Organising your records

dj phonetic · Post by **dj phonetic** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:57 pm

Dubstep / Grime
Nuskoolbreakz / Garage and random breaky 130bpm stuff
Techno
Dnb / Jungle / Scratchtools / samplestuff
Reggae / Dub
Core
Hiphop
Oldskoolhiphop
Funk 12"
Funk 7"
Random old stuff (blues, jazz, french chanson)

Thats how it goes down at my place

Buying to many genrs at once... but dont think thats a problem

tekton naggar · Post by **tekton naggar** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:13 pm

roughly grouped together into what works for dj sets....

all the jungle together (alomg with the few d'n'b records i've still got, sold pretty much everything after '95/96)
dubstep and some similar tempo breakbeat/random stuff
hip-hop's sort of grouped by heaviness/smoothness and all the instrumentals/break vinyls together (also the duplicates together for sake of juggling)
dub/reggae/rootsrocksteady/dancehall
funk/soul/rhythm & blues/jazz

and a massive pile of 7"s and general crate diggers stuff that exists for sampling..

but the order always gets messed up everytime i do a sunday session...
i end up with 3/4 bags/boxes of everything mixed together and then have panic attacks when i can't find my original copies of stuff even though its just at the back of the wrong box!

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:04 pm

All my Hip Hop (and other) is with my parents, organised by lable,era, producer. Pretty much grouped together in mad ways which make it easier to pull out records which sound the same the one next to it. With LPs kept in the shelves down the left hand side. All my parents records in the one unit, dusty as fuck.

Dubstep is with me in Manchester, in one crate all mixed up. Most played/liked make their way to the front slowly and all the shit i bought by mistake is on the floor covered in dust and flyers.

I have a few reggae 7" i tend to use for coasters or throwing at home invaders, they dont play to well.

taal mala · Post by **taal mala** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:23 am

Big shelf with sections.

1. Dubstep
2. Jungle/breakcore/hardcore/rave
3. Acid
4. Aphex twin
5. idm/ambient/noise

All organized by artist and bpm

Shitloads of reggae and dancehall 7"s and 12"s, in crates organized by riddim and bpm.

nehuenspace · Post by **nehuenspace** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:01 pm

by style
1dubstep
2 jungle,dnb
3 minimal techno

then by labels.

__________ · Post by **__________** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:23 pm

i re-organised my tunes the other day, now its:

dubstep in order of which ones mix nicely
reggae & dub 12"s, 10"s and LPs in no order
reggae & dub 7"s in order of riddims
battle breaks, scratch samples, loops, poems and stories on vinyl
hip hop: american
hip hop: british
hip hop: stones throw
hip hop: stones throw 7"s
dnb is in my brother's crates

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:45 am

LP's and 12"s organized sort of by genres first - electronic/experimental, classical/jazz/country, reggae/ska/rocksteady, rock/punk/metal/drone/industrial - then alphabetically, then date of release within same band/author. That's the shelf. All dubstep somehow made it to the floor by the shelf, same as Thomas, the ones I listen to most make it to the front of a stack. 7"s are in the boxes with no order, cd's in other shelf, alphabetically, 10"s and odd formats on one shelf too. I'm thinking of reorganizing, sometimes I don't even remember what I have from older stuff that I haven't listened to for a while. Thank god for discogs.

kidlogic · Post by **kidlogic** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:57 am

I used to organise by genre, then by what mixed well or what mixtape I was working on at the time... then it turned into when I bought it, newer stuff twards the front of my 'current' crate and shelves organized by genre...

Now that its all digital, Ive got 'crates' inside Serato for most genres, also for what gigs Im playing in the near future and what mixtapes Im working on, and all crates are able to be reorganized within themselves by artist, title, genre, date added, length, style, etc. Another reason I love digital, I can find a tune by multiple search methods within seconds. Its also forced me to take notice of the actual name of a tune and the artist rather than what the sleeve looks like.

I had a friend who was illiterate (and we didnt know it at the time) who organized all his tunes by sleeve color, which actually works pretty well. His box was a gradient of killer house music.

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:47 pm

i used to sort by label alphebetically.

now I just take a clump of random vinyl and throw it in. i know what I want and i always find it. if I don't then i bump into another tune that I love and I think "OHHH YEAH THIS ONE!!!"

side effect of hanging out with k-tards and g-fiends. your records get fucked when you go to the bathroom and you can't maintain the order ever.

wrecked · Post by **wrecked** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:46 pm

i don't spend alot of time on organisation, but:

i have two or three crates of stuff from gigs that will probably be re-used soon. i have one crate that is for new or unlistened stuff.

my shelves are organized by genre. a few sections are sub-organized by label, but mostly that's stuff that i don't listen to alot, and thus stays in tact.

direct feed · Post by **direct feed** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:45 pm

by genre, then by vibe. I tend to put records that have a similar vibe or mix well with each other in the same areas. So hard stuff gets stashed with hard stuff, moody with moddy, etc etc etc. Main Genre's would be Dubstep / Jungle / DNB / RAGGA / Reggae / Hip Hop / House and Breaks

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