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Genre does get complicated if your collection is eclectic. If you’ve hung on to every mixtape or CD that your friends have given you since middle school, organizing those by genre, or perhaps even era, could make them easier to locate. Within each band’s section, she arranges the records chronologically.Īt home, genre can work well for various formats of music. This is a system that she says helps her pull music for her DJ sets. That could mean that the bands are part of the same family tree or ones with a similar sound. “Who I expect to see next to each other,” she explains.

Instead of alphabetizing the bands within a given section, she’ll group together bands based on the various connections between artists. The benefit of doing this is that you will only need to comb through a few stashes within the collection when preparing for a gig, rather than digging in every single crate to find the songs they need for the night.Ĭhino-based DJ Muezette takes her genre organization one step further. Of the four DJs interviewed for this story, all have had their collections organized by genre at some point in their careers. Whether they spin vinyl or carry all their jams on flash drives, DJs will often devise systems that work best for them. There’s no one method that DJs use to organize their music. You’ve invested money and time into your music collection, so it’s time to organize, or re-organize, what you have. To help you get started, we turned to local DJs for their tips on keeping music collections tidy. If you have, it’s time to organize, or re-organize, what you have. Between a hefty amount of new digital releases in recent months and vintage vinyl sales online, maybe you’ve invested money and time into your own music collection since the COVID-19 pandemic started. Even after a year without concerts or clubs, music hasn’t stopped.
