Comments on: A Digital MP3 store chart attacked my child http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/ A Guy Called Fitzgerald Thu, 17 May 2012 10:18:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Beat http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-34103 Beat Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:53:50 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-34103 Best article I've read in ages! Cheers, I agree wholeheartedly, it's the buyers choosing their music, not beatport. However, there is something to be said for the power of advertising. These days people seem unwillingly to go digging for records/tracks, even in the comfort of their own home, and as such, whatever is advertised on beatport tends to be snapped up quickly, because it's THERE. Samim's "Heater" is an example of this. Personally, I love nothing more than a good dig in a record store or online. Best article I’ve read in ages!

Cheers, I agree wholeheartedly, it’s the buyers choosing their music, not beatport.

However, there is something to be said for the power of advertising. These days people seem unwillingly to go digging for records/tracks, even in the comfort of their own home, and as such, whatever is advertised on beatport tends to be snapped up quickly, because it’s THERE.

Samim’s “Heater” is an example of this.

Personally, I love nothing more than a good dig in a record store or online.

]]> By: kshhhhhh http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-34063 kshhhhhh Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:32:31 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-34063 http://www.sendspace.com/file/vnhsy8 found it somewhere on internet.... enjoy :) http://www.sendspace.com/file/vnhsy8

found it somewhere on internet…. enjoy :)

]]> By: Ronan http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33724 Ronan Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:23:38 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33724 Pete, yeah enjoying a lot of his stuff lately, great drums! Si, glad you like that stuff, it's pretty much all good. Shaun, yep will let you know on the Minimal Man. Pete, yeah enjoying a lot of his stuff lately, great drums!

Si, glad you like that stuff, it’s pretty much all good.

Shaun, yep will let you know on the Minimal Man.

]]> By: pete http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33673 pete Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:59:56 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33673 "I don’t know if it’s a new thing (a new old thing!) or something that’s emerged after minimal, but I think a lot of DJs are playing more simplified “beat music” at the moment, tracks with really pronounced bass drums and minimal (not that type of minimal) loops. Basically just really raw choppy house music." Very true, listen to 2000 and One, and see how popular his releases have been lately. “I don’t know if it’s a new thing (a new old thing!) or something that’s emerged after minimal, but I think a lot of DJs are playing more simplified “beat music” at the moment, tracks with really pronounced bass drums and minimal (not that type of minimal) loops. Basically just really raw choppy house music.”

Very true, listen to 2000 and One, and see how popular his releases have been lately.

]]> By: Si Quick http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33664 Si Quick Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:13:02 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33664 Cheers for the heads up on the Ethique stuff that Charles Siegling EP is a killer Cheers for the heads up on the Ethique stuff

that Charles Siegling EP is a killer

]]> By: shaun_mac http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33660 shaun_mac Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:38:06 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33660 Excellent article. I really feel that all the recent anti beatport etc discussions are self serving, "look at me I walked on hot coal's to find this track while doing a masters in techno history". Good points well made. Good Dj's are still just that, perhaps we'll have more of them with the greater availability of music. Hopefully! Let me know if you find that minimal man track, I've been searching for ages Excellent article. I really feel that all the recent anti beatport etc discussions are self serving, “look at me I walked on hot coal’s to find this track while doing a masters in techno history”.
Good points well made. Good Dj’s are still just that, perhaps we’ll have more of them with the greater availability of music. Hopefully!

Let me know if you find that minimal man track, I’ve been searching for ages

]]> By: Stef http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33653 Stef Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:16:40 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33653 Well what I meant was, finding out the percentage of people who buy the top ten chart, the percentage of people who buy a whole DJ chart, percentage of people who only buy new releases and ignore older stuff etc. I can think of a few illegal ways of getting that information (lol) but as I said there's no way Beatport or any other store would give a researcher access to that sort of data. Well what I meant was, finding out the percentage of people who buy the top ten chart, the percentage of people who buy a whole DJ chart, percentage of people who only buy new releases and ignore older stuff etc. I can think of a few illegal ways of getting that information (lol) but as I said there’s no way Beatport or any other store would give a researcher access to that sort of data.

]]> By: Joe http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33623 Joe Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:52:02 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33623 great article. i bet many of us do the extra research on a single before buying on beatport. one would think that the music scene would "improve" because everyone's digging a little bit more than just reading the marketing-styled blurb written by a record store. (we now read the marketing-styled blurb of a blog, ha! that was not a jab at your blog, but more a jab at the readers.) re: empirical research, i thought someone wrote about dance music record sales and talked about the online shops', specifically beatport's, sales. in fact, i thought it was Ronan. maybe i'm mistaken. great article.

i bet many of us do the extra research on a single before buying on beatport. one would think that the music scene would “improve” because everyone’s digging a little bit more than just reading the marketing-styled blurb written by a record store. (we now read the marketing-styled blurb of a blog, ha! that was not a jab at your blog, but more a jab at the readers.)

re: empirical research, i thought someone wrote about dance music record sales and talked about the online shops’, specifically beatport’s, sales. in fact, i thought it was Ronan. maybe i’m mistaken.

]]> By: Jacob http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33537 Jacob Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:24:19 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33537 on the money. on the money.

]]> By: Stef http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33534 Stef Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:26:53 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2007/08/21/chart-attack/#comment-33534 Nice to see an antidote to those tired 'digital stores are ruining dance music' articles and cliches that have been so prevalent lately. It'd be nice to see some empirical research done into people's mp3 buying habits although I can't think of a way of doing it as I'd say that information is pretty closely guarded by the various online shops. Nice to see an antidote to those tired ‘digital stores are ruining dance music’ articles and cliches that have been so prevalent lately. It’d be nice to see some empirical research done into people’s mp3 buying habits although I can’t think of a way of doing it as I’d say that information is pretty closely guarded by the various online shops.

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