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Where to buy older "classics"... electronically?
Posted on: 27.04.2012 by Eleanor Munday
Hi All,

I'm looking for places online that sell electronic versions of older tunes/classics. I'm on about stuff from the 90's -

  • Acid house / rave / Hacienda/Shelly's type stuff from early 90s
  • Classic trance from 1996 - 2001 (Gatecrasher, Cream etc.)


I have a lot of the stuff on vinyl but the quality of ripping it is not great. Ideally, I'm looking for 320kbs +

Its possible to find some stuff on Beatport but thats the more commercial stuff, the rarer tunes are not there.

Anyone looked into this type of music before, any ideas on where to find it, if it actually exists?
Eleanor Munday
25.03.2013
Originally Posted by TranceKlassiks
Hey RossH,
I know I'm posting almost a year later, but if you're still looking for those classic Trance tracks from 90's then do not look any further.
i've been collecting those rare tunes in digital format for the past 7 years and includes most of the tracks you mentioned in 320 kbps.
So I've added all the missing ID3 tags and organized everything (It was very tiresome by the way!) and uploaded it to my dropbox account.

I'm willing to share it with like minded souls as I know at the end of the day nothing can beat a classic

If you want a dropbox invite on your email, then email me on my Id : [email protected] and I'll send you an invite


Cheers,
Atman

Thanks for the invite.

I have never met you but if it was medically possible, I would have your babies!

EDIT: On closer inspection, most tracks not "play out" quality but still a brilliant collection to have for personal use!
Verline Komora
23.03.2013
Originally Posted by RossH
Hi All,

I'm looking for places online that sell electronic versions of older tunes/classics. I'm on about stuff from the 90's -

  • Acid house / rave / Hacienda/Shelly's type stuff from early 90s
  • Classic trance from 1996 - 2001 (Gatecrasher, Cream etc.)


I have a lot of the stuff on vinyl but the quality of ripping it is not great. Ideally, I'm looking for 320kbs +

Its possible to find some stuff on Beatport but thats the more commercial stuff, the rarer tunes are not there.

Anyone looked into this type of music before, any ideas on where to find it, if it actually exists?


Hey RossH,
I know I'm posting almost a year later, but if you're still looking for those classic Trance tracks from 90's then do not look any further.
i've been collecting those rare tunes in digital format for the past 7 years and includes most of the tracks you mentioned in 320 kbps.
So I've added all the missing ID3 tags and organized everything (It was very tiresome by the way!) and uploaded it to my dropbox account.

I'm willing to share it with like minded souls as I know at the end of the day nothing can beat a classic

If you want a dropbox invite on your email, then email me on my Id : [email protected] and I'll send you an invite


Cheers,
Atman
Eleanor Munday
03.05.2012
Originally Posted by Nicky H
Guarantee I do - used to have the CD single - ripped from that - you're on about the 10 minute version without the vocal right?
I have found it on a cd since making that comment.
Mitzie Baarda
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by RossH
Thank you, its by no means extensive either, can believe of loads of (trance) tunes that are missing from it. I kind of feel sorry for anyone under the age of about 24/25 who maybe don't understand just how good the 90s were for dance music!

I believe anyone who claims to love anything in the following list - (dubstep, Skrillex, Deadmau5, *any other current generic producer/dj playing similar sh**e) should be forced to sit in a darkened room and listen to every song on that list. If they still claim to love Skrillex, then there is no helping them!
Some fav labels inc...harthouse,risin high,platipus,dragonfly...the list goes on...
Golden Faubert
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by Nicky H
Guarantee I do - used to have the CD single - ripped from that - you're on about the 10 minute version without the vocal right?
i have a 320 of it too, my housemate and i ripped it from vinyl quite a while back, and i believe it definately deserves a play this weekend
Janyce Henningson
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by RossH
Guarantee you don't have Jam and Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona (Original Mix) at good quality, 320kbs or higher, I would pay some serious money if you did!
Guarantee I do - used to have the CD single - ripped from that - you're on about the 10 minute version without the vocal right?
Eleanor Munday
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by Jldevo
Just been transported back in time whilst reading your song list. Basically a track list of my youth clubbing. I have a vast cd collection from 90s mainly trance, techno and some house. Including lots in your digital wish list. Thanks for the trip back.
Thank you, its by no means extensive either, can believe of loads of (trance) tunes that are missing from it. I kind of feel sorry for anyone under the age of about 24/25 who maybe don't understand just how good the 90s were for dance music!

