There’s something almost romantic about playing records. It’s tangible, requires at least a small amount of skill, and has a kind of nerdy appeal that I find terribly hard to resist.
The hunt is something I also really enjoy. Finding a record you love after sifting through 50 records you hate is such a nice feeling. Not to mention the exclusivity thing. I don’t think I know anyone else that owns a copy of Stage One by Space Manoeuvres (TUNE!), and I was once told that even Atom1 himself didn’t own a copy of Imminent.
So anyway. I suspect Karl will kill me if he ever reads this, but the whole DJing with a laptop (or at least CDs) thing is starting to sound like a really good option. I like the idea that I can take -all- my music with me to a gig (this is sounding especially good at the moment since my record bag is broken and getting myself to gigs is a biatch right now!). Buying music online from say, Beatport is cheap, easy, and doable at 2am when you have 30mins of spare time before you crash out for the evening. Finding something that’s relatively exclusive becomes infinitely harder of course. But did I mention that it’s cheap?
My first track on Evergreen Recordings will be available for purchase and download soon.
So torn. :(
More grief as it happens.