Having been encouraged, some might say pushed, by a certain dreaded (as in Hippy not as in scary corridor with knife) West Coast raver I'm going to have a rant. Anyone who has met me in real life (yea believe it or not I do venture away from the internet at times) I love a good old rant.

So new blog, new rant.

At the moment I'm doing some music based research for a large and established UK music label. This means that I am going onto lots of websites of who are considered to be big names in the electronic music scene. Most of them, around 94% are really not to my taste, and are not considered by me and my warped tastes in music to be big, they are just popular with good PR, and all sound and look the same, but then most folks like to just conform and go with the flow and float in their little bubble buying whatever new Coldplay or Rihanna release they are told to by whatever hasbeen rag of newspaper (if people still read them, although read for the Sun is a bold statement). Most people, the general public (ha) seem to conform, in the UK at least, to what they as the majority are expected to. I mean look at the state of the Government and how likely it is that that codpiece Cameron is to get in power, which is due in no small part to the general public, in their infinite wisdom, believing it is only a 2 party race with political parties. Namely Labour and the fucktard Tories (I'm not a fan, can you tell?)

Hang on. I was talking about music websites... yes right. BACK ON TRACK PLEASE.

Right, so, I've been going to these big name DJ and dance music producers websites, which are largely there for music fans to visit to look at press photos of their idols or something. Now one can assume that having gone onto these sites that they have an interest in music, a big one, and it's highly likely, I mean really likely, that said punter (i.e. me in this case) has music on their computer at the time of the visit.

So we/I click onto their site and we're greeted with a fook off huge Photoshopped mugshot of the victim DJ/producer in question and their music starts up. Now as I said above I very rarely like the music of these people I'm visiting (a job is a job is money is rent) but I really dislike it when it starts horribly clashing with what I'm listening to (which at the moment happens to be this)

My point is this. Why does the music auto start, and why is the mute/stop button so frigging hard to find and then to click. The tiny shred of respect I had for said DJ/producer for excelling in his field has now left the building and is sitting with Elvis on the toilet in a UFO somewhere.

Right, back to it then... (insert grindstone here)

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