Recommend Drum & Bass or House or Jungle Comps
Scratch_n_Sniff
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I started a DJ club at my university (Carnegie Mellon) on some hip hop shit, and attracted a bunch of dudes (pause) who are into electronic music. I already spent part of our budget on rap, battle breaks and Ultimate Breaks n Beats. Now I feel obligated to buy some electronic music for the aspiring raver DJs, but I don't want to spend our money on a bunch of 12" singles, and I also don't know shit about house/d&b/jungle.What are some good comps I could buy to start a small electronic dance music collection for our practice room?Thanks,Amos
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for a variety of D&B I recommend these three "classic" comps as a starter
Ltj Bukem - Logical Progression 1 (Good Looking)
V.A. Metalheadz Platinum Breakz (Metalheadz)
V.A.- V Classic (V recordings)
I bet that LTJ Bukem LP is ill, but it goes for around $80.
and the Metalheadz goes for $60.
V Classic is $130 at hardtofindrecords .com
I know this is soulstrut, but please for recommendations that aren't
body & soul comps usta be really good for deep house. but dood... dj'n comps is mad
These are records for people who are just learning to DJ, and just need some songs in their favorite genre to practice their blends. The whole authenticity trip doesn't apply here. I probably don't condone half of these doods taste in music, but I'm trying not to be elitist with this club. We'll probably get Microwave soon anyways, so these punks can play whatever awful Prodigy/Avril Lavigne mash-ups they want. Although I'm going to try to steer them in the direction of good music.
I will have to check the value of my drum and bass collection...
Do you necessarily need high quality stuff /anthems ? Over here you can usually grab various drum&bass 12" in the bargain crate for 1 or 2 bucks a piece. There are regular set sales of drum&bass 12" on the bay as well. If you need the stuff for practice, that should be fine.
There are various compilations out there called "the history of drum&bass", "50 biggest rollers" aso, but I don??t know about them on vinyl. You may check www.breakbeat.co.uk for further information.
Holy shit, maybe the couple of 100 d&b records currently collecting dust in my bedroom need to be price czeched.
As far as compilations go, I had a look at ones I was aware of and they all appear to be ten years old so guess I can't help much in this area...
torque and planet v are two excellent drum and bass compilations, no doubt. torque is CLASSIC. BUT: the vinyl versions are most likely $$$ as well.
But, first off, if its practice with mixing 'dance' music, then you really need to buy 12", not Lps (the tracks are longer, so more time to get it right). I would recommend just buy someones' old 12" collection. Try and find someone who's letting it go for cheap. I don't know about in the US, but they???re plenty of people with dodgy 12" 'dance' music collections here in the UK. Just don't expect to get the rare/classic stuff, or even highest quality. That???s not what you're after anyway. You want lots of tracks, that all have a similar sound and bpm. Buying a cheap collection will give you all these. Comps may give you a good taster of the genre, but I don't think they're really what you after in this case.
I think I'll go try to find one of those possible drug front stoner run no business plan having radikal techno stores and buy up their dollar bin before they go out of bussiness.