BILL HOLLAND: Hey everybody. Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I'm here at Movement 2007 in Detroit, and I'm here with Detroit's own DJ Surgeon. Thanks for coming out, man.

DJ SURGEON: Cool, man. How are you doing.

BILL HOLLAND: Doing excellent. We're talking to him about the difference between the digital and analog media in DJing, vinyl versus the laptop, and I mean I know you use both but you use them for different reasons, and first let's talk about the vinyl. Why do you use vinyl and what purpose does it serve in your DJ set?

DJ SURGEON: Well, you know, after 27 years in the DJ game and producing and stuff, the vinyl records are used when I do a turntablism exhibition where I'm really trying to show people, you know, the beat council, how to get down with the records, how to get down and dirty with beat juggling, some really cool scratch and then things of this nature. The digital thing -- as everyone knows, I'm also an artist -- when I go out to debut new records and new music and new remixes I have done that I are not pressed upon vinyl, I'm able to give that entertainment to the public without necessarily having to go spend a couple of thousand getting that record ready. And once I get a great response on the record, then they're able to decide whether they' re going to press the record up or not. It's a great avenue. It's just so good to have the MP3s that play like records because you're still manipulating the vinyl feel with Serato. That's the real deal.

BILL HOLLAND: Awesome. So with Serato it's more of an issue of you have -- you don't necessarily always have that track you need and if you're going to LA, you might need to pull up Egyptian Lover, and if you don't have it in your vinyl bag, you're up the creek, but -- You know, with turntables obviously you're using 10 to 20 records, usually you're not carrying that big of a bag, but you know if you're doing straight up set, you're doing an old school set, you might want to switch over, you'd probably go over to Serato, right?

DJ SURGEON: Well, most of the time, a lot of DJs you'll notice that they have a pre -- a set pre-planned, pre-done. What I usually do, the only thing that's actually pre-planned in my shows is the intro and the outro. Everything else is kind of like genre based where I'm at, what I'm doing. It's very good to have Serato because they may not feel a sort of thing in Chicago one night. I may be in a different region of the world that listens to just hardcore pounding techno and they don't want to hear any electro, so I have to just switch that genre and then I have the access of three, four, or a thousand records at my disposal but my feel has always narrowed down to about a hundred solid records in Serato that I go to that I know are going to move the crowd. It's just I get really upset when guys say, "Well, I got Serato, I got this, and I got 10,000 files." You'll never play them all. You're spending time searching through your crates because you don't know what to play. That's not DJing. That's just being a record -- a music collector at that point.