I’ve been a DJ for as long as my professional career, so it comes as no surprise to some people that I download most of my music purchases (around 80%) from Beatport, not iTunes or any other large-scale online music store. Beatport on the other hand caters to the DJ market. I was an early adapter of the now popular Traktor DJ software, which stemmed from selling my turntables and having nothing to play my records on, so MP3′s were the next best bet since I’m on a computer for most of the day. I’ve been using Beatport since it was launched in 2004, just before I moved to Boston. The reason being, initially, because I dabble a lot in the Deep House and Techno genres, at the time iTunes didn’t carry much, if not any, of the specific artists and labels I was looking for in a digital format. And it’s been that way ever since, though the last few years have been much better, only because Apple has one of the biggest market shares in music sales now, and the artists in these somewhat obscure genres have obviously seen the benefit of the iTunes platform to sell their music. Read More >