from the Wire interview. Says it all for me. --------------
D: Was last night the first time youve DJed with just CD decks? J: I think so. D: Thats funny that youre not sure. J: Its different, and I really dont like it so much. Having to look at a list of whats on the disc and pushing too many buttons. . Vinyl, you dont have to look at the meter. Your mind can be elsewhere, your eyes can be elsewhere. You use your ears less in the digital format than you do in analogue, in a vinyl situation, because your listening very much to the frequencies to know, or the structure of the song to give you cues for when to do what. Or how to weed away those frequencies so that you can mix the next record in. But when you have to look at the screen or a computer read out its different. In some cases, its OK, because last night I was concerned about the vibration, because we were setting things on the floor. But I would much prefer to use vinyl, because of the physical aspect of connecting with this motion, this clockwise motion of this disc, information, the frailty of it all. The needle is just tracking on the surface of this record. And that any jolt would totally disorient it, and everyone else, and myself. And that I think is most reflective of the life of what we are, and who we are and how we live. We dont control our destiny, we dont control our life, we dont control what tomorrow is going to be. Its by coincidence. We have to adapt. And that I think it is why I think I like vinyl the most, because it puts you right on the edge of disaster. And that I still like.
