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In Reply to: Was talkin wit me bud Emile (Berliner) the other day ... posted by Elmo on February 12, 2007 at 02:34:33:
It's a "collector's medium" where a tiny amount of reissued material may (forever, admittedly) be made available. I don't think it addresses the OP in any way.
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The entirety of the industry's new product is either from dig recording, process, mix, or master. As in ... it ain't music. It don't make any f*ckin' diff what format product is released in. It's C R A P. Much of it now lossy and compressed.Collector's medium? Nope Bubb, a music medium. Analog. LP. A mechanical rendition of the original acoustic event/waveform. And there are billions, and billions, and .... billions of records out there. Analog reissues have nothing to do with it, as well they have nothing to do with the industry's bottom line.
The music died in 1984. Bits? Keep 'em. You can have them. All of them. They're all yours. Every last single fuggin one.
Odd that, to be so refined that one can't enjoy music for what it is rather than for how it was recorded or stored.Not to say that a preference for a certain sound isn't reasonable.
blowin' hot air up me kilt there Tom? Refined indeed :-)It isn't like I haven't had a ceedee library or two. In a complex world, exponentially gaining in speed. The death of recorded music wasn't readily apparent. Analog music isn't the be all end all of existence, but really .... I tried, and tried, and tried. To listen to didge. But nothing could change that it was only product, not music. I got over it. It weren't that bad. Now there are no distractions, it's all vinyl.
Aibo will never replace spot or fluffy, quaint as he is (have you seen the vid of programmers who stage soccer matches, with teams of reprogrammed Aibo's?). And no machine will ever replace flesh and blood human beings. Robots can never be human. Digital always will be what it is. A recreation. A representation. Heartless. Lifeless. It will never be music.
I don't fear the future, I'm even a fan of Toffler (these are indeed quite interesting times). But the future is just a little darker none the less. Without the joy, the beauty ... that is analog.
The numbers of new recordings issued on vinyl will certainly decline but it's highly likely that there will continue to be at least some new music released on that medium for the forseeable future. Just last month Warner Brothers announced that they're setting up a new label called "Because Sound Matters" to release new and reissued music on LP and DVD-A (I think star record cutter Steve Hoffman is involved with this effort). The LP continues to have a "coolness" factor as an object that the CD never attained, so I'm quite comfortable predicting that some musicians will always want to see their music on that medium, even if the press run is only a few thousand copies.
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