The combination of computers/Internet with audio/visual aspects of DJ'ing has opened up a whole new world to todays DJ's. Gone are the days of packing your vinyl into milk crates and heading to the local house party. Record players turned into cd players with built in hard drives and usb ports. Vinyl style control is still available for the DJ's that like the feel and function of a record player.
The changing of the record has become the selection of a file, the push of a few buttons and flick of a switch (push and flicks vary from set-up to set-up). Whether you mix freehand, crossfade or via a computer program it has become simpler and quicker than changing cd's or vinyl.
Vinyl and even the all mighty cd are now taking a backseat to formats that can be transferred and played more efficiently in digital formats that can be sent from one place to another. Whether that be from player to player for a mix or over the internet to a group of people who each probably livein a different state or country.
To some this is good, to some their use of vinyl will never die. Then there are those of us who marry DJ industry technology with a computer and the internet then just fly.
This dj still keeps a small tribute to the days of old and has full sized vinyl top controls on his favorite digital players. He tosses a cd in once in awhile even tho his players have 80 gig hd's. And he uses a laptop yet doesn't use programs like Serato. And now.... fubar.
It doesn't matter how you change it up, what you use or what you play, as long as you continue to grow. But the most important thing is you just keep playin... and listen.
Karmic
