Re: NYTimes.com Article: The D.J.'so New Mix: Digital Files andaTurntable

From: Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@speakeasy.org)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 22:34:12 CEST

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    At 10:11 AM 10/26/01 -0400, Zachary Viggiani wrote:
    >I am going to get hit for being so terse on this, but in my mind djs play
    >vinyl and jokers play cds out. it is one thing to come out and play an
    >original composition on cd-r that is a animal of a different nature, but i
    >have very little respect for a dj that plays cds, especially if they play
    >compellation cds. it says to me that they put in very little effort into
    >their music selection. that is just the way i feel, if you play them all
    >the more power to you, but i personally have little respect for them.
    >
    >in my mind, it should be a personal point of pride that you know your shit
    >and put in the effort to get vinyl even though in the end it all sounds the
    >same coming out of the speakers. dj culture is build out of the 12" that is
    >where you get your special remix's, that is where your limited releases, the
    >odd b-sides that never make it to an lp. in my mind that is what it is all
    >about.
    >
    >to me it is like if in the 80's a dj came out and played tapes. they do not
    >have the history, or the cred.
    >
    >z.

    And I think only jokers judge a dj based upon what format they're using,
    not upon what's coming out of the speakers.

    I'm not a "dance" deejay. I mainly play spacey jazzfunk, hip-hop,
    afrobeat, downtempo & dub, stuff like that. I have around, I dunno,
    8-9,000 cds, about 1000 slabs of vinyl. I have more cds than vinyl coz I
    like the way a *well-mastered cd* (almost all of them these days) sounds
    (and esp. holds up) better than vinyl. I play whatever sounds good, on
    whatever format it comes on. If I could only find something hot on a
    fucking microcassette, I'd probably play that.

    For the style of music I'm playing, I don't really need any "special
    remixes", & I generally think remixes stink, preferring the artist's
    original intention 9 times out of 10.

    I'm a voracious music addict, & most of my life is put into music. Anyone
    who knows me would laugh at the concept that I "put in very little effort
    into [my] music selection", and I play about 5-to-1 cd-to-vinyl.

    I also regularly drop 30-40 dollars for rare shit on vinyl, if it hasn't
    been reissued & it's dope. And hey, I'll still play something off a
    compilation-- if it's dope.

    Your attitude sounds like just that, "attitude". And it's certainly
    doesn't sound like the music comes first to you.



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