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Originally Posted by chrisso

I thought the internet was a free for all?
It seems a bit strange to ask some arbitrary DJ to pass judgement on individual tracks at Beatport.
If the site is too chaotic you need to look elsewhere, at a more specific site, perhaps with a specific dance genre as a speciality.
Historically the best music has come out of left field, with no record company and barely any DJ understanding it, or the importance of it. Why anyone would want to put power back into the hands of one or two individuals I can't fathom.

I agree with d1rtynyc, when I used to buy tracks at the local record store (gramaphone in chicago) my usual buyer had a stack of vinyl for me to check out, over the months he got an idea of what I liked and would pull records out for me as they came in.

This meant that I sometimes got records that had already sold out/gone out of print and also that I didn't have to listen to hours of horrible music on the listening stations, which you had to wait forever for anyways.

Having something similar on Beatport (for example) would help, right now I rely on the top 100 downloads list...

edit: and also when I bought music, it wasn't for listening enjoyment per say, it was for DJing. "left field" tracks didn't usually go over well unless they were something really special, and they usually came as albums not 12"

cheers
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