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I have been DJing many years, but never on anything other that Vinyl. I bought Live, not as a tool to dj, but to create my own tunes.

Anyway, dispite the fact that I picked up DJing very fast - and I am told I am very good at it - it so turns out that I am crap at making music. Everything I touch turns to experimental. I hate experimental - I want FUNKY!

Anyway, since I bought Live, I might as well use it and try incorporate it into my DJ sets.

For all those of you using Live to DJ, where do you source your NEW music? Do you still buy vinyls and go through the hassle of recording it onto WAV. Is there a legal way in obtaining new dance music digitally? And I am not referring to mass release pop music.

Cheers

Check these out:

www.beatport.com
www.digitaljaymusic.com

Beatport is great! Everything in 320 kbps!
Forget about using 128 kbps files, they simply don´t sound!
If anyone knows some other ones, the links would be mucho apreciated!


Greetings

Steve

You can find a lot of legal music from various DJ's websites. Most producers that have websites distribute a couple tracks online for you to download. Also, if you check out boards such as livesets.com, you can find links to legal mp3 tracks there, too.

http://www.mp3toburn.com

napster is not bad

Do you still buy vinyls and go through the hassle of recording it onto WAV.

Yeah pretty much and yes it is a hassle but I've always got to have the original vinyl for the collection.

I think MP3 is a horrible format anyway and converting back to WAV doesn't make it sound any better. Damage has already been done during compression.

95% of what i want is still only available on vinyl, so, yeah... vinyl.

tnx for the url's

http://www.trax2burn.com

is another mp3 site

others:

nufonix.com
audiolunchbox.com
warprecords.com/bleep
epitonic.com
foryourears.com
trackitdown.net
playittonight.com


course this is all mp3. but those that encode 256 and higher you can still get a decent rip back to audio. decent enough for playing out anyway.