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Dance culture elder statesmen Paul Hartnoll from Orbital and S Express’s Mark Moore predicted vinyl is set to become obsolete in the new issue of Mixmag this week, in a feature headlined Grumpy Old DJs.
“It’s not got much of a f**king future has it, vinyl?” said Paul Hartnoll, “It’ll die like the wax cylinder.”
Acid house pioneer Fabio also described being shocked when he stumbled across two Technics turntables on a recent visit to London’s Science Museum, in a display area celebrating classic technology.
“They had this archive section with a pair of SL1200s in the window,” the drum & bass don declared, “and it (a placard that) said ‘this is what DJs used in the 70s and 80s’.”
Next generation DJ Paulo Mojo told Skrufff he last played an all-vinyl set in 2000 and his last ever record in a club at the end of 2004 and said, though he still buys vinyl regularly, he now always edits tracks with Ableton before burning them onto CD for spinning.
“I was travelling with Lee Burridge a couple of weeks ago, who still plays predominantly vinyl, and he said almost ruefully, he is waiting for the day he shows up at a club to find no Technics installed. And he believes it will be sooner rather than later.” said Paulo. “Lee is an exception rather than a rule mind you. Danny Howells still carries a big box of records too.”
“For me the flexibility of using Abelton and CDs far outweighs any nostalgia I might feel for a box of 12” records,” he added.
InFluEnCedDJ says...
and i just only got the hang of vinyl.. :(
Dj DeKay says...
meh whinge whinge whinge, wank wank wank
d-luxx says...
CDJs hold many more options, however Rane Serato Scratch Live has taken off in a huge way and is keeping the 1200's alive.
deejaydil says...
i just bought a set of denon dns3500 tabletop cd players and have to say its the closest thing for vinyl purists but the sound quality out weighs it 10 to none
bongboy28 says...
vinyl will always be around, what a twatty thing to say. Long live scratching that pure blackness
redlightdisco says...
i've been dj'ing for 15 years and cut my teeth on vinyl. these days i'd be pushing it to take so much as 5 slabs of vinyl to a gig. the far less cumbersome cd, in tandem with ableton has won me over in terms of versatility, higher end sound for the most part, and saving my back from the burden of record crates. In my mind however the fact remains i don't give a rat's ass what format you're playing off - just choose your tunes well and drop them with love and fervour. If it's rockin' my world I ain't gonna care about the source - i just want the music!