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Not everything has to be physical. I appreciate a DJ that matches beats from vinyl, but so does the one that does it via software. There is more to it than that. Both are valid forms of playing. It's still having a good idea about what mixing is.


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While I'm not going to dispute that beat matching mp3's or CD's is DJ'ing, it's not really the same. Having a controller tell you everything is matched up BPM wise isn't really teaching your ear to listen for pitch. Equipment failure, bad mp3's, hard drive failure, I'm just not down with digital dj'ing. The only advantage I see is not having to lug records around, but sometimes having too much of a selection (due to everything being at your fingertips) is in itself a problem. I remember when people started using cd's/mp3's (I've been spinning vinyl since 1994) me and my friends would laugh when DJ's would have bad mp3's and right in the middle of a track you'd hear that skipping washing machine sound. Sure records skip also but you usually know about it and can physically see where it's going to happen. Records and analog sound have been proven to have better sound quality.

Besides all that, why do I hate digital DJ'ing? Well for starters they cost me my job and livelyhood in NYC. I got laid off from being a buyer as brick and mortar stores started closing down (well that and 9/11 crushed all business south of Houston in NYC around the time). Unless you have some cush stock market job, and you work in a niche industry you don't have savings. Losing my job and my apartment being sold in the same week- pretty much exiled me out of a city I loved.



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Now I regret it because I can't stand digital DJ's. It's all about the physical act of beat matching with actual records you can touch for me.

^^^THIS^^^
I think (EDM) vinyl has been dying a slow death since before Technics 1200's were discontinued. That was a major setback for the soon-to-be "lost art" of beat matching, and each CDJ manufactured is another nail in the coffin.

Good luck with reopening that door, Lixx. Glad to see vinyl's not completely dead... yet.



Thanks. Now if I can just find a pair of those elusive technics 1200's for a decent price and in decent shape I'll be all set. Sold mine in 2004 when I thought I would never DJ again- if I had known Technics would have stopped making them in 2010 I would have never done that.

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[quote="Lixx"]While I'm not going to dispute that beat matching mp3's or CD's is DJ'ing, it's not really the same. Having a controller tell you everything is matched up BPM wise isn't really teaching your ear to listen for pitch. Equipment failure, bad mp3's, hard drive failure, I'm just not down with digital dj'ing. The only advantage I see is not having to lug records around, but sometimes having too much of a selection (due to everything being at your fingertips) is in itself a problem. I remember when people started using cd's/mp3's (I've been spinning vinyl since 1994) me and my friends would laugh when DJ's would have bad mp3's and right in the middle of a track you'd hear that skipping washing machine sound. Sure records skip also but you usually know about it and can physically see where it's going to happen. Records and analog sound have been proven to have better sound quality.

Amen! well said. only vinyl for me as well, but I never hate a good dj, regardless :)

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Amen! well said. only vinyl for me as well, but I never hate a good dj, regardless :)


Agreed. If a DJ is good- he or she is good regardless of equipment. I'm just partial to vinyl (of all kinds apparently).

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Holy crap! I had an encounter with one of those when I was a kid: As we were all leaving school at the end of the day I was about to step on this big brown leaf to hear it crunch. Fortunately I caught a glimpse of something that made me bend down and actually examine it. It was one of these fellas (not this species, of course. I was in Virginia) about as long head-to-tail as my 12 year old foot (size 10 ½ US?)!

It was already dead but I still would have felt bad squishing it unceremoniously. No one that I tried to show it to could see through the camouflage though; they just thought that it was a leaf. :?

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^ Indeed...if this thing is in its natural environement, with the wings folded up, you will never see it. Looks like kaiju to me, plus framed bugs just look cool on my bookshelves. This one is about 4 inches, just a baby compared to what you ran into :shock:

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DollarTree Valentines Day leftover (onIy one) snagged from the Mgr. office window shelf.


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...the bootleg NagNagNag scene is well.... Exploding. And i must admit i'm damn happy.

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^Never seen those. :shock: Must Have Them. But blister-packs... ...noo-ooo!

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DollarTree Valentines Day leftover (onIy one) snagged from the Mgr. office window shelf.


Pretty cool, I need to pop in dollar stores more often.

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Valentines Day Bat Dagger "super cool present from my girlfriend"
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...the bootleg NagNagNag scene is well.... Exploding. And i must admit i'm damn happy.

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I was able to score this guy, as well as an amazing Joker one-off from Adam. Love these guys. Very much wish there were vinyl versions to accompany them. The headers, as far as I'm concerned, as frame worthy.

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...though the bit about you scoring that one off is making me mad as hell. :P

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There are vinyl versions of those

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^truth

My homage WILL NOT be produced in vinyl. 8)

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"Passion of the Wookie" resin by Forces of Dorkness
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There are vinyl versions of those


There are not vinyl versions of NapNapNap, which is what I was referring to.

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^ whoa! Awesome, what is it? ^

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Thanks, it's a Ankou-Ex by ThreeA. It looks quite different without the "wig". Image


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Thanks, so cool. The details on their stuff! Great.

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Huh. If you'd told me that this existed before I'd seen it I'd have wanted nothing to do with it... but here we are!

Strangely magical.

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