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🎵 Sound It Out Records, Stockton-on-Tees – More Than Just a Record Shop

🎵 Sound It Out Records, Stockton-on-Tees – More Than Just a Record Shop

For anyone who grew up buying music around **Stockton-on-Tees and Teesside**, Sound It Out Records was much more than somewhere you went to buy a CD or a piece of vinyl.

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Traxsource: House Music, DJ Charts and Underground Discovery

Traxsource: House Music, DJ Charts and Underground Discovery

A listener's guide to Traxsource, with house-focused genres, label catalogues, DJ charts and routes into underground club music.

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Bleep: Independent Electronic Music Beyond Genre

Bleep: Independent Electronic Music Beyond Genre

Explore Bleep, the Warp-founded independent store for electronic music, vinyl, physical editions and high-quality digital releases.

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Hardtunes: A Store Built for the Harder Styles

Hardtunes: A Store Built for the Harder Styles

A guide to Hardtunes, the specialist download store for hardcore, hardstyle, uptempo and the wider harder-styles scene.

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Bandcamp: Discover amazing music and directly support the artists

Bandcamp: Discover amazing music and directly support the artists

The Ultimate Artist-First Music Ecosystem Bandcamp is an online music store, streaming platform, and artist-promotion community that has revolutionized how independent musicians monetize their art.

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Beatport: Cutting-edge music platform

Beatport: Cutting-edge music platform

Welcome to a deep dive into Beatport, the cutting-edge music platform that has revolutionized the way we discover and experience electronic music.

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