From: Christopher Grass (bluesjumper@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 15:39:33 CET
I am quite proud to say that none of the music I spin comes from
compilations. Every cd I carry with me to shows is either the artist's full
length CD or a single, that was released at the same time as the 12".
Sometimes the artist's full-length happens to BE a comp, but it usually will
have more songs on it (and they usually AREN'T just filler songs, contrary
to popular belief). I'm not a big fan of America's single-driven music
industry.
That's another great thing about CD's; one CD will have around 15-20 songs
on it, as opposed to 10 or so for DOUBLE vinyl...and sometimes the CD will
have exclusive tracks. So, when I spin, I am carrying with me (on average)
around 7500-8000 songs. That gives me more than enough room to play
differently styled shows, in addition to being able to showcase different
songs from the same artist. It's something that simply can't be done with
vinyl...unless you happen to have roadies to carry 50 record boxes around
with you. I am also able to play longer shows with no problems, and when
you add in hot cue sampling and cutting loops on my CD turntables, I have
even more options. Yes, vinyl is romantic, and I still buy lots of
records...I'm just real tentative about bringing them to clubs. If
something happened to my five volumes of DJ Food's "Jazzbrakes", I'd die.
>From: "Olaf Molenveld" <olaf@interactivelink.nl>
>To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
>Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] Scratching digitally (from New York Times)
>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:33:01 +0100
>
>don't forget that cost can also be a very important aspect in it all....
>you'll notice that a lot of the CD DJ hate comes from people that have
>collected a huge vinyl collection over the years... when you have to build
>your vinyl collection from scratch now it's *very* expensive with the 12"
>prices these days.... wait a few weeks, maybe 2 months and a good (2)CD
>compilation with unmixed full 12" mixes appears for the price of 2
>12"es....this one might have 20 tracks, of which 10 are useable....for a DJ
>that doesn't need to have all the latest stuff (although you can ofcourse
>download tracks from the internet, both legally or from restricted forums,
>and you probably can play the music out weeks before its for sale in the
>shops) because he or she doesn't DJ 3 times every weekend the CD way can be
>a very interesting route...
>
>Olaf
>
>
> > Incidentally, a friend of mine who lives overseas recently told me he
> > rocked this massive playing his entire set on Final Scratch, I told this
>to
> > another DJ friend who commented, "Man, he sold out." Then I told him my
> > overseas friend had a great response...I also neglected to tell the
> > commenting friend that this overseas DJ lives in Indonesia, where vinyl
> > isn't exactly easy to come by...So all this vinyl purism is coming from
>an
> > American/European-centric point of view.
> >
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