Vinyl and/or turntables will never die out. CD DJ decks have been out for over 5 years. Smaller sized units, digital sound, and CD's are a much physically smaller media with a ton more storage.... it would seem like a sure fire replacement...
But, it hasn't caught on at all and most likely never will. You will never be able to manipulate a digital sound source the same way you can with the tactile analogue interface of a record on a platter. So you see, vinyl will never be "replaced"...sure the actual sounds can be replicated in digital form but the actual art of vinyl mixing won't die out. If anything, I think MP3 piracy in the dj domain actually helps music sales of most techno artists. Why? Because most underground techknows produce primarily on vinyl... and if I like the MP3 of the song, you can count on me searching out where I can pick it up on wax. GYS -----Original Message----- From: Craig Stodolenak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:29 PM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Why don't you pay for the music instead of ripping artists and >labels off !!!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >don't worry im going to pay a lot of money for my music 'cuz im >going to buy decks and so many many vinyls ....but till this moment >i go on ripping music on napster...have you got any problem about >that? You might think this is funny now... but... it won't be. What happens when the current techological barriers to widespread adoption of all-digital music performance-mixing are removed? That is to say, when the D in DJ will stand for Digital and not Disc. And yes, the word I used is "when", not "if". Vinyl can already be more easily replaced with a digital file; all we're waiting on is the interface. And who the hell is going to lug around a 50 lb. box of discs of plastic with little squiggly lines on them after they're presented with a quality alternative? I'd be interested in knowing when you think this will happen. Because when it does, I'd like to know what you think will happen to the small independent record labels because of it. Just some post-Thanksgiving food for thought... - Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
