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Sorry for the randomness of this thread, I know it probably doesn't belong here. Just thought it might be worth a shot.

How do you guys go about collecting dubstep/grime/techno and all that? It seems they are all really single-based genres, and I am wondering how you find out about the artists and then get the music is a decently affordable way.

I don't really listen to vinyl, I'm mainly a cd guy. Just finding out about the artists seems to be difficult enough, as there are tons of obscure ones who have just a couple of tracks, let alone actually getting the music and not going broke by it.

How do you guys do it? The only way I can even figure out to listen to it is YouTube.

Thanks

(Also, suggesting artists of these kinds that have whole albums would be great too.)

Well... the finding obscure artists part is the most fun part!

Decent record stores, as well as Beatport and the like when online help I guess, though not so much with the "obscure" part.

As for not going broke, well you tell me...

You can buy tracks electronically cheap as chips on boomkat, beatport, and many others. I'm not so into this as I like to touch a song if I buy it, but vinyl is super expensive. I more download mixes, which often come with tracklisting - can fish cool tunes out of there. Tons of mixes about (on other areas of this forum and even just linked in people's soundclouds and shit). Mixes are really the way forward. Go to producer's myspaces, will tell you what they have released. Youtube is alright but don't seem to use it much.

All above are good resources. I used YouTube due to its tangential nature (when u like a good tune there's about 10 related videos to it)... but only to be exposed to new artists. There are usually links to hi-res dls in the description. Or if in HD u could rip the audio.

Soundcloud for artists because u get what u hear. DubstepFM. Beatport. Massives/Dubstepshows

Is safe to say that DJ's are spinning mp3s nowadays with Traktor scratch or whateva? If so... any hi-res download would suffice. I'm more of a wax guy, I like to have the EP or LP but living in California, I have to pick up vinyl while in LA or the bay area.. good record shops are hard to find in socal.

I'm having the same problem with finding Dubstep vinyl... just last night I was at our only record shop and the Electro/House section is all we got close... no avail.

In dubstep, almost every artist can be connected to any other one via record labels. A good way of finding music is like this:

-Find an artist
-Find what record labels they have releases on
-find what other artists are on those labels
-Repeat

As for dubstep artists that have whole albums out:
Vex'd, Distance, Pinch, 2562, Starkey, Silkie, Cyrus, Kode9, Skream, Benga, and Kromestar to name a few. Pretty much every established artist has an album out or has one coming out in the future. Also, most established labels release CD compilations of earlier singles, which is great for people who love CDs (like myself).

Check out http://electronicexplorations.org/ and let Rob Booth open your ears to some amazing music...

wabble wrote:I'm more of a wax guy, I like to have the EP or LP but living in California, I have to pick up vinyl while in LA or the bay area.. good record shops are hard to find in socal.

I'm having the same problem with finding Dubstep vinyl... just last night I was at our only record shop and the Electro/House section is all we got close... no avail.

I'm in the south bay, and I don't think I can get any vinyl local. Checked Rasputin, nothin.

nowaysj wrote:

wabble wrote:I'm more of a wax guy, I like to have the EP or LP but living in California, I have to pick up vinyl while in LA or the bay area.. good record shops are hard to find in socal.

I'm having the same problem with finding Dubstep vinyl... just last night I was at our only record shop and the Electro/House section is all we got close... no avail.

I'm in the south bay, and I don't think I can get any vinyl local. Checked Rasputin, nothin.

Soooo... No vinyl in the bay

San Francisco I would have to imagine, maybe Berkley, but not here in the south bay.

discogs.com

one of orig v snares pressing i paid alot for
digging i rarely find gems minus jazz

I get most of my music from --

1) labels & artists sending me stuff (physical & digi)
2) current stuff I order online (vinyl or cds or digi)

all mainly cos I now live in a town that has no digging prospects.

I am trying to change this now by taking advantage of the cities I play gigs in.... I am adding to my Artist Rider that in addition to my fee, etc.. I want the promoter to throw in a vinyl record from a thrift shop worth NO MORE than £1. PLUS instead of heading back home first thing (for the past few years I have always taken the first flight the next day), I think I am gonna wanna stay around to go to at least one underground record store to do some digging of my own.

Another good way to find music is to go on dj's myspaces and look at there top friends. There usually lots of similar artists and dj's they've collaborated with or are on the same label.
Also look at sites like juno.co.uk they have bestseller charts and dj charts etc. Good way to find the hottest new tracks.
Youtube is good aswell. There lots of dubstep channels on youtube that are good to subscribe to that upload brand new and unreleased tracks daily. Inspectordubplate's channel is one of my personal favs.

Discogs.com

Not cheap but nothing that is worth a damn ever is.

It just always seems really overwhelming when I try to get into any of these singes-based genres like grime/dusbtep/disco/minimal whatever, because there are a thousand artists who all have like 3 songs and I have no idea where to listen to them or buy them haha.

And I mean awesome stuff like the things in this thread:
http://www.dubstepforum.com/techno-t138187.html

Like Planetary. And I guess Basic Channel is a bigger name, so that defeats my point haha.

check my soundcloud they're all free

Discogs would be amazing if they had Audio samples.
I would suggest going to red eye or boomkat and just start listening to music. Even if you're not going to buy.
Youtube is also a good source.

disco.infiltrator wrote:It just always seems really overwhelming when I try to get into any of these singes-based genres like grime/dusbtep/disco/minimal whatever, because there are a thousand artists who all have like 3 songs and I have no idea where to listen to them or buy them haha.

And I mean awesome stuff like the things in this thread:
http://www.dubstepforum.com/techno-t138187.html

Like Planetary. And I guess Basic Channel is a bigger name, so that defeats my point haha.

A lot of these three-hit-wonders are just pseudonyms of much more established artists - Planetary is Dan Curtin, for example, who's been around for ages.

Mixes are a good bet. And read about every artist who you like the sound of -- well worth getting to know more about where they're from, what their most important releases have been, who's on the same local scene as them, who they've done notable collaborations with, etc. Out of print stuff can be bought on discogs marketplace.