By cyrus
Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:19 pm
i remember when i started diggin, and recently forgot to keep diggin, had a realization, and now i'm back to digging because thats what I love...............
beach_break wrote:i moved to new york in 1992 and all the 80s house, electro/early rap and techno from new york, chicago and detroit that i couldn't get in australia was just laying around on the streets for 25 cents a piece. no one was interested in it. the whole retro thing hadn't happened, and beat makers weren't looking to these types of records for beats. i had no competition and cleaned up.slide me a mix...i spin that stuff too. i bought records when they came out...all OG.
it was so cheap i bought them all. i had a rule - i never, ever walked past records without checking them out. after hearing the gems i'd find, my girlfriend even stopped complaining about waiting hours for me on the streets and started encouraging me. she'd ring me up to say she'd come acorss a pile of records and read labels and dates to me. i'd say buy them all and put them in a cab home.
i had the best time and now have a collection that is the envy of all who know me and keeps me in dj gigs.
thank you NEW YORK CITY.
