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Yeah, for dance music I find it’s a great way to discover stuff. It’s a shame more DJs don’t post tracklistings for their sets as a lot of great music goes unidentified – part of me feels like they should make more effort to promote the people who’s tunes they are playing, but then there is also fun to hunting down an unknown track!

I’ll often end up discovering lots of new stuff through people’s DJ sets – I’ll google the artist of a certain track, end up on their page, listen to some of their stuff, then google the person who remixed a certain track, etc, etc. One other thing I forgot to mention is that DJ sets are quite often affiliated with a certain podcast or mix series or radio station, a lot of the smaller ones can have a quite focussed sound, so this can be a great way to discover new artists – go to the series’ Soundcloud page and skip through the sets to see what takes your fancy.

One other thing I use a little bit is Instagram, I don’t use it as a social network really but I do follow artists I like on there, which can be a good way to find out about new releases from them etc. I’ve got iOS set to limit it to five mins usage a day though, it’s an addictive way to waste time lol.