> And For the guy who posted that it didn't belong in a Franois K dj set, I'd say > have you seen him play out recently. The man used CD's, and a laptop last time > I saw him. (my bet is he's going to use it in the months to come).
A lot of the Body and Soul folk are using cds these days: Danny Krivit, if I remember correctly, does. FWIW, I can only picture myself using something that has some kind of creative incentive. This Final Scratch, if it is a straight imitation of yer technics doesn't offer that to me, it only seems to offer the laborious task of recording thousands of MP3s from records. (My little brother, on the other hand, has his entire music collection solely on his hard drive in the first place. It'd perhaps be of more appeal to him.) I like to think that if someone showed me the creative advantage to it, I'd have no problem, mind... (like showing the early 60s me the sonic possibilities of Robert Moog's piano emulator.) Just now I don't see it. And if I may speculate, there's all too many people working along the obvious analogy lines: Coldcut's Video mixing stuff - if that isn't just a complete lack of imagination then surely it's a pretty poor joke. Jonny.
