Lately I’ve been listening a lot of “Best of 2008” mixes. What’s been a very positive surprise, is that they contain many many tracks of which I haven’t heard anything during 2008.
If several DJs rate dozens of unknown tracks (unknown to me, at least) as their Best of 2008, what does it tell?
Rather than getting depressed of not listening enough music or finding those tracks in time, I’m feeling excited. Today it’s easier than ever to play your unique sound, find tracks of which nobody has ever heard and play them the whole year and still they are unique tracks for someone.
It also tells that there’s just SO much music to crawl into. Why would anyone still stick to tracks released only during the past two weeks or browse through Beatport’s TOP 10 sales charts? It just feels more meaningless than ever.
Is this how Long Tail affects DJing?
Niko Nyman also wrote about Long Tail: http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2009/01/12/the-long-tail-is-here-now-what/
Was that advertisement paid by Niko? ;) But good post anyway, read it as well.