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September 25, 2008 | By Sotek | 2 Comments
Here's a dead-on observation from a random commenter over at House Is A Feeling blog:
...I personally think the importance of reviews in dance music has waned since the beatport/juno age came onstream. Apart from being useful in alerting me to the existence of a track, I'll always sample a track myself and trust my own ears rather than rely on anything a journalist says, who after all, is just some other dude who likes house/techno. I guess the opinion of a journalist you respected was more important in days gone by. Which isn't to diss dance music journalism, I just prefer reading well conducted interviews or articles that talk about the scene in a general way, rather than reviews of individual tracks.
I could not agree more. It's been a long long time since I read any dance music record reviews. Not that I don't have the time for it... I just don't care about them anymore.
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conceptx said: haven't been on here in a while but I'd rather put this that the US read more
kelvin said: please please please reopen MOS in singapore! read more
nochange said: No no change at all will follow. USA is doomed! http://www.infowars.com Go and get the read more
Rod said: For me it's the best album of the year. it's pure dub. I already fall read more
Foxache said: what a tune.. been after this bad boy for ages.. cheers. read more
Sotek said: @John: Don't forget that those are the results from last year. And why the hell read more
John said: how do good djs lyk boys noize not make da top 100 and shitty tiestto read more
Sotek said: There's plenty of other affiliate options for such sites: Juno, Dancetracks, etc. Btw.. here's the read more
musique concrete said: Thats too bad about the affiliate program at beatport. I wonder what all portals they read more
toño said: I've listened that, it's great read more
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conceptx said: haven't been on here in a while but I'd rather put this that the US read more
kelvin said: please please please reopen MOS in singapore! read more
nochange said: No no change at all will follow. USA is doomed! http://www.infowars.com Go and get the read more
Rod said: For me it's the best album of the year. it's pure dub. I already fall read more
Foxache said: what a tune.. been after this bad boy for ages.. cheers. read more
Sotek said: @John: Don't forget that those are the results from last year. And why the hell read more
John said: how do good djs lyk boys noize not make da top 100 and shitty tiestto read more
Sotek said: There's plenty of other affiliate options for such sites: Juno, Dancetracks, etc. Btw.. here's the read more
musique concrete said: Thats too bad about the affiliate program at beatport. I wonder what all portals they read more
toño said: I've listened that, it's great read more
It's always down to the individual understanding of "what's cool" and "what's not". People do have same taste for music though. You cannot just ignore what someone says about certain artist, label, track, etc.
@Peter: "You cannot just ignore what someone says about certain artist, label, track, etc."
Give me just one rational reason why not.