Retro Night with vinyl records
We went old school on the 12th of November 2021 embracing the era of vinyl records.
In place of Matt's laptop, was his turntable and about half his collection of vinyl records. Some dancers also came dressed to suit the retro theme.
This was a novelty for all of us. It has been a long since Matt had no repeat, fade in / fade out function or the ability to search for songs and play from a list. After choosing a record from the pile he had to read them to check which side was the instrumental version.
Not all the latest songs were available but we got to enjoy some old ones that were new to us.
Matt told us a little of the history of square dance music production. Maintaining the equipment to make vinyl records was costly and small specialists shut down over time. A minimum press from remaining big record producers became larger than the number of callers buying them and square dance music moved into the digital age.
