another inevitable response to these issues is 'but you need an independant, trained set of ears' well what about your friends ? do they not know this music inside out ? whenever i need an independant set of ears, i just ask a few of my friends oppinions. its refreshing to read your post bro, its a...

For me that's one of the reasons I buy a lot on Beatport because if i already bought a track the system will let me know. And if you buy on different sites it can happen that you buy the same tracks. Do you get wasted before buying tunes? Haha Yeah, I make that mistake sometimes and end up with thr...

woo! congrats, sweet synth. You'll never regret the hardware. my Virus C is my favourite purchase - just adds quality to every track

I'm moving to the States soon and was planning on getting an iMac there with Logic as it's so much cheaper than here. A lot of producers seem to migrate to Logic. I love Live and have done all my work in that so far (after starting out on Reason). I sometimes feel like the sound is lacking something...

make up your minds :) Not so long ago there were lots of treads about Beatport having too much music, from too many people, too many labels, impossible to follow blahblah. Now they have been cutting off lots of labels, you want to throw out the distri so that everyone can have an account on Beatpor...

the quantity of brillant music being published remains more or less the same... it is the quantity of uninteresting music published under the "minimal" etiquette has drastically increased this ratio makes finding brillant music a little bit harder So true. Gradually having to wade through...

cut distribution out. i still think the label plays a big role in the dance music industry but whats the point of a digital distributor? apart from getting on beatport. Very true, that does seem to be it's only use - grouping smaller labels together so that beatport will take them on. That's just l...

- 80% for label / 20% for shop Labels should just build their own sales applications. The only problem with that is that the DJ/consumer has to trawl loads of labels' sites to by their music, I'm a big fan of having it all in one place. Maybe there's something inbetween the two that would allow the...