Mic Check 1-2, 1-2
RAJ
tenacious local 7,783 Posts
Been crazy busy the past few weeks. Looking slow around here.
RAJ
tenacious local 7,783 Posts
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This.... Nothing worse than going through a slow message board death. It's pretty humiliating, actually.
The thing that keeps me going is the 10+ years of data / knowledge, good times archived on this here forum. Priceless.
The idea that this place could be bopping like it once was, is becoming less and less a reality.
I'll keep coming through, Raj. You used to not like that idea, but I'm pretty sure I've worn on you by now.
Which is a good thing because I often post before thinking.
But fewer posts.
The message board software I am using is SHIT. I plan to switch in the next few months to Vanilla. Not that any new bells and whistles will make this place pop off any more... but I've been testing it and it is a much more 2015 user's experience.
I check site when:
Awakening
Eating
Blazing
Pooping
Waiting
I listen to the mixes everyday and rep mixes to all music seekers (I appreciate the high quality re-ups but is there a link to the old mixes page w hella more mixes?).
Thank you Raj and everyone.
Best site on the net.
Being popular isn't a measure of value so don't trip.
Thank you. Now whenever I see one of your posts I will imagine you writing it while sitting on the toilet.
I've been:
I have a lot going on at the gig, so I'm hustlin'. I still check in on the daily though, still plugged in.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Occasional reader of the other sites and Smfh at the sheer desperate collectro empty lives seemingly on display there.
I also ain't going nowhere.
You get my PM Raj?
I'd be 100% into a rebirth. This was my news channel. I honestly have times where I feel like the Internet has nothing to offer me and I get bored. The strut used to to be my funnel, bringing the Internet to me. Now that it has slowed, I feel lost, but I'm also kinda happy to be off the Internet.
We need some beef or controversy to get things rolling.
I heard that dog on the cover of DJ Day's album was really a cat. Fuck that shit, yo!
I heard Thes really only had one side of the bell-less Bob James tape. Dude talking bout I got the reel to reel. Brah, you got the reel, period. Ain't no "to" involved. Just one side of the reel, spilling on the floor. Quit lying.
I heard Serg was allergic to hot sauce and liquor. Dude be puttin yogurt on everything to temper the heat.
I heard Young Phonics was really old.
I heard Ross Hogg wakes up at 3 am everyday to reapply all those fake tattoos.
Shots fired.
:shudder:
It's been a slow week but there's always gold in these here hills.
I KNEW IT!
Is that where Fox Rules ended up?
These are great. You just got reel. Ha!
And I still intend on sharing some brazilian stuff with the real headz, just have to get a friend to let me use his set up to rip some records.
While I know that Soulstrut got its first toehold on the strength of, like, Iron Monkey heavy-metal-breaks mixes and Alphonse Mouzon mp3s and shit, once the forum clicked (what was that, like one or two years in?), pretty much every subsequent iteration of Soulstrut that mattered was built on the back of one thing: Engaged people talking about music in interesting ways.
Everything that has ever made Soulstrut noteworthy, made it something you couldn’t get somewhere else, can be traced back to the voice and character and style of the people who posted here and who actively engaged with whatever came through the door. All these other things—mixes, mp3s, youtube playlists, Real Heads forum, whatever—are cool, but without that steady hum of engaged people talking about music in interesting ways, Soulstrut will not escape the quagmire of its current constituency, dominated as it is by leeches, spectators, coasters, and well-meaning but ultimately plea-copping motherfuckers. In the face of that kind of pervasive (if smiling) apathy, the rest is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Soulstrut “bopping like it once was” is not going to happen. The internet has changed, expectations have changed, people have changed. Annual threads like this will continue to bring people out of the woodwork on some “Please don’t go (girl)!”, but all of the outcry will continue to somehow never exactly translate into things getting any better, and Soulstrut will remain the online equivalent of that once-hot record store where nobody spends any money anymore but that they’d sure hate to see close.
I say without exaggeration that Soulstrut has, on at least a couple different levels, changed my life. Possibly even saved it. I wish I was kidding. Even so, it’s time. It's been time. Soulstrut’s particularity has largely exhausted itself.
Dudes who want to keep up with each other can and will find other ways to keep up with each other. Dudes who want to get their voice out there can and will find others ways to get their voice out there. And the non-contributing, data-hoovering, no-style-having fuckers can, in the words of Bobby “Blue” Bland, get their money where they spend their time.
Archive those “10+ years of data,” put them behind some kind of online portal attended by a decent search function, turn out the lights over here, pour yourself a tall snifter of something over there, and think—as we all should—about whatever’s next.
Onward, upward, and elseward.
Love,
james