Re: NYTimes.com Article: The D.J.'s New Mix: Digital Files and a Turntable

From: Barimore, Carl J (cbarim@essex.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 18:29:18 CET

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    >i'm not against comps but i find using them only and not even once
    bothering to try and find the originals (some of them even ain't that rare)
    quite irritating.

    Most of it is rare though. Paying £70+ for an original Syl Johnson or Roy
    Ayers is frankly out of the question as far as I'm concerned. Who on this
    list has an original copy of 'Apache'?

    >in my mind, it should be a personal point of pride that you know your shit
    and put in the effort to get vinyl

    Compilations are an excellent way finding the 'shit' out, and perhaps one of
    the only ways if there is no good radio where you live. Thank god for
    compilations by people like DJ Pogo that introduce people to forgotten
    classics. A rare groove comp may introduce someone to ten records for which
    it would have cost a few hundred pounds and several years of searching to
    get the same collection of originals on vinyl.

    >well, there are some people i know who borrow their mates records and copy
    them on cd-r:s.

    Many artists/labels like to sit on their tunes for two or three years while
    regularly promising release dates that never happen. Then, when the
    magazines have reviewed, plugged and finally forgotten about the record, it
    is brought out without a whisper. If you don't happen to be about in the
    week it is released there's a fat chance that you'll ever be able to buy the
    record again. The second stock ordered by the shop will almost never
    materialise because the labels rarely press enough.

    Another scenario is that the record won't come out as a single at all but
    will come out on a triple vinyl album which will cost about £35 and will
    consist of 15 crap tunes plus the one you want. That's a regular occurrence
    with drum and bass these days.

    In either of those two situations I would happily record a tune off my mate
    if he had it and I had a cd-writer. After all, it's not my fault that some
    artists make their own records so difficult to buy.

    Carl



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