vinyl and reel-to-reel tape.
eat lunch in school for years because I took all of my money and bought records.
playing vinyl, the record, they can see the needle on there, they can hear it, they can
feel it.
thing and you?re looking at the colour of the labels and that?s how you remember things.
the world.
I cant begin to tell you ?A? how heavy, ?B? how much I spent in overweight luggage and
?C? how many times I?ve had records stolen from me.
was on CD players and I was like, ?this is really interesting?
and I was like, ?where are the turntables?.
coming out with rack loaded CD players and they weren?t very user friendly.
and they were working on introducing the CD player.
test my own tracks and bootlegs and start using tools in my vinyl sets.
it seemed to work.
as much as you could and a lot of DJs didn?t want to let go.
who were like, ?oh people that play with CDs aren?t real DJs?.
They couldn?t tell me that .
the CDJs and half of my crowd would walk away because I wasn?t going to be a real DJ.
important to move forward and I could see that coming.
?these things will be the future, mark my words?.
And I knew it was going to happen.
game for me.
are those, are those 'UFOs'??
alien at the same time.
It can do?
and he took the wheel and he started scratching with it and I was like, 'woah, wait a minute,
how are you doing that??
the only time I?d ever seen anyone scratch an optical disc was in the first batman movie.
especially a scratch DJ always wanted to be able to scratch or manipulate their own material.
cupboards, and the CD player, or the rise and rise of the CD player, which became more
and more apparent.
single club all over the world and it happened in the space of barely a year.
things that you weren?t going to be able to do.
I can take this in the studio and use this as a studio tool.
There?s no wow or flutter, there?s no fluff on the needle, you can have as much bass as
you like.
shop and buying tunes, it became about downloading them.
Now if you had to buy all your tracks and download them, did you really need to burn
them on to cd?
Never will.
Because I think you put something between you and the crowd, you lose something special.
CDJ-2000 you were able to play music form your USB stick.
looping, a whole new world opened up.
do, like you can quantise all of your loops.
I mean, just that small feature alone was just so great.
part of the whole pioneer experience.
during the set, so immediately if I record a set, I would now have a record of what I
was playing.
stepped in to another revolutionary and futuristic realm.
It added more layers and dimensions to what I?m able to do during a live performance.
4 tracks down.
The slip mode overall, its just another step up for the world of CDJs.
to the needs of a DJ and not just one DJ, they?re paying attention to the needs of all
DJs.
world now.
Who knows where were going to be in 20 years?
that Pioneer are not scared to embrace that.
They led every step of the way.