VINYLIST THUGS

"Wednesday morning: very strong Sumatran coffee, half an aspirin, followed by ayurvedic toothpaste, tea tree oil dental tape....  Wednesday is hump day, the middle of the week, so I entertain myself by pestering other blogs, forums, reviews, etc., with my acerbic wit and satire.  I'm especially fond of the "larger" forums where everyone has an opinion and the demographics tend to be populated by two main archetypes: one, the erudite, overly-intellectual geek exercising his M.A. or M.F.A. by massive, footnoted contributions, discerning between this snare's delay and that hat's reverse reverb.  The geek is usually lamenting the past,   when the scene was this and that, some utopian music paradise where the music was so much more happening than the jaded state of affairs.  This is balanced by the neanderthal, who writes in clipped, incoherent dangling participles or internet shorthand, and is always reaching for the next canned insult to hurl at the geek or another neanderthal.  The neanderthal usually lives at home with his mother, so he has all day to surf the Internet, download porn, masturbate, spew vitriolic, lather, rinse, repeat...ad infinitum.

Now that Dubstep is officially dead, I take great pleasure in visiting dubstepforum.com and kicking over the remains.  Here's what I posted almost a month ago when the Burial/FourTet/Thom Yorke collaboration was released, in response to the raging disappointment of not being able to purchase the record:

Re: Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke - Ego/Mirror

by SCNDRCLCK » Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:21 pm

"Why bother releasing it on vinyl at all? Im all for the magic and ideals of vinyl, but in this instance I think someone needs their head caved in."


"@ whoever it was who said something about not whining, go fuck yourself "
                                                     
                                                    --from dubstepforum.com


Thought I'd pop in and look at my first forum topic as a recently joined member, and my...oh my... what violent thoughts course through a dubstepper vinylist's brain when they don't get what they want. Well, here on the West Coast, us post-modern hippies, we share our records because it's the "ecological" way to do things, besides all the polychloride vinyl is killing all the babies... Sometimes at events, you can see the dj's [who still spin vinyl] behind the console amiably exchanging records before their set. I'm afraid to even offer up the question "Haven't you heard of AbletonLive or Traktor? Then you wouldn't have to depend upon your ability to phone up the rekkid store. I know, I know, believe me I've heard all the vinyl purist dialectics, and I'll agree with you, it does sound better. I've worked pro audio for years and know the warm fuzzies your favorite LP can give you when dropped. I don't know, I guess I just got lost in the ecstasy of technology and the digital world. What fun it is to open up a program like Ableton Live, Logic, etc., and feel evolution coursing through your receptors. Well I won't let a little head-caving and fucking oneself deter me from the many benefits of this site. I must say I feel a little ashamed to say that I downloaded these tracks for free from the Internet today and danced around my living room like a little schoolgirl. But Burial does that to me everytime.... Everytime...

Cheers,
SCNDRCLCK