/stands on soapbox
for those of you all dissing on the cd tip......
YOU STILL HAVE TO BEATMATCH. you still have to control the pitch, get your phrasing on time, etcetc. it's just done digitally.
it's much easier for producers to put their music onto a disc and play it on a cd player at a party, sort of a "test run" if you will, to see if it will have the effect on the crowd that the artist wants. would you want to shell out hundreds of dollars or spend hundreds of your label's dollars to put out a vinyl the people won't like/buy? no........because then you would either be a) broke or b) getting fired from your label.
ideally every artist wants to think that every track they put out is going to be the shit. the reality is, not everything is. our scene is so oversaturated with SHIT music that an artist has to be careful of what they put out. it can make or break you these days.
so i welcome and USE cdj's.......to test out my own music and to hear what others are producing. everyone wants the midwest to be recognized for what we are doing in the music industry but not everyone wants to step up to the technology plate. don't get me wrong....VINYL is and always has been the industry standard, but whatever we as artists must do to get OUR music out there, to show we are on the come-up.........then i am all for it, even if it means playing 4 or 5 of my own tracks on a cdj because i can't afford the hundreds of dollars to press a white label that i don't even want to distribute anyway. (what am i going to do with 100 white labels of the same track?)
/steps down from soapbox
as for the party, i had a *GREAT* time.......was the first time in a long time i went out and partied till dawn. good music, good friends, good times. thanks for a great evening
madd love to all i saw....you're all simply just to many to name and i know i would forget to put someone down anyway LOL. and thanks to everyone who caught my set at the afterhours......i was tired as all hell but it was cool to see that many people appreciate the shit i threw down.