What is Needle Drop?
1.
A bootleg conversion of a vinyl record to CD or CD-R. Usually taken from high quality special release records released in the 80's, that are not now available.
"Have you heard the Beatles White Album MFSL needle drop?. A million times better than the official EMI release."
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2.
A DJing technique in which the DJ will cut into and out of the music not by using the fader but by literally lifting the needle up off the record and putting it back down.
Impressive visually and very difficult to do accurately, but doesn't serve any auditory purpose (unless the DJ doesn't have a fader in the first place).
"DJ Craze does a pretty good needle drop."
"So?"
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