When anything new comes along it is always resisted.
The internet was said to be rubbish, now look at us, and what a state the postal service is in because of email.
PC`s were poopooed as a production tool, and now loads of top studios are using serious software based set ups.
The car was resisted and now everybody drives.

Change is inevitable.

The signs are all there.
The FACT is that vinyl sales are down across the board.
Distributers are falling down quicker than a bunch of irish sailors on St Patricks day.
Each summer (always a difficult time for vinyl sales) things are getting tighter and tighter.
Yet still people would rather bury their head in the sand rather than except what is happening.
Eventually the current system will no longer be able to sustain itself.
And that means simply that a lot of artists we all love and respect will have to devote their time to something other than making techno music.
Artists need money to survive.

Techno is a progressive music. In all aspects we embrace new technology except with the medium it is transmitted on. Vinyl for gods sake?

Change will happen, and I would dearly love to wake more people up to it, so we can get together and seriously try to work out a way of pushing forward into the digital age in a way that will allow us to continue to do what we do.
At the moment everyone is fighting over a very small market for sales and distribution etc, and like a lake full of fish that is drying up, sooner or later the fish begin to eat each other to make more room.

Sentimentality and resistance will not help. I have sunk a lot of money into vinyl, and it hurts to let it go, but it has to happen.

This doesn`t mean vinyl should be thrown away. But people should realise what is inevitable and embrace it. We can have our cake and eat it, vinyl and a new format can survive together until people make the full transition.

But the fact is we need to start change.