I was buying something at Radio Shack the other day and the woman salesperson noticed my check said Arhoolie Records. She said she was a DJ and ask if I knew of any LP pressing equipment she could buy.
It seems her fellow DJs wanted to press LPs of music that is only available
on CD so they could scratch it, and what ever, on their turntables. I
started to explain the whole process of mastering, plating, etc and got her
totally confused.
Tom Diamant
on 3/7/06 9:12 PM, phillip holmes at insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
True, but they don't quite sound the same. I went into a Guitar Center to
buy some Stanton headshells and contact cleaner and saw those
CD-scratching-faux-turntables a while back. Their response to input seems
slow and the sound isn't as raw. But the main reason they exist is to make
available to DJs material that isn't available on LP.
Phillip
----- Original Message -----
From: "steven c" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The Future of RECORD Collecting - an interesting
documentary
----- Original Message ----- From: "phillip holmes" <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>I got a copy of Scratch for Christmas. These DJs are like popular
musicologists. They have encyclopedic knowledge of funk, kitsch, etc..
Very entertaining book. They are "like" jazz musicians in a way. Maybe
they could be considered percussionists.
However, it is worth noting that there now exists software that allows one to "scratch" a CD as though it were an analog disc! Steven C. Barr (who has a number of 78's that are "pre-scratched!...)