song in a couple months.
I’m not playing that much out lately and I’m really starting to get to know the tracks I have well. I’m going to start adding them more slowy so I can mix them better in the long run.
Sometimes I feel like beatport should have more songs on it or something.
I’m checking out DjCity, mymp3pool, and Promo Only.
mymp3pool is nice in that if you email the guy there, he’ll give you a few day trial to just look through the collection.
Promo Only seems pretty solid, and I’ve read great things. I think that site is a bit more dependent on what you mix.
DjCity has a really nice selection of tracks all around, but I’ve heard mixed things on some of the quality of the tracks they put up (some have said there are more 192 kBs tracks than there should be).
Really, I think it depends on what you’re going to mix - there’s a pool for like, everything!
Hehehe I almost lost friends over that when I visited SF about 10 yrs ago – caught up with them at a bar down the street a few hours after we walked into the store together and they were like “we learned our lesson - never walk into a record store with a DJ”!
Since then I’m happy to say they opened the LA store about ten blocks from my apartment – almost too close. I’m unhappy about the number of smaller record stores they put out of business when they came in – RIP fantastic specialty record stores like This Is Music and WAX as well as Temple of Boom… but I think most of all I miss Aron’s Records which was like Amoeba only smaller but a wide variety, great prices, knowledgeable staff, and tons of vinyl. But these stores are all long gone (as are so many more great brick and mortar record stores)…
I like stompy, kind of the hidden gem. Otherwise Beatport is very good nowadays, like the purge they did of removing a lot of material (including some of my tracks but that’s how it goes, a clean shop is better than a messy one.) Positively surprised I saw classic Detroit Techno on Beatport yesterday which is good.
And always WAV because you never know where you need the material, your own remixes or burning to CD for CDJ use.
Promo only is wack…u never get the music until its already a hit
Funky/ultimix is wack bc u should never play someone elses prerecorded remix…learn how to mix too and you won’t need an 8-16 bar intro/outro to every song either
I get my music from digiwaxx.com and whitelabel… what I cannot find I DL and buy from itunes, amazon and beatport…u can also find some gems on vinyl at random places/garage sales, etc
What’s your workflow for geting half a gig of music set up with beatgrids and such? That would take me forever and I still wouldn’t have any idea what was what.
