Buying Habits General DJ Chat Discuss Buying Habits in the DJ Forum forums; As you bought more and more music do you find yourself buying a peticular style of a genre for example do you find yourself just getting tribal trance or do ...

[Ben]

As you bought more and more music do you find yourself buying a peticular style of a genre for example do you find yourself just getting tribal trance or do you just buy trance tunes generally as long as you like them

I was just thinking about this and wondered were my habits were leading, as everything just seems abit random, Should I Just buy tunes generally for there genre or try to narrow my style of music down to the sub genres etc

Cheers Ben

[littlepete]

I have the same problem. I like most types of dance music so its quite hard to choose what i want to mix. Ive tried mixing trance on its own and didnt like it, techno and didnt really like it and at the moment im drifting between house, breaks and hard dance. I just cant decide lol, im glad someone has bought this up.

[Roondogg]

i tend to stick to the 1 style of techno which is quite hard but with trance its buy abit of vocal trance mixed with abit of techy tribal sounding trance if that makes sense

[Ben]

Yeh

At the moment I love the sound of trance but Im not having that much fun mixing it, n I dont want to keep on spending money on tunes for me to only start to play house or something in a few months time

My small collection of trance seems to be abit melodic and uplifting, hard and techy, and then abit of epic trance.

I think Im going to have to start to narrow down my options when buying tunes really, but thats actually fairly hard I think when choosing a peticular path to follow in your style and music, especially in such a varied and stylistic genre as trance there tribal, tech, epic, acid etc etc

Makes me all frustrated lol

[Paulie_p]

you will settle down into a certain style(s) with time, just buy the records you like and it will all work out

[Ben]

I suppose but Im also thinking that will playing trance pay off as much as other genres may pay off for gigs and stuff, Yes I love trance but Im also partail to other genres aswell including house n stuff and I arnt going to be excactly DJing peak times with my trance sets are clubs/bars am I really for a while

Ooo really gets to me I tell ya lol

[Paulie_p]

yeah true, trance isnt a bar sound and playing in bars is where most people going start off(unless you go mobile).

Good bars tend to go for the funky vocal house stuff + whats ever popular at the time (put your hands up for detroit...etc). aslong as you play some well known tracks inbetween more underground stuff should get on fine. its all about the mix!

[fil devious]

Originally Posted by Paulie_p

you will settle down into a certain style(s) with time, just buy the records you like and it will all work out

yep

[Ben]

Mmm Ive been buying alot of house music recently and as I buy alot of trance too, should I quit buying trance while im into house, but then Id be loosing out on so many tunes. And I cant excactly incorparate dirty house and bangin trance into the same set/night can I

This is the kind of stuff that gets to me

[pixelpro]

I look for what a call crossover music music with a specific sound but not to niche to alienate right now a am putting together a commercial electro house set, hard records to find but you need to listen to loads of tunes to find the ones that fit together.

[DJ JD]

i just think f#ck it and buy anything for the right price. i like sooooo many different styles of music i just buy it all. this way you can drop a surprise into your sets like dropping a drum n bass track into a hardcore mix that really goes down well on my cd's it gives a change if only for 3 minutes or something.
i also buy tracks for remixing............pop music accapella's britney spears ( dont laugh)for example.you can put an accapella over a techno beat that will make people laugh but sometimes you get a great remix.......... i think the best of mine so far is an eminem accapella over flat beat.......sounds great with loads of bass and some lyrics.
i think i am rambling on a bit too much now

[DJ JD]

in conclusion buy hat you want so you can have a choice and not feel tied down to one genre.....safe

[Reece Duncan]

Originally Posted by DJ JD

i just think f#ck it and buy anything for the right price. i like sooooo many different styles of music i just buy it all. this way you can drop a surprise into your sets like dropping a drum n bass track into a hardcore mix that really goes down well on my cd's it gives a change if only for 3 minutes or something.
i also buy tracks for remixing............pop music accapella's britney spears ( dont laugh)for example.you can put an accapella over a techno beat that will make people laugh but sometimes you get a great remix.......... i think the best of mine so far is an eminem accapella over flat beat.......sounds great with loads of bass and some lyrics.
i think i am rambling on a bit too much now

lmao, agree with what your saying though

[tOM]

I don't get it, why ruin a decent bit of music by sticking some cheesy shit acapella over the top?

[DJ JD]

DONT BE SCARED OF EXPERIMENTING WITH MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LIKE ALL STYLES OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC NOT JUST ONE........THIS GIVES ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIMENT AND PLAY AROUND WITH MORE TRACKS THAN YOUR AVERAGE 'DJ'.

[tOM]

i'm not scared of experimenting with music and like yourself i buy and play many different types i just stay away from the cheesey, poppy end of stuff

[Roondogg]

im with tom on this,would'nt buy any of that cheesey pop stuff,does my head in to be honest

[littlepete]

yeh im with u on that aswel tom...tis just shite!

[Ben]

Erm me too.... I dont listen to Britney Spears.....honest !

[DJ JD]

the britney thing was a bit too far i know..............
i was just saying i like to experiment.
please dont hate me lmao