MUSIC is my LIFE. A tale of love, loss and gain by Old Man Kenya
Myself, Having come from the previous era of djing: 'the vinyl days', I can definitely appreciate this guys struggle. Way back yonder, when I was a young whipper-snapper, i would giddily spend hours and hours 'digging', as it was called, through stack upon stack of records at the 'long-gone but never-forgotten' stores like Boomtown and Bassix, and the 'somehow-still-surviving but way-past-their-former-glory' stores like, Beatstreet and Vinyl records. Countless hours would be consumed looking for that one track that no one else would have, that would destroy the dancefloor.
Then as technology moved in and took over the all mighty mp3 has left us with no choice... but to move on... like him. sniffle* sniffle*
Am I complaining? no. Digging still exists; just now its done on hype M, beatport, and croolynclan servers rather than in the flesh. And djing on serato it the shit if you like quick mixes, doubles, and creative blends, live mashes, and personal edits and remakes. aaaand you can always still dig in a store then dj that record or upload it to your comp (but few djs do that, trust me).
Has djing quality suffered as a result? sort-of... now there is no such thing as 'that one track' cause any one track can (and always is) now be multiplied to infinity and played by anyone and everyone whether you've djed for a day or a decade, and tracks and entire sets often become homoginized, over played, and booooring. But, unlike in the past, you can re-edit, remix, re-drum, stuff YOURSELF now and imput a much more personal flavour and dig for tracks accross the world instead of just down the street.
At the end of the day you can't fight technology. So PAUL, basically you should start uploading that shit (thats hopefully past copyright) and make it downloadable from a website! 3 Mil in da Bank, no prob!
responses welcome! kenya@djkenya.com :)
