Street Style

Seriously just like lazer disc totally wiped out VHS we need some new
kind of information-arena format (like an information ULTRAhighway) to
replace the internet because right now (aside from Twitter) it’s pretty
much nothing but ads for dick pills and shitty edits of shitty remixes
made by dudes that are most likely pretty shitty dudes. 

It’s cool that technology is now cheaper and more available, but
obviously disastrously bad that it’s given rise to such a tidal wave of
grossness. The same plug-in making the same glitch effect, the same
sawtooth synthbass patch and the same bitcrushed LA Style sample. Too
many kids with software that is too easy to use making songs that are
too horrible to listen to yet are getting played by DJs that are too
horrible to get booked yet are getting booked by fuckwits. Fuckin
fuckwits ruining shit for everyone. By everyone I mean some people.

I could stop whinging and just stop using blogs when my penchant for an
alright track flares up but whilst that would solve the problem for me,
it would still leave the underlying issue with you and quite possibly
your significant other or close friends.

The problem is there aren’t that many geniuses around. Most geniuses
made the transition from loser to genius by slaving away on a cheap
sampler/keyboard/Squire for years until they knew what they were doing
inside out. Now the “acquiring talent” stage has been all but cut out of
the equation and it’s an express train to flashing gifs advertising your
most recent fidgetmore mixtape. [YOU COULD LIKEN THIS TO HOW YEARS AGO
YOU NEEDED A JOURNALISM DEGREE, HEAPS OF HOOK-UPS/SCENE POINTS AND A
MICROSCOPIC SALARY TO GET ANY MUSIC WRITING PUBLISHED BUT NOW I CAN DO
IT BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET BUT THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC FOR ANOTHER TIME]

You don’t even need geniuses (actually genii?). If people exercised some
degree of taste or discernment and were actually able to spot their work
as being disgusting, it would make life easier for everyone. There’d be
less horror to wade through and a greatly boosted chance of actually
being able to get excited about something good. Maybe shut down Zshare
for 6 months so the Internet Remix Academy can move on to something else
like BMX or another poignant youth sub-culture reference.