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This may be totally irrelevant to non dj types reading this, but I discovered something very helpful tonight about spinning cdr’s burned at home. for approaching two years now I’ve been burning cd’s and spinning them on my radio show, and out at clubs. It’s a great and pretty entertaining way to hands on mix new music and new remixes which aren’t out on vinyl yet. In fact, these days there are a lot of wonderful tracks which will never see the pressing plant’s lathe, and so digital files from beatport and similar resources is the new record shop experience for DJ’s. I miss the hanging out, the cover art, and the vinyl itself. Digital doesn’t sound as good, and for all of its convenience, and even much lower price tag, it’s nowhere near as much fun. But I do it anyway, better to be happy and go with the flow than remain priggish and headstrong and not have any new records to play.

What happens to me in a dark dj booth with my little collection of silver CDR’s, each scribbled on hastily with a Sharpie, is that I have no clue what song is what. I end up sticking them into the player to figure out what the song is, and losing valuable mixing time while I scramble to pick them up off the floor and get the right songs inserted on time.

Well, no more. Today I got the bright Idea to label my CDR’s. Nothing fancy, or expensive, just a simple return address label divided in two with a picture of the record cover (or symbolic cover art) and the name of the artist and the song.

It’s all so clear to me now. Why didn’t I think of that before?