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haha...yea man most def.!
playin burnt cds at an event -- eeew!

me have cdj with burnt cds, but I buy my music as well

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• Andain - Promise
  
• Adrian Lux - Can't Sleep
  
• Benjamin Francis Leftwich - See You
  
• Company of Thieves - Even In The Dark
  

Just thought I'd share the following while we're on the subject. Max Graham probably hit the nail right on the head when he recently gave this interview in Singapore.

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What’s your take on the mp3 episode? Are you an advocate? Okay.. well, I was really into it in the beginning. I love technology. But I think now all we see are kids not willing to support small independent labels anymore. Hope is a great label, but sales have gone down. Ask anyone- what’s happening is a cause for concern. Guys are using Final Scratch and playing tracks burned on CDs. You see some of them taking “Sander Kleinenberg Live @ Space, Ibiza”, cut out the tracks and edit them so they can mix it- I mean, what IS that? These small labels make no money. Our remix fees go down, so we don’t have enough money to buy gear for our studio to make more records. The labels don’t want to make more records because people will just rip them and make them downloadable. So everybody loses- the producers lose, the labels lose, the stores lose because they can’t sell any more records. I was in a restaurant in Toronto about three weeks ago, and there’s a DJ with Final Scratch. There’s maybe about twenty people in the restaurant, and he’s playing every brand new record that’s out on white label, test pressing.. and you know.. where do you get that? And I hear the background of one of the tracks, it’s like “KISS FM!”- He’s just ripped it off Digweed’s show! These kids are killing the scene. I think it’s a good wake-up call for the major record labels, because these guys have millions of dollars and they can afford that, but it’s small record labels that wouldn’t be able to sustain. So many of them are growing out of business. It’s not attracting new producers and new remixers anymore. It’s not growing anymore; it’s shrinking. These guys that are into the scene but don’t want to pay for vinyls.. it’s just tough. We can see the CD thing has backfired. The press are really bad too because they get a lot of stuff ahead of time to review, and we see Sasha’s album out on the Internet two months before its release. I mean, it’s not even a mix album, it’s his personal album! That affects sales, which will eventually affect the decision to make an album, because an album like Sasha’s takes a lot of money to do. People have to support what they want to see now and in the future. Sander Kleinenberg will come up with a superb album and the record label won’t want to put it out and people will go “Oh why aren’t you putting it out?” These are the same people who download it free! “Oh, where’s Sander’s next album?” I mean, it’s like, it’s their fault..

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Graham hit the nail to the T, thanks for that interview Great Outdoors.


People don't have any conscience. All they see is here and now, and forget to realize they are hurting themselves in the future by making labels go out of business and in the end, music will be coming out less frequently due to the labels out of business.

I *do* support the mp3 scene, but not to the extent of ONLY owning mp3s and not supporting the artists who work their ass off in getting quality production out. You like and enjoy a track, buy it. People shouldn't be allowed to play burnt cds (except if it's their own production) at events -- seriously. That sort of philosophy/ethics should come from the "deejays" themselves, too bad greed will be the demise of all (record companies included).

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looped in sequence

• Andain - Promise
  
• Adrian Lux - Can't Sleep
  
• Benjamin Francis Leftwich - See You
  
• Company of Thieves - Even In The Dark
  

c'mon those guys really are annoying! Ripping tunes from KISS.FM??? Whats the point? Yeah U got to play the newest whitelabel first... whats the difference?? Its all about atmosphere & feeling. These pesky radio rips RUIN it. and I think it feels so much better when playing good tracks that you actually BOUGHT!!! Im proud to support the artists, although I dont have much records. But then again I dont do gigs anyway, yet

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dtb.planet.ee <-- A couple of my mix cd-s (Deep House & Progressive with a trancy touch

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Originally posted by DJDigDug Lolz i was at an autoshow last saturday, Import Extreem Showdown in LA and one lil corner had the trance bumping, they had some great equipment there but i was upset at the lil slut CDj heh, he mixed fine but he was playing all burns, so if any of you out there are rocking the CDs thats cool but buy your damn music you thiefs! lolz That has and always will in the future be my only complaint against CDJin is pirating the music that i waste my money for dates on lmao. And its not fair cuz he gets to spin rare material that i dont lmao.

Actually there were a couple TA"s djing that booth if your talking about the BODYPROS booth. I organized that booth. I dont know if you noticed but we had like 5 crates of records. We were all switching from cdr to vinyl the whole day. Personally in my opinion i dont see anything wrong with downloading songs that arent avaialble on vinly and playing them on CDR.
-BRETT

i dont get this artists... its obvious that its gonna be ripped, u cant really make a good profit out of vinyls u sell (as a starting producer...) u cant expect all people to be fair.. also people who r really serious bout it r buying records... the money comes from gigs not records...

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i would like for more viynls to come out on cd single like
midtone- pearl, echoplex- def by stereo etc.

[EDIT] what is finalscratch by the way?is it something that allows you to cheat as a dj?















GIVE TRANCE A CHANCE....

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Originally posted by bigjimslade002 [EDIT] what is finalscratch by the way?is it something that allows you to cheat as a dj?

http://www.finalscratch.com/fs2/start.asp

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looped in sequence

• Andain - Promise
  
• Adrian Lux - Can't Sleep
  
• Benjamin Francis Leftwich - See You
  
• Company of Thieves - Even In The Dark
  

I am a cdj-dj (at least I try to be ) and YES, I download mp3's and burn them on cd's, BUT only to practise at home and to listen if the songs are any good. I will however NEVER play ripped mp3's in a dancing or wherever and make money of them (besides the sound quality sucks, you can hear it immediately if you're playing an mp3).

The other thing that I'm doing is burning songs from cd's that I own, because usually there are 2-3 songs on a bought cd that I really like, so that makes it easier.

Anyway, I'm planning on buying vinyl in a while, cuz any dj that can't work with both vinyl and CDJ, now THOSE are sucky dj's

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Mhuhahahahahaha !!!!

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Originally posted by djtecktonik Actually there were a couple TA"s djing that booth if your talking about the BODYPROS booth. I organized that booth. I dont know if you noticed but we had like 5 crates of records. We were all switching from cdr to vinyl the whole day. Personally in my opinion i dont see anything wrong with downloading songs that arent avaialble on vinly and playing them on CDR. -BRETT

THEIF!!!