The rise of Ipods

[Cosmica]

With the 5 year birthday of Ipods upon us, it had me thinking.

2001 was when Ipods were released, and other hand held MP3 gadgets. Around this time also marked the beginning of the decline of quality parties, well for me anyway, although there were always good parties to be found if you looked hard enough.

With music being more accessible, the need to go out and listen to favourite tracks lessened.

My question is, has the rise in technology led to the decline of our desire to drive the scene like we used to? Are we more content just to pack music and listen to it portably via peer to peer?

Is it ironic that technology has somehow led to a decline, or is it just the start of bigger and better things ahead?

[Spectrum]

:stroke:

mp3 = less money to back labels to get good music off the ground and therefore paved the way for the mainstream labels to hire strippers-turned-mimers vying for our attention. :(

2001 = way too old to be doing this sort of stuff week in, week and out. :D

Itching to see what's around the corner in electronic-derived sounds and rhythms...

Just 10 days 'til Sasha & Diggers descend on Home, Sydney. Yet on the Terrace (upper level of Home), we've been promised non-stop "hardstyle". Now there's a generation gap between us and the iPod children if I ever heard one!

Not sure if I should blame p2p filesharing for their poor taste, or it's just that I'm getting old.

Oh, and speaking of all things Apple, the Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Book Pros have been launched. :blush:

[polanski]

i love my ipod.....i'm old.......and i walk around listening to sad old mixes from the early 9o's. The urge for me to go out to a party left along time ago.....i like Sasha alot.....even the stuff he plays these days......but i still would be hard pushed to go out and see the guy if he was playing at my local..........i relive all that sasha magic on my ipod......and christ he doesn't even use turntables these days......so there's no chance of him stacking it on the decks and discovering he is human..........anyway.......as much as pine for the good old days......i also like this new technology.

Polanski

[mentalyst]

I dont think it was the rise of technology that affected it, i think the rise in indemnity insurance had more of an affect. It would have been about the same time, early 2000. This was when the dock parties stopped, other warehouse venues like global village were no longer used. IMO this is when parties were no longer 'the same'.

[dread pirate]

Great supposition...before I can answer I have a question:

Is there a lack of quality parties now or are we just suffering old timers syndrome -- it was better back in the day?

I started in 90/91, there was 1 or 2 clubs in Brisbane and 3 main DJs + trips to the Gold Coast for Blackout at the Tunnel on Sunday night, I was out regularly until 2000. I still get out (clubs only) and I look at the scene now and for me it certainly doesn't have the magic.

Then again I can say this about many things from that era...so do the newbies today have as much fun??

[Cosmica]

I reckon I could be 50 and still go out and have a good time if there were parties around that interested me.

[Pocketesq]

Not sure if its due to ipods (although ipods are the devil). I think it was more in those days in order to hear that kind of music you needed to hear a good DJ mix it up (was also harder to mix) - whereas these days every second man and his dog is a DJ, and every second mainstream song/album has been remixed, so it's not as big a deal anymore. As always, once a music genre has broken mainstream and saturates the market, the underground scene suffers.

I think i know i'm showing my age when I start saying things like the current dance music scene is "all the same and just noise".. anyone who can count to four can mix it..