Finding music

[Lurk6r]

Yo,

Where do you guys normally FIND new music?

I got a dj city subscription, but they don't really have charts or whats hot right now.

[eggssell]

i'm prob not much help as to whats hot for the kiddies right now.

but my music leads usually come from word of mouth (esp. here); interviews of people i like in the music biz (be it dj's or artists); looking at who people i like are working with (either collabo's or remixes); and finally i follow shyte loads of record label/ artists/ dj blogs (fools gold; mad decent; atrak; craze; spankrock; cudi etc. etc.).

and then from one track/ artist you can usually follow that lead to maybe 50 other tracks by looking at who has that person remixed for; who else is on their label; look at the tracks of the people who have remixed their track; look at the labels of the people who have remixed their track; look at other tracks by guest vocalists on their tracks; look at these vocalists labels and so on and so on.

of course of the 50 you may only find 1 jewel. but that jewel is the next step for another 50 tracks.

cant remember who it was now, but i remember jonny put me onto one dude which lead to about a 40 track haul.

oh and once you buy a track follow them, any guests/ collabos, any remixers, and their label (heaps easy to follow in juno and beatport). which means you will always have a truck load of leads the next time you go in.

[Jaz]

my favourite way is listening to people's mixes and picking my fav songs from there

[lloydc]

try podcasts as well.

More often than not, there are track listings available for most podcasts so you can atleast identify track names.

[Lurk6r]

Imaginary rep to all

[street]

follow heaps of artists you like on soundcloud. there will be at least 1 new incoming track a day.

[pundaddy]

Just absolutely raping artists at seekanddownload.com, following the aria club charts aswell, but also talking to my mates who dj, and sharing music amongst eachother is great too.

[Slippy]

yep thats all good advice i also do a mix of the following:

1. DJ City

2. er7radio.net essential mixes (with tracklists) and really enjoy the pete tong weekly show get some really cool fresh tracks on his essential tunes

3. listening to peoples mixes off here

4. radio and then finding a nice remix

5. TOTD thread here (and COTD)

6. i just got a huge haul of cheese from hoddis party playlist, aboslute gold

7. Aria Charts

8. browse top100 of genres on beatport

9. if linked to youtube from TOTD or something similar and i love the remix, if i really like the track i will surbscribe that person and check out all their stuff as they put it up

10. got to hot30 chart and listen through top30 songs from radio and pick some i like and search for a remix (could use aria chart for this i guess but i haev never tried it that way dunno why just used to hot30 i guess)

[Hobberz]

I have no problems finding chart stuff on Dj City

[Lurk6r]

Thx so much guys, this is really helpful.

[Skank]

has anyone said blogs?

[J0rdz]

Blogs/RSS Feeds - set up a Google Reader account and add them all to that!

Beatport - endlessly scouring. I try to stay away from top 100 stuff. Keep things unique and hunt for those rare tunes no one else plays

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