also, never search via genres. It's better to use good labels and search for other labels the artist release music on. i also use your method by default, but i have to say that if you don't browse the genres, you're really missing out on a lot of good sh!t, good sh!t that you wouldn't find because ...

I had a look at Marco Carola's Fabric cd, and Seth Troxler's Lab mix cd.

Both contain harmonic mixing and non-harmonic mixing.

Is that a vinyl only site then or do they sell mp3 / wav? It's vinyl/cd only. Aye, you hear a lot of stuff that you can't get, but you also hear stuff that you can get, and stuff you will be able to get in a week or two. And even if you can't get the track itself, you often find new interesting art...

Fair enough.

What are you using to determine the key of the track?

Have you ever checked they keys of the tracks in a mix that you like?

Don't you think that your selections were better when you simply imagine the track in your head, rather than following some letter written next to the track? Rather than spending the time at a piano figuring out the key (software doesn't work consistently yet, cmiiw) I prefer just trying out tracks ...

Aye, it works on linux apparently . . .

If I were buying digital music I'd do it by listening to the clips on vinyl-oriented webstores like Juno, Decks, Piccadilly, Phonica etc. The good un's end up on vinyl anyway (my opinion, don't take it as the ultimate truth), why waste your time going through digital-only releases, when there's so ...

Obviously not true. I've downloaded so many sweet, sweet movies from megaupload at lightning fast speeds, it was too good to stay up any longer.