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R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:01 pm
by Direkt
Rising from the ashes of Melbourne Jungle, Melbourne Beats first took flight on Tuesday 23rd November 2004.
Melbourne Beats, or MB.com, was the baby and brainchild of Melbourne beatsmiths, Lucas Chan and Lynt.

Local broken beat aficionados rejoiced, a community was born, an online hang-out for those with an interest in breaks, drum'n'bass, jungle and all the sub-genres and new genres that followed. Promoters and punters joined en masse in the months and years that followed, culminating with a peak number of simultaneous online members (178) on Tuesday 26th June 2007, at 2.54pm. 178 members online at once... wow!
As of today, Thursday 29th December 2011, MB.com boasts a membership of 4792 members... out of this impressive membership, roughly 2 people still frequent the website. :wink:

MB.com was proudly responsible for two high-profile fundraising nights... 2005's Beat Aid (raising an impressive $17k for the Asian Earthquake and Tsunami disaster) and 2007's Fire Aid (raising $9k for the 2006 Victorian Bushfire relief). There was also numerous MB.com BBQ's (north side vs south side) and other social engagements throughout it's lifespan.

Some Stats:
10 First Members: admin, lucas, breaksrbest, steiner, Craig McWhinney, Polecat, Friday, Guyno, DBoy, Dean Millson.
10 Top Posters: deviant, huge (with Agent Orange post count added), Lizkins, lynt, Direkt, gnat, mixtress, mrj, ghetto kitty, quick.

Whilst this post is largely tongue-in-cheek... with the increasing amount of tumbleweed blowing throughout the website, particularly this year, I thought I might as well post this half-joking obituary...

Bigups to lucas, lynt, system and all the moderators, members, shit stirrers, promoters and punters that have made this an enjoyably communicative and pro-procrastination tool for the past 7-years or so.

R.I.P. MB.c.

play some breaks

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:24 pm
by quick
respekt

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:31 pm
by andy_hoffman
:donk: :nic: :donk:

:lighta:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:44 pm
by fooishbar
congrats dan

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:12 am
by elysium
what? Arrgh! Noooooooo... I hope this does not portend things to come. This site is a little security blanket for me. Sad but true.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:40 am
by obliveus
Big ups to all you mentioned, Spies.

But it does feel like every time I lurk in these days I'm just kicking a dead corpse to see if it'll move on its own again.

:meh:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:28 am
by quiet roar
It is sad to see what has become of this place.

Somebody needs to turn off the life support.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:05 pm
by retzie
elysium wrote:This site is a little security blanket for me. Sad but true.
+1

It is my Melbs away from Melbs :confused1:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:37 pm
by CoB
sadfse

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:29 pm
by Lindepenis
Pfft... Sif..
The brotherhood has never been stronger!!
We reprazented LARGE at the Blah Blah Blah festival in Brizvegas on Wednesday

Feigan has the evidence, suprised (& possibly relieved?) that he hasn't posted the pic yet..
There is life in ye olde dawg yet..
Respecognize!

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 5:45 pm
by CoB
hmm, i never saw you guys

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:11 pm
by Lizkins
even though tongue in cheek, this still makes me sad to see how its gone over the last year or so :( this place really impacted on my life, from friends, to gigs etc

always love for mb.com

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 9:53 pm
by quick
will suck if it goes down cos I still get a lot of mixes from here

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:54 am
by FliP
Lindepenis wrote:Pfft... Sif..
We reprazented LARGE at the Blah Blah Blah festival in Brizvegas on Wednesday
I was up there with a few melbourne beats kids too :wink:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:28 pm
by Feigan
Yep - in attendance at Blah and came across a Lindepenis and a Deviant on a dancefloor whilst watching Cutloose cook up a mix.

Literally.

Has Photo somewhere.

Biggest think I learned is that Dan is the king of women and lindsay can still dance amd wear purple t-shirts.

BU's Mb.com

you saucy old minx you.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:45 pm
by Direkt
Feigan wrote:Yep - in attendance at Blah and came across a Lindepenis and a Deviant on a dancefloor whilst watching Cutloose cook up a mix.

Literally.
You literally came across them?

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:14 pm
by CoB
literally cooking

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:51 am
by Feigan
literally came across them and literally he was cooking.

He smashed out a Stir fry while he was smashing out a mix.

Sponsored by Scanpan.

pretty impressive.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:55 am
by deviant
fooishbar wrote:congrats dan
thanks!
Feigan wrote:Yep - in attendance at Blah and came across a Lindepenis and a Deviant on a dancefloor whilst watching Cutloose cook up a mix.

Literally.

Has Photo somewhere.

Biggest think I learned is that Dan is the king of women and lindsay can still dance amd wear purple t-shirts.

