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- amongthemasses0
Well white labels and limited vinyl's are actually still bought and sold despite what people say. I used to buy all my vinyl at the now defunct Satellite Records, but now I usually get it here.
http://www.juno.co.uk/In terms of mp3 downloads..Beatport is the place to go for that.
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/h…Many record companies that have gone under don't even have mp3's of classic tunes which is where crate digging comes in and hunting down that perfect record and beat. Vinyl is still relevant just not as much as it used to be.
- aaahh satellite, worked there yeeeaars ago, haha. scott was one strange dudeacescence
- HAHA funny...I had some business dealings with them and hung out w/ them at WMC a couple years agoukit
- satellite and groovetech....sigh... were the days.amongthemasses
- ukit0
I feel like the whole industry is going through a transition right now with the advent of digital...honestly digital allows you to do a lot more and if you are only interested in having the most creative freedom digital is the way to go. On the other hand, a lot of people (rightly) complain that digital mixing takes a lot of the real time "skill" out of it, and in fact they are right and a lot of old school DJs miss that. Hence the rise of Serato and Final Scratch which mix the two things. But really there is not a standard platform with digital the way there was with vinyl and say Technics1200s being the setup that you had to have.
- toe_knee0
Digital is turning hte scene to shite if you ask me... anyone can jump onto a digital deck and pretty much get it straight away. Sydney is full of DJs who just whack the corssfade over on the 16th bar and cal it mixing. Its good that it has opened up DJing to more people, but it has made alot of crap djs. The love seems to be gone with this new disposable format. Its all about getting the bitches and trying to look cool as apposed to nerds spending there food money on quality releases. Soo much crap music around and you can spend hours on beatport and not find anything.
At the end of the day digital is compressed music
- Mal0
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- Audria0
:( ugh .. this post makes me wish I shipped my records here
- sell them to me.amongthemasses
- no way! I started collecting at 16. its going to be hard to get rid of my childhood obsession.Audria
- I see you like prefuse 73.. did you see him in that chicago fest?Audria
- haven't seen Scott perform this year. Saw him in Nov in Miami 07. he is solid.amongthemasses
- he has a great ear for musicAudria
- acescence0
if anyone is interested, i've got a few thousand records still in nyc that i'm going to try to sell when i'm out there sometime this fall.
1990 - 99ish hardcore/jungle/dnb/whateveryouw...
and a bunch of progressive house and some older ny deep house.trying to organize a little record sale with my old roommate who also has a bunch of stuff he wants to sell.
- I will always buy vinyl. Email me.amongthemasses
- Any 60's garage rock?Audria
- i'll email you when i've figured out when it's happening.acescence
- audria- no 60s garage rock, but maybe the roommate has? i'll find out...acescence
- coolnessAudria
- Audria0
i just got djay.. When I get more me time I really want to get
- amongthemasses0
- Your collection?ukit
- This collection appeals to me more than sex. Is that wrong?toe_knee
- hah.
nice collection.akrokdesign
- eighteen0
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I recently got one (1) stanton cd player turntable because I want to slowly get into djing, even though it seems to be super expensive to get anything. It's pretty fun to play around with, but I agree with what ukit and toe_knee said, I could see how easy it would be to just jump on a set of digital turntables and be able to make something cool in a couple minutes. In fact that's exactly what many of my friends have already done when they come over to play around with mine. At the same time though, I'm not bothered by new technologies cheapening a genre, because the good stuff always gets better with new technologies as well, it's just harder to sort through the shit.I wish there was a forum as well put together as QBN about this, I always wanna talk about this stuff.
- b_electro0
Switching from vinyl to CDs opened up my sound in a BIG way- best decision I ever made. I can spin almost anything now- not limited to just what's been pressed. Not sure what you're all on about digital being easy to mix- CDJs require just as much finesse and technical skill as records. Not like that matters so much to me anymore- at this point it's all about the selection and how you play 'em. More peeps mixing in key these days which is awesome, music to my ears ;-)
Eh, there's definitely an emotional attachment to vinyl- all aspects of it- the feel, the art, the sound...But dem days are done for me, and I'm enjoying this new way of unrestricted crate digging- just keep plenty of blank CDRs on hand, heh.
- Raniator0
what b_electro said.
i too have found my musical style to have broadened a lot. vinyl is very restrictive these days, you can't get the music you want and you can't get the new tunes as easily if at all. music is being released digitally first because it's easier and cheaper, but also, crucially the quality of the music does not suffer. there are some amazing house, tech house, minimal and techno tunes around at the moment... I shudder at the thought of picking these up on vinyl.
and yes, using cd-j's does not take anything away from the skill of djing, everything is still the same. you still need to beat match. you can still touch the platter and scratch like it is a turntable and you can still speed up the tune by working the side of the platter... you guessed it - like a turntable.
some elements are sped up admittedly, your cue points being one, but i can definitely live without having to lift the needle and drop it close to where i want and scratch about to find the exact point i want to start from. why not press a button, gives me more time to make sure the effects are set and matched as to how i want them (for example).
djing is djing at the end of the day, use what you want. there will always be vinyl-junkies who will never dabble with digital, and there will be people who have switched to digital and never look back. it's more about pushing your skills, loving the music and keeping the crowds happy. pick whatever weaponry you can do your best with... i know which way i go now.
- toe_knee0
Vinyl has a romance to it though. I use both digital and vinyl, but i defo love my vinyl the most. Warmer sound and its just so much more like using a musical instrument that a CDJ. When i make a mix and mix from vinyl to digital you can notice the difference, digital has a more clinical top end and there is no loseness to it at all. I just feels more robitic if that makes sense. Digital definatly gives you more time to use effects and they never lose their pitch, but that means more kids are gonna distroy a tune by using crappy echo/delay effects.
I love my Xone62 and technics... analog all the way :-)
But you are right, use whatever you prefer.