I believe anyone who claims to love anything in the following list - (dubstep, Skrillex, Deadmau5, *any other current generic producer/dj playing similar sh**e) should be forced to sit in a darkened room and listen to every song on that list. If they still claim to love Skrillex, then there is no helping them!
Chasidy Heckenbach
30.04.2012
Originally Posted by RossH
Guarantee you don't have Jam and Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona (Original Mix) at good quality, 320kbs or higher, I would pay some serious money if you did!
is the version on Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 not the same as the vinyl release? i had that album on cd (and 2002). i got rid of all my cd collection but not before ripping anything i wanted to keep. i do have that in mp3 (or flac probably) but wanted to buy it from some download site so i can *prove* that i own it in case i ever needed to in the future...
Eleanor Munday
25.03.2013
Originally Posted by TranceKlassiks
Hey RossH,
I know I'm posting almost a year later, but if you're still looking for those classic Trance tracks from 90's then do not look any further.
i've been collecting those rare tunes in digital format for the past 7 years and includes most of the tracks you mentioned in 320 kbps.
So I've added all the missing ID3 tags and organized everything (It was very tiresome by the way!) and uploaded it to my dropbox account.

I'm willing to share it with like minded souls as I know at the end of the day nothing can beat a classic

If you want a dropbox invite on your email, then email me on my Id : [email protected] and I'll send you an invite


Cheers,
Atman

Thanks for the invite.

I have never met you but if it was medically possible, I would have your babies!

EDIT: On closer inspection, most tracks not "play out" quality but still a brilliant collection to have for personal use!
Norris Swartzfager
24.03.2013		edit : double post pls remove!
Norris Swartzfager
24.03.2013		just copied this awesome list in a txt file for futher reference! so many tracks I forgot about

cheers

Geert
Rolanda Clodfelder
23.03.2013		The likes of State of Trance Classics CD's have alot of the tracks you want, on picking a few randomly found them on itunes no probs

Itunes match is Decent, the issue is that:

a) some unusual stuff is not available
b) Ripping tracks from vinyl is so freaking time consuming in the first place and I don't have that much disposable time on my hands !
Verline Komora
23.03.2013
Originally Posted by RossH
Hi All,

I'm looking for places online that sell electronic versions of older tunes/classics. I'm on about stuff from the 90's -

  • Acid house / rave / Hacienda/Shelly's type stuff from early 90s
  • Classic trance from 1996 - 2001 (Gatecrasher, Cream etc.)


I have a lot of the stuff on vinyl but the quality of ripping it is not great. Ideally, I'm looking for 320kbs +

Its possible to find some stuff on Beatport but thats the more commercial stuff, the rarer tunes are not there.

Anyone looked into this type of music before, any ideas on where to find it, if it actually exists?


Hey RossH,
I know I'm posting almost a year later, but if you're still looking for those classic Trance tracks from 90's then do not look any further.
i've been collecting those rare tunes in digital format for the past 7 years and includes most of the tracks you mentioned in 320 kbps.
So I've added all the missing ID3 tags and organized everything (It was very tiresome by the way!) and uploaded it to my dropbox account.

I'm willing to share it with like minded souls as I know at the end of the day nothing can beat a classic

If you want a dropbox invite on your email, then email me on my Id : [email protected] and I'll send you an invite


Cheers,
Atman
Freida Leash
03.05.2012		I dig thru iTunes when looking for old tunes, but the catch is that the mix on a compilation will often be a "radio" edit or some other weird version of the song. http://www.trackitdown.net/ has done me right on a couple songs that I thought were only bootlegged white label vinyl.
Eleanor Munday
03.05.2012
Originally Posted by Nicky H
Guarantee I do - used to have the CD single - ripped from that - you're on about the 10 minute version without the vocal right?
I have found it on a cd since making that comment.
Mitzie Baarda
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by RossH
Thank you, its by no means extensive either, can believe of loads of (trance) tunes that are missing from it. I kind of feel sorry for anyone under the age of about 24/25 who maybe don't understand just how good the 90s were for dance music!

I believe anyone who claims to love anything in the following list - (dubstep, Skrillex, Deadmau5, *any other current generic producer/dj playing similar sh**e) should be forced to sit in a darkened room and listen to every song on that list. If they still claim to love Skrillex, then there is no helping them!
Some fav labels inc...harthouse,risin high,platipus,dragonfly...the list goes on...
Nilsa Erben
02.05.2012		Discogs <<<<----- Lots and lots of old stuff here.
Golden Faubert
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by Nicky H
Guarantee I do - used to have the CD single - ripped from that - you're on about the 10 minute version without the vocal right?
i have a 320 of it too, my housemate and i ripped it from vinyl quite a while back, and i believe it definately deserves a play this weekend
Janyce Henningson
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by RossH
Guarantee you don't have Jam and Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona (Original Mix) at good quality, 320kbs or higher, I would pay some serious money if you did!
Guarantee I do - used to have the CD single - ripped from that - you're on about the 10 minute version without the vocal right?
Eleanor Munday
02.05.2012
Originally Posted by Jldevo
Just been transported back in time whilst reading your song list. Basically a track list of my youth clubbing. I have a vast cd collection from 90s mainly trance, techno and some house. Including lots in your digital wish list. Thanks for the trip back.
Thank you, its by no means extensive either, can believe of loads of (trance) tunes that are missing from it. I kind of feel sorry for anyone under the age of about 24/25 who maybe don't understand just how good the 90s were for dance music!

