Death of the Turntable
Back when I did radio, we had all this mobile dj equipment for parties and such. We had the coffin covered in carpet, housing two turntables (and a microphone!) and a portable CD player by the mid 90s. Nowadays they’ve got CD scratchers and mixing apps for the iPhone. I mean, on the one hand, it’s cool to be able mix between tracks with an iPod and rock the house mp3 style. But really, it’s gotten way too hard to witness a classic scratch artist working the vinyl. Sure, there are purists out there still keeping it real, but the wedding scene, man, it’s technology all the way. What happened to mullets and tuxedo t-shirts? I’m so old.