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JoeChartreuse

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I came across something at Best Buy and got curious.

While karaoke tracks can be bought by track or disc, there are also several compilation disc sets out there ( SuperCore, Sound Choice Foundation, Chartbuster Essentials, et...) and I purchased some of them.

However, my more limited DJ library was purchased disc by disc.

At Best Buy I ran into something called The Essential Hard House DJ Collection.

This was a collection of 7 discs MIXED BY DJs ( DJ Venom, DJ Bam, etc..) for what I guess to be a House music compilation.

Is this sort of set a standard that I have missed? Pre-mixed discs? Do the have an Essential Country, or Essential Oldies, Essential Reggae, etc... That sort of thing that I never heard of? Why would a DJ want discs pre-mixed by other DJs- except for a bathroom break?
 
I've stayed away from those types of collections myself Joe...

Although some are very good, it's not something that the general public will get into, IMHO. They want the stuff they hear on the radio -- unless yer doing hard core club, where they are familiar with it...


I've had bad experiences in the past, with playing mix tracks...
 
Watch out for Best Buy collections! they aren't also what they say they are. Read the package very carefully as they very carefully word it in such a manner to lead you to think one thing when in reality they are something else.
 
DougF said:
Watch out for Best Buy collections! they aren't also what they say they are. Read the package very carefully as they very carefully word it in such a manner to lead you to think one thing when in reality they are something else.
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VERY correct Doug... Many of those "Collections-in-a-Can" (literally) at Best Buy, Walmart, etc... are by studio musicians and not the original artist. Though I've never fallen for it yet because I actually READ the fine print, I have had MANY a "too-good-to-be-true" collection catch my eye only to find out they were "fakes."

But I'll give it up though... that Drew guy is VERY musically diverse!:rofl:
 
JoeChartreuse said:
I came across something at Best Buy and got curious.

While karaoke tracks can be bought by track or disc, there are also several compilation disc sets out there ( SuperCore, Sound Choice Foundation, Chartbuster Essentials, et...) and I purchased some of them.

However, my more limited DJ library was purchased disc by disc.
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The karaoke compilations you speak of couldn't be purchased at Best Buy, only more marginal collections. Great karaoke collections can't be purchased at Best Buy. Neither can great D.J. collections.

JoeChartreuse said:
At Best Buy I ran into something called The Essential Hard House DJ Collection.

This was a collection of 7 discs MIXED BY DJs ( DJ Venom, DJ Bam, etc..) for what I guess to be a House music compilation.

Is this sort of set a standard that I have missed? Pre-mixed discs? Do the have an Essential Country, or Essential Oldies, Essential Reggae, etc... That sort of thing that I never heard of? Why would a DJ want discs pre-mixed by other DJs- except for a bathroom break?
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The meaning of the sets' title varies depending on how you read it: perhaps the collection is essential, perhaps the DJ's are essential. Perhaps they'll print anything on the box in order to try and sell this to you. I'd be skeptical, either way.

I have almost never used premixed cds at an event, as it simply negates my own presence as a "live D.J.". I have purchased some, and appreciate good mixes, and have gotten turned on to music I otherwise might not have heard via mix cds, but mostly from D.J.s I'd already heard of and had some regard for.
 
Sometimes these collections have all the songs mixed into the next. I have one of these and there really is no way to seperate the tracks without it sounding terrible.
 
about the only time I buy ones like that is:

1. if the track lists are good
2. curious if it sounds good
3. both of the above

4. buy it play it dont like it take it back again.....

but what these dj's can do I can do (unless its scratching which is crap anyway)
all I need is a track list then I can duplicate what they did...
 
lol thats why our refund is better - I bought it home my sister bought me the same thing so I just exchange it for something else or get a credit for a purchase for later

never want money back cos they deal with music, dvd etc so if there is something else i like i'll buy that, just not the one i bought
 
Steve Sharp said:
1) The karaoke compilations you speak of couldn't be purchased at Best Buy, only more marginal collections. Great karaoke collections can't be purchased at Best Buy. Neither can great D.J. collections.



The meaning of the sets' title varies depending on how you read it: perhaps the collection is essential, perhaps the DJ's are essential. Perhaps they'll print anything on the box in order to try and sell this to you. I'd be skeptical, either way.

I have almost never used premixed cds at an event, as it simply negates my own presence as a "live D.J.". I have purchased some, and appreciate good mixes, and have gotten turned on to music I otherwise might not have heard via mix cds, but mostly from D.J.s I'd already heard of and had some regard for.
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1) You're right. My karaoke sets were bought at th large karaoke outlet nearby, or on line. The only karaoke collections at department stores are a double or quad discs by Medacy or Sybersound (aka Karaoke Party or Party Tyme)


2) I understand that you have purchased some quality pre-mixes, but have you ever found a professional use for them?


3) By "Essential" I only meant that this reminded me of a Chartbusters set, not that they WERE essential.

My real question is whether large compilation sets ( 10-100 discs or more) are put out by companies such as Prime Cuts or Promo Only or other sources.

What I noticed at Best Buy merely prompted my questions. I had no intention of buying that, or any other set pre-mixed by another DJ
 
JoeChartreuse said:
2) I understand that you have purchased some quality pre-mixes, but have you ever found a professional use for them?

My real question is whether large compilation sets ( 10-100 discs or more) are put out by companies such as Prime Cuts or Promo Only or other sources.

What I noticed at Best Buy merely prompted my questions. I had no intention of buying that, or any other set pre-mixed by another DJ
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2) I haven't.



I believe the politics prevent starter collections, at least legally, in the U.S. ERG has a collection called "Knockout Hits", which is (was?) a 200 brick of cds, but only available via licence in Canada. There were the Mobile Beat sets and Promo Only's Platinum series, but those were all deemed illegal, and stopped. I remember seeing Promo Only "settling" with the RIAA to the tune of $2 million, over the Platinum Series.
 
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