Vinyl Resurrection

I read an article on a website called Digital Music News, which mentioned  about a recent upsurge in vinyl sales in 2011.  The National Association of Recording Merchandisers had a presentation in Los Angeles, CA a week ago, and discussed a 25% rise in vinyl sales for this year, which for many djs will ring sounds of joy.  I've been one of the few djs that began using digital dj software in the last 7 years, but before then I absolutely refused to use anything but vinyl.

Many people over the years had predicted that vinyl would be phased out altogether, but because of the Hip-Hop artform it never really went anywhere.  in the mid to late 1990s, I would say that it went more underground, and you had to go to specific stores to buy vinyl music.
 I'm very pleased that many djs have kept the vinyl movement alive, and that will allow people the experience to feel vinyl again instead of cds or mp3s only.

The only reason I moved from vinyl to digital programs like Serato Scratch Live, was because it allowed me access to much more music in the mp3 format than vinyl, but it also kept the vinyl feel of using records with an encoded digital signal.  I no longer had to haul 7-8 milk crates full of music everywhere I dee-jayed at, and could now spin just as much music through my laptop and turntables.  The wear and tear on my body physically is no longer an issue, and I can just worry about 2 turntables, a mixer and my laptop.

I will never abandon vinyl though, because that's the origin of the Hip-Hop DJ.  I still have vinyl that I used to haul around to my gigs, and more than likely I'll keep them for as long as they'll play.  The beauty of being a dj from the original vinyl era, is that you can really see how important it is to keep the "warm sound" of vinyl around, because mp3s will never have the "thick sound" that vinyl possesses.

Source of Reference: Digital Music News. (  May 17, 2011). Vinyl Projected to Grow More Than 25 % in 2011.  Retrived from http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/051711vinyl#CIgdcAZL2XSQItGrN9AkmA