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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..

by genre, than alphabetical...

completely random, no organisation in our collection.

Dnb, not dnb.

in pales and cases ...

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

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

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

sad, but it helps.

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.

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.

diffrent genres

then there is no order just random

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

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!

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

how much dubstep is that slow?

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

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

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

now kind of by genreish

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

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.

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 . . .