Thanks Lazz, I am finding I'm getting far more satisfaction from doing these rather than just passing out gobs of free music to little reaction - I've been gaining some real traction at mixcloud (354 regular followers and more each day) and I love that the mixes pay actual use royalties on each play - there may soon come a day soon where they constitute the majority of my posted content and file sharing will be a private back-door thing.
I muse that I'm getting far more enjoyment from actually being creative with this music and all YOU"RE whiney-ass can see is your gravy train being cut off? GOOD RIDDANCE!
I never understand how a blog's generosity, especially one like this with all your efforts to bring so much good (and oftentimes obscure) music, brings out the worst in some people, who continue to feel entitled. I'm sorry that a few spoiled children can a) change the discourse in here and b) move sharers to stop doing just that, in essence ruin any sense of community. Not to mention that he has such courage to use Anonymous instead of standing behind his words. King, you do what you need to do, but there are those here who truly appreciate what you have brought to our collections.
As you are aware, I not only love your compilations but also appreciate them, admire them. Like everyone else, I have put together my own and found it a long arduous process of testing each track transition and making adjustments and revisions. There is an art involved. Your expertise, deep familiarity with a wealth of material, musical sensibility, and textural sensitivity result in soul-storming pinnacles of hand-made sonic landscapes.
Playlists are now everywhere, important elements of on-line identity from the NewYorker to the Guardian - though sadly not up to your standards - they are a medium you design and produce insanely well. So it's great that you find recognition and appreciation on MixCloud. It is well-deserved and hard-earned.
But I will miss you here. I will miss the activity, miss the friends I have made here, the chats and the laughs. And as much as the music I will miss your writing very much, the information and the education. They don't seem to have that on MixCloud.
What I won't miss is seeing you upset and unhappy and not being able to do anything about it. The love bank has you way in credit. xxxx
Obviously I was more than a little infuriated this morning - I AM proud that I managed to with-hold the torrent of foul language and insults that WERE running through my head at the time - why is it that these Snotty troll boys are always Anonymous? Do they know ahead of time that they will eventually say something they would be embarrassed to take ownership of?
Anyway if anyone noticed, I never said I was shutting anything down or abandoning the blog, only that I was considering a change of focus and a little less of the indiscriminate giving away the store style of passing out gobs of free shit to little snots who have never patronized their local music stores in any meaningful way as evidenced by their 'entitled' attitude towards those who have chosen to share on blogs - I never considered that I would stop sharing with YOU GUYS - only that wholesale distribution of links to any and all was getting tiring and that I enjoyed the idea that at least use royalties are paid at mixcloud.
I greatly appreciate what you have done and are doing here even if I don't say so every time I download something. Recently there has been a lot of stuff posted that I already have, but there are always some new things scattered throughout and occasionally things that I like so well I go buy the CDs so I can have the real thing. These are discs that I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't found out about them here. I do two weekly radio shows and a fair number of things I find here make it to the air to be heard by many more people, so you really are spreading the word well beyond just what you see here. Thanks again.
Not to beat a dead horse on this issue, but this whole notion of trolling I find a troubling phenomenon. As I'm not usually one to turn the other cheek, I'm torn between responding to them in anger and just ignoring them. Rationally, I know they're just in it for the hackles they can raise, some sort of impotent power they must feel in provocation, and so ignoring them will just rob them of what they want. What kind of stunted ego/entitled infant behavior this is I surely don't get. All sound and fury, signifying nothing . . . to paraphrase. The internet has given us this paradox of democracy: on the one hand, blogs like this and a handful of others have flourished, both in terms of the music they explore and the notion that people can come together over like interests and expand each other's horizons. Yet on the other, every foul-mouthed shriveled-up soul can post his (and it is overwhelmingly his and not her) bile and it enters the discourse. Mission accomplished! Kind of like in the world as a whole these days where if nonsense is said or written, it must be considered; after all, it's been published. I refuse to let these intrusions change the truth and I find myself wanting to find the will to ignore the trolls' behavior and nonsense. In letting them poison things, we give them legitimacy, something they do not deserve. I hope you do keep at it, King as it is a political statement really, in standing up to bullying and selfishness as a right, all part of the price of admission. No, it's not.
@ KC - "I AM proud that I managed to with-hold the torrent of foul language"
The linguistic loveliness that is "lalochesia" defines the emotional relief we can achieve through using vulgar or profane language. That's what you missed out on by biting your tongue.
KC you know I understand exactly where ur at. Mixcloud is rewarding because you can see the stats and proof that people are enjoying your work. Thats all any of this is about. Yes its a labour of love but without any return it becomes hard to get motivated. We need to start our own streaming radio on Live365 or something similar. Between all of the associated blogs we would have lots of support. I know its something you want to do and since you put the bug in my ear, something I want to do more and more.
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Fine piece of work.
Well threaded together.
Glory in the stitching.
