Forums Music where are good places to get legit online music from?

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    General Lighting
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      looking for decent quality wavs (not that clipped shite that Biotech posted!) – if they are £1.99 its not exactly breaking the bank compared to vinyl… soulseek is getting a bit bait (and British Telecom have worked out how to choke it at peak times) plus I’d rather support some of the newer artists and also expand my genres a bit (for instance i tend to download mostly old skool and euphoric trance as I don’t knoiw who the older track names/artists are (the fact these artists are my age or older might also be a factor :laugh_at:)

      Where are the best places to get these from? Might even start expanding into breaks/electro but as I gave up trainspotting tunes years ago have no idea who are the decent artists to get stuff from..

      #1245983
      DaftFader
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        If you want any drum and bass (If I got it on vinyl) I’d happily record it for you.

        #1245984
        DaftFader
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          £29.99 (not quite £30 so it’s ok)

          #1245982
          Clang
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            Amazon Music is actually pretty good (and pretty cheap).

            You could also try one of these:
            Dance Downloads, MP3 & WAV Music Tracks at Juno Download
            Beatport

            (Da missus loves junodownload for searching, but usually ends up purchasing from Amazon because they are a bit cheaper)

            You could also try searching on Soundcloud for artists or genres, there is LOTS of free music available on there (plenty of artists release their stuff for free so its 100% legit) and if its not free, they usually have a link to where you can purchase (usually either beatport or itunes).

            Hope this helps

            #1245985
            p0ly
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              there’s quite a lot of FLAC torrent albums to be found with google searches. that torrent site the pirate bay or something like that has a lot of good electronic music torrents.

              #1245991
              ALifeLived
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                Ebay/Amazon got some good deals

                #1245986
                p0ly
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                  for top quality brand new mp3s i just type ‘song name’ then zippyshare. seems to have all the top beatport tunes.

                  #1245987
                  p0ly
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                    for example just went on beatport top 10 minimal and this song was up i wanted about a month ago got it off zippyshare for free in seconds 14mb top quality mp3. not sure if you want mp3 but they are normally the best quality from there.

                    Zippyshare.com – Louie Cut – Fat Bee (Original Mix)(house-music-exlusive.blogspot.com).mp3

                    #1245972
                    General Lighting
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                      Cheers dude – I’ll give it a try, normally MP3s I can get by the usual (naughty) means but the current method I use is clearly being locked off and this one really is decent speed (I won’t go into the boring details of why unless anyone really wants to know but its fairly obvious if you know how computer networks operate).

                      if I’m gonna buy stuff though Its wavs I’m after and decent ones too – not those apallingly clipped ones biotech ended up with, and ended up berating the distribution company for (and he is normally a easygoing peaceful chap).

                      Those were the ones what were so bad both me and cheesweasel read the waveform wrongly as we thought they colours were switched on biotechs software. I daren’t even show that to some older sound engineering chaps I know, wouldn’t want to be responsible for someones dad/grandad going into Papworth for the weekend…

                      I think I’ve found some wavs for £1.75 which seems fair enough – my ears are in good shape for a older chap and I’m fussy about getting good quality sound when I can 😉

                      That said the minimal tune you posted really is good quality for a MP3 (although I think the genre may have a lot to do with this).

                      #1245988
                      p0ly
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                        got a breaks tune at 16mb to test.

                        http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/14953280/file.html

                        #1245980
                        PhilKmorgan
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                          #1245981
                          titch
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                            Normally use Beatport, Junodownload and 909london for the acid techno.

                            If the sound quality of the sample on the site sounds bad then don’t buy it, thats normally what you get.

                            #1245976
                            sinner69
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                              I want the original whatever the online world choose, so I track down the source and get me a cd or vinyl.

                              #1245973
                              General Lighting
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                                I would hope that a 44k wav and the contents off the CD are the same thing (it should be the same data!). Unlike a lot of DJ’s in more recent times I don’t have CDJs and went directly to digital. transferring my vinyl collection also takes an age these days..

                                Plus the main CD distribution place for my bit of England and all its stock (including many independent dance labels) got burned to the ground in the riots earlier this year…

                                #1245977
                                sinner69
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                                  I still wont buy recorded stuff digital/virtual, I want to have the total command in how it should be become digital/viritual…but thats me.

                                  #1245974
                                  General Lighting
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                                    After those files biotech got I can understand, plus something else I saw on one site which made me dubious about what they might be doing to the sound, but not living in a capital city I don’t even think there are any genuine specialist music shops left in town any more! Actually I did find one but its now gone mail order only so even for buying CD’s or vinyl it works out cheaper to get them sent from London (about 100km away), plus they don’t seem to have the genres I want

                                    I’ll have a chat with Biotech too as he must know who the good suppliers are..

                                    #1245978
                                    sinner69
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                                      Give me some genres and i will go in hunt for you for the sources 😉

                                      #1245990
                                      georgeliverpool94
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                                        beatport+juno

                                        #1245989
                                        p0ly
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                                          i’ve used juno, beatport, djdownload and emusic.

                                          on emusic they give you 30 pounds worth of free music and tracks are cheap, i only paid 10 pound for an extra tenner on top for a months subscription. 40 pounds worth of music, noooiceeee.

                                          #1245979
                                          sinner69
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                                            But most online store are just for consumption not pro use

                                            #1245975
                                            BioTech
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                                              @titch 456287 wrote:

                                              Normally use Beatport, Junodownload and 909london for the acid techno.

                                              If the sound quality of the sample on the site sounds bad then don’t buy it, thats normally what you get.

                                              Aye, what Titch said. I use Beatport mainly as it has a good selection of Breaks, DnB and (good) dubstep. And yeah, you can tell a lot from the sample clip. I’ve learned to look at the waveform they show you in the sample and if it looks heavily clipped and distorted then the chances are that the main file will be too.

                                              I think there are cheaper places and if you are looking for more underground and diverse stuff though, then beatport might not be the best place.

                                              #1245992
                                              Dick Holman
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                                                Try Royalty Free music downloads – Jamendo
                                                All music published under CC licence. I have a dance playlist here:
                                                Check out the free music playlist: Psychedelidance!! – Jamendo
                                                AFIK all tracks are mp3’s.

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