Finding New Dance Music

This has become a big part of my life recently, especially since I'm trying to take this DJing thing seriously. I have a personal CD-buying allowance of one per week (more on that later, possibly), and I almost always use this by buying a dance album. For a while after returning home from Europe, I could just go to Best Buy once a week and find a CD that was fairly appropriate for DJing, but nowadays, I'm finding I've more or less exhausted the Best Buy selection in terms of good electro. So, I'm having to turn to the internet, either via Amazon, or more commonly now, iTunes.

See, I recently discovered that iTunes not only has a REALLY wide variety of dance music albums and EP's (each with numerous remixes of the given tune), but their iTunes Store homepage is actually quite good at helping you find any sort of music by genre, including electro! So, every few days or so, I spend some serious time searching through iTunes to find my next set of downloads.

This has proven to be the closest thing I've ever done to the traditional bin-diving vinyl DJs used to do to find their new tunes, especially considering that like bin-diving, I get to listen to the music before I buy, allowing me to be sure I've found something good for a gig. Unlike bin-diving though, I can't listen to the whole track, so sometimes I'll download a track based off a 30 second sample and end up being a little disappointed with it. That said, I think I've had a fairly strong success rate, so no complaints here.