While I was hacking godiva again, I was listening to the livestream of Hard.fm. I have no idea which DJ was on, or which record (s)he was playing, but at a certain point, the music came into a 'break' stage. For the less-music-technical people: The 'break' stage in a dance song comes after the 'body' or 'main' stage, and before the 'buildup' stage where the music builds up in strength to reach the 'climax' stage. In other words, the 'break' stage is where the music reduces in intensity, usually drops the bassline or slims it down drasticly, and in a lot of tracks, where the real lyrics are and/or the beautifull musical intermezzos are released. Anyway. Since the music decreased in intensity, there were actually moments of little to no music at all. And in those moments, I heard a really remarkable sound.

Even though I still have no clue who was rocking the decks, I know for sure (s)he was using vinyl. In the silent moments, you could actually hear that the record had some minor damage in it, likely by being folded or heated up a bit too much. Every half spin, there was the sound of the needle being forced back in the groove. Of course, you could only hear that when there was little to no music, as any music density would easily 'overpower' that tiny sound. But sounds like that send chills down my spine. I have no idea why, but they do.

Of course I couldn't benefit from the warmth and fuzziness of the sound of vinyl at all. The stream is being digitally broadcasted on the internet, and I'm actually listening to it with some Logitech USB headset, as I still haven't found the powersupply for my mixer again. A bit of a shame actually: having a Creative X-Fi sound card, having an Evidence amplifier, having a Reloop mixer (and decks), having a $200 headphone, but not being able to use any of it all because of one missing power supply. Ah well, I will find it, someday...

~RW