Comments on: RANT!

By: Mr Krum

Mr Krum — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:11:46 +0000

“If I could switch the internet off today I would, get the independent record shops back in business and meet up with friends in a record shop on a Saturday afternoon when the distribution van turns up with precious new sealed import 12s to salivate over, even outbid your mates for that exclusive shit, play it on the pirate radio stations, do mixtapes that you can’t get anywhere else except from that particular DJ.”

That’s the truth right there!!!

By: Repo

Repo — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:32:34 +0000

In response 2 what Repo,etc said about people not listening 2 new music,& 2 much music on the net-i choose not 2,otherwise i’d never catch up listening 2 the old! Of course it’s nothing 2 do with me living in the past & thinking ‘they dont make tracks like that anymore’ !!! It happens 2 everyone eventually !!!

By: Mr Repo

Mr Repo — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:09:35 +0000

Definitely truisms to the wax, mate.
My only gripe with the internet is that THERE IS TOO MUCH MUSIC!
I’ve got albums and albums I’ve ‘acquired’ over the last couple of years which always end up in my ‘Listen To Later’ folder. It creaks whenever I add anything.
I’m not helping matters either by making my own stuff and subversively passing it out amongst friends and peers.

You’re on the money about no one getting into new music as well. I listen to a little bit before I hear the groaning of my Folder and it’s puppy-dog eyes enticing me to please listen to that Ugly Duckling album as it been 3 years since Rapidshare gave up 32 minutes of it’s time to bestow it upon me thankyouverymuch.

By: Eclectro

Eclectro — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:59:45 +0000

Very interesting stuff,especially your likes dislikes,& how record buying is crap now(as mostly involves internet!).
My opinion is 12″s,mp3′s(& memory card mp3 players!),mini disc recorders & CD recorders are good. And apart from downloading,& a handfull of blogs/sites(DS,ABBU & Dutch spring 2 mind!) internet & PC’s are a waste of space. As 4 forums like Electro Empire they are wack to the extreme-snobbish & mostly full of people who only know anything thru Discogs! I.E. if someone said i know ‘nothing about anything’ to me in the street i’d knock em out! I prefer to leave that site & let ‘the old boys club’ bore each other!

By: WarpiG72

WarpiG72 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:39:18 +0000

I totally agree with everything u said there, my man.
Another problem I have with this internet thingy-majig is how easy it is 2 become an instant expert on even the most obscure shit. Thanks 2 sites like discogs, some 16 year old kid that has never even visited the UK can rescite verbatim every 12″ ever put out on Kold Sweat.
I’m all 4 the next generation educating themselves on the real culture, but sitting in ya bedroom with 2 terabytes worth of mp3′s doesn’t equal nearly 30 years of “actual” experience and/or actually owning the real fuckin’ records.
That’s just my opinion though, innit.

By: Eclectro

Eclectro — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:07:34 +0000

interesting read about not wanting computers or internet.
Personally i never collected 7”s,once 12″s came about & listened on the very first tape walkman.Once CDs came about hated them & missed so much commercial stuff thru still getting just 12″s only(& odd 10″). Then in early naughties started 2 replace albums & get/replace some singles·& downloading on fones. But i still hated PC’s & still do. I always thought mini discs & CD recorders were a good idea,but miss the tape pausing. But even tho don’t have PC love mp3 players-i download on fone stick the memory card in the reader of my old Archos & that’s how i will probably keep going. But look at how strange my ways r tho! I think internet is good 4 finding music just 4 finding radio rips-Latin Rascals,etc. But i’m just bothered about old stuff & couldn’t afford 2 have(or even hear it!)without the net. But i’ll probably never get a PC(if so i’d have 2 get an iphone-more expense). Gone are the days when i’d keep my music 2 myself,i’d share most of it-only problem is i don’t have a PC 2 do it!