[Dynagroove] House Discourse 101/house music scene at large

[A-ron]

This is where you look on my copy of the cd to find the words-

"THIS SHIT DON'T BURN" 

Sometimes you just have your own secret stash, you know?  And I've bought "The Man Who Lived Underground" for two friends since it's come out.

I agree that stealing music is wrong, though.

A-ron

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From: scottfindl at earthlink.net
Reply-To: scottfindl at earthlink.net
Date:  Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:20:38 -0800 (GMT-08:00)

>You Wrote:
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>While I see how it could be interpreted that digital music is threatening vinyl, I have much praise for the CDR and the Pioneer CDJ 800.  I am not a dj, but I know that a professional cd player enables a dj to do really cool things that can't be done on vinyl, like running an exact 4 bars of a track on a loop.  And honestly, can you hear a difference in the club between a cd and a record? Probably not.  
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>This is not to discredit the importance of the 1s and 2s, but technology allows musicians and djs to do more creative and innovative things in the mix, more easily.  There is nothing wrong with that.  
>I think the problem is that there is a shortage of house djs that are turntablists.  Everyone is a dj, but not many play their tables like instruments.
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>FUNKY, FRESH, NEW, HYPE, DOPE, more more more!  Digital music also allows a producer/dj to cook up a track at home and have it out in the club that same night.  They dont have to wait to get it pressed to test its effects on the floor.  I love CDRs.  If I weren't for the CDR, I wouldnt have had The Freaks cd 8 months before it came out.  Uhh, yeah, I AM a snob, too.
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>Here's what is oh so wrong with that statement and one of the biggest problems we face today. The truth is - you *shouldnt* have the freaks CD 8 months before it came out unless you got it directly from the label or justin harris himself.
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>Ask yourself - do you love the freaks cd? did you pay for it? does Justin Harris and his production team get JACK SHIT for his hard work and efforts when you just burn up the CD for yourself and everyone else who wants it? No! Does he deserve to? hell yes. And for those of you who will inevitably say "it shouldnt be about the money" Think about where that money goes. house producers and labels are not exactly what I would call 'rich' in most cases. by and large that money goes to the artists - so they barely can pay their rent and focus on music full time in many cases, the labels, so they can barely put out the next release and hopefully break even, and the distributers, so they can barely get that release out to stores. If the money dries up, so do the full-time artists, the distributers and the labels, and so goes your vinyl records, which trickle down to your DJs and party scene, where everyone has the same shitty records because there are only a handfull of labels relea
 sing shit. :) knowwhatimsayin?
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>Im not knocking you personally - Im sure we have all burned CDs for buddies myself included. BUT this practice (and many other factors - like the economy and what seems like across-the-board burnout w/ dance music) have REALLY taken its toll - 10 fold in the dance music world than the majors.
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>for those who might not know - the music production/indy label side of things is on its last legs. I have never seen the kind of universal fallout that we are experiencing right now. labels, stores, and major distributers are dropping like flies and it is almost impossible to make a living making under the current climate. Just off the top of my head - Prime Distribution (one of if not the biggest dist.) , Hooj (the label and the stores), groovetech US and UK, UCMG, higher source, have all gone under in the last 3 months.
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>So in my eyes, the problem w/ digital music, mp3s, cd-turntables, is not the technical implications for the DJ crowd, but what it does to the 'little guys' who are generally barely breaking even in the first place and dont have a pot to piss in for all their hard work producing the music you and I love.
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>So if you love it enough and want house music to be around 5 years from now, BUY THE SHIT otherwise it goes away.
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