Comparison
Hits District vs Doing The Damage: Edits Pool or Independent Discovery?
Both live in electronic and house music. But one supplies the edits you download, and the other tracks what’s actually working across the whole scene. Here’s the honest difference.
If you play house and electronic music, Doing The Damage and Hits District are close in spirit: both are about quality club material, not a giant all-genre catalogue. The difference is what they’re for. Doing The Damage makes and supplies the edits. Hits District shows you which edits, from anyone, are actually landing. Here’s what that means in practice.
The short version
Doing The Damage is a specialist DJ edits pool focused on house and electronic music. You subscribe and download a curated stream of exclusive edits and bootlegs, tech house, disco house, deep house, bass house reworks of recognisable tracks, all built for the club floor.
Hits District is a curation and discovery platform focused on electronic dance music. It does not host downloads or make its own edits. Instead it’s an independent radar for what’s actually getting played right now, surfacing the strongest remixes, mashups and edits regardless of who produced them or where they live.
So the question isn’t “which has more tracks.” Both are curated and electronic-focused. It’s whether you want a source of downloadable house edits, or an independent read on what’s working across the whole scene.
Where Doing The Damage is strong
Credit where it’s due. Doing The Damage is a focused, high-quality edits pool that knows its lane. Its stream of house and electronic edits and bootlegs is exactly the kind of club-ready material that works on a dancefloor, and the curation is tight, no all-genre filler, just reworks built for the floor. For a house or club DJ who wants a steady supply of ready-to-drop edits, it’s a genuinely strong, specialist choice.
Hits District doesn’t replace that. It doesn’t produce edits and it doesn’t host downloads, so if exclusive house edits are what you’re after, Doing The Damage is a place to get them.
Where Hits District is different
Doing The Damage is itself curated and electronic, so the distinction is sharper than usual. It comes down to scope and role.
- Tracks the whole scene, not one pool’s edits. Doing The Damage’s curation is its own stream of edits, excellent, but it’s one pool’s output. Hits District isn’t tied to any single catalogue, so it shows what’s actually getting played across pools, labels and producers everywhere, not just one source’s releases.
- Independent and download-free. Because Hits District doesn’t sell you tracks or make the edits, there’s no catalogue it’s steering you toward. The only job is surfacing what’s genuinely working, wherever it came from.
- A radar, not an edits label. Doing The Damage is, in effect, a boutique house-edits source you subscribe to. Hits District is the independent signal layer above all of them: tracklists from mainstage and underground artists, a viral database of what’s rising, and crates to organise what you find.
Side-by-side
| Doing The Damage | Hits District | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A house/electronic edits pool (downloads) | A curation & discovery platform (no downloads) |
| Genre focus | House and electronic edits and bootlegs | Electronic dance music broadly |
| How it curates | Produces and supplies its own edits | Tracks what’s working across the whole scene |
| Downloads | Yes, its own exclusive edits | No, this isn’t a download service |
| Scope | One pool’s edit stream | Independent, across pools and producers |
| Core strength | Tight, club-ready house edits | Independent signal on what’s actually landing |
| Best thought of as | A boutique house-edits source | Your radar for what to play |
So which do you need?
If you want a reliable, curated stream of club-ready house and electronic edits to download, that’s exactly what Doing The Damage does, and it does it well within its lane.
If your problem is the wider one, knowing what’s actually working across the whole scene rather than within one pool’s edit stream, and keeping your sets ahead of the curve, that’s what Hits District is built for. It isn’t a source of edits and it isn’t a download pool. It’s the independent radar that tells you what to chase, which you can then grab from Doing The Damage or wherever else it lives.
For a lot of house and club DJs the honest answer is both: Doing The Damage for the edits, Hits District to know which edits, from anyone, are actually moving floors right now.
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Explore Hits DistrictFrequently asked questions
Is Hits District a record pool like Doing The Damage?
No. Doing The Damage is a specialist house and electronic edits pool where you download exclusive edits and bootlegs. Hits District is a curation and discovery platform with no downloads, tracking what’s actually getting played across the whole electronic scene.
What is the difference between Hits District and Doing The Damage?
Doing The Damage curates by producing and supplying its own house and electronic edits to download. Hits District curates by tracking what’s working across the entire scene, independent of any one pool’s edits, and does not host downloads. One supplies the edits; the other shows where everyone’s edits are landing.
Is Doing The Damage good for house DJs?
Yes. Doing The Damage is a focused, high-quality edits pool specialising in house and electronic reworks and bootlegs built for the club floor. For downloadable house edits, it’s a strong specialist choice.
Can I use Hits District and Doing The Damage together?
Yes. They’re complementary. Use Doing The Damage for its house and electronic edits, and use Hits District as your independent radar for what’s actually working across the wider scene. Hits District does not replace a download pool.