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DJ Shadow forgets why Hip-Hop Sucked in ‘96 Posted by zenzenzen

Thanks to Quim Abella for the image

Well… another decade has passed, and here we are living full time in the future that is 2010. I can see that you all handled the change gracefully and are excited about the future! Well Done! Not everyone however has managed the transition. I recommend these individuals remain humbly quiet until they fully understand and master their necessary evolution. There will however be cases where people, frustrated with the change in their mediums decide instead to launch a public tirade, and try to change the world rather than themselves.

Case in point is the venerable DJ Shadow…

Gone are the recording studios (including the historically important Plant down the road from me in Sausalito), the record shops, and the music magazines. Replaced by the oh-so-cynical, oh-so-corrosive AM talk radio of the new millennium, the Internet.

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Music Journalism Sucks Posted by robsteranium

Okay, so the title is a bit hypocritical for a music blog but I just wanted to get it out in the open:

Writing about music is like dancing about sculpture!

You simply can’t explain one medium in the terms of another.  At least not very well anyway.

I sympathise with Grant Wilson-Claridge who, when promoting Rephlex Records’ mentalist The Tuss to iDJ Magazine, couldn’t get the journo to stop asking whether it’s really Aphex producing under a pseudonym and realise that music is “It’s boring to read. Really great to listen to”.  Respect to Ian Roullier for posting the whole interview transcript, I’m sure he’s only pushing the question for it’s popular appeal.  But, as GWC says, he ought to “be careful [not to] miss something really great that isn’t really famous”.

So, you might ask, why am I writing this rather than producing a piece of music to explain the concept?  That’s a good question that deserves a post of it’s own.  For know why don’t you learn about some good music in the best way possible: check-out our podcasts.