http://www.heydj.com/blogs Dance music records in the 21st century. Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:12:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The early days The seeds of Hip Hop were first sown during the early 70’s by DJs such as ‘Cool Herc’ in the Bronx, U.S.A. DJs would play parties with twin turntables and soon realised that by using two copies of the same record they could prolong their favorite breakdowns to the ... http://www.heydj.com/blogs/a-brief-history-of-hip-hop/  Diagram Disc records for audio have been manufactured since the late 19th century. Although the process has changed gradually over the years, the basic principles of sound recording to disc have remained the same as the very first experiments. Movie Part I Movie Part II And what some people do with records... http://www.heydj.com/blogs/how-vinyl-records-are-made/ Back to the Groove   With all the technological advances in audio formats over the last few decades vinyl is still going strong, record collectors and dance music enthusiasts have been keeping the sound format alive when major record labels lost interest in the late 1980's along with the general public. More recently record labels in Japan, North ... http://www.heydj.com/blogs/why-buy-vinyl/ (On behalf of HeyDj.com dance music records UK).  1806: Englishman Thomas Young records the vibrations of a tuning fork on a rotating drum covered with wax but Young has no way of playing back the sound. 1856: Alexander Parkes develops 'Parkesine' in Birmingham, UK. This is generally considered to be the first plastic. 1857: Frenchman Leon Scott de ... http://www.heydj.com/blogs/hello-world/