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JackTheBandit  ·  3423 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No laptops in the DJ booth

Culture.

Hip-Hop, House/Techno, Reggae/Dancehall cultures place emphasis on the skill in manipulating the music via a turntable (and CDJs like the club standard Nexus.) Because of that, there is an association of quality with being able to perform well on turntables/CDJ and a mixer. Also, in genres like House/Techno/Reggae/Dancehall, there's a lot of quality music that only exists in a vinyl format for this reason.