Re: Internet Diggers
To me they both have their purpose. I prefer vinyl because it's more hands on approach to sampling and the adventure just digging. Picking up a record dollar bin record that's over 30 years old and plays perfect with some nice grooves is great.(especially when people think you're crazy for buying records in the 1st place the look on their faces is hella funny) Vinyl also helped train my ears for sampling tremendously. Sampling from my PC I use to read the waves and just extract parts. So I was using a more visual approach then trusting me ears.
On the flipside of the learning to read the waves helps when chopping up drums breaks quickly via MPC or PC. Net digging for records is aplus for me because I can't find all the records that I want in my area. As far as mp3's I feel they are very useful when I didn't have a turntable I used wavs and mp3's as a soucre for sampling.This help me work on my sampling techniques.MP3's are also great for reviewing music of artists or groups that you never have been exposed to aswell. A record that I may have passed on for months may have a some great sounds on it that I would have never knew about if I don't review that mp3 song that someone may have uploaded.
I haven't read the Premier but from what was quoted. I think it's more that Premier doesn't want digging just fall off and be forgotten because of todays technology... just my two cents..
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