organisation

just keen to know how ppl keep there records in order. ie. colour, style, producers, labels, a-z?
getting sick of not being able to find a tune when i want it. especially when i take them out to put in my record bag.

I've only got around 3 crates worth, so it's not a great issue for me yet. But in my main crate I group tunes by style and then artist if applicable.

Lable then Artist usualy then keep a crate of unsorted new arivals

i basically try n keep the styles together then artists but its bloody hard when u got so many diff artists and whites.

wow, chaos for me, 6 - 7 crates of it  Never have too much trouble finding something tho.

I need to catagogue the lot and rip some of my favourite records tho, one day (or week!)...

 I categorise mine by the amount of compression on the break.

 Or the colour.

 

I always go with labels - in order of release.

But I've always been a tad obsessive compulsive.

i keep mine in crates, record bag, record box, and stacked in a pile against a door.

they are stored one after another, and i keep all the drum and bass together

  and the trance seperate?

prodigy - the experience, along with war of the worlds, sesame street, cheech and chong, mancini collection, ukranian folk music, scratch records, etc are kept in a separate pile

all the black records go in one pile

prejudist!!



what about the half casts/picture plates??

send then 2 baxter det center. 

for the first time in 15 years i actually spent a bit of time sorting my records out whilst i was going through the labourious task of cataloguing them on rolldabeats... so it made sense at the time to put them in the same order as the database.

of course then i moved house and just threw them all in crates... so now i'm back to square one

just out of interest has anyone tried discogs for cataloguing their collection?

mine go in my bag. and in my crates. In any order. I like flipping through when i'm playing a set, and every now and then I'll be looking for something but flip past another tune, and go yep, thats the one. I always throw a few older bits in there too, they're great to stumble upon at random moments.

I've got hiphop/funk in one crate, weirder hiphop (mostly Ninja Tune) in another, and breaks in the other three, kinda sorted by age, but not really.

Mine's pretty much sorted by label and artist...then that's expanded to style overall...so you have big loud crowd pleasing tunes like Pendulum/BC etc. at the back then head to hard rolling kinda territory as you go to the front (Matrix, Ed Rush, etc.) then onto liquidy stuff at the very front with ya Hospital and Calibre etc....makes it easy when all the similar style stuff is together and you know where it's at for quick grabbage...that's my main bags though...the 'storage' crates have all sorts just chucked in plus the pile of other tunes is quite untidy..argh...thank fuck I started cataloguing everything early on! Fingers crossed my database isn't missing any...

My actual collection at home (until I moved house anywayz) was cut into four different categories (hip hop/drum n bass/electronica/and other). Once sorted into their broad genres I slice em up once again (DJ mixes/DJ Production sets(ie. Katalyst album)/Aussie Artists/Overseas Artists/Soundtracks). Then they get sorted into alphabetical order by artists, and once that's done it's into chronological order. DJ Tool records (breaks/loops/scratch sample records etc) get put into their own category, and all 12"s are separated from LP's of course!

Khem did I think... ask him now he's there 

nah i used rolldabeats