@Tocooltom 418302 wrote:

I wasnt blaming the technology tbh mate, i was just pointing out that DJs use their expensive equipment badly, and theres DJs using their old and battered decks and still ripping it up.

Fair enuf the standard gear has moved on to CDJs because there are more possibilities with the digital format, but it would be nice if DJs could use their CDJs like they use vinyl.

what I also meant was in the 1990s there was just as many name DJ’s playing shit but using vinyl (there being no other formats in existence) because they were already bored/jaded with the industry and trading on their names whilst you’d sometimes hear better sets at free parties (which is why a lot of us got into this scene).

Also its a wider issue with dumbing down/too much drugs that many people don’t bother to learn how to use their equipment (the digital stuff is actually quite complicated!) and those who do can often get better real paying day jobs in IT companies which reduces the time they have for creative stuff..

I am surprised myself at how prevelant CDJs and digital formats have become in recent years but a lot of this is because vinyl and associated equipment is now niche equipment and becoming more expensive whilst computers are found everywhere.

yes vinyl will stay, people of my parents generation collect 78 rpm records and folk still listen to amplifiers with electronic valves in them and tape recorders with spools of tape but its not as common as the digital stuff and the equipment/media is expensive and harder to find.