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Promotion in Sound System World: - Box Boys
3 years of carrying the heavy bass bin speakers = Promoted to 3 years on the mids = Promoted to 3 years on the tops = after nine years you reach 3 years of carrying the bag-o-wires. Cds ain`t gonna help the box boys.

peace

Yeah, not hypocrite just different point of view. I used mp3 to discovering. But if it is a question of making a sound system with a high volume and people for the listening, then it is different. It is a new way of working which also has the advantages but which in gap with certain things. In spite of my material and my disks I makes it little because I have far too much respect with regard to what represents Reggae music, you know. Finally the debate is over on the MP3 problem than it makes in musical business.

I Know you make some good music recently. In the same way, never forget the true thing, and vinyl is so important, isn't it?

Regards, Stickman Family Sound.

I am amazed this discussion has stayed so er, well controlled I guess. I think the thing is the music comes first regardless of format; period. My problem is that there are many Vinylists that treat you as the spawn of satan if you use anything other than wax. My friends that DJ wax only, use it because they believe the music has a better bottom end, and for that reason alone; that CD does not have the frequency range to produce the the same 'full sound' that vinyl can, not 'just' because its vinyl, and I am fine with that, but you can't have it both ways. On the point of CD giving more choice because its easier to take more tunes, that is absolute xx**??, except perhaps in the case of a novice. A good DJ will take the same number of tunes regardless of format because he will know his set, but if you can't beat em....; do I detect a sense of threat? The fact is I have been to many dances where you cannot know wether the DJ is 100% wax or otherwise, and In our motherland JA, CD is commomplace. Technology is advancing at such a rate, I think it best to look at all your options. Vinyl is sacred, but times are a changin',

Bless up

G

For one thing the vinyl record Sound Systems are not going to change, (it will cost too much money converting to CDs), But really it comes down to production on which the format is recorded, from the studio recording right through to a release. The thing with new gadgets is that you need money to keep up with a new format (which there will be yet another new format in a few years time) To record on to CD in real time makes the sound quality so much better than compressed music transfer to formats, it`s how it`s recorded from soucre that is the important issue in quality and downloading from the internet and then played on a Sound System will not sound good at all. I want to see a DJ not a computer DJ (programmer) with a lap top ina dance. But then again I`m old fashioned with no facebook page, myspace page.
To get a really good quality recording on to CD you need a proper CD deck and they`re not cheap, plus lap tops cost money, Ipods cost money. So I will stick with the analogue I already have and no need to change a thing, people trying to recreate the 70`s on 21st century equipment.
It still don`t help the box boys!!

Keep the live music alive.

peace

That's why the record companies (continue to) change the media form again and again. You need not like any music , but just have to buy everything again and again (while they maintain a paltry catalogue of pop crap that the sheep end up buying again and again).

In my opinion it's not the format that matters, it's all about the vibes.
If I hear a good tune the last thing on my mind is what format it's on, if I wanna dance then I'm gonna.

In a dance you want the whole selection to be good not just one or two tunes.
The vibes: What makes the vibes - The audience or the soundsystem!! What came first the chicken or the egg!! JAH - Rastafari Selassie I.
Because now the sound system is set up the box boys are getting hungry and they want something to eat!!

peace

stepping razor wrote:The art of selecting has gone with cds. A vinyl selector has to make a selection of tunes to take to a dance. Cds means you have more choices of selection at hand in the dance. Strictly vinyl except when you have specials that ain`t been cut on to dubplate yet. A lot of Sound System people are also musicians making tunes. Mp3s at a dance means you have even more choice of a selection covering all basses if they feel they are losing in the UK Dub Cup clashes. Once you base the Sound System on cds and mp3s it`s not called a Sound System anymore.

peace

hmmm its like saying that jah tubby is no soundsystem since they play on laptop
so i have to disagree with you
there is more to soundsystem than just the format
i guess it all evolves... but is that a bad thing?

Jah Tubby used to be a Sound System as we know it. Now they are a production company with company directors and General Annual Meetings with the board members, unlike the 80`s. But in the Sound System world if you play a lap top at a dance it is considered as a novelty. Haul and pull up selector - Haul and pull up the lap top. Itch it up Operator - Itch it up operating the lap top. All the Sound System sayings need changing. If it ain`t broken don`t fix it!! Uproar Uproar Jah Shaka`s using a lap top in the dance!! What next mp3s and ipoddies!! It`s not called a Sound System, it`s called a lap top system. It will take too long to transfer records to other formats.

peace

In my opinion it's not the format that matters, it's all about the vibes.
If I hear a good tune the last thing on my mind is what format it's on, if I wanna dance then I'm gonna.

yeah man respect seen