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DJs who arent playing from vinyl anymore
Ok I dont want to make a new debate/war about vinyl vs. cd.
Just want to know the a-list DJs who have stopped playing from vinyl in the last time.
I will start
J00F, Sasha, and PVD, all use ableton or final scratch I think, not CDs...
Thanx,
I�ve made a little correction in the original post.
might be easier to make a list of djs that still use vinyl.
^haha, word!
Re: DJs who arent playing from vinyl anymore
I hear Deep Dish don't use vinyl any more. I think they turned on to CD's.
all dj's stopping playing vinyls shall and be considered traitors
i don't think they could play vinyls anyway..
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| Originally posted by dj christian all dj's stopping playing vinyls shall and be considered traitors i don't think they could play vinyls anyway.. |
When I saw Corsten last, I was standing on the 2nd floor watching him for a bit and didn't see him use 1 vinyl for the good hour and a half I was standing there, so I dunno. He may or may not. 
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| Originally posted by dj christian i don't think they could play vinyls anyway.. |
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| Originally posted by DOOMBOT When I saw Corsten last, I was standing on the 2nd floor watching him for a bit and didn't see him use 1 vinyl for the good hour and a half I was standing there, so I dunno. He may or may not. |
I love the people who think the skill in DJing comes from manipulating the vinyl once in a while.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I love the people who think the skill in DJing comes from manipulating the vinyl once in a while. |
Yes it is. People think that some of the art is lost when a DJ starts playing CDs instead of vinyl- you see angry letters in music magazines all the time.
The fact is that the only difference is you have to press buttons for CDs, instead of dragging the record back and forth a bit. The skill in DJing is mental, not physical, which people don't seem to realise. Trance/house DJs almost never use turntablism, so the set will sound exactly the same.
Interesting fact: women are naturally better at DJing. Their brains are evolved to hear several different sources of sound simultaneously, where as men tend to be able to only focus on one thing at a time.
"Ok I dont want to make a new debate/war about vinyl vs. cd.
Just want to know the a-list DJs who have stopped playing from vinyl in the last time."
Quoted from the thread starter. I suggest you go HERE.
Re: DJs who arent playing from vinyl anymore
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| Originally posted by DJ_Hailstone Ok I dont want to make a new debate/war about vinyl vs. cd. Just want to know the a-list DJs who have stopped playing from vinyl in the last time. I will start
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Interesting fact: women are naturally better at DJing. Their brains are evolved to hear several different sources of sound simultaneously, where as men tend to be able to only focus on one thing at a time. |
anyways, yeh. Deep Dish is pretty much ALL CD now.
On June 10th Armins plane got redirected to DC when he was supposed to be in NYC so he ended up only using cd's when he finally made it to the club. Flame him!!!!!!!!
The reason why most DJs stop playing vinyl is generally because they were never very good at playing vinyl in the first place. Ergo, they don't miss it when they switch to something else, and the new equipment probably gives them some added skills and techniques that they didn't have the aptitude to accomplish with vinyl anyway, so it's a step up for them to be better DJs.
REAL vinyl disc jockeys who have plied their trade for years and are exceptionally good at what they do will still cling to the artform. After spending that much time practising and honing your personal flavour on a specific aparatus, would you want to immediately throw it all away?
That is why you see trance and house DJs flocking to digital, because it neither disrupts nor interferes with the way they DJ. But I have yet to see one hip hop DJ carry around a laptop and Ableton.
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| Originally posted by Ishkur The reason why most DJs stop playing vinyl is generally because they were never very good at playing vinyl in the first place. Ergo, they don't miss it when they switch to something else, and the new equipment probably gives them some added skills and techniques that they didn't have the aptitude to accomplish with vinyl anyway, so it's a step up for them to be better DJs. REAL vinyl disc jockeys who have plied their trade for years and are exceptionally good at what they do will still cling to the artform. After spending that much time practising and honing your personal flavour on a specific aparatus, would you want to immediately throw it all away? That is why you see trance and house DJs flocking to digital, because it neither disrupts nor interferes with the way they DJ. But I have yet to see one hip hop DJ carry around a laptop and Ableton. |
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| Originally posted by Ishkur The reason why most DJs stop playing vinyl is generally because they were never very good at playing vinyl in the first place. Ergo, they don't miss it when they switch to something else, and the new equipment probably gives them some added skills and techniques that they didn't have the aptitude to accomplish with vinyl anyway, so it's a step up for them to be better DJs. REAL vinyl disc jockeys who have plied their trade for years and are exceptionally good at what they do will still cling to the artform. After spending that much time practising and honing your personal flavour on a specific aparatus, would you want to immediately throw it all away? That is why you see trance and house DJs flocking to digital, because it neither disrupts nor interferes with the way they DJ. But I have yet to see one hip hop DJ carry around a laptop and Ableton. |
I'm glad you brought him up.....Hawtin belligerantly despised and refused the new wave of digital decks in the late 90s (there are TONS of articles he wrote about this) unless it specifically replicated the feel and skillset of vinyl DJing (in other words--something that played to his strengths, so his vinyl skills would not feel obsolete and wasted). Though Final Scratch is a digital aparatus, it comes closest to capturing the essence of the real thing, and Hawtin and Acquaviva's endorsement, input and feedback, working with the development team during its construction, speaks well the care and quality that went into the thing.
In short, Final Scratch was literally built with vinyl DJs in mind, spurned along and aided by the best vinyl DJs on the planet.
Everything else is built to make ordinary DJ's (you know...the wedding and bar mitzvah kind) lives easier and more automatic.
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| Originally posted by DOOMBOT Sasha, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten. All excellent at mixing with vinyl. |
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| Originally posted by dj christian all dj's stopping playing vinyls shall and be considered traitors i don't think they could play vinyls anyway.. |
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