Quote Originally Posted by jon connor
the future.

John, your shunning of technology is a bit odd (I bet you use effects though right?), you seem to think that unless you are touching vinyl every 5 seconds then you are lazy?
If beatmatching is all you do when you play records it must be very boring.
Auto beatmatching means you can do MORE not less, becuase you have more time to play around and concentrate on the mixing rather than the beat-matching.

shunning technology no mate, there is playing live and djaying. if you would of read my genuine ideas properly in a post a few page back you will see i quite clearly stated, vynyl needs a shake up not death, so i see your question to me as invalid . as for wot do i do when i perform , i put every single ounce of energy in body into the performance ,make tracks chase each other, tricks, and if using effects them to in a artfull way, not a maniac way. i was down london this year in hakney , i think it went down well considering i had a lot of people into wot i was playing and the way i played it,. in anycase im not gunna stand ere and bitch about how i play my techno, im here because im deffending somthing i love, mabey the time will come man when vynyl dies, but there is no need to force it.
for as long as ther is people about who beleive in vynyl it will servive, but only as a dj instrument. ;)
hear is a reminder of my origanal comment and one i beleive will satisfy vynyl lovers. :lol:

i think we all may as well start practising our live sets, to perfofm that way ? or is there a chance for vynyl and distribution to servive, well i think there is and im confident, wot distributers and every 1 in the vynyl indusrtry needs to look at is, a new market approach, mabey the vynyl its self ,jaz it up a bit, develope new vynyl, witch can hold more tracks without sound reduction etc, the vynyl its self, i no we have picture discs etc we have had for years, but anyone will tell ya the sound quality is normaly crap, also expensive to stamp,or mabey find a new material witch can hold diffrent file formats and still be played like a vynyl will speicial needles developed etc, as for the distribution you wont be able to stop online shopping,. also another big blow to small record shops was hmv and virgin , they also have had a big inpact on the destruction of small outlets.but its this day and age doods like all small shops grocerys etc ,they are all taken out by the big wallmarts and superstores.

personaly i dont want to see vynyl go under, we are all righting it off to quick, manufactures need to modernise the vynyl,i dont mean cd mixing ill scream if someone says that i regard that as swearing. no wot i want is to see a development in the vynyl itsself, if we start here it might be a good start. lets just look at it, people just want more for there money these days. playing decks is not just playing music its an artform when perfected,. digital generation is well and truly here even the multy million pound record industries are feeling it to,its not just the underground. well any way thats my point of view personaly i think the vynyl industry is due for a shake up, development is needed, but again that begs the question who is willing to pay for it, if i won the lottery i certainly would be launching a load of cash in to the development, but we can only dream !