Call me a purist, but I do wish people would stop calling themselves “soundsystem”, when they are not. One guy and a box of records playing over a club PA isn’t a soundsystem, is it?

A soundsystem is an enormous collection of people (selector, box boy, engineer, people to lug bloody great speakers about, MCs, etc) and equipment (amps, pre-amps, effects, speakers, mics, miles of cables…) which has often been built up over years, with huge amounts of labour and cost.

I guess the idea of calling yourself a system is to create a vibe with your DJ sets, which would be fine were it not for the fact that there are still a load of real soundsystems out there doing the business.

Which means you’re taking the piss, really.