ManchesterBeth
Well-Known Member
How can you prove an opinion? I've always been sympathetic to vinyl purists tbh (despite not knowing one end from a 12" from the other)...Music would be nothing without a bit of drama, history, and the unprovable je ne sais quoi about the emotion of it all. An opinion probably less prevalent in techno circles, I concede
It has always boiled down to 2 main points:
1. Next time you're browsing MP3's, stick £12 in a tin each time you hear one you want to keep. You will either become poor or your collection will rise infinitely in quality and you'll treasure them much more
2. SS Giles puts it best http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=160
Vinyl is still far superior to me, culturally / historically, aesthetically and sound-wise. I definitely feel like I am part of a dying breed, but frankly I am happy to drag my heavy bag all over the place (despite airlines losing it on four different occasions last year—once for over a month). I just feel CD's and music files are so disposable. I guess I am a romantic, nostalgic person, but I make no apologies for it. I still write all my gigs in a diary on paper and although I don't use it so often I still like to write with a cartridge pen believe it or not!
I love vinyl and all that it stands for. Going to shops, talking shit about music, sharing ideas, discussing music face to face, holding the vinyl, the artwork. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a massive problem with downloading or the net but it's a totally different world which I don't care for as much. I would far rather jump on the bus and spend half a day or usually more in record shops than jump online and download some tracks (even though I really don't have the time). There is less social interaction and the interaction on the net I have to say on message boards, blogs whatever are so often negative rather than positive.
God, i hated talking to people about some disposable deep house record that they'd shelled £10-20 on when all i wanted to talk about was the latest uglyfunk or a leftfield techno record. That's what annoys me about the new breed of vinyl purists, they think from a DJs perspective. What's the point? I concede that this might not apply to rave/hardcore/jungle vinyl fans (referring to stethoscope 's post) but I'm not old enough to have experienced that scene first hand. I can only speak from my experience of house/techno/bass/modern dnb.
And imho, and this is contentious perhaps, but if you spend most of your day listening to standardised music then yes it'd be harder to separate the wheat from the chaff. I can generally tell if I'll enjoy a tune after 16/32 bars (or when the drop occurs in dnb.) 9 times out of 10 I'm correct. Dance music is all about structure and how you can incorporate rhythmic motifs into said structure. There's hardly any complex composition to look out for so I don't find browsing through digital files much of a chore. Certainly having to listen to a generic lo-fi house record on vinyl whilst previewing it is more of a chore if I've decided that I don't like it or it doesn't do anything for me after 16 bars. I guess for me I just don't like this artificial distinction between the leftfield and the dancefloor that most djs involuntarily gravitate to.
Also, browsing mp3s is so 2002. All about flacs m8!
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