A Survey of the Work of Vinyl Scratch (Abbreviated)

by Meta Four

3. Third Time’s the Charm

From Sound on Sound, 13 January, 1001 issue:

DJ PON-3
Blacklight/Whitenoise

Label: Forty Records
Release date: 1/23/01

By Spilt Ink (staff writer)

Staff rating: 2.3

Comments

[QueenMoriarty]

So, did he print a meme in the paper? Because that's super-unprofessional.

[Meta Four]

7879247 The scary part is, there was a real-life precedent for this. More about that when I publish the last chapters.

[PresentPerfect]

wow

[Cursed Quill]

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it's trance rather than dubstep.

So you mean it's electronic music that plays to its strengths rather than trying to compensate for the groupie who dropped their knife collection into the sound-cables bin, making one wonder if the fault lies in the music or the transmitting medium?

I…

that was a chapter. And, unlike dubstep, it leaves no such doubt in the reader's head.

[Meta Four]

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Back when trance was the most popular electronic genre, a lot of it was just as ridiculous as this generation's dubstep, but in different ways. But those were the days when my musical tastes were made, so I think that's real the reason why I prefer genres with faster tempo—techno, house, trance, and jungle—over dubstep.

I can rattle off a bunch of dubstep songs and even whole albums I love, but they're all either genre-blending in some way, or they're one-time dubstep experiments by artists who normally play other styles. I can't think of anyone I like who mainly plays dubstep.

[Ponygon]

Ah, I thought there was something up with this chapter.

I've been reading this offline on an e-ink reader, and the picture didn't show. Pictures never show, because the downloaded epub file always links to the picture instead of containing it. I don't understand, though? Why?

[Meta Four]

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If by “Why?” you mean, “Why would someone write a review that’s just an image macro?” well, ask Scott Plagenhoef.

If you’re instead wondering what he means, it’s roughly, “I’m sorry for the part I played in bringing this terrible album into existence. I’m sorry that my rave review of the artist’s earlier work made them successful enough to put out this stinkburger.” Yes, it’s every bit as arrogant as it sounds.