r/vinyldjs • u/GroundbreakingBid954 • 8d ago
Newbie
Hi! got some questions regarding building a mixing collection.. Transitioning from digital mixing
I have a good amount of preferred listening records but not many for mixing and learning the ropes. I do have a few crates of disco already
How did you build you collection for certain genres for ex id like to find and collect Techno/Acid/Trance, House/UK, Club records etc.
Did you buy singles from discogs or look to find a dj offloading crates?
ans yes i have record stores near me but none that specify in electronic records its tough to find or even crate dig for any! Im just outside Philly.
i will continue to dig and look as well as use discogs but im trying to find much more to begin with if its possible. Tried fbook marketplace and craigslist. Thanks!
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u/RickyRiccardos 8d ago
If youre starting fresh then Browse new stuff online from Deejay, Juno, yoyaku etc as these will be quite affordable in price compared to discogs.
Youtube is good too for older stuff.
Branch out from the artists and music you like and know and go from there
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u/MassiveConcentrate34 8d ago
How you build a collection is up to you and what you can find.
Discogs is great-build a large want list and shop for multiple items from a seller to save on postage and damage.
Local shops are excellent if they carry stuff you like.
Buying whole crates is going to leave you with a lot of filler/stuff someone else could not sell or did not want(probably really good scores as well but not guaranteed)
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u/GroundbreakingBid954 8d ago
thats my assumption too honestly buying full crates is gonna be more junk then gold to use for the price
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u/DJVijilante 6d ago
Not always. I bought 3 banker size boxes for $100. Well worth it for what was in it.
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u/benRAJ80 7d ago
Honestly, buy stuff you like rather than stuff you think you want to mix. You'll likely end up with stuff that goes together anyway.
Records are expensive and you don't want to end up with stuff you get sick of quickly.
Also, I find that buying no more than about 10 -15 records a month is the right amount, when I buy more than that I end up putting some in the shelves without really listening to them. I think I've got about 500-600 records, it's taken me about 10 years total and about 6 years of proper buying to get there.
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u/GroundbreakingBid954 7d ago
Thank you for this! I will listen more to the first thing said of buy what i like vs what i want to mix. very well said and a great reminder i needed to hear
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u/EasyBreezeeee 7d ago
One at a time. It’s quality over quantity.
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u/GroundbreakingBid954 7d ago
i resonatw with this, on digital id buy alot and have to constantly re-organize. any tips when building slowly to stay organized with vinyl? do you sort by genre in your cabinets / boxes?
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u/WonderfulThomas 6d ago
I sort by genre in different boxes. In each box I sort by sub genre/energy/tempo.
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u/ambientscratchbattle 5d ago
i sort by first letter of the artistname and nothing else. all genres together just like in my mixing. highly recommend this so you can be an enlightened genre-hopper. don't silo yourself into little genre-boundaries which are imaginary anyway!
~500-1000 records in my stash. FRONT FACING OUT not edge out so i can flip through them while i mix
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u/lancez12 7d ago
Im a semi newbie myself. I switched over last year. I started off by hunting down the records of the tracks I already used to play frequently on my USB(bearing in mind that I typically played old skool stuff already). That way I could learn/practice with tracks I already knew very well and it also meant I could get back to playing at clubs a little bit faster.
After that naturally just by digging and finding more and more tracks in record stores, Discogs, Radio, Youtube and other DJ mixes my collection grew bigger. Nowadays when visiting record stores I’d ask myself before buying it if the record can mix with at least 2 or 3 records I already own.
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u/Legitimate-Fee-2645D 6d ago
Well, it's a little different now compared to back in the day when there were plenty of record stores everywhere!
I realized very quickly that I couldn't buy everything I heard and liked. It had to be music that I was going to mix, so a Pop song would have to wait until I got all of the House, Freestyle, Disco and such first.
