Record pool

A record pool commonly refers to a regionalized and centralized method of music distribution that allows a DJ to receive promotional music to play in nightclubs. The music industry sends its newest releases to the pool, and in exchange, the pool provides feedback on each release.

The concept of the record pool was started by David Mancuso, Steve D'Aquisto and Vince Aletti in 1975 in New York City as a grassroots effort to design an efficient pipeline for swapping information between the music industry and working DJs. Largely used in the United States, the promotional pool system has never really been established outside of that country. Due to the shrinking amount of promotional vinyl and the widespread use of the CD and Mp3 formats replacing it, record pools are undergoing major transformations in membership and in nature. Many of them are now known as music pools or DJ Pools. The person who runs the pool is usually called the pool director.

External links

[http://www.recordpools.org/ http://www.recordpools.org] - Informational site about and run by record/music pools in the USA