T. Barnaby Milne

Keep your MP3s and CDs at home - when it comes to drum & bass vinyl is the only format that makes sense. Find out why artists and producers are almost mocking technology by creating music designed solely for vinyl.

It's important to appreciate that garage vinyl records aren't just simply a novel way of playing music, but a true and honest medium that reflects the origins of the urban scene. For garage, speed garage and dubstep, vinyl is the original, and the best.

Whether you're in to RNB vinyl records or hip hop, it's important to remember where these forms of music came from. When it comes to hip hop vinyl is the only form of media that can fully recapture this unique cultural movement.

Haul out a collection of happy hardcore vinyl records if you need your spirits lifting and your energy levels boosting, and find out why listening to happy hardcore vinyl records is like going to the theatre.

You may laugh at the fact that I have funky house vinyl records, not because of the genre, but because of my choice of media. Why am I not alone though, and why do so many people see this as a natural partnership?

Nu skool vinyl records, and breakbeat records in general have enjoyed breaking apart from some of the more mainstream or traditional dance routes, and it is perhaps fitting that their transfer to vinyl be marked by breaking away from digitization.

The very phrase techno vinyl records seems somewhat of an oxymoron - with all that is modern, clean and bright being combined with older, less perfect technology. What is it about this fusion of old and new that is so appealing?

For true fans of hard house music vinyl is still preferred to digitized media, and in fact musicians are even providing extra features for those choosing vinyl. What are these features, and why do we so love imperfection?

Trance music and dance music has a very firm foundation in electronics and computer synthesized sounds. Why is it, then, that when it comes to trance music vinyl is still seen as one of the best forms of media?

When it comes to dance music vinyl may be the only media you can really feel, adding a whole dimension and character to a performance. MP3s and CDs are great, but just why are so many returning to vinyl records?