What good new music is still released in 12” format?

Many of my favorite forms of music have been moved purely to “usb stick djing”. By the mid 2010s it feels like lots of commercial dance and hip hop had moved off 12” entirely (and I mean commercial in the loosest sense — not just pop acts but “niche” genres without hipster cachet)

What scenes and styles still revere the 12”? Disco edits, are those still considered good, lol

I ask in part because I’ve discovered I really prefer the tactile sensation of djing with vinyl to being at a laptop or scrolling through files on a controller etc. Just as a sensory experience, superior. On the whole tho, I’m kind of anti- new vinyl. Don’t really care to spend $40+ for The 1975 “vinyls” at urban outfitters. But I feel like certain niche underground scenes must see some value in physical media? Or are they all being forced off it by pressing plant wait times for Taylor swift merch ?

are they all being forced off it by pressing plant wait times for Taylor swift merch ?

I think this is mostly what's happening

https://www.discogs.com/label/264266-Dubplates-Mastering?year=2024&page=1

lol what is a GVB album doing on that list

GBV sorry

very slowly i've been making a youtube playlist of just records that dubplates & mastering have made. its my life's work. not really. but they have made hundreds and hundreds of cool 12-inches. and now the katatonia fan in me wants to hear the new reissue of the october tide record that they made last year.

Damn I gotta dig through that

I'm also curious, btw, about stuff that's not DJ music at all -- like, metal, hardcore, punk, subcultures in general-- are there local scenes that still put out 12"s? I assume in techno that's still a thing, at least in europe? or maybe not?

people put out tons of vinyl. too much vinyl. the guy from the nuclear war now metal label just built a pressing plant in texas where his store is. he wanted metal and punk people to have another outlet for making records.

I mean specifically 12"s though -- rather than prestige bait Vinyl for hanging on the wall / for the artist aura vibe on a coffee table etc...where its more like, collecting as a form of community

I'd say the 12" is possibly too popular in the punk/hardcore scene atm, I get it because you can charge more for it and nobody buys physical music any more, so I can see why this is happening, but there's a lot of EPs being put out that could easily fit on a 7"