[cmrdporcupine]

Back when I DJ'd techno in the 90s I would have killed for this for what it could bring creatively to a set. Just the ability to cut my own tracks onto white labels and put custom loops etc on vinyl would have really changed things entirely without having to front a whole bunch of cash (which I def did not have) to get a batch of records pressed which probably nobody else would order or play.

But now mixing is done digitally and playing with vinyl is a mostly lost art and it's trivial to put your own material together into audio files and mix it.

[dylan604]

I've heard tales of Ritchie Hawtin playing multiple turntables (6-8 depending on who's telling) where he'd have tracks separated as stems into dub plates and do live remixes by swapping out the plates. The things people did before Ableton!

[cmrdporcupine]

I saw him do 3... maybe 4? tables? But mostly 2 or 3 decks plus a 909.

Around here in Toronto area we had a local (Jeff Milligan / "Algorithm") who was famous for absolutely precise beatmatching, and often 4 deck mixing. Very minimal wonky/bleepy techno.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2083209238436343

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAthnDk7ZcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6EJOzGj4xM

[dylan604]

Playing that minimal techno, I'd need at least that many tables just to keep from being bored.

[cmrdporcupine]

I mean, it's not listening music, it's dancing music, and contextually needs to be placed in a very atmospheric, very dark room. And mixed well.