Let me be very clear that this posting is not in any way meant to point to any shortcoming on this site. Quite the opposite. If anything it is an expression of gratitude for what is done here and a “vent” for lack of a better word for what was done somewhere else.

End Disclaimer…

A bunch of us on this site migrated, like a small throng of refugees from a site known as Real World Remixed started by Peter Gabriel and his label Realworld. Little stewardship was offered from HQ but we as site members took it upon ourselves to build a community which later got the site recognized by Business Week Magazine for a model for other companies to emulate.

There was a time that some of us spent many hours conversing in forums, commenting on and and creating music that we uploaded. There were lots of forum entries, goodness how many tracks and thousands of reviews. It has all disappeared, replaced by what appears to be a Soundcloud based remix idea.

Now I’m not here to say that the site should have been hosted in perpetuity, but hey a note to everyone who was registered to let us know that it was closing down might have been nice. I feel as though the members contributions were treated as though they were nothing. That hurts… a lot. I want this post to stand as my one message that people can make a space for artists but can’t just suck the energy out of them and use it as they see fit.

Some respect must be shown those we encounter both in real life and in the virtual world, even if we never come to know them beyond a nick name or an avatar.

There are things I got from my time on that site that no one can ever take away, but I wish things had been handled differently.

I agree, further more there is a unique feeling that comes out of contributing to the net in a way that is like nothing in real life.

It is the insult that comes from the use of the delete button. Realworld never cared about the mixes or the mixers or the community that began without their involvement and now I don’t care about them, their records or their artists.

I have bought every PG album in my time but their snide use of the delete button means they have lost my respect and a customer. Sad that such a forward thinking artist and label does not fully understand the ramifications of such an abrubt public act or just what’s going on.

I have unsubscribed to their emails a little way to show I am no longer interested, it wont be noticed , nothing ever was.

not sure whether to laugh - or - cry