Vinyl Fetish
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.
March 24th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
He had one, but probably just sold his last copy inadvertently! (There were at least two releases - the initial one on Vicious Vinyl and one on Formation.)
I’m in the same mindset regarding digital > analogue (AKA 12″ vinyl) music though. The older I get, the less inclined I am to cart the weight around. Serato just makes sense when you want the best of both worlds. With the amount of tunes available online anyway, it’s quite easy to keep a bit of exclusivity in your tracklist with a bit of research and trawling.
Look forward to your release on Evergreen, especially after hearing the preview. :)
March 24th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
No support for the <q> tag. :|
March 25th, 2006 at 11:45 am
<blockquote> :)
Thanks for the kind words. :)
March 26th, 2006 at 7:49 am
No worries, thanks for the edit.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:19 am
One of the things I’ve been wondering is why, with the CD culture today, laptops are still so frowned upon by purists. I mean, essentially it’s just cutting out the middle man: instead of burning to something that might get scratched, snap, or whatever, you’re just doing it directly. *shrug*
March 28th, 2006 at 12:00 am
No more artwork, and a loss of tactile sensation is what I don’t like about digital. Whether it be a full color art on a gatefold release or a scrawl on the centre of a white label, digital music loses the aesthetic by which it is stored.
I’m a massive vinyl fan, and am yet to make a digital purchase. Doesn’t mean I never will, but it’s going to take me a lot of digitizing first up, and unlike Richie Hawtin, I don’t have a lackey that will do it for me.
Perhaps, some day.
April 20th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Hey, I’ve got a copy of Space Manoeuvres, Stage One! Both discs even! :D
DJing with some good CD decks is awesome — the amount of stuff you can do with looping, sampling, etc. makes mixing so much more creative. But I do miss the tactile and visual aspects of vinyl — watching the grooves on a 12″ to see where the breakdown comes is might handy.