Sound System Politics : Bass Culture
by Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky 

Liner notes of  “In Fine Style : Dj Spooky Presents 50,000 Volts of  Trojan Records”

Originally posted at nettime.org . Read [fulltext] vía: [newmediafix]

Soundsystems were portable discos, mobile platforms for different styles. They were the
preferred method of spreading a style because they were nomadic in a way that the monumental clubs of the U.S. and U.K. couldn’t dream of. From the vantage point of the 21st century, they can only be viewed as the predecessor of the ipod. Portability, quickness, stealth copies of hit songs, “versions” – all of this leads us to the idea of remix culture and “mash-ups” that are the digital world inheritance from these analog media. […]

Dj culture in the 21st century is as much about the sound system as the playlist, the Ipod revolution has brought us back to the era of the single, and the album as many of us knew it when we were kids in the ancient late 1980’s has come back – in the form of a downloadable media file. […]

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