DJ Please Keep Hold of Your Physical Music Collection You Might Need It One Day

0:00 Actually, sorry I beg your pardon, it's an LP

Alright ladies and gentlemen, we live in a very, very crazy world at the moment and I don't want to get political at all. What I'm going to do in this video is give you my perception on, I believe, what's happening, what has happened and what will happen. And this video is DJ related, so it's completely DJ related. Now, check this out. That is a 12-inch single, okay? Well actually, sorry I beg your pardon, it's an LP. Frankie Cutlass and one of his best tunes is the Kuiper, the radio version. You've got to check that out if you love your old school hip hop. Something to die for. So, alright.

Even to this day, people still use vinyl. Here it is. It's a piece of vinyl. And if we go back to the 60s, 70s and early to mid-80s, everyone used vinyl. That was it. And what you had is you had the, you possessed, you owned the physical copy of that piece of music, whether it be 7-inch, 12-inch, an LP, 10-inch. You had it. You owned it. You know, even today. Even if you found it, well, it's yours. You got it. You had something physical. So, it's cumbersome, they're clumb... sorry, clumsy. Cumbersome, you know, they're heavy. You've got a box of 12-inch. It's a lot of weight, you know, and you go to a gig, you can't just take one box of 12-inch. You've got to take two or three and the 7-inch. I mean, if you're anything like me back in the day, mobile DJ, you know, you didn't turn up with a box of records.

2:46 A lot of DJs, just got rid of the Technics and bought CDs

You turned up with boxes of records. In fact, you know, this is why a lot of DJs were so strong because they would just lift in kit and records day in, day out. So there you go. And so what happened was we turned over to CDs. Now, a lot of DJs then in the late 80s to sort of mid-90s thought, well, hey, hold on a minute. Just hold on a second. I can take a box of CDs that are LPs, which are a fraction of the size and a fraction of the weight of vinyl. Not only that, they don't jump, they don't skip, they don't crackle, they don't pop. Wow! What a great way of just, you know, consolidating the music you've got, just putting it into one place, making everything that was once big small. So a lot of DJs, just got rid of the Technics and bought CDs.

Now, back in the day, I would say sort of mid-90s, late 90s, you could have bought a set Technics for like 200 quid, you know, £100 each because no one wanted them. No one wanted them. Now, of course, it's different. You know, the sky's the limit. If you want a set and they're good condition, you'll pay the money. I don't want to go there about what to buy and what not to buy and what not to look for. But anyway, OK, so from CDs, then we went to this, which is the thumb drive, the MP3, the WAV and now a lot of people will use this. Um, so we've gone really from something physical and tactile that has a picture, an image and both of those formats do. CD and vinyl does indeed have some form of tactile-ness.

To them, because there are pictures, you know, especially the old school LPs, great pictures on them. Same with the CDs, you know, Ibiza Classics, Head Candy. You know, you've got those pictures on the front, the Now series, you know, you knew it was a Now CD even if you were like four or 500 meters away because you could just see that the kind of the artwork was very similar with all the Now CDs yet With a thumb drive now, it's great because if this was which you can get in a terabyte and two terabyte, I believe, you know, I could probably get all the music on a terabyte hard drive or sorry, thumb drive than there is with all of those tracks in the back. So I have to carry all of those instead just put that in my pocket.

But the trouble is here is you lose it and it's gone. All right, so where's this video going? OK, so now, of course, we're getting to the stage and we have done for quite a while where people can just play music from the cloud from out there in hyperspace. So there's now no need to take anything, nothing at all with you at all. You could just turn up to the gig so long as you've got good internet, you can play away alternatively, of course, you can just use your laptop and use the music. But what I think is happening is the system is steering people away from having your own music. It's almost as though the system saying you don't need your own music, we've got it for you. It's up there with the gods. It's up there in the cloud.

5:39 Listen, scary time, kept

You can play it when you want. You can go anywhere around the world and you've got your small little folder with all your tracks in and you can play them. You don't have to worry about it. But the worrying thing is here, the worrying thing is, let's go forward a bit. Let's go forward, I don't know, 1, 2, 5, 10 years and let's imagine that most people are now and they've been pushed subliminally pushed towards listening to their music from the cloud, from the web and from no device that they have, you know, no hardware or software have they got any sort of form of music? It's all up there in the cloud. Then that may be great for a lot of people because you could just be anywhere in the world and you can choose a track to play,

And you can play it from your music. But you see what does concern me is at any time the system in the future could just stop you from listening to music. Now you may see find that's bizarre. You may think, hold on, that can't happen. It can. Of course it could happen. Very simple because the way everything's working now and the way everything is moving forward, you know, you're online and all of a sudden you commit a crime and the system says we're taking taking music off. You it sounds farfetched. It really does sound farfetched but then look where we are now in the world if we'd have talked about something like this happening a year ago people would have walked out. It would have been a badly made. Soap yet here we are so in the future maybe if they say sorry you can't listen to music,

You won't be able to and you'll go to your next door neighbor and think well I know he's a mate of mine or she's a mate of mine. Let's go and listen to her music. Well it just won't happen because the system will recognize that you're there and then they you know the other person won't be able to listen to anything. So in a way they'll be like gone out because if you're with me I can't listen to anything because you'll. Be monitored they'll know where you are. They'll know who you with they'll know where you've been and it's very scary time or it could be a very scary time now this is why all right this is why I have kept my formats. This is why back in the day I didn't just quickly sell my vinyl collection and say well I mean I got rid of a lot of it but the stuff I did you know literally didn't use but this is why I kept a load of my vinyl.

8:30 Really with vinyl and CDs you're not completely in control be

This is why I've kept practically all of my CDs because I want to be always in a position where I've I am in control of what I'm playing now that I think that's the key here to this video. Make sure you are in control and at the moment if you are relying on something else then you're not in control so what do I mean by that? If you're relying. On let's say a laptop. And the music's on your laptop and you're using a controller you are but you're not 100% in control if you're relying on music from up there in the web. You may be in control of the music you're playing but you're not completely in control because the web could go down or you forgot to pay your account or it's corrupt and something happens it's gone.

Even. Really with vinyl and CDs you're not completely in control because the needle could break the electricity could stop what I'm trying to say is we need to eliminate as much of the being out of control as possible. To make sure that we do indeed continue this DJ culture in the future and with what's going on at the moment I think that's really important because. Wherever you are around the world here. It's crazy.

You know you again I don't want to go into what's going on it's it's that's not what it is what's this sort of videos about but it isn't it isn't but let's just say it's practically near impossible to have some form of entertainment for a vast amount of people in one place. And that that's. Scary that's very very scary so I hope in a way this video has maybe made you think inspired you but also if you do have a vital collection and a set of decks and you're thinking of selling them just just stop just take a break and have a good think about it because you may initially have a substantial amount of money you've sold your decks you've got you've got a lot of cash but then you don't want to be in the position.

And I've heard. So many DJ say this so many where they've regretted selling the vinyl they've regretted selling their CDs they've regretted selling the turntables and I know shit takes up space but you know you just got to roll with that. Hope it's been help thank you very much don't forget to like and subscribe when you like videos it does help it gets people seeing more of these videos also helps me as well practice and enjoy thank you. And I'll see you guys in the next one.

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