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title: "Thank You (We Do It)"
abstract: "A quick thank you to the streaming collective"
authors: ["nikomas.md"]

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Thank you, WDIT

Having quietly operated as ᴡᴅɪᴛ for many years, the cyprus-based electronic music broadcasting channel burst into life when the Quarantine hit. All of a sudden they were in a prime position to have fun with this whole concept of streaming electronic music. They managed to get a lot of people to play, setting line-ups for 4 or 5 weekends in a row, and really there were times when, in amongst losing jobs, cancelling raves, and scraping the grinder for resin, those weekend line-ups could brighten up the day. They have enough social reach to be able to pull in some really talented people, and the performances on the  platform always seem to show that the DJ cares about the platform. Going back through their history (and there is a lot of content there), you will find great sets from ; The video content, for a streaming brand, can be better; the guys there would benefit a lot from working with VJ material, or work with putting some kind of animation or sequence over the stream, to build that relationship between sound and vision. In fairness, they left it up to the DJ to decide this, and they provided cameras and cables and taught every artist how to use Open Broadcast Software and so on.

They’ve shown that they know how to organise again, and this slight rebranding may help them find new energy to develop further. Again, if they could find a way to make the video feed interesting to someone who doesn’t know the artist, it could attract a lot of attention to their content, and start attracting interest in DJs in Cyprus. After what was seen with Sunwaves, it’s clear that we have the technology now to push streaming into full gear. Even the animated posters that were designed by a guest artist (@constant_projection), show how that extra effort in visual content helps bring out the true value and virtue of l’audiovisuel (see: Chion, 1994).

CDCY thanks ᴡᴅɪᴛ for their service this quarantine. It’s really good to see they’re still going and still growing and still enjoying the music. It is highly recommended to dig through their archive.
