To all those dj friends and acquaintances that have asked me mp3s of "my" Magick Edits 12" EP - http://clone.nl/item16102.html

First of all thank you for your interest.
Secondly, nothing personal, but the 12" is not even officially out yet and thus, with respect to Clone's efforts and investments, I'd be reluctant to send files even to my own mother.

Also it's just re-edits,  it's not my own music so I'm not really motivated to promote it by sending mp3s to a dj pool (as I instead might consider doing with my own tunes)

The main reason why I liked the idea to do a Magick Edits EP is not self-promotion (ok, maybe a little), but rather to support vinyl market and to give the (few) remaining vinyl djs the possibility of playing out some tunes that have worked well for me in the past couple of years. I believe that keeping vinyl alive does good to all djs and music lovers, particularly in the so-called disco scene.

Personally I think the market (and the blogs) are overcrowded with wishy-washy re-edits (maybe mine are too!) and unnecessary re-issues. Nevertheless I'm hoping that all these re-edits & re-releases can make more and more people interested in buying (and playing out) records and thus help stores, distributors, labels to stay in business and ultimately allow us artists to keep releasing our productions in our favorite physical format.

In my humble opinion, if those re-edits that are scheduled for a vinyl release are made immediately available in digital format, that probably kills the whole vinyl fidelization process. With re-edits there isn't really any artist or name to promote (or at least there shoudn't be, strangely some people consider themselves producers and musicians only because they've managed to add a fat kick drum loop to an old record) and I so see little reason for vinyl-borne re-edits to be but on vinyl for those who want to dj them – both in the club or in their bedrooms. Of course they will be eventually ripped from vinyl and  spread on blogs and p2p, but that ought to be the proof that they are good edits and people like them, not the starting point for their diffusion.

On the other hand, I'm sure that very many of us "contemporary disco djs" make our own re-edits for dj purposes and possibly don't really won't them to be immediately available to the masses, so to make our dj sets more personal and somewhat unrepeatable. That's one of the reasons why I take pride in considering myself part of a movement that's creatively so vital – compared to most other dance music niches.

Maybe I'm just too much of an idealist, but I guess I'll stick to that until reality proves my wrong and possibly even after that.
I'd like to know what you think.

Feel free to post your opinion below or on facebook.