By this point I’m playing strictly vinyl, and it isn’t long before I sell my old first-gen CDJ-500’s which replaced my original non-DJ CD players. I begin to develop a love for techno, playing out at events much more frequently, and building a sizable record collection. 1996/7 were great years for techno – lots of heavy industrial stuff, acid techno and general machine noise business you could rinse out for hours on end.