fabriknos
over 14 years ago
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i have a good friend who used to spin vinyl and now only buys wavs on beatport. he will spend $50 at a time and put them on a hard drive or CDR and play them at a house party or event or whatever. then, rinse and repeat for the next one. now on the surface, this doesn’t seem that different from vinyl DJs who would stock up on new records before a gig, play them once, and move on to the next batch of new records. but the big difference is that with a stack of records you don’t want anymore, you can resell them, or collect them for nostalgia’s sake. there’s no such thing as reselling a digital file (maybe one day there will be, i hope not). and there’s really no value in collecting mp3s either. i don’t care if you have 5,000 or 500,000 mp3s. your collection is still worth only as much as the hard drive it’s on.
anyways as i’ve said many times before, i think beatport, while its intentions were good with the whole bridging the technology gap thing, and enabling people to become “DJs”, has inadvertently contributed to massive over saturation of dance music, and its subsequent decline in value and meaning for many people.