Thanks Lazz, I am finding I'm getting far more satisfaction from doing these rather than just passing out gobs of free music to little reaction - I've been gaining some real traction at mixcloud (354 regular followers and more each day) and I love that the mixes pay actual use royalties on each play - there may soon come a day soon where they constitute the majority of my posted content and file sharing will be a private back-door thing.
i was gettin' the feelin' it was about you and your number on mix cloud more & more - shame - goodbye now
More than YOU and handing YOU piles of free music everyday? Yeah, you right! Bye!
So nice to know that 5 years of handing out free stuff was SO appreciated. YOU may well have made up my mind about this, good job!
I muse that I'm getting far more enjoyment from actually being creative with this music and all YOU"RE whiney-ass can see is your gravy train being cut off? GOOD RIDDANCE!
I never understand how a blog's generosity, especially one like this with all your efforts to bring so much good (and oftentimes obscure) music, brings out the worst in some people, who continue to feel entitled. I'm sorry that a few spoiled children can a) change the discourse in here and b) move sharers to stop doing just that, in essence ruin any sense of community. Not to mention that he has such courage to use Anonymous instead of standing behind his words. King, you do what you need to do, but there are those here who truly appreciate what you have brought to our collections.
Easy to empathise with your sentiments, KC.
As you are aware, I not only love your compilations but also appreciate them, admire them. Like everyone else, I have put together my own and found it a long arduous process of testing each track transition and making adjustments and revisions. There is an art involved. Your expertise, deep familiarity with a wealth of material, musical sensibility, and textural sensitivity result in soul-storming pinnacles of hand-made sonic landscapes.
Playlists are now everywhere, important elements of on-line identity from the NewYorker to the Guardian - though sadly not up to your standards - they are a medium you design and produce insanely well. So it's great that you find recognition and appreciation on MixCloud. It is well-deserved and hard-earned.
But I will miss you here. I will miss the activity, miss the friends I have made here, the chats and the laughs. And as much as the music I will miss your writing very much, the information and the education. They don't seem to have that on MixCloud.
What I won't miss is seeing you upset and unhappy and not being able to do anything about it.
The love bank has you way in credit.
xxxx
Obviously I was more than a little infuriated this morning - I AM proud that I managed to with-hold the torrent of foul language and insults that WERE running through my head at the time - why is it that these Snotty troll boys are always Anonymous? Do they know ahead of time that they will eventually say something they would be embarrassed to take ownership of?
Anyway if anyone noticed, I never said I was shutting anything down or abandoning the blog, only that I was considering a change of focus and a little less of the indiscriminate giving away the store style of passing out gobs of free shit to little snots who have never patronized their local music stores in any meaningful way as evidenced by their 'entitled' attitude towards those who have chosen to share on blogs - I never considered that I would stop sharing with YOU GUYS - only that wholesale distribution of links to any and all was getting tiring and that I enjoyed the idea that at least use royalties are paid at mixcloud.
Don't let the idiots drag you down, brother.
What pmac said.
I greatly appreciate what you have done and are doing here even if I don't say so every time I download something. Recently there has been a lot of stuff posted that I already have, but there are always some new things scattered throughout and occasionally things that I like so well I go buy the CDs so I can have the real thing. These are discs that I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't found out about them here. I do two weekly radio shows and a fair number of things I find here make it to the air to be heard by many more people, so you really are spreading the word well beyond just what you see here. Thanks again.
--RCS
Not to beat a dead horse on this issue, but this whole notion of trolling I find a troubling phenomenon. As I'm not usually one to turn the other cheek, I'm torn between responding to them in anger and just ignoring them. Rationally, I know they're just in it for the hackles they can raise, some sort of impotent power they must feel in provocation, and so ignoring them will just rob them of what they want. What kind of stunted ego/entitled infant behavior this is I surely don't get. All sound and fury, signifying nothing . . . to paraphrase. The internet has given us this paradox of democracy: on the one hand, blogs like this and a handful of others have flourished, both in terms of the music they explore and the notion that people can come together over like interests and expand each other's horizons. Yet on the other, every foul-mouthed shriveled-up soul can post his (and it is overwhelmingly his and not her) bile and it enters the discourse. Mission accomplished! Kind of like in the world as a whole these days where if nonsense is said or written, it must be considered; after all, it's been published. I refuse to let these intrusions change the truth and I find myself wanting to find the will to ignore the trolls' behavior and nonsense. In letting them poison things, we give them legitimacy, something they do not deserve. I hope you do keep at it, King as it is a political statement really, in standing up to bullying and selfishness as a right, all part of the price of admission. No, it's not.
I hate it when the few in life mess things up for the many. The thing is; do what makes you happy and ignore the few.
@ KC - "I AM proud that I managed to with-hold the torrent of foul language"
The linguistic loveliness that is "lalochesia" defines the emotional relief we can achieve through using vulgar or profane language.
That's what you missed out on by biting your tongue.
KC you know I understand exactly where ur at. Mixcloud is rewarding because you can see the stats and proof that people are enjoying your work. Thats all any of this is about. Yes its a labour of love but without any return it becomes hard to get motivated. We need to start our own streaming radio on Live365 or something similar. Between all of the associated blogs we would have lots of support. I know its something you want to do and since you put the bug in my ear, something I want to do more and more.
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