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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 * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Excerpts from mail: 27-Oct-99 Re: (idm) Re: classify! by "Jeremy Graham"@utdallas

quoted 3 lines My buddy Josh, who DJs jungle and techno

> My buddy Josh, who DJs jungle and techno > says there's no reason to have more than > a few hundred records if you don't DJ professionally

I've always been wary of this, since as a DJ myself in an academic setting, I'm surrounded by a lot of mediocre folks who call themselves DJs. Whenever I play out I always want to try and take my listeners on a journey so to speak... highs and lows, various styles and subgenres within genres.... I mean, that's why years ago I decided to call myself Bleepbloop in the first place - I play bleeps and bloops. I have a smallish collection of 1300 records of which some I play always... and some I play about once a year. But I always like that variety. I played a gig about a month ago where I brought about 2 hours worth of music with me expecting to be wedged between a few DJs, and found out as I went on at midnight that there was no one waiting to go on after me... at 4am after I'd milked my collection of EVERY track I could find... I was about to give up when a guy came up to me and, grabbing my shirt collar screamed "YOU CAN'T STOP... JUST PLAY THE SAME TRACKS AGAIN" and I thought to myself, there's no way I could do this. It's just not right.... I'm playing a party this weekend, where I'm booked to play the whole night... I'm expecting to play at least a 6-7 hour set, which in turn should be about 75 records. But I'm going to bring around 300 just so that I have enough choice to play around.... it's important... :) Wonder if I could trade my collection in for a Merc or a small airplane? I bet Lance could buy the land that Cleveland is built on. Aaron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Before it was cds, I had well over 60 fruitcrates (remember those? You're old, then :-) of vinyl as well as scads of 7" - and yes, I wish I'd never sold them. Regarding your statement, it's a bit of a false dilemma you pose...it could be also that we (those of us addicted to having too much music) simply love music, have a burning desire to support other people and/or are simply into *buying* it as well as listening to it (as well as numerous other possibilities). I betcha there are a BUNCH of people out there (c'mon you irresponsible choon hoarders, fess up!) who know exactly of what I speak here, too. It is a platonic kinda lust; the ideal is as much (even more?) of a kick as the "real". I *love* to shop/trade for music. Always have. When I worked a second job as a counter jockey in a record store, I spent all of the income from that employ and a good hunk of my "day job" $ on music (hey, I WAS getting an employee discount, after all...). Impractical? Certainly. Foolish? If you think so, so be it (not implying you were implying that, btw). Maybe I'll never have a lot of what other people consider important (in terms of material items), but I bust my butt in a job I hate (and have for 23+ years) and music affords me some modicum of pleasure. Importantly, my wife is in accord with me on this. I admit, I'm obsessive. jeff AeOtaku@aol.com wrote:

quoted 5 lines Wow, people have 3000 releases?

> Wow, people have 3000 releases? > You are all either way too tolerant of > music, or way packratish. I never > allow myself to have more than 1000 > or so records at a time.

jeff "10,000 people all screaming the same thing at the same time are wrong, even if they're right." dancing/about/architecture "...with wandering steps and slow..." ICQ904008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

i seem to remember jeff mills saying he only owned something like 300 records after 10 years of dj-ing... anyone one else remember this? (m)

quoted 19 lines My buddy Josh, who DJs jungle and techno

>My buddy Josh, who DJs jungle and techno >says 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. > >On the organization tip, I do it by label, >but my cousin, who collects hip-hop and >has just mountains of records, does it >by how often he plays it. 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 by the >closet. I keep meaning to organize my stuff >this way but I sell so much of the chaff I >don't listen to it so often it doesn't seem feasible. > >Matt

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