I don't DJ with my records, I only have one turntable... but I still collect my absolute favorite house/techno EPs because it's that physical copy, something I'll hang on to forever. Some of them are available digitally, but I still bought the record because it's something I'll play when I'm 50 and show my kids. Nostalgia, I suppose. It'll be interesting listening to all the tracks that moved me in my youth.

One thing I regret is selling a bunch of CDs at a pawnshop when I jumped on the MP3 bandwagon in 2002 or so. I told myself I'd never sell another piece of music I buy ever. MP3s come and go, I can't even count how many tracks I bought off beatport that I've lost in a HD crash, or straight up deleted cuz my tastes have changed and realized it's crap.

I'm kind of hoping that physical copies of music will come back in style, and people realize that MP3s come and go but owning a physical copy is special.

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Corjay - Spring Funk '14 [Downtempo Funk / Jazz / Disco / Deep House]

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Originally posted by Sykonee It's also great marketing, crafting the notion of scarcity, and thus uniqueness in a sea of similar-sounding house and techno. Because let's be honest: how many folks out there would care about the exact same tracks if they simply got lumped into Beatport's catalog, where everyone can grab 'em?

I would but I'd be buying them or otherwise obtaining them digitally.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by corjay9 I don't DJ with my records, I only have one turntable... but I still collect my absolute favorite house/techno EPs because it's that physical copy, something I'll hang on to forever. Some of them are available digitally, but I still bought the record because it's something I'll play when I'm 50 and show my kids. Nostalgia, I suppose. It'll be interesting listening to all the tracks that moved me in my youth. One thing I regret is selling a bunch of CDs at a pawnshop when I jumped on the MP3 bandwagon in 2002 or so. I told myself I'd never sell another piece of music I buy ever. MP3s come and go, I can't even count how many tracks I bought off beatport that I've lost in a HD crash, or straight up deleted cuz my tastes have changed and realized it's crap. I'm kind of hoping that physical copies of music will come back in style, and people realize that MP3s come and go but owning a physical copy is special.

I like this.

vinyl is back

seriously i heard it was doing better though, with rise in sales across the board. would love to see it make a bit of a comeback, even though i play serato vinyl on my turntables, i still buy esspecially good vinyl releases and EPs - and to my dismay some stuff i was excited to purchase on vinyl, wasn't even available on the format

i seen an argument on a forum (can't remember what one) about which is better the CDj or USB dj... USB! *shudder*

A lot of clueless motherfuckers up in here, up in here.


Y'all gonna make me act the fool, up in here, up in here.

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Freak Out Tóng Zhì

It will be interesting to see the long-term trend; whether the current vinyl revival shows that there is an innate human preference to physical, material objects or whether it’s merely the last spasm of an obsolescent world view that hasn’t adapted to the notion that information no longer needs to be bound to physical presence.

I like to buy my favourite albums physically rather than digitally because the artwork and packaging is nice, and it’s a way of creating a more exclusive echelon in your collection for your favourites. My “music collection” is increasingly fragmenting into physical releases, files on my hard-drive accumulated from various places and files I don’t even own being streamed from a server on the Internet. Buying physical lets you have a shelf of favourites you can set aside, and part of me is disappointed when a really great album is only released digitally. However, some of my favourite recordings are DJ mixes that were recorded from a live performance and never had and never could have a physical release. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest they only exist as files, and it doesn’t change the amount of pleasure they provide or the “love” I have for them. To me that suggests the idea that owning something physically is more “special” is a conditioned response – it only kicks in on formats where we expect physical releases.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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