we are talking here about a german programme in english language. the choice of words has much more to do with that then with the age of the presenter.

so if you hear somebody who is not british (and i dont consider Ed to be. he has the passport, but hes a Berliner since 21 years and speaks like one too) speaking english, you shouldnt expect them to sound british. do you expect this from me too?
as a “foreigner” one picks up whatever english words come their way and starts using them. this is how it works with languages.
I know that its very common for the “natives” of Great Britain to expect everyone else to behave like they do, but this has never prooved to be a good idea – see history of great britain (and how it became notably les greater). But since your name is German – why do you suffer the UK-wearethe onlytruth-syndrome???

and i do not care about london, i was saying that he sounds like he “wants to keep up with contemporary london slang” but it is missing it by 5 years. i would not care if he sounds like london 25 years ago, as long as he sounds genuine and himself, and not trying to pick up the “new words” so he stays relevant.

with his choice of music and warm radio personality he is wonderful and genuine enough, no need to be sounding like he is chasing new slang.

dear corin if you are reading this: i mean nothing bad, keep on making lovely radio and club-spinning, and please just be yourself. happy and successful 2010!!!
grüsse
Adrienne

i don’t see the problem if somebody uses words which people in LONDON don’t use anymore since 5 years. so what?! Wether Bln.Fm nor Eds world of music was or ever will be a London-Underground-Hipster-Mag. And what sense would make a special personality show be moderated by a different moderator than the person who created this show? none. right. i know Ed and he is definitly not the kind of man who pretends to be a super cool young guy.
it’s just the way he always talks, so i don’t see the problem…

I know your work so well, appreciate and enjoy your work in Berlin clubs and radios, for many years and I think your taste is fantastic. And I know you work hard. I am just thinking that you are choosing words when you are presenting yourself and introducing tunes that make you sounding very false, desperately trying to belong to people half of your age. Listening to you talk reminds me of white kids pretending to be black on MTV.

My daughter has lived in London all the life, she is 27, and she was visiting me when we listen to your show, she was making this observation, and was saying that half the words you choose people in london don’t say since 5 years…
so please take no offense, i am just thinking that maybe you can talk like normal grown up man, or maybe select the music but let somebody else presenting it?

my best wishes for the show,
grüsse
Adrienne

this is corin, dj ed2000, the presenter of eds world of music.

im not sure on which criteria you based your comments , but it has been my experience that people encounter personnal embarresment when they are confronted with a situation that they are unable to deal with, within the rigid criteria of their programmed response spectrum. sometimes its due to an emotional imbalance or some kind of personnal dissatisfaction with themselves ,sometimes its a psychological reaction to something that the embarressed person would much prefer not to have to be confronted with .

i have been actively involved in music and club subculture since 1976 . my first club events that i put on where in soho, london ( where i was born in 1957 ) @ billys club in 1978, which is where and when i had my first dj gigs, as no one else in the band i was playing in wanted to dj, and the club dj didnt show up. back then many people frowned on djing as being a carreer of lesser worth than the mass media over hyped role one could play as a band member . some people found the very notion that a dj should be considered an important cultural multipilicator almost embarrassing back then, an emotional response that was clearly formed by their own personnal ignorance,lack of experience, limited understanding, and an inherant inability to percieve things favourably that challenged their media/upbringing programmed and very limited faculties of perception , something which initself sadly illustrates in those same people a complete lack of self confidence and knowledge about the great potential of their own intuitive faculties.

with all due respect to your ( and all of our ) right to express opinion freely, the observation that an old man is trying to sound young by using the right words and slang is an ill informed guess which in itself rather unfortuanatly typecasts you in a very typical “pseudo” role, as with countless others who aspire to be a part of whats happening musically and culturally at any given moment in time, but sadly prevent themselves from ever achieving that by never being able to think out of the box.

the culture that has produced those words and “slang ” that you refer to has been my home since my teens. those phrases and slang exist because they are part of my and many other peoples life style, not a fashion accessory or something that its cool to use to impress people. indeed the kind of people who may be impressed by such slang and phrases are usually of a very shallow and inconsequent character, and are the very people who inevitavbly corrupt and belittle the worth of contemporary culture by the very nature of their relationship to that culture. i do not court favor in any way from such people , indeed i endeavour to at least keep them at arms length, at best, to send them on their way !

eds world of music is already a winner thank you and as i have done on a continuos basis since 1992 when i helped found kiss fm in berlin, i will continue to produce and stream on internet and fm frequencies, radio shows where i offer what i consider to be worthwhile and relevant music, accompanied by comments in the language that i talk every day and have done since my teens, dare i say it a language that people like myself evolved and created by our way of life , for other observers and consumers to eventually pick up on and use, so that they feel like they are part of something more worthwhile than the rather mundane existance that they have accepted thus far!( this is something which i find to be a success story in itself as anything that helps move peoples consciousness to new and more fruitfull horizons and brings about more satisfaction in their lives is all good in my book )

and that you find the music nice is in itself for me a highly dubious statement . nice is usually a word that is used to describe something the the person describing it hasnt actally connected to on any other lever than a very superficial one . thats my opinion at least :-) did you for example feel motivated by the “nice” music enough,to seek out further information, or further releases by any given artist, and in so doing support and nurture the culture and lifestyle that you obviously feel qalified enough to comment on ?

so if you are able to accept that i as a 53 year old dj , musician of sorts , label owner, promoter and cultural multiplicator, with three and a half decades of “ahead of the curve” hands on being there experience under my belt , who has two grandchildren aged 2 and 7 , and whose choice of words in his radio commentary is based upon his day to day vocabulary (and is not some pseudo shallow pose aimed at impressing pseudo shallow fools ), is not something you need to be embarressed about , i heartily invite you to keep it locked, stay tuned and enjoy !

if however thats a little beyond you,i would suggest that you seek out some source of nice musik accompanied by some nice people of a nature that dosent disturb you and fits more easily into your worldview.

check it out !

ed2000 / corin arnold

http://www.facebook.com/#/djed2000.corin.arnold?ref=profile

but the music is nice – weiter so! sucht einen neuen sprecher und ihr habt einen winner

grüsse
Adrienne