Originally Posted by
Welshhobo
Hi all,
I'm a professional sound tech who wants to move into DJing so i can use my own equipment more. I've done some DJing a few years ago while covering for a friend and really enjoyed it. I've scrimped and saved and finally got everything i need together to get out there and start DJing. I want to get into weddings ideally, and have everything needed to get going except one thing - the music. I used to have a huge collection of MP3s that i've deleted over the years as i've gotten lazy on Spotify for all my music. Now the issue is that i want to DJ and have no downloaded music to play!
I have ideas for playlists put together on Spotify with different playlists for different types of crowds (rock, pop, northern soul, etc...), but don't really know where to start when it comes to downloading copies of these tracks. I've done some googling and there are "record pools" that you can sign up to like digitaldjpool.com or beatport.com but these seem like pre-mixed tracks that serve to 'top-up' an existing owned library. A friend recommended "promo only" and "demon music", but the "compilation packages" are so vague in their descriptions that it puts me off buying them.
I ideally want to download individual tracks as mp3s or wavs or whatever that corroborate with the playlists i've made on Spotify so i can practice mixing with. What i'm nervous about is doing my first few gigs with only 200 or so songs and having to tell a client "sorry i don't have the music you want" !
What do you recommend?
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