I believe anyone who claims to love anything in the following list - (dubstep, Skrillex, Deadmau5, *any other current generic producer/dj playing similar sh**e) should be forced to sit in a darkened room and listen to every song on that list. If they still claim to love Skrillex, then there is no helping them!
Mitzie Baarda
02.05.2012		Just been transported back in time whilst reading your song list. Basically a track list of my youth clubbing. I have a vast cd collection from 90s mainly trance, techno and some house. Including lots in your digital wish list. Thanks for the trip back.
Chasidy Heckenbach
30.04.2012
Originally Posted by RossH
Guarantee you don't have Jam and Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona (Original Mix) at good quality, 320kbs or higher, I would pay some serious money if you did!
is the version on Tripomatic Fairytales 2001 not the same as the vinyl release? i had that album on cd (and 2002). i got rid of all my cd collection but not before ripping anything i wanted to keep. i do have that in mp3 (or flac probably) but wanted to buy it from some download site so i can *prove* that i own it in case i ever needed to in the future...
Marshall Aby
30.04.2012		Binary Finary!


That is all
Eleanor Munday
30.04.2012
Originally Posted by Nicky H
I've got most of em - how much you gonna pay me
Guarantee you don't have Jam and Spoon - Odyssey To Anyoona (Original Mix) at good quality, 320kbs or higher, I would pay some serious money if you did!
Latia Sotak
29.04.2012
Originally Posted by PeteWoods
I dont get this itunes match feature, the website makes it seem like you never actually get the aac but you stream it in high quality, but thisisian makes it sound like they replace it for you? i have a huge collection of my dad's rock and folk vinyl from the 60's and 70's that i've been ripping recently and even with his hi-fi table it wasn't the best quality, this sounds like it could be worthwhile!
Yes, I believe they may be being deliberately vague, so absolutely everybody doesn't do this.

Once you've uploaded your music to the cloud. iTunes tries to match your tunes with songs already on its iTunes servers. ...Just so we're clear, we're talking about their masters that they sell for download, rather than all the stuff that other people have uploaded.

The best way to see what's been matched is to open iTunes, go to view/view options, & turn on "icloud download" & "iCloud status".
Lauretta Ehrhorn
29.04.2012
Originally Posted by djproben
is that Frank Zappa?
It is yeah :-)
Janyce Henningson
29.04.2012		I've got most of em - how much you gonna pay me
Rolanda Clodfelder
28.04.2012		A State of Trance Classics Albums would be a good place to start - I know not everything is technically trance, but there was a smaller range of genres to classify by back then hehehe.

Sure lots of tripe BUT a lot of the big ones in there as well that you'll want from earlier era's e.g. Josh Wink, Visons of Shiva, Age of Love, Chicane, jam and Spoon, LSD etc..... plenty of the old "Hooj Choons", sasha/digweed classics in there as well.

Pretty sure you can find the albums for very lil $

Pains me no end that much of my old collection will always most likely be unavailable to me unless I move back home (which I'm unlikely to do anytime soon) ... most is in storage and most of the ""proper classics" are with some good friends. No way in hell I would afford to have it shipped to me even if I wanted to.

Paper Recordings were supposed to release their entire Back catalog recently as digital, hasn't transpired yet though

