what did you do before internet, SLSK...etc DOWNLOADS

[chuckc]

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[quote=hansh20]?. Its not like i dont download from slsk, in fact most of my tracks are from there, but a few weeks ago i was mullered by some of you because i do that.
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yeah that will piss off alot of producers/djs

[MJ]

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What! There was life before the internet?

[DJJEFFJONES]

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No SLSK here. With becoming a post whore and work, I have just enough time to grab some sets off [ms]. Not into d/l copyrighted music. I work to buy the music and they work to give me music to buy (great circle imo).

[GregWhelan]

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Ahh, before MS etc I used to sit up late at night for the Essential Mix (back when it seemed that most weeks was a decent dj as opposed to now when I never tune in). I have loads of old EM's, all on cassette with the inlay card for it that Mixmag used to provide (remember those!)

Now I am in the same boat as you lot - too much to filter through, most of it gash to be honest. but it's worthwhile when I find a set I really dig i.e. Nick Warren's JustMusic March 2006 mix awesome

[rewing3]

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I used to buy a shit load of cds all the time. I still buy cd but not as often. Mainly buy just the cds I like after listen to the promo version.

[buckman]

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I used to go to Tower Records on Newbury st (Now its Virgin)here in Boston almost every Monday night at midnight cause thats when the new cds would come out .I'd Blow half my paycheck at the time on cds.anything on Global Underground I bought.Those Mdma mixes from Dj Scribble & Anthony Acid All the old Ministry of Sound Annuals back when boy george was putting them out and when Tall Paul played good stuff.Then I'd say around 98 I found Napster and ever since then i was hooked on Downloading from the internet.After Napster shut down I switched to Audiogalaxy.From Audiogalaxy I went back & fourth between Limewire & Kazaa.Now It's Slsk.I hardly ever go to Virgin to buy cds anymore unless its something I really want.I'll download it first off of slsk the buy it in the store.Man some of these new compilations are some damn Expensive.I got lucky I bought Global Gathering Godskitchen for $10 but when that first came out it was $32.99.I've even seen some cds for $35.99.gad damn imports kill me.

[jeffrey collins]

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back before all that stuff. i didn't listen to electronic music. I was into very avant guarde musics. John Cage, Stockhausen, O'Rourke, Zorn, Riley, Reich, Glass.

I didn't get into computers till 98. And still didn't know about napster and all that until 2000.

[picklemonkey]

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I listened to MTV/radio pop before the Internet. I was a kid

[sakio pod]

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^^^ thank god i don't listen to that anymore

[lilsensa]

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Audio Cassette...

Used to record my favorite tunes off the radio and make my own mix tapes. I think I got my frist kiss 100 set from here. What a night that was.

i used to record my sets on tape too. i found a few of them a couples months back, fun stuff back when i was playing the dark scary shit(moshic and zidan).......fun stuff

[Corven]

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chronic thumb tweedler behind the counters of a record store

i still get my free music .... good times those were

[Balanc3]

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I'm a little late, but here I go...

before internet --- made tons of mixtapes.

after windows3.11 & internet ---

warez & doom over LAN. (collected and made custom WADS with NIN music, etc.)

spanned shitloads of floppies using winzip to copy pirated disks.

played with fractals and cool visuals like acidwarp, etc.

did nothing for music except play with shockwave jukeboxes' and watch REAL media live shows like Beck (totally blew my mind at the time, anyone remember rocktropolis???).

Bought all my CD's and had a portable CD player with casette adapter. Eventually got my first MD player to make those mix tapes last longer with better quality.

mIRC chat started to become a thing over my 14.4 modem. Started my first smut collection.

you can go on and on with this subject...

[TomTom]

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Before Audiogalaxy came into my life, I bought more records than I do now just because I get enough live sets I can listen to and enjoy. Without these opportunities I bought more mixed compilations than I do nowadays and spent a lot of money to buy live recordings from E-Bay. With the knowledge I have today, I would love to kick every single seller on E-Bay in his rotten butt for what they did (and still do).

[dersuuzala]

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the internet was my sole enabler for pursuing electronic music. without it, i'd probably still be listening to jazz. (not to imply that my switch from electronic music to jazz was a progression or anything, just that that's what i was into before i got into this stuff)

[Tortuga]

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I used to buy cassettes and between me and my mates we'd tape and trade the essential mixes, like Greg said back when every week you'd get a really good DJ.....Still got a case full of them and the Mixmag inlays!!!.......That and living in my local record store for the best part of 97 - 99......