Where to get your music ?

[Frank112916]

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.

I just beatgrid as I use tracks if I need to. 99% of the time my beatgrids are fine. Also: I don't usually download half a gig at a time. I just got a mymp3pool subscription recently and splurged looking for tracks. Usually I'll download 2-3 songs a week and figure out where they fit. I'm not at the point where i can really pick tracks at random so my sets are fairly planned out.

Then I just pull tracks here and there and figure out what fits. I rearrange sets constantly, destroy entire crates in traktors, and create new crates/playlists. I try to not get attached to certain transitions. That's how I start to learn what fits and what doesn't. Also, my iphone only has my "recently added tracks" on it which I listen to constantly on repeat.

[ST.PE`]

stalk youtube.com and some subscriptions to diff artists as well as labels.
some offer free downloads(legit) others have links to beatport.com
gives me the latest out.

[3heads]

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.

Really? I mean, let's calculate: half a gig should be between 35 to 50 tracks. Which would take me about an hour (1,5h at most), I think. I just load the tracks into a deck, zoom in as far as possible and correct the first beatgrid-marker. Then I zoom out and skip through the track to the places where cue-points are in order (waveform-strip-view ftw), then zoom back in and check the cue-points if the grids still lined up. Then I lock the grid, afterwards rinse and repeat. Good task to do while commuting on a train

(Might be more complicated with genres not as stereotypical as techno/house, but for me and the music I play it works like a treat.)

I have to say though: I'm a lazy fuck and it can (and does) easily happen that I play out tracks I haven't listened to in entirety. Oh, the marvels of modern DJing

[djproben]

Gridding takes me no more than 20-30 seconds per song if they are house/techno/dubstep/dnb/hip hop or whatever. Takes longer obviously to actually listen to the song, decide mix in and out points, set cue points, etc., but I usually don't bother with any of that until I'm more familiar with the songs anyway. Then I just play my itunes on my computer by "date added" when I'm doing other stuff and when I hear stuff I really like I go back and do more with it. For just setting up grids though, a half gig of music goes pretty fast.

The real challenge is looking for things when you wind up with way too much music. The search function has spoiled me; my crates are a freakin mess!

[photojojo]

Yeah gridding is nothing, but I set loops and such when I buy a song or else I'll end up with a crap ton to do at

[photojojo]

Yeah gridding is nothing, but I set loops and such when I buy a song or else I'll end up with a crap ton to do at once.

[JesC]

record pools and beatport. Still buy vinyl

[DJ Abercrombie]

I'm very content with Juno

http://www.juno.co.uk/

[farhanashraf]

http://djforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45914

[Dj Kave]

Dude im sure all of these are really good, but try EARMILK. That website, and others like it are the best place to get music. Blogs are a really great place to find free underground and mainstream dj tunes or regular songs.


www.earmilk.com