Anyone seen a digital copy of Remake - Bladerunner/Magic Fly
Danae Dumler
28.04.2012
Originally Posted by D-Kem
“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”
is that Frank Zappa?
Lauretta Ehrhorn
28.04.2012		On a side note anyone know if there's anywhere that you can join and swap vinyl rips so to speak? Not sure re the legitimacy of this however but I would be happy to rip for a rip. Please feel free to remove administrators if this is infringing rules.
Lauretta Ehrhorn
28.04.2012		Just sold Mahadeva to some Greek bloke. Shame as I would have ripped it for you. I would definitely consider converting what you have yourself using a good quality cart.
Birgit Gondal
28.04.2012		I dont get this itunes match feature, the website makes it seem like you never actually get the aac but you stream it in high quality, but thisisian makes it sound like they replace it for you? i have a huge collection of my dad's rock and folk vinyl from the 60's and 70's that i've been ripping recently and even with his hi-fi table it wasn't the best quality, this sounds like it could be worthwhile!
Chasidy Heckenbach
28.04.2012
Originally Posted by djproben
that is a truly impressive list. I feel like I am hallucinating just from reading it.
+1 i'm going to have to search for some of those just to see if there's any there i don't recognise the names of but would recognise the tunes....
Danae Dumler
28.04.2012		that is a truly impressive list. I feel like I am hallucinating just from reading it.
Joie Cantillon
28.04.2012		+1 on how difficult it is going to be to complete that list, too much great EDM from the early 90s till about 97 or so is unbelievably difficult to find in High quality mp3 format...really should try to rip it yourself, it's fucking dodgy with a DJ table and standard DJing needles, but doable. You really want to have a hard time try finding early Breakbeat mp3s...that'll make you fucking insane
Dorie Scelzo
27.04.2012		This is going to sound really dumb, and I accept that……but have you considered just spinning vinyl? If it's effects you're after, you can run your decks through Ableton to get them…plus it'd do sampling and looping if you set it up right. And there are things like the PVDJ Grabber (if you can find one), the Octatrack, and other hardware samplers that give you straightforward looping……or the looper on the DB4.

I mean…that list would be freaking expensive, but still…the possibility is there.
Chasidy Heckenbach
27.04.2012
Originally Posted by RossH
I could reminisce about the 90's all day. Paul Oakenfold was a god back in those days (nice to see he's going back to his roots after being pretty awful for about 10years!).
yup... good times. glad to see he seems back on form - thought we lost him there for a few years

His 'Goa' essential mix still sounds amazing today, if I had to listen to that transition from the Bladerunner sample into Man With No Name - Floor Essence on repeat for the rest of my days, i'd die happy!
classic stuff and *love* that tune... i have it on vinyl ofc (the dayglo mix) but had to buy that and the apogee remix on mp3. have moment of truth album on vinyl too.

The scene today just seems flooded with... shi*e! Don't even get me started on dubstep, jesus wept!
there's loads of great stuff around these days, more than there used to be i'm sure but the % of crap is way higher. used to be easy going into a record store - there was only so much they could stock i do like browsing online tho, clicking on tracks or artists i have no idea about and following the trail round till i find something i do like.

miss taking a pile of records to a booth tho, putting the headphones on and going thru them. a lot less productive than now maybe but... ah well...

i won't even mention dubstep. tho i just did. enough said on that subject i believe
Eleanor Munday
27.04.2012
Originally Posted by zestoi
indeed and impossible to buy anywhere - from my searching anyway.



u mean "find me"? i used to like that version too but wouldn't play it now. as for the alice deejay... i actually used to quite like that



the 90's was a great time for dance+trance music also when i first got into psytrance. i saw lsd by hallucinogen on your list which is a track i bought electronically not all that long ago. ofc i also have it on vinyl bloody awesome track... always reminds me of paul oakenfold's "voyage into trance" album and him playing tunes like those at a few gigs i went to. good times... incidentally it was also that album that got me into buying vinyl and dj'ing
I could reminisce about the 90's all day. Paul Oakenfold was a god back in those days (nice to see he's going back to his roots after being pretty awful for about 10years!). His 'Goa' essential mix still sounds amazing today, if I had to listen to that transition from the Bladerunner sample into Man With No Name - Floor Essence on repeat for the rest of my days, i'd die happy!

I was a bit young to go clubbing in the acid house days - Hacienda, Shelly's etc, started travelling down to Gatecrasher regularly in Sheffield as a 17yr old in 1999, best club evening there has ever been, nothing has ever compared to it.

Don't get me wrong, there is still good music and good producers around today - Guy Gerber, Marco Bailey, Guy J, Noir, Maceo Plex, James Teej, Dosem, Wehbba etc.

The scene today just seems flooded with... shi*e! Don't even get me started on dubstep, jesus wept!
Tova Duignan
27.04.2012		You can also try discogs. Lots of vinyl and cds there to rip.
Latia Sotak
27.04.2012
Originally Posted by zestoi

the "iTunes Match" match feature sounds cheap... surely someone could just find illegal rips of tunes, upload those to itunes match and then download a legal copy?
Yes they could. ....it does seem like a very effective way of "laundering" all your illegal rips!!! (...or those whitelabel.net downloads)

It won't match everything, but as I said above. I've matched enough to make the subscription worthwhile.

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