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>From: lo-ki@pinsky.com[SMTP:lo-ki@pinsky.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 11, 1996 11:12 AM
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Real World Top Ten
>
>Hey maybe I'm just over sensitive but (as a list member and DJ who
>keeps an
>active top ten on my website) I felt that I need to answer some of
>these
>points because I'm sick of hearing this kind of stupid whining...
>
>Mark Turner wrote...
>>I'm probably not the first person to think of this, but
>>here's my "real world top ten," named as such because:
>>
>>1) I don't include promos or unreleased white labels.
>>I have to buy my records at the shop just like regular
>>folks.
>
>Hey man, those white labels end up at the stores too, you just have to
>dig
>for them. I was rocking the fresh white labels long before I was
>established enough as a DJ to get them from the labels... I bought them
>at
>the *store* "just like regular folks." In fact I still do. Regularly.
>About
>3-4 years ago I found a slammin white label of "Ponderosa" from Tricky
>(at
>Gramaphone records in Chicago) and about 2 years ago I got a white
>label
>copy of "A Zed & 2 Ls" by Fila Brasillia at Eightball records in NY
>(and
>that's only two examples.) So stop whining about how nobody services
>you,
>and how *real* you are, and start digging in the crates. Music is like
>anything else, you have to work if you want the good stuff.
>
>>2) Old releases are just as likely to show up as new
>>ones. I can't afford to buy everything the week it
>>comes out!
>>
>>3) Non-aj releases will get hyped as well, if that's
>>what I'm listening to.
>
>Stop patting yourself on the back, check out my top ten (or one of many
>other good DJs) and you'll see (and hear clips of) records released a
>long
>time ago as well as last week. You're not the only one into the old
>shit, a
>lot of us on this list are into lots of different types of music you
>know.
>
>Sorry to go off but that post just really rubbed me the wrong way, I
>hate
>when people complain about not being "hooked up" with the new releases.
>We
>DJs work very hard at keeping on top of this scene, and presenting new
>and
>fresh sets every week, so fuck off if you're too lazy to work at
>following
>new music, and just want to complain.
>
>Peace,
>
>Lo-Ki
>lo-ki@pinsky.com
>www.imageinfo.com/lo-ki
>
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