100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

I'll add another thing to the list: the penny/50-öring or what have you. These small coins will soon be a thing of the past.

 

Well, if there's a group that can bicker more than dorks like us, it's the DJ crowd. Analogue vs Digital, CDJ vs. Midi, etc. etc. I like the fact that I can use all three (even mixed if I had to). The fact is that analogue will not only cost you about 5x per track (unless you happen to like the B-side and then it's only 3x) the aforementioned weight and space come in to play. That and I've found looping via MIDI and CDJ to be invaluable.

Honestly, the only one I don't like is Live, unless you're dropping your own tracks. It is very boring to watch someone dick around on an APC40, and I've talked to plenty of people that say it's not very exciting for them either. I'm learning how to do it to make mixes of tracks I simply "can't" mix b/c they're not my style (but I still want to listen to) but all the prep work that goes in turns me off big time.

Yeah, I was in that crowd. Records here were about 1000 yen a pop (that's a single w/ 2 or 3 tracks on it, but usually only 1 you gave a shit about) back when I was buying. None of them ever had any resale value more than 100 yen (usually 10 yen though). Now they're 1500 yen for the same deal. A friend of mine I still see from time to time says he got rid of about half of his and is down to 4000. He lives in the city too. :-0:-0:-0 The thing is, that really hard music from the late 90's just hasn't aged that well.

 

Ableton can be useful for DJing things that are otherwise difficult to control (breaks), but I agree, watching someone mixing anything four-to-the-floor with Ableton is just tedious. Why bother with the human element at all?

I'm a little surprised to hear that second-hand vinyl prices are so low in Japan. My mate's made a decent bit of cash over the last few years selling his rarer electronic stuff, I was stunned at the demand on ebay for some of it.

 

Have you seen Tokyo Eyes (1997)?

In the film, he lives in walking distance to Shibuya - you should know the locations. Pretty insane vinyl collection he has, must be 10.000+. Lots of gaming allusions as well.

But btt.

 

There are a handful of used vinyl shops in Shibuya still, an even at least two that carry new stuff. Cisco had 3 or 4 shops on a corner: 1 House, 1 Techno, 1 R&B/Reggae, and I think a used one. All of them, gone. I know a few people that still only buy records but they're limited in what they can actually buy (plenty of small labels that can't afford the vinyl press).

As for the resale value, obviously if you have something rare and in demand you may get some dough for it, but the 30 or so records I saved from God knows when only have sentimental value. No way would they sell much of anything at all... as per before, that music is hardly in demand.

 

Seriously?

I don't think I've ever met anyone who only bought vinyl. For normal playback it's a gigantic pain in the ass, and since almost all modern music is mastered from digital the "analogue warmth" of vinyl is little more than muddiness from the analogue phase (I recognise I'm venturing into the DJ dork-bickering you warned about, though, so I'll stop there).

 

Cash will never be obsolete. A few years ago when SQL Spammer hit the Korean banks and nobody could draw out money they were lucky and didnt care as they had physical money. So there were no widespread problems. Make cash obsolete and you could be looking at widespread rioting in the event something did happen.

On the subject of wires. ITS NOT FUCKING WIRELESS IF YOU NEED A RECEIVER. I have Phillips headphones. You go a fucking CM out of its range and BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

Show me a wireless system that doesn't have a transmitter and a receiver.

 

Looking at this and the 3D Star Wars thread made me realize that people only a few years younger than me won't remember a time when the prequels didn't exist. That's depressing

 

On the subject of vinyl, I think Jeff Price of Tambersauro put it perfectly.

I like archaic formats because they force you to listen to music. Y'know, LISTEN TO THE MUSIC. Instead of using it to fill space. You're not doing the artist or their art justice (it's like playing a game half-assed, skipping the cut scenes, and never finishing it and then thinking you have an opinion about it). Tapes are more portable, yeah, but you still only have one album in the space that you can have thousands in digital formats.

 

I was just saying these headsets specifically BZZZZZZZZ when you are in the direct view of its LED's. Look at the xbox 360 controller. Its wireless but you can go out of view but it works.

 

MY kids will definitely know about Minidisc because I have a big collection of recorders, discs, and accessories from the late 90's/early 00's. I'm a fiend.

 

Vinyl isn't going anywhere it's mounting it's comeback even

 

Yeah Vintage shit seems to be popular nowadays. Not as funny when every other post on tumblr is some generic image of a girl with a vintage retro polaroid camera or something.

 

I really want to get a high-end portable (or semi-portable) MD recorder so I can justify all the other MD stuff I have sitting around.

I don't think the comeback of vinyl is about vintage hip-ness (well, it's a factor, I admit) - I'd say it's more of an artistic thing. At least in the view of the people producing vinyl, who will continue to do so regardless of if it sells or not... most musicians don't release vinyl editions to make money, in fact most releases are very very limited in comparison to CD.

 

Indeed, you're right. But, for at least one person I know he doesn't own CDJs.

It is the arcade of the music world. Nobody will care except for a few hundred people on a few internet forums.