Feb. 4, 2012 at 4:53pm
Reblogged from thisistheverge
thisistheverge: 5 Minutes on The Verge: Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music I’d like to see more of that attitude come back to electronic dance music. Now, people get upset if someone hints at the idea that vinyl might not be the only way to DJ. Scare people a little. When people first brought electronic instruments to the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests, some folks on LSD apparently just lost it and assumed the aliens had landed. (I wasn’t, uh, born yet, but you can read about the scene in Analog Days, a history of Moog by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco.) Yes, we live in a society with more tech. But I’ll bet you can still freak people out. At least, you can risk failing in everything you do. You can make something that can break.

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5 Minutes on The Verge: Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music

I’d like to see more of that attitude come back to electronic dance music. Now, people get upset if someone hints at the idea that vinyl might not be the only way to DJ. Scare people a little. When people first brought electronic instruments to the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests, some folks on LSD apparently just lost it and assumed the aliens had landed. (I wasn’t, uh, born yet, but you can read about the scene in Analog Days, a history of Moog by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco.) Yes, we live in a society with more tech. But I’ll bet you can still freak people out. At least, you can risk failing in everything you do. You can make something that can break.