At 10:02 PM 10/6/00 -0400, Denise Benson wrote:
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>
> It's funny, I was writing to Mark Turner the other day that I appreciate his
> private responses to my playlists posted here 'cause I was feeling a trifle
> guilty that I don't have the time of late to post on many other topics, even
> when I'd like to. I'm aware that some of you might not be as interested in
> playlists as others, but there do seem to be an awful lot of people who are
> interested, myself included.
I'm not a DJ (but I play one on TV), but I enjoy the playlists...it helps me ID
tunes and when I actually hear them spun at a club or played on the web or on
the radio I can appreciate them even more. Heck, even buy them.
>But I do think playlists are an important part of this (for the most part)
>underground culture. It's a way to spread the word about music, straight up.
>What do other people think? Is it time to do a list poll on posting playlists?
>
> Poll... hmm...
>
> That gives me an idea. I think this list is great, but I think as strictly a
> *mailing list* in the most basic of terms it's severely limited in terms of
> its potential. The list was born in 1993, a time when only college students
> and certain businesspeople had access to the internet, and email was either
> accessed via a text-based shell program or through some office system like
> Lotus Notes or something.
>
> Well, this is the year 2000. The Internet has reached way more people, more
> countries, more socioeconomic, more demographical groups than severn years
> ago. The Internet is also more advanced -- the web, Java, streaming audio,
> the proliferation of MP3s, etc...
>
> Being that this is a MUSIC based mailing list I think we should add more
> dimensions to it. The crux of this list is talking about good music that has
> some sort of connection to "acid jazz" and hype it or dis it.
>
> I must say that I'm at a miss sometimes when people talk about tracks. On a
> mere mailing list, these tracks, no matter how dope they are, are limited to
> words on a computer screen surrounded by quotation marks. Just words. Where
> is the music? How can I hear that track?
>
> I'm generally lucky, I live in a large metropolitan area/media market and am
> fortunate to have at least one radio station play some of this sort of music,
> see bands, artists and DJs who are from here or tour here and have retail
> outlets that are able to sell at least a part of it. But others aren't as
> lucky, or some are even more lucky.
>
> What I'm saying basically is, I think we should look to a web-based source as
> a more interactive extension of the list. A way we can do polls, where DJs
> can easily post their playlists ot top 5/10 lists, a way where people can
> listen to tracks via streaming audio or even download MP3s of these said
> "dope tracks."
>
> Hopefully there's a way it can be done automatically so as not to tax Mr.
> Boralv (or anyone else) with the task of maintaining it. Any CGI programmers
> in da hizzouse?
>
> One example of this is the various egroups.com lists...Each list has their
> own website, web-based administration, archives, web subscription, poll
> service and file archive.
>
> I'm NOT saying we should move over to egroups...But as a better example, a
> living example, go to the 2-Step Garage site www.heavyweightsound.com -- they
> have a message board, they have streaming RealAudio DJ sets, they have 2-Step
> MP3s for goodness sakes... I'm getting more and more in step (no pun
> intended) with the garage scene because of that resource...why can't we here?
>
>
> We already have an AJ list website...
>
> Elson
> List member since Fall 1993
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