How much money do you spend on new tunes a week roughly I'm just getting into electro after playing the same thing for years. So I'm buying loads of tunes at the moment. But how many/how much do you believe your spending. |
Cristian Carmona
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by ohmydaze
where in london are you based and what do you play.
Checking that djcity website it seems like their MP3's are ripped from vinyl, are they having a laugh. No way I'd pay a subscription for that sort of rubbish.
I spend $0 to $20 or $30 per month, its not like they are releasing any new 80s New Wave, and alot of the indie rock is usually promo stuff.
BTW I'm part of the djcity pool and that rubbish you call top 40 and hip hop pays for its self and then some. I play 1 or 2 private gigs every month or so @ $400 - $500/evening
to play all the radio/mtv hits is cake. They way I look at it is to fund your music habit you have to play music that you might not like.
I played L.A. hardhouse at house parties in the 90s to help me pay for my gabber. |
Melinda Shick
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by ohmydaze
how can the quality be better when a track is pressed to vinyl then copied to digital? It doesnt make sense.
In theory you have much more control over the sound ripping from vinyl you can control exactly how the track is sampled, the degree of compression, push the noise floor down to kill the vinyl hiss and receive a track with a much better dynamic range. If you get something produced straight to mp3 it has already been (over*)compressed.
* usually the case with most modern music.
As for Djcity, i'm still on the fence about it, i do want to find something better but everything else out there has very few tracks i'm interested in already listed. |
Gregory Finely
26.11.2010 | Deep House maybe some Tech and probably lots of Disco re-edits along with some Soulful house, aimed more and the show i do now, can play pure Deep but i prefer to change it up a bit. |
Wm Steinruck
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by Ciar2001
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Gregory Finely
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Maple Cubas
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Wm Steinruck
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by ohmydaze
how can the quality be better when a track is pressed to vinyl then copied to digital? It doesnt make sense. Also I am pretty sure copying a track from vinyl to then go on and sell would be illegal. I didnt look into the exact workings of the website, but I did a search for one of my favourite artist Lucky Date, which came back with one result, which was his remix of Latin Fever original by Wolfgang Gartner which as far as I am aware wasnt released and is given away for free by Lucky Date on his soundcloud page. So I'm just interested in how djcity get money back to the artists for stuff like this, I'm a bit anal about it having run a record label and like to make sure people are getting the money they deserve.
I'm interested in finiding perhaps some subscription based website for electro. however most of the time these things dont tend to be the best deal in the world.
also dude I'm not having a go or anything at you about djcity, only found out about it today and just interested by it as it seems a bit fishy to me is all. |
Wm Steinruck
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by Maxted
MP3s ripped from vinyl will have better quality than most of what you buy, if they are ripped and compressed correctly - which they are from there.
I'm based in Camden, play electro, breaks and dub.
how can the quality be better when a track is pressed to vinyl then copied to digital? It doesnt make sense. Also I am pretty sure copying a track from vinyl to then go on and sell would be illegal. I didnt look into the exact workings of the website, but I did a search for one of my favourite artist Lucky Date, which came back with one result, which was his remix of Latin Fever original by Wolfgang Gartner which as far as I am aware wasnt released and is given away for free by Lucky Date on his soundcloud page. So I'm just interested in how djcity get money back to the artists for stuff like this, I'm a bit anal about it having run a record label and like to make sure people are getting the money they deserve.
I'm interested in finiding perhaps some subscription based website for electro. however most of the time these things dont tend to be the best deal in the world. |
Melinda Shick
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by hesitant
I subscribed to DjCity a while back. Worst mistake ever. The quality ain't bad but the selection of tunes is awful. If you are into Hip Hop then I'm sure you would like it but for House, Techno etc its just plan crap. There are plenty other subscription based sites out there.
Any that are better for house/electro? I like Djcity for a lot of the top40 remixes and remixes of old tracks, they seem to have things i don't see elsewhere (Like mymp3pool). |
Yon Gigler
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by ohmydaze
Checking that djcity website it seems like their MP3's are ripped from vinyl, are they having a laugh. No way I'd pay a subscription for that sort of rubbish.
I subscribed to DjCity a while back. Worst mistake ever. The quality ain't bad but the selection of tunes is awful. If you are into Hip Hop then I'm sure you would like it but for House, Techno etc its just plan crap. There are plenty other subscription based sites out there. |
Melinda Shick
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by ohmydaze
where in london are you based and what do you play.
Checking that djcity website it seems like their MP3's are ripped from vinyl, are they having a laugh. No way I'd pay a subscription for that sort of rubbish.
MP3s ripped from vinyl will have better quality than most of what you buy, if they are ripped and compressed correctly - which they are from there.
I'm based in Camden, play electro, breaks and dub. |
Wm Steinruck
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by Maxted
Used to be easily |
Wm Steinruck
26.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by Abyrne7
I spend probally $40-$60 a month on music. I used to by alot of Electro off beatport but finding recently that its starting to all sound the same, thats its all been done before. More recently looking for other places to buy music.
I've only recently got into electro and blooming love the stuff. But mainly using beatport, so if you know any websites that might have some less well known stuff I'd love to know what they are. |
Mac Fly
26.11.2010 | I spend probally $40-$60 a month on music. I used to by alot of Electro off beatport but finding recently that its starting to all sound the same, thats its all been done before. More recently looking for other places to buy music. |
Franklin Momany
25.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
I don't pirate anything. $50-$85 a month including my emusic subscription.
Man would that be badass if you could hook up Traktor with a sub. based music service like Zune. All that music at your finger tips. |
Leeanna Ayla
25.11.2010 | I don't pirate anything. $50-$85 a month including my emusic subscription. |
Melinda Shick
25.11.2010 | Used to be easily |
Keenan Batth
25.11.2010 | Not as much as I'd like But now I almost have a job...
Right now it's maybe 30 € a month. |
Franklin Momany
25.11.2010 |
Originally Posted by biosyn
I pirate all of mine.
Bump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzpByR3MvI |
My Steffe
25.11.2010 | I pirate all of mine. |
