1999-2009 Tribute Show part III: 30 years of K103

The Sound of The City took the opportunity to start a trip back in time, since K103 studentradio turned 30 last year.
The first show dealt with the music of the decade between 1979 and 1989. The second show revisited tunes from 1989-1999. The third show dealt with the decade between 1999-2009. During that time, more and more people began to own PCs. The technologgy allowed them to listen to their music at their workstations which occupied more and more of their time. The cd market gradually gave in to music in the form of digital files with no pysical existence. Music production moved away from the studios of multinational music industries since it became possible to create it privately.
Fusion, and experimentation took all possible forms and paths, making it harder than ever to form a non-fragmented image of the music production of today.
The technologies fed the creative process with new options and solutions and the vast collection of previous existing music added endless variety and 'flavours' to the ever-changing mix. Ethnic hints continued to manifest themselves here and there, but nowadays, there seems to be an emancipation of the artists and the products of
their individual identities, 'ethnic' or otherwise.
At the same time, older existing musical styles got revived by new artists interested in becoming identified with 'legitimised' genres. Old established artists made creative comebacks and as usual certain individuals choose their own impressive personal path, that might make a mark if somebody happens to notice and spread the word. The music industry is old, tired and takes cover behing tested but old methods, that don't promote new creation. the distribution of music becomes chaotic, getting tastes of various new methods and approaches, the music as product is attempting to redefine itself, in what seems to be an endless re-shaping, and the packaging of this product seems to be disappearing rapidly. Huge quantities of sound files fit into tiny mp3 players, the size of our thumbs, so we get to carry them around, on us, like faceless, formless keepsakes, how weird and interesting is this?
Danai