What Is Old School DJ Stuff and What to Look out for for the Future?

0:00 It is the best piece of technology

So what is old school? Well, believe it or not, but in this imaginary world, today there's a new piece of kit just been released by this new company. It is the best piece of technology. Guess what? It's got the fastest processor. It's got the best wiki wiki out there. And you know what? You can do everything with it while you're spinning your grooves. You can phone your mates. You can also make yourself a milkshake and you can go to the club. You can be a rapper at the same time while you're doing a four-deck mix. Now that is amazing, isn't it? And also, guess what? If you go online right now to that download site, you can download tunes that aren't even made yet. No, not that new school or old school. You can download tunes that have been made today. In fact, the producer has only just finished mastering it. It's online and you can go and download it.

Brand new. But then six months from now, or maybe a month from now, that's old because the new one's out. I mean, I've heard stories of there being a brand new laptop in a local, I don't know, the takeaway, Curry's. And you find out that actually by the time it's gone through the motion of getting to said store, they've already got another one. They've already updated it.

So the mission is old. So this is the whole reason for this video is what is old school? Now, everything actually will one day become old school. Now, I am not an advocate of buying a brand new iPhone. I just I don't do that sort of shit simply because you all you're doing is really following the Joneses. You know, next door's got a 32 inch flat plasma screen, 600 K TV, and you've got to get a 700 KT 72 inch screen. You've got to. They've got an Audi R8. You've got to get an Audi R7, R10. You've got to get a Porsche. You've got to get a Ferrari. You've always got to beat them. But somewhere down the line, there will be someone who has got something better than you. I'm digressing slightly to apologize.

2:30 This is where the research is sort of personal

And even if you do get the best piece of technology, eventually it's going to be old school. Now, the key to this video is very simple. If you want to capture something that's old school, then what I highly recommend is do some research and have a look and see what's trending at the moment. Now, this is where the research is sort of personal. But if you do correct, research and you look for what people like and kit wise or music wise and keep said piece of kit or keep items of music, then you will indeed in the future. If you sort that out and think about it today, you will have a really good collection of old school that you've got today in the future. So what do I mean? Well, take a look on the bed. A couple of Technics SL 1200 Mark II. They are the daddies. All right. Yeah, they're on the bed. It's just because I'm moving things around. But those decks, if you think when they were made, they weren't old school. They were just turntables. I mean, I remember back in the day, people used to just use vinyl. That was it. It was vinyl. All right. Also cassettes, your small little cassettes.

And then what happened? CDs came along and everyone was like, no, we don't need vinyl. We'll go to CDs. And then MP3s and people were like, why we don't need CDs? Go to MP3 and laptop. And the mind boggles. But you see what happened? There was a point when you could have bought and I did buy a deck. I haven't got it with me now though. I bought a Technics SL 1210, which is the black version. The only difference between the SL 1200 Mark II and the SL 1210 Mark II is one was silver, one was black. I am 99% sure internally, no difference except the colour. But I bought one for 100 pounds. That's about 110, 20 euros, about 130, 40 dollars US. But they were peanuts because no one wanted them. I could have probably bought 10s, 20, 10, 20, 30 of them at that price because no one wanted them.

5:30 Kits you've got and don't think

Nowadays though, a set of those, even in just about working condition is going to cost you 500 pounds. And that's even if you can find them. But they're just going to go up in value because these are old school. You see people now are looking to get old school kit, old school music, retro styley. My little boy who's nine. All right. Get this. He loves old school retro music. Retro games and kit. And he's just into his retro stuff. And I'm glad I've kept a load of it. So what I want you to do, the whole idea of this video really is look at the kits you've got and don't think right now I just need to get rid of it all. Sell it and get next to nothing. Maybe there could indeed be a couple of gems that you've got. Now I'm going to finish this video off with basically explaining what the gems are.

And this is very simple. When you have a company that manufactures Mark 1 and then they manufacture Mark 2, 3, 4, 5. And all of a sudden by the time they get to 6, 7 and 8, it's all around the world and everyone loves that. For example, the iPhone. Then you are pretty much guaranteed that the Mark 1 will be very, very collectible indeed. Just like in a way the iPhone. Many of you now have kept your iPhone 1. Probably nobody. Comments underneath if you have. But I'm sure, I bet you they are quite collectible. Technics. They are collectible. I'm sure the original Pioneer mixers are collectible. The original Pioneer CD players are collectible because they're retro. They may be a bit clunky and may not work as great as modern day tech. But they're old school.

Really, like I said, finish this video with remembering about the originals. Keep the originals and also once you've got them or if you can get them, try and get them in as good a condition as possible. And also if you have the box, like for example, the Technics behind here, they are just the decks, nothing else. But if I had lids on them, the original box and packaging, they'd probably be worth a lot more. So if you can keep the original packaging of your item, chuck it in the loft, put some silica gel capsules in there. Basically what they do is they take away all the moisture. And then in 20 years time, if you're still around, bring them down, sell them and buy yourself a house. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. A small house. Practice and enjoy. A doll's house. A very small doll's house.

Practice and enjoy. Yeah.

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