And it's never been healthier - or more chaotic. For some, the most beautiful song is the one you haven't heard yet. I know stockpilers who download more music than they can listen to. With each death, I thought of the various MP3s lost - and felt lighter. Two or three laptops died on me this decade. You like late-1970s vinyl from Central Africa, as hoarded by European obsessives? Chances are, a few bloggers out there do, too. Value imploded distribution bottlenecks melted into YouTube streams and file-sharing pools. Sounds now move faster than the speed of context. More rigorous public discussion, MORE ALL-CAPS SHOUTING MATCHES!!! Music found itself simultaneously compressed and dispersed, zipping around digital networks with unprecedented shareability and access. And, due to the increasingly viral nature of music production and idea dissemination, it's constantly speeding up.Įspecially this decade, when everything went haywire: More of everything! More musical memory, more forgetting. A night at the club may now require babysitters and earplugs. Long enough for genres you love to drift out of fashion for innovative groups to bloom and then wilt into facsimiles of their younger, brighter selves - if they survive that long. MP3 got married and made us all their children.Ī decade, in music, is a terrifyingly long time. I learned obscure paths through music - pre-Google, pre-Blogosphere, before Ms. Pre-MP3 smorgasbord, I would haunt the record shops and tape the radio, getting cassettes via mail order.
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Toward the end of that decade, I upgraded to a PC with a CD burner - amazing! But, as a DJ, I still coveted vinyl LPs, not because they sounded "warmer" or "better" to my ears, but because I could literally get hands-on with them and use the slabs of wax as raw material in a mix session. It cost me 25 cents and contained about five hours of music as low-quality MP3s.
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Full disclosure: The last CD I bought was in Mexico City. Ethics - or is that ease-of-use? - guide music consumers in the 21st century. I'm told it is in stores, Google reveals sites in Romania and the Netherlands who've pirated it already, and you can purchase it online, legally, in a variety of digital formats. A new mix album of mine was released this week.