What an ironical situation seing all these good things around on the 12" front as well as albumwise from a scene which may have never been so scattered ! It's as if everyone was to launch his own label, website and the likes, going back to that DIY spirit that would give birth to house music and techno nearly 20 years ago…

Time for a new revolution ? Well, it pretty looks like, judging by the disappearance of faces and their nearly immediate replacement by new ones, following there the usual cycle of life, with ending systems giving birth to new ones, as it's obiously the case at this precise moment

Some of us would say that it's sad, but there's nothing to be done facing the situation as it's the supposed proper of evolution to bring new things we have to deal with. New technology = new rules = new ways of thinking = new behaviour with new interrogations leading to new responses unless getting ourselves out of the system.

Still have in mind this conversation which I've had with Kenny Dope almost a year ago, regarding the arrival of dematerialized formats – in other words, the audio files – as opposed to vinyls which he personaly hardly could stand as becoming a new tool for him. And the reasons of such a reaction find their answer in what DJ Gregory said to us recently, talking about history which varies from one people to another. Differently said, Kenny's environment is far other as compared to the one of the current generations. Dope had been customised to have a look at the credits while searching for music and play vinyls (if not CD's) when so many youngsters would go for mp3 today. And the reason is also as simple : people apart from the collectors don't have anymore vinyl turntables home but most of them have a computer and everything looks like based around it today So, no doubt this time, our today's environment is to know a major change if not a revolution, this putting us into the obligation to adapt ourselves unless being left aside on the way to this new world. Well, you've guessed it, if the revolution will hardly be televised, it will (it has already been) Internet-ised. This meaning that the aforementioned is to play the key role in tomorrow's affairs.

Signs of change are already around on a far bigger scale than the sole record industry, applying to telecommunications, banking, tourism and the likes and although the so called new economy has cruelly shown its limits a few years ago, experience proves that clever people never do the same mistake again. MFSB

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