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Back before CDJs people in the UK used to cut records like this for playing unreleased music in clubs. We referred to the material used for this as "acetate" bu
by bjackman 2y ago
Back before CDJs people in the UK used to cut records like this for playing unreleased music in clubs. We referred to the material used for this as "acetate" but I don't know what it was technically. You didn't do it at home though, so maybe the businesses that did it had to have air filters.
We called these records "dubplates" since this practice came from West Indian soundystem culture. I'm sure there are still DJs that do this today.
- Mizza 2y agoAcetates are still used in the manufacturing process - even pressed records need to be cut once - but they aren't great as products to send to home-users because they degrade from usage very quickly. We are also running a soundsystem and mainly cutting for other DJs. Records are cool!
- unitexe 2y agoYou right. This practice lives on in dubstep and soundsystem music in general.
- usrusr 2y agoThat was my first thought reading this: if these devices spread too far, all the magic will be gone. Dubplates are special not because they are one of a kind, they are special because they are one of a kind while also being so much more exclusive than mixtapes (which can be just as one of a kind, but aren't exclusive at all). Widely available home-cut vinyl might perhaps breed an awesome new culture, but if that happens it will definitely kill the incumbent.
- card_zero 2y agoNitrocellulose lacquer on a substrate, says Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetate_disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetate_disc