lyndon Posted September 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Dance music becoming big in America seems to be ruining it, and any creativity that remained with it. Shame it can't be 11 years ago again, where all they knew was Dr Dre and Eminem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtim Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Though haven't they stopped making the Technics decks? Yes production stopped at the end of 2010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kane Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Oh dear Tom, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. He's playing in Vegas now as Rob Guson, playing a more commercial sound. He's leaving the techno for now. http://skrufff.com/2012/08/dj-fergie-reinvents-himself-to-conquer-vegas/ I kinda anticipated this. Oh well, he's not the first and won't be the last Least there are plenty credible DJ/Producers left out there for us to discover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkybarkid Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 To be fair to Fergie, he's never stayed true to anything. Hard house->tech house/bosh->minimal/techno->commercial. Lot of substantial switches in just over a decade. I assume he sees the £££ that the big gigs in Vegas bring now and went for it. Pity the Black Eyed Peas forced him to change his name! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 I'm confused by that last sentence, showing my true out of touchedness!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkybarkid Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 I'm confused by that last sentence, showing my true out of touchedness!! Fergie here = / Fergie in America = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtim Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 ... and of course there's Sarah Ferguson (Fergie) who I think still lives in the US? Are the f****** Black Eyed Peas really the reason for the name change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Haha wtf? What? I'm still confused, possibly more so! :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 No!! Suddenly I'm with ya!! Is that true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkybarkid Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Don't think he was forced to change it, he just did it anyway as part of the 'evolution', but it's deffo part of the reason. Forgot about the Dutchess Fergie too, she's in America is right (or was anyway). I remember in the summer when Tevez held up the sign saying 'RIP Fergie' ( about the Man United one) at the Man City victory parade, and 'rip fergie' trended worldwide on twitter. There were yanks inconsolable all over the place thinking the woman from the Black Eyed Peas had died! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 I remember seeing someone's newspaper that said Fergie was a wife beater, and I had to do a double-take, but I've still never looked at DJ Fergie in the same light. Despite knowing it was Alex the paper was referring to. I met Fergie once... It was very dull. EDIT: a bit like my anecdote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkybarkid Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 Ha ha! Now I've absolutely no idea which Fergie you've met! It's my own fault entirely. I brought all this nonsense on! By the way, I'm pretty sure that was Ferguson's son (yay, another Fergie!) did that. Real sick stuff, hit his heavily pregnant wife I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 7, 2012 Report Share Posted September 7, 2012 I met The DJ, on the stairs at Gatecrasher (1) Didn't know I'd been with him until a few days after when I got my camera developed. Even after that, I only twigged when I saw him in Mixmag, recognised his jacket, got the photo out. He really was a bit dull... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted September 8, 2012 Report Share Posted September 8, 2012 I have to laugh at the music industry being worried about CDs selling bugger all erm... 3/4 of albums sold every week is on CD so go figure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtim Posted September 8, 2012 Report Share Posted September 8, 2012 Is it really that high still? I imagined it would be at least 50:50 due to iTunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyndon Posted September 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2012 Only Paris Hilton would still push the eject button first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 8, 2012 Report Share Posted September 8, 2012 Three quarters of all albums sold. But not so many are "sold" I think that's also a big prob that downloading brought with it. I know we had tapes and stuff to record with before, but this is on a much bigger scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted September 8, 2012 Report Share Posted September 8, 2012 I used to love record shopping. 3 Shades was a cracking little shop. They were always around £2 a record cheaper than anywhere else, and they had a lot of tunes on minor/obscure/import labels that nobody else had. I used to use Massive in Birmingham too - although that shop was poor in comparison to the Oxford shop. The Birmingham shop only really had the new releases, and the crap records that they couldn't shift from the Oxford shop. They used to have exclusive promo rights to all ID&T releases, and the guy in the Oxford store (Russell) always used to put the ones aside that he knew i'd like if they only got 2 or 3 copies in. HTFR were dire. Overpriced, staff with attitude, appalling infamous very dodgy so-called "white labesl" that were blatant radio rips. Most of them were mono or had faded our radio jingles. Shocking. The only good thing about the place was the security guy (Baz?) - he was a legend! Always up for a laugh. Dance Music Finder was quite decent. A little like HTFR in some ways - only the staff were far more helpful. Juno was the dogs danglies though when it came to record stores. You could only order online - but they stocked practically everything, they were well priced, and their service was outstanding. I used to order records as late as 6pm some nights - and still had them arrive in the post the following day. DotVinyl was good for the Mondo test presses/promos, and Chemical/3Beat and Global Groove were also very good. MP3 "shopping" is a chore now. Far too many labels out there - most of which offer shit that is awful and would never have seen the light of day in the vinyl days. It takes an age ploughing through all the shit before you get to the one gem. Not for me - and one side of DJ'ing I don't miss in the slightest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kane Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 I used to use Massive too - their store was awesome in terms of layout and feel and they had some wicked album release showcases in there (they had Sasha & Marco V DJ on separate nights in the store to launch their albums) but yeah the choice was not as good as Three Shades. Juno was my online choice, so very good and excellent delivery and service. Used Chemical records too quite a bit but sometimes they wouldn't deliver for a week or more without a reason! The MyBeatport feature has made mp3 browsing so much easier now - it limits the amount of shite you have to mull through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 I am subscribed to Music Week which gives out sales figures and a weekly downloads to cd comparison for album sales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 I had to go to Brighton for a proper dance music shop, we had a small one in our town and an independent record store that had a rack of dance music 12", also we have a large HMV that dabbled with more well known dance records, but they literally were selling off their vinyl stock as soon as they opened. Then there was Our Price too, I don't remember buying any vinyl in there, but they did stock a vast selection of CD singles and I did buy a lot of them. All in all I preferred ordering 12"s from Juno and what with that and my subscription to Mixmag, I loved waking up on a Wednesday morning to the postman knocking the door. Which was good, coz being a hardcore clubber with a baby and a job, getting up every other morning sucked arse big time!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Sales are massively down from last year I will admit For last week total sales of artist albums 1,159,692, compared to this time last year 44,060,731 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number2Fan Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Massive would be an understatement!! Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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