On 27 Oct 99, AeOtaku@aol.com wrote re: (idm) Re: classify!:
quoted 3 lines there's no reason to have more than a few hundred records if you> there's no reason to have more than a few hundred records if you
> don't DJ professionally (and even then you shouldn't have insane
> amounts) and I'm beginning to think he's entirely right.
How can you possibly have a SHOULD HAVE situation regarding a
totally personal thing? I regard my music craving as an obsession,
a fix, an addiction. On a par with *needing* drugs - music just
happens to be my drug of choice. I spend as much money on it as
I might do on white powder and it gives me (on a relative scale) as
much pleasure and will endure long after the rush and nose-burn
have subsided.
quoted 3 lines The stuff he plays all the time is in a crate by the sound system,> The stuff he plays all the time is in a crate by the sound system,
> the stuff he plays sometimes goes in crates across the room and
> stuff he rarely/never plays goes inside a shelf
Now, this is a far more reasonable way to package things than
some of the other suggestions I've heard of :-) I, too, do this: have
a flight case which holds 3 rows of 30 CD's containing +-60 'core'
albums that travel with me and then space for additions for that
specific night out. Depending on venue and likely attendees, I will
choose accordingly.
The rest of my stuff is in plastic crates - compilations in one box,
dub in another, downtempo loungey acid jazz in another, ambient
somewhere else, techno & D&B separate from those, etc. - of
course many of the groupings have overlaps, but it's a system I can
find my way around even if nobody else can (and why should the?)
That being said, I also have certain clusters that are sorted by
label: a Ninja Tune area, a Warp area and a whole huge sector for
anything coming out of Germany/Vienna.
The only problem is getting more CD's for any particular box, and
then not having sufficient space to cram it into where it obviously
'should' be and subsequently having to reshuffle the whole bang
shoot.
But it provides hours and hours of trainspotting fun.... doesn't it.
Those lovely moments of "oh shit! I didn't know I had this". :-)
I
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