Movement 2007: Scan 7 Talks Beatport, ITunes, And The Future Of Vinyl

June 26, 2007
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Within electronic music, few cities know more about being self-sufficient than Detroit. Unlike many electronic scenes, where labels abound completely unlinked to each other, Detroit has gathered many of its techno, hip-hop, house, drum and bass, and electro labels under one roof.

Trackmasta Lou and 7 from Scan 7 talk about distribution and how it is changing in Detroit. We talked earlier in the week to Mr. De about the current state of vinyl and digital downloads. While Scan 7 and Cratesavers still feel that vinyl has its place, they offer digital downloads to keep up with the industry.

Again, as with Blake Baxter, it all comes back to analog. To get that full, rich low-end, vinyl still packs it better than anything else.

Scan 7 are part of the Cratesavers Muzik Family.

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BILL HOLLAND: Now, I know you press to vinyl and CD. Are you doing the digital downloads yet or do you not feel comfortable with the new format?

TRACKMASTER LOU: Oh no. We're doing all formats but we're sticking with the tangible vinyl but we're definitely doing downloads, MP3s, digital, ring tones. We're doing it all.

BILL HOLLAND: Good. So you're embracing the new technology but you're also really holding on to what you feel most comfortable with and what you feel gives the best sound for the type of music you're performing.

SEVEN: Yeah. You know, the new technology, we all want to make it clear too. The name of the label is Crate Savers but at the same time we understand it is a business, and you know there's new technology out there and there's a generation growing up in that new technology, and we have to make sure that we're exposed to that generation as well, but at the same time there's an artistic value and to have it in vinyl presented throughout the world, and that's why we're calling ourselves Crate Savers because, you know, like you said, the vinyl is still -- I mean the digital stuff, you got your CDs, you got your downloads, and the MP3s and all that stuff, and that's fine, that's beautiful. We all need it, but what we can't do is let the original art form get diluted and so that the new generation coming up won't -- We have to make sure that they have some type of tangible and some type of educational and how this music evolved and how the platform evolved, and so that's why we elected to call ourselves Crate Savers so that's say, "Hey, you know what? This is preserving an art form. This is about educating. This is about keeping the community of people alive." We got people that maintain a living off of making artwork for Vinyl. You got people who plan to send their kids to college off of having a wax factory. These are the same people that supported underground music and accepted us and worked with us when the corporate environment wouldn't, and so it's more to just having wax. It's a bigger educational platform that we have to promote, but at the same time we understand digital but we don't want people to get it misconstrued. We're for everything but we're taking it upon ourselves to say hey that's cool but let's not forget this and let's keep promoting this and educating people about this as well.

BILL HOLLAND: It was interesting this year too because there are lot of live acts. I mean Model 500 played live, and I've never seen one and I've never seen all of them play live before, and that was really interesting. It's interesting to me too that the people I see DJ mostly were DJing using Vinyl and if they weren't they were a lot of times using Ableton, doing some production live as well, so I found it interesting that we're seeing a lot more DJs. If they're not using vinyl, trying to use a laptop to push into that production boundary and I found that really interesting. I know how you feel about that, what you think about the laptop DJs or not but I mean do you think there's a future with Serato or with Final Scratch? Do you think that's maybe a middle ground towards something else?

TRACKMASTER LOU: Well, I mean there's a future for it but at the same time, the turntables are like dinosaurs but at the same that's why we continue to do vinyl, for the turntables, and we hope that the turntables won't die and that's why we got Crate Savers, and that's why we're having -- we got this thing called DJ Making Louder. It's coming up and it basically going to be consisting of two turntables, one mixer, no Serato, no MP3s, no effects, just straight out art, the gift that you do.

BILL HOLLAND: Awesome. Well thank you so much for talking to me today. WE're here with Scan 7, and we'll be back with more from Movement 2007 soon on Gearwire.Com.

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