From a techno blog some may already be familiar with:
http://testindustries.typepad.com/test/2007/07/past-mastered.html
Past mastered
This topic has been discussed in some of the forums recently, and it
was something that I wanted to post about before I went away. The fact
that I'm only
In response to this article (sorry, not sure who wrote it; credit seems
unclear from the website. testindustries?)...
At 19:08 2007.07.26, Wojtek wrote:
From a techno blog some may already be familiar with:
http://testindustries.typepad.com/test/2007/07/past-mastered.html
Past mastered
I'm not trying to diss the legal digital download sites - hey, I even
work for one - but it seems like the opposite is now happening to what
the gatekeepers of the digital revolution had originally predicted.
It still comes down to dance music being a niche market, and one that took some
pretty
This is an important point. Larger sites/distributors often use
smaller distributors they trust to act as gatekeepers. Way back
before the Distributor Apocalypse of the past few years, Dietrich
Schoenemann at SG (Now Complete) Distribution picked up my two
records, and the majority of his sales
But that relativism aside, I think a more pertinent question is: why do
audiences / booking agents / clubs / mix cd listeners / labels tolerate or
encourage filter for DJs who play a narrow style range in a narrow time
period? (This, rather than trying to explain why there isn't anyone to play
http://testindustries.typepad.com/test/2007/07/past-mastered.html
Anyway, enough excuses,
here goes; has anyone noticed the way that the same limited set of
releases are getting played and charted all the time?
I'm not trying to diss the legal digital download sites - hey, I even
work for
On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:55 PM, David Powers wrote:
What might help is to have more of a social networking approach to
tracks, where users, not the distributors, are connecting the dots,
and you can get custom recommendations based on your past choices,
rather than having premade choices selected
That's what my INDIE-HIPSTER-FILTER(patent-pending) is for... I
envision it having three settings:
1. I'm a sheep, show me what's most popular!
2. I'm a wannabe scenester, take me a little off the beaten path!
3. I'm an uber-indie-hipster, show me the most obscure S#$% !
~David
On 7/27/07, Matt
The third one should read: I'm an uber-indie-hipster, show me the
most obscure S#$% that them popular so-called underground but really
mainstream djs play ;o)
On 7/27/07, David Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's what my INDIE-HIPSTER-FILTER(patent-pending) is for... I
envision it having
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From: David Powers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: (313) Old vs. n.e.w.?
Well, I can definitely say that it's easy to confuse people
by being too eclectic, whenever I throw something in a set
At 12:46 2007.07.27, you wrote:
But that relativism aside, I think a more pertinent question is: why do
audiences / booking agents / clubs / mix cd listeners / labels tolerate or
encourage filter for DJs who play a narrow style range in a narrow time
period? (This, rather than trying to
I'm betting there's an obvious answer, but perhaps it bears mentioning?
m50
Well, I can definitely say that it's easy to confuse people by being
too eclectic, whenever I throw something in a set that's a little
bitting surprising and outside of the overall sound there are some
people who
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