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Re: [ARSCLIST] The Future of RECORD Collecting -Serato System
Actually if I may interject here, many top DJ's now use a system called
Serato at this point. This allows the user to "map" all of his/her
songs from their
hard drive(s) to their turntables using a specially encoded disc. This
allows DJ's to perform virtually all the turntablist techniques that
thye would do on a
conventional vinyl disc but without playing and physically damaging the
original album. This is an amazing breakthrough and is hailed as such
by
DJ's around the globe. This system is made by RANE if anyone out there
wants to learn more about this remarkable technological innovation. In
short, they have their entire record collection stored on a drive and
can pull up any song an assign that to one of the two tables, repeat
the process
with the second table and mix, cut, scratch, crab fake, and all the
other esoteric tricks as though they had the original vinyl sitting on
the platters.
Strange but true...
Aaron Levinson
On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:14 PM, kunst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Yes, the scratching can be destructive, but few serious turntablists
would sacrifice a record they could never find again. Also, many DJs
only mix their records together and don't scratch at all; this is not
just a hip-hop thing, you know. And once a record becomes known by way
of a DJ's set, it's very likely to be reissued (often legally!).
It might be worth noting that not everyone in ARSC is unfamiliar with
this culture, or looks upon more contemporary popular music with such
disdain. Some of us treat a rare early 1980's rap 12" with as much
care as a Victor Monarch. There's a magazine that closely follows the
Scratch aesthetic called Wax Poetics < http://www.waxpoetics.com/ >.
While often frustrating in their lack of pre-funk knowledge (names
mispelled, etc.), they do a fine job with what they do know. As long
as there's a collector for every object...
Regards,
Franz Kunst
Quoting Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Question: isn't "scratching" destructive to potentially out-of-print
or valuable LPs? If