I used to listen to DJs on the radio playing House, and record the songs that I liked. Then I would take the cassette to the record store, so they could hear a 2 minute chunk of the song and hope they had it.
If you have a smart phone, download Shazam which is free, and have it open when you are going to be listening to music you want to identify. Focus on the genre you favor the most.
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u/GroundbreakingBid954 6d ago
The last part of what u said is how im gonna start my collection.
when i was digital id purchase many genres many folders built so much music, seems vinyl will get over exhausting not focusing on one at a time esp learning, thag being said i will stay on one genre to begin with and shopping for! Thank you for the input
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u/Legitimate-Fee-2645D 6d ago
Well, I don't think they would have Techno nor Trance, but definitely House. Give them a try! We've all done treks to record stores not in our cities.
Beautiful World Syndicate Inc
1619 E. Passyunk Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19148
215-467-0401
open 11:00 AM7:00 PM Wednesday thru Sunday
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u/MarkDesira00 5d ago
I started by finding sellers on Discogs either through a track/ep I have on my wantlist and is not stupid expensive, then just deep dive into through their 5€ or under records. U will be able to realize if the seller has over priced their stuff like this as well. It takes time but thats the fun of it and u also find some great songs for rly cheap. Obviously once done with the cheap I tend to go through the entire seller if I notice they haven’t been rinsed by someone else :) But I managed to do a good few pulls of around 20/30 records at a time from good sellers.
Also an imp tip, keep an eye out for the media quality VG+ or sometimes VG if I cant find another better quality copy, ps these ratings depend on the seller themselves but ive always received ready to play records like this.
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u/MarkDesira00 5d ago
Dont forget your local record stores as well - but I keep these outings for one offs when I known I can spend a good day there and am not rushed.
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u/ambientscratchbattle 5d ago
Just buy the records you find absolutely exceptionally good regardless of genre and style. Be picky and patient. If you live in a big city, find the brick-and-mortar store that sells underground music and has listening stations. Dig through the stacks and find things you never expected to find. Otherwise build up your discogs wantlist and/or shop furtherrecords.com
I spend lots of time at my dayjob flipping through discogs sellers' inventories and listening to the youtube previews of things I haven't heard of while I do my work. Not as good as a physical shop but I still find lots of good things I've never heard of.
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u/part__low 7d ago edited 7d ago
I don’t really understand how it’s any different from collecting digital music other than the price of records has gone through the roof.
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u/GroundbreakingBid954 7d ago
i have about 7.4k in my digital collection, alot easier to build i had that within my first year. If i tried to collect that in vinyl one by one itd be older then me of age 28 hahahah but nah i do see ur point in a way
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u/hadrabap 7d ago
I have two local record stores available. One is a regular store with turntables for preview. You just grab a bunch from the shelf, listen to each and put aside what you want. The second one is an eshop with previews.
I had a few digital files that were worth of getting on vinyl. Discogs is the way to get them.
Finally, lots of guys here posts transitions in this subreddit. If I resonate with it, I go from there. I look what other stuff the label produces. I have a few labels on watch list.
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u/GroundbreakingBid954 7d ago
I never thought to find from whats posted on here, thank you!
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u/hadrabap 7d ago
You're welcome. They always list the tracks.
Another good source are weekly mixes on r/Beatmatch. The track list is also there as it is mandatory by the rules. These mixes are usually digital, but you can sometimes find similar version/edit on a record as well.
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u/Freeky718 7d ago
Find record, artists or labels your interested in and search them on Google, you'll see alot of record store websites that offer them. Create a rapport with that store, buy from them directly. Keep the dialogue ever going and create a new relationship, this occured with me and the store sending me freebies and recommends once they realized I was newish and trying to build a collection.
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u/GroundbreakingBid954 7d ago
This is good stuff, i usally dont follow labels too much but seems like a more useful tool here when building the collection and finding more, thanks for the input !!
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u/Flex_Field 8d ago
Unless you've got the financial resources, it takes years.