Organising your records

coishii · Post by **coishii** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:12 am

Okay.. I'm sure this has been asked before but how does everyone organise their records? Alphabetical, random, by label?

Interested to find out and get some other ideas..

control · Post by **control** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:03 am

by genre, than alphabetical...

fused_forces · Post by **fused_forces** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:07 am

completely random, no organisation in our collection.

auan · Post by **auan** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:48 pm

Dnb, not dnb.

selector waxx · Post by **selector waxx** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:37 pm

in pales and cases ...

there is some logic in it, but only for me, other ppl call it a mess.

__________ · Post by **__________** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:35 pm

Auan wrote:Dnb, not dnb.

pretty much that. my brother's records (only dnb

) are kept separate from my records (hip hop, reggae, dubstep, dnb)

i keep my genres separate, but in no particular order. hip hop is grouped by label though

lastlight · Post by **lastlight** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:46 pm

by genre, then alphabetical (artist), then date of release.

sad, but it helps.

coishii · Post by **coishii** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:30 pm

hrm.. date of release.. interesting. I think the consensus is 'what works for you and your space'. I asked the question because I had an influx of new releases... still listening to them and wondering how to file them.

Thanks everyone for your replies.

shane · Post by **shane** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:43 pm

genre. got a shelf for hip hop, few crates for dnb. another section for rock or whatever else i just picked up on vinyl cause i saw it.

hard drive for the dubstep and everything else.

djake · Post by **djake** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:20 pm

diffrent genres

then there is no order just random

freqone · Post by **freqone** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:37 pm

in no order in a closet,,,
cause its all digital for me now-a-days.......

esoundc · Post by **esoundc** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:10 pm

mostly
on diferent stacks!
1.ambient, dub, dubstep, trip hop , elektronika, breakbeats
bpm 60 - 110
2. drum and bass, jungle, raggajungle raggacore, breakcore, hardcore, speedcore
bpm 170 - 240
3. breakbeats, house, electro, techno, acid
bpm 115 - 140
4. bulgarian folklor
5. others, old movie soundtracks, trash seven inches

also the stacks are selected on bpm and styles each of them, what i play goes infront, so there are always a mess!

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:05 pm

selector waxx wrote: there is some logic in it, but only for me, other ppl call it a mess.

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:07 pm

esoundc wrote:mostly
on diferent stacks!
1.ambient, dub, dubstep, trip hop , elektronika, breakbeats
bpm 60 - 110

how much dubstep is that slow?

4linehaiku · Post by **4linehaiku** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:23 pm

A shelf for each genre. Roughly.
Then my Dubstep is organised by record label, and everything else in 'what I played last' order.

esoundc · Post by **esoundc** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:50 pm

adisize wrote:
esoundc wrote:mostly
on diferent stacks!
1.ambient, dub, dubstep, trip hop , elektronika, breakbeats
bpm 60 - 110
how much dubstep is that slow?

mostly track i have are between 70 - 78 bpm, and some old dub been bit slower that that.This is the reason it is near to ambient, u know Divination" Ambient Dub" 1,2,3 by Bill Laswell and friends, also tracks coming on Burial mix are mostly 60 - 64 and following the clap and snare, it gets double, it depends on the bass also, so it might be 120 - 126/8, there are some tracks on 90 bpm by Spectre and Bill Laswell

i'm not so good with calculating and counting the beat, but there is bpm counters onmostly mixers , they are not always corect with matching, especialy the crazy going ones, but they are helpfull

scoz · Post by **scoz** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:51 pm

used to extremely anal about it: by label in cat# order.

now kind of by genreish

le_hardcore_chiefus · Post by **le_hardcore_chiefus** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:47 pm

dubstep section
drum n bass section
breakcore section
classic dutch hardcore/gabber
english hardcore techno/speedcore
italian/aussie/german
french hardcore

all in separate boxes like

oh and a few here and there lol

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:25 pm

Hip hop/funk/disco/soul
Dubstep/garage/breakbeat/jungle/dnb
Rock of various dispositions
House/techno/idm
Things I've taken out and not put back
Easy listening/soundtracks/assorted car boot finds
7"'s

Really need to change it round a bit though but got so many it's always a long ting to sort.

spiro · Post by **spiro** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:36 am

the shelf, the crates and the floor . . . !!!

the shelf has been unmodified for years, too lazy to clean up the old mess.
But most of it is organized by style, then posse/label.
And there´s the funk section in alphabetical order. That is not advisable unless you remember the names of records you bought 5-10 years back !

the floor is mainly what i have bought the last year . . . and a total mess
and off-course . . .

Shonky wrote:Things I've taken out and not put back

a really bad habit

and in the crates goes the brand new bits and the tunes i´v been playing the latest weeks . . .

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