Surgeon mainly uses Ableton now to play live. Both appz offer advantages over 12's. The first being, you don't have to carry a box of 12's everywhere - pure pain in the ass as anyone who's walked more than ten yards with a bag of 80+ will tell you. Popping on a plane with a laptop with back-up in your pocket has loads of advantages over losing your records to a thiefing fcuker at the airport.
Of the two, I would say Ableton offers more advantages than Final Scratch but requires more prep work before a set. I really can't see the point in buying the vinyl side of Final Scratch unless you plan to do some scratching or love doing backspins. Surgeon has set the benchmark for what you can do, I've never heard him play the same set twice and he can play for 4 hours plus without repeating himself and it's add loads of depth to his stuff, some of the stuff he does is so sweet, clever and so on target. Also, with MP3's now becoming more available it's only a short matter of time before it's the main way to play out. Why you say, well when you consider that a distributor and shops still make more than the artist it won't be long before artist can sell direct to the punter and make enough to live on without all the hassle and have direct contact and feedback. It's not as far away as you may think. Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bleep43" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thorin Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:01 PM Subject: Re: (313) final scratch (fwd) > It's a major technological breakthrough for the art of DJing, so therefore > it will have both positive and negative aspects. I'm seriously considering > buying it so that I can then start playing all genres of music when playing > out. > > Surgeon's set at Split on Saturday in London confirmed to me what this can > do - he has progressed beyond all other techno DJs in the genre right now by > using it to cross-reference what he calls proper techno. It was thunderingly > futuristic, and sounded phenomenal. Derrick May sounded quite lame in > comparison. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thorin Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <313@hyperreal.org> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:57 PM > Subject: (313) final scratch (fwd) > > > > > > Another good point, but being american and inebriated by consumer culture > as > > I am, I like to own things. Having a physical piece of wax [sometimes] > with > > a cute little picture on it, or even just a white label, is just fun to > me. > > So I still break out in a rash when I think about selling off my vinyl. > > (Plus that I've sold so much cool vinyl that I've had to kick myself for.) > > > > Carissa Tintinalli writes: > > > > > I think there's been an interesting economic impact, especially for > those > > > djs who don't or barely make an income from playing out. > > > > > > Final Scratch has allowed a lot of djs I know to sell off large chunks > of > > > their record collections so they could make money to buy more records, > buy > > > gear, press tracks or even simply pay rent. Selling all your records > years > > > ago was considered a sure sign of either retirment or insanity. With > Final > > > Scratch, you can make bank and still keep playing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
