Welcome to this week’s IAAO email.

It’s the first email of 2011, so happy new year to you all.

A thread went up the other week in general chat about Pureoldskoolers. For those of you who were around during the days of pureoldskoolers, when this site was but a distant dream, you will remember just how far that site came and what we achieved there and how it all went downhill more or less over night with changes the members didn’t agree with or want.

I was all for those changes when they were first discussed and on paper it sounded perfect. But as they were made, I realised that it was not a direction the site should be going in and changed my mind. Sadly, they went ahead anyway and things soon spiralled out of control and it all fell apart pretty quickly. It resulted in me stepping down as Admin, and Danril stepping down as one of the mods. It was a strange feeling. It was almost like Superman 2, when Superman became a mortal for his love of Lois Lane. It wasn’t all bad of course as this site was born out of the mess and here we are now, almost 2 years later.

For those of you wondering what Pureoldskoolers was, well it was an oldskool site just like this one, but in a way it was the original Oldskool site for live sets, singles etc that grew to be the number 1 place to go for your oldskool fix. It was very different to the other oldskool sites out there, but if you were to ask why? Well I’m not really sure, I guess it just was. Perhaps one day I will tell the whole story in the weekly email. I do love to reminisce about things. Boring? Yes but only if you can’t be bothered reading.

Anyway, to see what has now become of that site, visit it at www.pureoldskoolers.com

I argued on that thread that if it wasn’t for my love of Trance, this place would never have existed. Don’t believe me? Then have a look at my theory in the thread which you can find here: PureOldskoolers (although in a cruel and ironic twist of fate, it was also responsible for PO’s downfall….go figure)

Thinking of boring, a new software update will be coming the sites way very soon. Lots of bug fixes and a few enhancements to what we already have. Some people may ask why I bother telling you about this stuff, all these updates and mods, well, it’s because I can and it’s good to keep you guys informed about what’s going on with the site, however small or big. When you have to look after a site, in terms of software updates and fiddling with code, it’s good to brag and sound clever.

Have a great week,

China.