The long running and often violent argument of whether vinyl is intrinsically better than digital has been officially declared as “the most tedious argument in the history of music” according to a panel of industry experts.
The historic decision, which people hope will see an end to hostilities between the two camps, was reached after the entire clubbing community unanimously decided that they were “terminally sick of this pointless argument” and that “too many people have lost their lives in this senseless conflict”.
“It’s probably been the most longstanding and entrenched conflict of the modern world,” claimed one commentator, 34 year old lifelong music fan Daniel Guthrie. “And I don’t say that lightly, I’m including Northern Ireland, the West Bank and Blur versus Oasis in that.”
“Although,” he added, “none of those conflicts result in so much regrettable sectarian violence as the vinyl versus digital debate.”
People the world over have reacted overwhelmingly favourably to the decision with most hoping that they can now browse internet forums or Youtube comments sections without seeing the argument needlessly played out everywhere.
“I’m looking forward to putting the whole thing behind me and finally just putting my feet up and arguing about something else, like who shot first Han or Greedo, you know, stuff that matters,” continued Daniel. “I read somewhere that we’re five years away from having the capacity to mix mentally through our thoughts using microchips implanted directly into our brains, so I’m really looking forward to arguing the merits of conventional tactile mixing and futuristic mental mixing.”
“It just got to a point where I was sick of every tech conversation or forum thread descending into childish name-calling over whether vinyl sounds better than digital, or the merits of digital DJing in opening up possibilities,” claimed another commentator, music blogger, Gemma Curtis. “I just want to take a break from all that fighting and enjoy the music, provided of course that the genre is correctly identified, because I can’t stand when people miscategorise broadly similar genres and I’m willing to argue incessantly about it across a variety of social media platforms.”
The industry experts claim that from now on the argument is considered defunct and should be avoided by everyone as it “only brings out the worst in otherwise friendly habitual drug users” and that if people still feel the urge to tediously argue about something that doesn’t really matter they recommend the following – “any argument with your other half over anything at all, any aspect of politics or the existence of God”.
Class ! even though slightly distorted in the wording lol, the funny does show the truths for what these debates are, a waste of time. No guessing needed to as where I have evolved too lol. 1986 to 2006 now the unmentionable lol
And gee I am fed up with sifting through online stores to find for example this euro type pop rubbish named as trance or various types of progressive and so on! , it should be quite simple named as pop music or commercial dance, its becoming a daunting task sifting threw all this rubbish and in turn those newbie producers that may indeed make good music for the underground masses are also learning wrong, so you end up finding those hidden gems amongst a mass of stereo typical pop rubbish, so now my fun time is a horrible long winded process, I have to search more genre I don’t overly play juts incase.
genre are genre, but we also have to sub categorise from a DJ collection point of view, but that does not make the sub categorize an actual genre to add more confusion its just a description so that DJS can better piece our sets together or locate a particle type of tune, for example I made one up I think !! er!! who knows these days, I do many styles but I have a category called tech trance, but that is just my description of a cross over, don’t mean squat overall, and don’t get me started on this techno mix up, in fact its all a mess these days and it also shows in many a DJ set, and that goes for too much genre segregation. the same ole same with no experimentation into sound. I wish new DJs would stop listening to the commercial side of the music media or networks in it for the glory and money, and start breaking away dig deep and wide and be yourself, not what you thinks it takes to be a media DJ whore.
what more can I say passionate about my music, then again maybe its because I am Rubbish at what I do and I resent on a personal level that most DJs I know are getting the gigs I don’t all because I don’t fit in and conform to these modern ideals, who really cares anyway, my passion feels obsolete in this throw away mix society, does anybody or other DJS actually take time to listen to mixes in the just environment , space out to them etc., where the music and DJS weaves can be appreciated in full instead of listening on your iPods etc while on a bus or busy doing something, ban straight up listening, make people have to download a mix, so it can be collected – this is why the musical knowledge and worthwhile ideals that took many years to evolve are being lost, because its not being savoured. Not tarring all with this brush, hay! if you feel deep about ya music be my friends, but music is being lost in translation,and will continue too do so. over and out from this sad and cut of get, lets get back to the late 80s -2004 in attitude towards music when even a nobody/none DJ in the eyes of the world was a musical train spotter anticipating the next night out and not knowing what epic set will follow, its not so much about musical passion these days.
Don’t ask where all that came from, I am just a sad old resentful 44 year old get, who know nish! lol
so do forgive my nonsense as it wont be long now until my medication kicks in, and I can go back to my own little twisted mix world.
Wunderground is a steaming pile of