BU's Mb.com

you saucy old minx you.
Image

:dancing:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:45 pm
by Feigan
can't get much cooler.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:04 pm
by Hardy
Feigan wrote:can't get much cooler.
Could only be cooler if Dan was giving a peace sign, or maybe even the old ridgy didge.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:08 pm
by Feigan
or 2 in the pink sign.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:29 am
by system
still getting the same amount of traffic compared to last year tbh.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:42 am
by DBoy

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:37 am
by system

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:03 am
by youthful_implants
Image

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:22 pm
by Lindepenis
Direkt wrote:
Feigan wrote:Yep - in attendance at Blah and came across a Lindepenis and a Deviant on a dancefloor whilst watching Cutloose cook up a mix.

Literally.
You literally came across them?
Not suprised.
Was a jizztastic day all round.
I had become a sour old bastard,
But just needed a good 'Sub-and-Tug' (I'll get my coat)
T'was a good reminder of the joys of RAVE, and with a respectable bed time.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:02 pm
by Kaiproject
should have a day of the dead theme mbc summer bbq?
still only actually met a handful of youse IRL.

rip

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:35 am
by nic
R I P

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:45 am
by Hardy
Feigan wrote:or 2 in the pink sign.
We all know Dan only gives 5 in the stink

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:17 pm
by deviant
:P

Image

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:55 am
by Feigan
Bwahahahahahahahaa

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 3:44 pm
by Lizkins
oh you guys....too funny LOL

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:24 pm
by nic
well I dont find subjugating females into sexual objects very funny

MANY women have worked long and hard to eradicate these kind of 'jokes' and attitudes from society so it saddens me when i read it on here.

women are equals - lets work together to remove that glass ceiling and stop the continued 'casual sexism' directed towards our female poking toys

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:21 pm
by retzie
:lol: at "female poking toys"

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:19 am
by youthful_implants
retzie wrote::lol: at "female poking toys"
x 2 ha ha ha

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:44 am
by mixtress
Lizkins wrote:even though tongue in cheek, this still makes me sad to see how its gone over the last year or so :( this place really impacted on my life, from friends, to gigs etc

always love for mb.com
Yo. Feel the same way Lizkins. I have met friends on here that I know I'll have for the rest of my life. Shit, I met the love of my life here...8 years with Recon this January. I still have him in my phone as Recon, cause it reminds me of how we met and what an awesome time my life was back then. And that includes you fuckers.

Being on here is hard sometimes, I've had my heartbreaks as well as anyone. It's been a fucking ride though, there is no doubt...Mb.com's been there through 4 jobs, 3 houses and 2 major relationships. It's all connected for me, it's the 1st degree of separation during all those crazy times of my youth.

Probably should have held on a bit then harder, huh? I miss using the emoticons :(

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:55 pm
by quiet roar
Nothing lasts forever. I'd rather it be gone than be left in this state, tbh. At least then we could remember how good it was, as opposed to how lame it is.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:52 pm
by nic
YES EUTHANISE IT PLEASE

reminds me of when i had to get my dad to shoot my sick cat.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:22 am
by andy_hoffman
Yep i agree. Met some awesome people on here and can't see myself meeting any more as there aren't any more.. Time to put the site to rest i think.
Image

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:07 pm
by Lizkins
:lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta: :lighta:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 4:23 pm
by Direkt
sadtimes :lighta:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:09 am
by quick
Direkt wrote:sadtimes :lighta:
:scr1pt: :lighta:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:43 am
by deviant
might I remind everyone... I still have the highest post-count

I WIN

bwahahahahahahaha

:scripteef:

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:16 am
by quiet roar
Quality is more important than quantity, Dan.


Now, why is this website still here? Where's Lucas? Shut this baby down so we can have happy thoughts, again.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:11 pm
by huge
you're all a bit dramatic aren't you!

huhu

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:30 pm
by quiet roar
Not at all. Everybody's sad at what this place has become so why not just end it?

As I mentioned, all good things must come to an end, and it's better to end on a high than to go on in an embarrassing way. Why wouldn't you put something you cared about out of it's (our) misery?

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:51 pm
by witty_pseudonym
huge wrote:you're all a bit dramatic aren't you!

huhu
:scr1pt:

I seriously don't understand how it has become embarrassing. Blimey, how much did it consume your life if it has? I still pop in from time to time, but don't feel remotely offended by the fact that there's so little traffic. Mb introduced me to a huge number of friends and has played a massive role in my social life - but I definitely don't think it needs to be shut down to preserve those memories. That's just retarded. The mixes section still gets a few decent things posted. Why mourn the fact that it won't be what it was (definitely sounding like jaded ravers again - "back in the day") and preserve the happy memories. If it's too depressing for your melodramatic heart, then don't visit. Simple eh!

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:37 pm
by quiet roar
You obviously don't care enough, witty.

Re: R.I.P. MB.com

Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:18 am
by nic
witty doesnt care
kill it like you would a sick pet.