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0:00 How you find your music

Right ladies and gentlemen, this could be a controversial video. Also it could give you some interesting information and also it might make you look at how you find your music. Now first of all I've got some statistics here that you can find anyway but there are roughly 500 hours of video content uploaded to YouTube. Every minute. Now that's roughly 21 days of content per minute. So I've got it written down, I've got the numbers down. So basically per day, that's 720,000 hours of video content uploaded and still relevant to YouTube per day, which is 30,000 days, which in other words... is equates to 82 years per day so there's basically in one day if you watched every single video from when you're born you might not even be able to watch it because you might be dead before 82 hopefully that wouldn't happen but you get the idea so where does this work out with music i'm gonna get rid of that man well

As a DJ, as a new DJ you're always looking for that latest tune and I'll be honest with you in my younger days it was like forget the 70s forget the 60s I want the latest dance track I want to know what's in the top 40. Now okay my personal opinion is the top 40 now is dead it's all just about money and it's about the big companies being able to dominate. What you listen to and if you actually think that the charts are there because people like the music then, and I'm not going to go into this in this video or that into this video but you're wrong because it's just made up. We're living in a music illusion at the moment. It's just make-believe. But back in the day I... I just, I enjoy going to a record shop and finding that white label thinking, you know, maybe I'm one of 100 people who got it and playing it and thinking, wow, this is a great tune. Or listening to 10 tracks and thinking, God, eight of them are rubbish. There were two amazing tracks and thinking, yeah, I love these cuts.

2:47 Dance music, beginning dance, spotify

You know, at my age, when I was that age, which is 18-19 and they're 18-19 now, are probably doing the same thing. They're on Spotify and listening to tracks thinking, wow, searching through a vast array of music to find that latest cut. But you see, the trouble is, is that if you looked back in history, you may find tracks that are stunning, that are amazing. In fact, I bet you, I challenge you, Find yourself to get 20 tracks from back in the day. Do some research and make sure they're all from the 90s or 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and so on and play them to your mates and say, oh listen to these new tunes I just found on Spotify. And just make a note if your friends have heard them before or if they go, yo these are good, where do we get them from? And then you can say, well actually they're 20 years old, they're 15, they're 30 years old.

4:45 There would have been 328,500,000 tracks released roughly

You'd be amazed, because I reckon that's going to happen more and more. Now, music-wise, there are 60,000 tracks, roughly, uploaded to Spotify every single day. Now, let's just, let's look at this, OK, the broader, the bigger picture. 30 years. In that time, we have, if you look at say an average of 60,000 or let's imagine that since the beginning of dance music started, all right? So let's just call it the beginning of dance music because of course, you know, there probably wouldn't have been 60,000 to begin with. There would've been like 40 then 45 and so on and so on. But we just class it as 30 years. There would have been 328,500,000 tracks released roughly. Now if we then imagine that every track is about four minutes long, it's going to be longer but I'm going to shorten it down. That is in time, in minutes, you're going to have to work this out in hours and days,

314 million minutes of music. So what I'm getting at here in this video is that while you're looking at the latest sounds, you're actually missing out on over a billion minutes of music that's happened in the past. Now recently I found a post, someone told me or I think I read it, is that This gentleman by the name of Carl Cox, now you might know him, but there was a post saying that he now is not bothered about finding the new track, the latest sort of track, because he's got so much of a vast array of music. He doesn't have to, because this guy has got so much music, he could probably do a two or three hour set with every single set as a new track and he could do that 10,000 times and not bore the crowds because the guy knows what to play. He knows what people like. He has a passion for the music. So I put it to you. Do yourself a favour and stop looking forward but start looking back. Now I'm going to finish this video off with something sort of controversial. Agree with me or disagree with me because please...

Put something in a comment. I would like your feedback. I personally, honestly think that the dance era was the beginning of the 90s up to just after 2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, maybe up to 2010 and then it went downhill. And I think one of the reasons it went downhill is because people started to promote more on the web Big companies realised that they could start promoting their artists more on the web. What does money make? More money. What can you do with money? You can throw it out there to gain more publicity on a certain artist that, in my mind, a lot of them don't have any talent. It's just because the companies have got enough money to push that artist for people to hear it. Eventually they hear it so much

They like it, even though they don't. They're just subjected to it all the time, which means they buy it. So it's a vicious circle. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. And this is the era we're now in. We're not in an era of here's a new tune. Let's go and buy it and play it. It's a great artist. We're in an era now of we're listening to the same artists, the same music, the same people, the same top 40 all the time. Yet most of the new DJs out there do not realise there is so much more music, even before they were born, that they could play and blow people's minds. What do you think? Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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