Everyone Has Gone Digital?!

[tocsin]

And look who's taking the lead. From the Truelove Newsletter:

Music Downloads are becoming an ever more popular way to purchase music. Now through our online store
as well as the vinyl and Cds on sale you can purchase full stereo Mp3's of new releases, as well as
rare and previously deleted items, for only 99p. Newly added Mp3's include the extremely rare
Magnetic North and brand new releases from leading Techno labels Stay Up Forever, Hydraulix and RAW.
If the Mp3 you after is not available don't worry! New Mp3's are added all the time to our database
so keep checking back regularly to see if it has become available.
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>> The all new Digital Collective
The Digital Collective Series is finally here. Exclusive to truelove.co.uk this series will showcase
our finest djs and forthcoming releases across our various labels well ahead of release date.
Each high quality, full stereo, un-edited MP3 mix is between 30 and 45 minuets long and is great for
getting you warmed up for your night out or to hear future releases available to buy in the mix.
Each mix costs only £3.49 which is great value for money and will feature as many as 15 tracks
seamlessly mixed by a leading dj from the techno scene!! Thats less then 25p per track!
Digital Collective 1.0
First up to launch the series is Aaron Liberator.
Aaron's style of music covers everything from house to hard techno, whilst keeping it funky and
trippy with a freestyle attitude.
To Download or preview goto www.truelove.co.uk/digital

[davethedrummer]

so .....
we need to decide on a standard cd player
so everyone cen get used to it
and we can introduce the skill factor again
because we will all need a benchmark that we understand.


true?

Is there actually anyone out there who can't get their head round a CDJ?

of course not ( well maybe.....)
but what i mean is in the clubs.
cd players really vary in "feel" and design and i would very much like it to become a bit more standardised so i can get used to one type. and really get into it.

i use cds a bit these days so its becoming an important subject for me.

[Komplex]

so .....
we need to decide on a standard cd player
so everyone cen get used to it
and we can introduce the skill factor again
because we will all need a benchmark that we understand.


true?

Is there actually anyone out there who can't get their head round a CDJ?

of course not ( well maybe.....)
but what i mean is in the clubs.
cd players really vary in "feel" and design and i would very much like it to become a bit more standardised so i can get used to one type. and really get into it.

i use cds a bit these days so its becoming an important subject for me.

I hear ya there. Probably when all the companies get their shit sorted with vinyl feel cd decks (with the platter, like the pinoeer models). Things will be easier because they will all funtion the same.

But from a personal point of view, I think the Final scratch and Serato option is better for traditional dj's. It's the same way as using regular turntables, same skills but you hook your laptop up with all your tracks in WAV format. So it will be pretty much laptops replacing a crate of records but everything else remains the same. Instead of digging in the crate you load up the next track and its back to mixing the traditional way.

Cd's are cool as a way to sell music. The physical product is there, and so are the means to distribute it (post/shops etc). Its flexible, you can play them wherever (cd players everywhere) and you can rip it to a laptop for mixing or use a cd deck IF thats your thing. With mp3 you still have the problem of downloading a large file which is lame if people have slow conections...

[OriginalTechnobastard]

I've nothing against mp3s. I listen to them myself. It can be great use to push your music to unknown places. We are not being arsey or tight with vinyls. I just got a problem with people ripping each other's harddrives for songs and never buying music. Thats not right. Don't buy it if you don't like it that much, but if you do, you should buy the music. Mp3s are great for lives and rare stuff that is impossible to get. And vinyls are worth it for the 'warm' factor. Without a doubt. Anyone telling you otherwise is not right.

[TechMouse]

of course not ( well maybe.....)
but what i mean is in the clubs.
cd players really vary in "feel" and design and i would very much like it to become a bit more standardised so i can get used to one type. and really get into it.

i use cds a bit these days so its becoming an important subject for me.

Fair enough.

Though I reckon 9 times out of 10, if a club is gonna fit CD Decks they put in Pioneer. This is certainly the case in any club I've ever played round here. There's differences across the various different models but by and large all the Pioneers have the same modus operandi.

So, I'd go with that.