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• DJ Shadow Cassette Culture

  billbradley

  October 22
  This one?
  
  

  

• TOP 5 SOULSTRUT GRAEMLINS

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  October 21
  It's like Beetlejuice. You have to say it 3 times. 
  
         

  

• Austin Record Convention Fall 2024

  billbradley

  October 21
  This Fall ARC wasn't my worst show but it wasn't great. I knew it wasn't going to be good but it was much slower than I expected. Friday during setup there weren't many early buyers. Saturday my tables stayed busy almost the entire day. It wasn't until the last half hour of the show that it slowed down for us. Then Sunday the turnout was really low. People usually come Saturday and Sunday but there were fewer dealers setup and some people had commented that they'd looked at everything and didn't need to come back on Sunday. It seemed like a lot of couples went to the show on a date to look at records but weren't really buying anything. One couple came to look at my techno and house and think they were just taking notes on what to look for digitally and spent like $5 after using one of my portables for an hour or more. Some of my regular buyers did come back Saturday and Sunday to buy stacks. One guy commented that some of the house and techno he bought from me at the last show are his favorite records now. It is nice seeing some of the younger DJs breath life back into some of the older DJ's collections I've bought by playing them out again.
  
  Pre Arc swap was fun. Around 20 people. Much less hectic than having 80 people at the house the last show.
  
  
  Met Alchemist on Friday after he bought a raer off me. He DJ'd for Eminem on Saturday after the F1 race.
  
  Few photos from the show
  
  Pickwick Superdisco jacket was a size small. Otherwise I would have bought it.
  
  
  I did buy the Bee Gees World Tour '79 jacket
  
  
  My super rare Yamaha DX7II jacket (that was only given to Yamaha employees) that I wore on Friday
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

• what's crackin' soulstrut???

  billbradley

  October 10

  Jimster said:

  There was a boogie scene in Amsterdam/Brussels around that time, according to the mixes I downloaded. 
  
   @Blastman you have to remember that 20+ years ago, streaming wasn't practical because the hardware under the internet just wasn't up to it.  Realplayer was the first attempt to get reliable streaming but it was super lofi.
  
  I can remember it taking like a minute to pull 1MB down.  I worked in Dublin in 2001 and we were then right next to the Europe pipe.  They hadn't blocked the network route properly so we had blazing speed, like 100M/second.
  
  I was therefore downloading everything I could and among all the mix sites I found, the Strut had the craziest board.

  The first Internet Television was broadcast using Cu-SeeMe around 1994. My friend was involved in that and helped start InterneTV.com which later moved to RealPlayer. We did a live DJ broadcast on the site in 1995 and then started broadcasting weekly. After a fallout between the two owners of InterneTV a new site Blastro.com was created and I hosted weekly DJ stream called UltraSound there from around 1996-2001. At it's peak we'd have around 5,000-6,000 viewers a week. At the time that was pretty huge. Sites like CNN and NBC for example were just started to stream some videos and our site was streaming just about as much as they were.

  

• 2024 RIP Thraed

  billbradley

  September 11
  RIP Frankie Beverly