generally the people who say it`s cheating are the ones who have spent sooo much time learning to mix with vinyl, that it`s all they know and to see someone doing something new and different just narks em.

The art of mixing is not in the mechanical process of getting two pieces of petroleum product to rotate in unison, keeping the audio recording on it in beat sync. That`s something anyone can do with practiice.

The art is in the mix, the choice of tune, the EQing, the mix point, reading the crowd, taking chances with selection etc.

Who cares what process you get the result by.
Personally if the vinyl would get itself in time I would be very happy, cos it gives me more time to do the mixing.

Mobile phones are cheating.
You should travel to see the person you want to talk to and do it face to face.