"vinyl has been a dj market for about 5 years now and the market is still shrinking"

My theory is that if cutting a record wasn't so hideously expensive I'm sure this wouldn't be as much of a problem. Decks are outselling guitars these days and more and more people are procudcing all the time so the market must still be alive. The problem is there isn't enough in the way of different stuff coming from new places and so DJ's are switching off the decks in favour of production

When you have all the limited numbers of new records and you've tanned them to death you got to look elsewhere for inspiriation.

On the other hand, as you say, keeping up to date is the most important thing and many of us just can't afford to. Techno isn't exactly high class music for rich folk and it's daft to think we can all keep forking out for it. Eventually you have to step off the rat race and make your own stuff.

How many of you have skipped the odd gas bill to buy the latest batch of techno? A fair few I'll bet. You can only do that so many times before the wolves start asking questions.

Personally I think that when final scratch technology becomes smarter and more accesible, records will be a thing of the past. Decks and DJ'ing will go on for a long time still using that technology but so long as record production capability lies in the hands of just a handful of people it will continue to decline.

I bet there's hundreds of unknown wicked tracks out there just begging to be on vinyl. I look forward to the day when anyone can press them to the standard we're used to.