Play it again, Sam: Retro trends that were hot in 2018
Vinyl: After fading out of the Indian market by the 1980s, the classic LP began making a comeback about a decade ago. In addition to the vinyl lovers’ groups, listening sessions and pop-up sales where crate-diggers scrounge for everything from David Bowie discs to Jagjit Singh, there are also workshops where you can learn to DJ by mixing vinyls.
“There’s more interest in vinyl mixing workshops because it’s a visual medium. You can see the disc spinning on the turntable and the timelines of the song,” says DJ Skip, who conducts such workshops in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Jaipur, Bengaluru and Chennai.
Two years ago, electronics giant Panasonic began manufacturing turntables again and last year, music giant Sony announced that it would begin pressing vinyls after a break of almost three decades.
“Besides the high fidelity [or accuracy in the reproduction of sound], it’s the connection you develop with a vinyl that sets it apart from digital mediums,” says Mumbai-based collector Arul Kacker, 24. “Over the years, the material ages and acquires a character of its own. And no two copies of the same record will sound the same.”
Retro filters: Want an analogue-style date stamp on last night’s party photos? Or the photo you took outside the Taj Mahal to resemble the one your parents have preserved in a slightly tarnished album? There are vintage and disposable camera filter apps like Huji and Lomograph to help you do that.
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