BEATPORT DOES DUBSTEP AND GRIME?

jam-2 [darqsyde] · Post by **jam-2 [darqsyde]** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:39 am

Beatport has been jockeying for the top slot as the source for digital downloads of dance and electronic music for a few years. Its a novel idea but never seemed to carry any genres that I wanted to buy. Looks like that may all change. They have added a Grime and Dubstep category to their mix. Only 21 offerings thus far ( Hyperdub appears to be representing ) but more should get involved. while there are many sites for MP3s Beatport seems to be the most "commerical" of the bunch and have the support of Native Instruments as well. Tracktor scratch has a built in browser which takes you to beatport so yo can buy while you in the program itself.

A commercial outlet is certainly good for distribution and creates additional awareness to those genres that are lesser known. I'd love to see more labels and indy producers submit their tunes to Beatport, it will only help push the sound of Dubstep, Grime, UKG and the rest forward.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:45 am

vory noyce
there better be davinche grime tracks
kah......dancing to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU_f68MK_N0
:deephouse party:

skrewface · Post by **skrewface** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:53 am

Yeah, that's where I buy my stuff at when Digital-tunes.net dont have it

misk · Post by **misk** » Wed May 16, 2007 6:18 am

yeah, i saw this yesterday. didnt bother posting tho, cos im usually the last to know

skrewface · Post by **skrewface** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:51 pm

BOOM!
Beatport accepts Paypal.... About fackin time

sand leaper · Post by **sand leaper** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:32 pm

Yeah, was suprised to see this the other day. Copped a tune from Skepta's new album and TRG - Horny. With Bleep being so slow on updating their selection, it's good to have another alternative.

incyde · Post by **incyde** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:30 pm

Hotflush/Scuba will be up on Beatport in due time!

villan 01 · Post by **villan 01** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:08 pm

definatly great to see, its all about the labels contacting beatport though. so if you want more dub on there, contact the labels and tell them to get on the ball!

alien pimp · Post by **alien pimp** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:32 am

DubKraft is there since a few months and we've scored really nice sales since day one, so any prejudice is not founded.
digital-tunes.net remains the homebase for the dubstep though and the most friendly distro for digi imho

beatcarnival · Post by **beatcarnival** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:44 am

Sand Leaper wrote:Yeah, was suprised to see this the other day. Copped a tune from Skepta's new album and TRG - Horny. With Bleep being so slow on updating their selection, it's good to have another alternative.

seriously, I love bleep's layout & system, but jeeeeeeeeeeez they're slow with getting new 12's

steppo · Post by **steppo** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:17 am

either i didn't look hard enuf but i didn't see any grime :/

Vice T · Post by **Vice T** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:50 am

That's funny. I just dropped 100 U.S. dollars @ Digital-Tunes.com

I really like digital disto.

thesynthesist · Post by **thesynthesist** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:56 am

now you can buy all your overpriced tracks on mom's credit card!!

Vice T · Post by **Vice T** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:03 am

^^^ My Mom isn't paying for nothing ^^^

yojimbo · Post by **yojimbo** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:50 am

just had a quick browse .
whats with the prices ?????
for example
Kode9 - Memories of the Future = £18.06

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:00 pm

Mainly different forms of house and techno when Ive been on there, but will be checking. Thanks

bob crunkhouse · Post by **bob crunkhouse** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:37 pm

wicked! well happy about this. Bleep is great but its very very slow.

would be great to see DMZ, tempa and all the other vinyl only label on here wouldnt it?

i like the beatport design to, pretty classy

bob crunkhouse · Post by **bob crunkhouse** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:39 pm

oops double post

efa · Post by **efa** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:43 pm

Sorry not a fan of Beatport, take the piss on price - I got a fiver voucher with Traktor and it got me 2 wavs, I had to shop around to be able to get 2 tunes as some cost more!!!

Most places you can get FLAC's (Compressed WAVs which you can convert back) for £1.50 ea.

randomdan · Post by **randomdan** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:00 pm

Hey - just to let you know I've been stalking this forum for a while now. I'm actually the dubstep genre manager for Beatport so if you want to give me some abuse or ask questions, then please email me at:
dan.cole@beatport.com

I will gladly take the time to respond to an issues or concerns you may have. Suggestions on how we can improve our service to you guys are always taken

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