From: ZeroGravity Sessions (zerogravitytribe_at_yahoo.it)
Date: 2005-04-19 18:38:05
Hello ,
we are not such old members of AJ but truly the degree of information sharing, critique and technical talk has dropped to zero now.
True as it is most listees have developed into full blown producers/writers/performing artists which is good, so probably they do not have time to share...unless it is their web syte!!!!
However i do not think that drop in record sales has nothing to do with drop in posts in AJ, there is, in my opinion, still a lot of thirst for the development and nurturing of taste of younger musicians and future tastemakers.
Altough this genre is reaching some full capacity and loads of new releases are just boring repetitions of already heard tunes( same as it happened with the height and fall of disco music), jazz as a root has still a lot to express especially in fields such as the breaks, d&b, lounge,broken beat.
A one catch all mailing list is still the best option for gathering all info into one handy format to choose from, instead of a Forum where action is more focused on opening a web syte and browsing to the forum of interest.
Finally if the subject of this mail is tech&acid jazz i would expect us to share thoughts on sequencer, drum machines, live musicians and the use of sampling software / production software....is that something you'd like to comment on ?
long live AJ
with love
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Erik Borälv <Erik.Boralv_at_it.uu.se> wrote:
Andrei wrote:
> Admittedly, I have not kept up with the changes to the list in several
> years. I am curious, however, to learn how blogging and podcasting
> have (or are about to) influenced the list or members.
>
> It seems that a mailing list may no longer be the most efficient tool
> to get the word out about incredible new music.
This was discussed some time ago, when the rate of mails started to
drop. The drop started back in 2002. Carl Barimore wrote about this in
2004, a good read:
http://www.cmd.uu.se/AcidJazz/Backup/2004-Apr/0089.html
I do believe that many of the "hardcore" listees moved on, to play/write
music more professionally. A lot of list memebrs now blog instead - hey,
even *I* blog more than I write on the list. Blogs are of course more
than a small trend. There is also so many new forums to compete with, at
record labels and the band's own sites.
In the previous discussion many things were said about the changes - it
was suggested the drop in record sales had to do something with it? The
genre, if there ever was one, has changed more and more. Some of those
changes have got less exiting I think.
And, for mailing lists, staying alive for more than 10 years is really
something. Not many lists do that. See this post from 1994:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.music.info/browse_thread/thread/ac11c14c06f64e7b/d84a5259055c61d3?q=Gregory+B.+Beuthin&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3DGregory+B.+Beuthin%26qt_s%3DSearch+Groups%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#d84a5259055c61d3
I welcome a discussion about this, and the future. We are now at about
100 posts per month.
Cheers,
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