Helo :) A record pool is WHen you sign up with a place "djcity" and pay a membership fee to join that pool and they will inturn give you new tracks at certain times of the week or when need be. Its mostly for Working djs and Stuff like that There are tons of em everywhere. GL Hope I helped :)

how can you be a dj for 10 years and not know what a record pool is?? i've been djing for less than 2 years and have known about record pools for 10 years...just curious

its a swimming pool full of records. duh.

like a ball pit

hahaha. yeah. well to DJ d. Range, I just turned eighteen today and for most of my dj career I mixed with cd's and tapes and never really got into turntables. Now that i'm older and wiser im getting down on tables. You feel me? haha.

oh and thanx to Redi2roc. you helped out alot.

no doubt, son do your thing, just so u know record pools have been around for a while, and initially used actual records

The DJCity pool is a pretty good one - at least for me. Only problem is that they don't carry old tracks, just new stuff.

no old pool carries old tracks. EXCEPT soulchoice.ca. I belive they just just launched there internal forum where users can trade tracks. This might work out for you....


www.soulchoice.ca tell dexter that richy rich sent you

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Moderators, this should be an automatic threadlock everytime - theres a sticky on this at the very top of the forum!

LOL at DJ Strike it up. I think this was the 3rd one you caught today!!!

Damn I knew what a record pool my first year before digital, how many spin for 10 years and not know what a record pool is? Thats like a producer not knowing what pro tools is.

HOOOLLLLLDDD ON. So you've been mixing since you were 8 yrs old??? AND with "tapes"???

10 years ago was 1999 son and I dont think anyone was selling or fucking with tapes at that time.

And no.... we dont feel ya

whoa talk about a major bump. This is from two years ago. LOL. So yea, just an update, I did join djcity.com and its nice. It's provided me with most of my tracks for the past two years. I've also joined a few others.

Now to other business, Owning Serato has become a life changing experience. Pre-Serato, I was using cd's and used tapes before that. It's not a big deal "Bedtime". I was just new to the game and was letting people know that I wasn't a newb at DJ'ing, just a newb at serato. Things are taken care of now. I've learned not to ask "NEWB" questions on here because most of the times you will be swallowed alive (no jaws).

i think i read at djcity that after 8months the trak expires....what the hell does that mean? will it always stay on my serato? or after 8 months u cant find that trak no more?

^LOL

oh no its the serato police.....lol

ur under arrest fufu for asking such a question...

you dj so bad your tracks automatically expire after 8 months.

HAHHAHHAHAHA!
+1 skiggz

Just messing with ya brother. I should go with quotes around my name all the time. :)

i wonder if djfufu was serious LOL.

lol. Yeah u should use quotes, I wanted to emphasize on the name but I didnt want to call u out. I don't want no enemies here. I dont want there to be a Bedtime vs NT Money thread. lol!!!

We sold a lot of tapes on a regular basis at a music store I worked at, and they kept selling until, like, '05/'06 or so when they closed down.

Master P & the No Limit entourage were a consistant cash cow...

I guess since nobody REALLY ANSWERED dudes question, I should drop this in for future n00bs and Microwaves before Strike It Up gets this thread locked...

A Record Pool is a business that services WORKING DJ's with promotional music from Record Labels and Artists for a membership fee. Many connected DJ's back in the vinyl days got individual service direct from labels, but somebody (NYC DJ David Mancuso I think) came up with the idea that labels could service multiple HOT DJ's in one place/location and they could all break records more effectively.

Vinyl Record Pools used to be VERY regional, if you live in LA, you joined a LA/Cali pool not a New York pool. Record Pools used to be important for breaking new artists, they would visit Pools like radio and meet the key DJ's to get support for their Records. Local Record Pools are still around recordpools.nwdma.org but many died out when labels stopped pushing vinyl and went digital.

I was an Asst Director of a Vinyl Record Pool for many, many years (late 90's-2003) and have been a member of 2 or 3 Record Pools since 1984/85 (except late 2003-2007 - pre Serato) I am currently a member of www.idjpool.com (plus 2 free pools - 1200squad.com and greenhitz.com but don't use em much).

Since apps like Serato & Traktor came into play, many Pools went all Digital and some went National/International. Some are legit pools based on the old model but some are just grabbing tracks from other pools and sources and collecting a membership fee with no real service from the labels.

The Sticky that Strike It Up loves is still there from 2004 scratchlive.net , but some of those pools/sources have closed, been shut down, or changed.

I am currently a member of www.idjpool.com (plus two free pools - 1200squad and greenhitz.com but don't use em much).

We need a new sticky one day soon, maybe somebody will start it one day.



Hope that answered your question...

Better question is WHY YOU NEED A RECORD POOL...

Best answer I found is here:

recordpools.nwdma.org

^^^oops copied and pasted wrong while looking for a link, sorry for the double plug... (no ads)

personally i lvoe having my various MP3 and CD pools allows me to stay current as well as not have to always run out tuesdays/fridays to get the tracks. i know that every month i get some CDs thats have been mastered, radio edited & correctly titled (track name, artist, BPM, etc.) Or when i have some downtime i can log on & download whateva new music it out and not have to deal w/ file sharing sites, miss named tracks, virus and so on.

Some MP3 pools are free usually just have to review the tracks prior to downloading while others charge a monthly fee wheither you download 1 or 1001 tracks (which beats itunes @ $1 per song). As for the CD pools most charge a yearly fee unless you go month to month (usually costs more this way). Finally most labels and reps can be contacted and you can get the music sent to you in either or both formats for free.

Art, you should submit that post to wikipedia

i guess art thinks i have "thread locking" powers LOL

Art, just to clarify: are you are a member of www.idjpool.com ?

:)



Thread locking powers- ACTIVATE!!!

whatthe best pool to get songs with intro included?

^ here we go again...

i thought a record pool was a pit where djs threw their old records and good djs could swim through them like scrooge mcduck from ducktales

LoL