Did music get worse since the 80s?

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	Did music get worse since the 80s?

Nefer

8-31-2007 4:07 PM

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music, 80s, compression, ieee, sample

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9-1-2007 9:36 AM

syncopath

interesting clip. 10x

mayb it is after all true that the more volume the less you get ..! & mayb `we` should raise the counter balance battle, says, less is more ? anyway music has 2go on ..

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