Re: [microsound] Make your own vinyl

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the acoustic guitar and the bagpipes will never stop being made either so
long as there's summer camp and haggis potlucks, but that doesn't mean
they are relevant to the Future of music.



"Mr.D" wrote:

> IMHO, as long as there will be DJ's, there will be vinyl. There's
> certainly a huge trend for DJ's to use laptops/traktor and a
> combination of iPods and CDs, but plenty of them love the feel and
> design of vinyl. As a DJ I know I prefer spinning vinyl over anything
> else, especially as a physical thing. For me, playing vinyl is
> playing an instrument, and nowhere close to doing the same thing with
> digital media.
>
> On May 31, 2005, at 12:25 PM, graham miller wrote:
>
> > you're absolutely right... that said, final scratch seems to be the
> > best
> > approach for those musicians who prefer turntables as their primary
> > musical
> > 'controller.' i really can't see a future for vinyl, although
> > that's what they
> > said two decades ago, before disco, before rap, before house...
> > aside from
> > it's fetish and historic value, i still think there's really no
> > place for vinyl
> > in futuristic musics... the 'turntable 'interface as controller? yes.
> > definitely. but as for it's archaic media, digital is the only way
> > forward...
> >
> > g.
>
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