Re: fabric mix series to end 'in its current form' at 100th instalment
I did the same for nearly 20 years and kept moving the heavy boxes of about 600 CDs and 800 vinyls. When we decided to move 1800 miles across the country for a lifestyle change a little over a year ago I decided it was silly to keep all of those crates for that once a year trip down memory lane. Before we left St. Louis I gifted the 800 vinyls to a fellow DJ i'd known for years who still played out a lot, and dropped the 600 CDs off to GoodwillI and kept four CDs out of the entire collection strictly for nostalgia purposes and because my Jeep still has a CD player. I have a pretty ridiculous audiophile system at home and I really don't fell any loss playing anything I want via Airplay from my laptop or phone, whether the file is wav or 320 from my hard drives, or streaming via Spotify (subscription, no commercials.) I don't ever find myself saying, "damn, would that high hat sound better on CD or vinyl?" but rather am amazed that I can pull up a rare Zeppelin track on a whim and follow it up with GU 9 with a few swipes of the thumb. Convenience and less clutter in my life easily won over crates and crates of physical nostalgia that really became cumbersome and inconvenient to enjoy. Law of diminishing returns. I'll admit that I do not have the same feeling as going out to buy the new Sasha GU 9, coming home and unwrapping it and inviting a buddy over for a listening session before going clubbing for the weekend, but I did that for a couple of decades and those memories don't require a physical media to recall. Onward, upward and what not.
As for Fabric 100, it should probably be Craig Richards (#1 and #100), but I hope its Lee.
I did the same for nearly 20 years and kept moving the heavy boxes of about 600 CDs and 800 vinyls. When we decided to move 1800 miles across the country for a lifestyle change a little over a year ago I decided it was silly to keep all of those crates for that once a year trip down memory lane. Before we left St. Louis I gifted the 800 vinyls to a fellow DJ i'd known for years who still played out a lot, and dropped the 600 CDs off to GoodwillI and kept four CDs out of the entire collection strictly for nostalgia purposes and because my Jeep still has a CD player. I have a pretty ridiculous audiophile system at home and I really don't fell any loss playing anything I want via Airplay from my laptop or phone, whether the file is wav or 320 from my hard drives, or streaming via Spotify (subscription, no commercials.) I don't ever find myself saying, "damn, would that high hat sound better on CD or vinyl?" but rather am amazed that I can pull up a rare Zeppelin track on a whim and follow it up with GU 9 with a few swipes of the thumb. Convenience and less clutter in my life easily won over crates and crates of physical nostalgia that really became cumbersome and inconvenient to enjoy. Law of diminishing returns. I'll admit that I do not have the same feeling as going out to buy the new Sasha GU 9, coming home and unwrapping it and inviting a buddy over for a listening session before going clubbing for the weekend, but I did that for a couple of decades and those memories don't require a physical media to recall. Onward, upward and what not.
As for Fabric 100, it should probably be Craig Richards (#1 and #100), but I hope its Lee.
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