And this time, it is Jon O'Bir. This is pretty sad to me, as I used to listen to his radioshow Ways & Means quite alot in the past, and it was a good one. Not to mention that he had quite a few great productions. But the saddest to me is the reason why he is quitting. To quote,

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I've had quite a few messages asking: “Why are you quitting?”

I can imagine many of you see this as a job that I simply can't or wouldn't want to walk away from. However, the background works that you probably don’t see are very different to what it may seem like. The last 2 years have been a struggle for me and the distinct lack of gigs is the main reason that I'm moving on and taking a new job in the music industry which is more stable for me at this moment in time.

With this new job, there simply wouldn’t be enough time to push all things O'Bir anymore and after months of thinking it over, I came to the decision to retire the old boy. Put simply, there was not a living for me as Jon O'Bir.

I knew there isn't that much money for producers, but even when veterans have to quit over it, it is really bad.

He made a mix of his works, which can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/infinity_records/jon-obir-2001-2013

That is sad to hear indeed. And that when I thought to finally hear a new track of him again in ASOT only a few weeks ago

I always liked the things I heard of him, whether it were his productions, sets or mixes. I love the mix he did with Activa for TP's 2nd anniversary.

Sad, but true. Nowadays music value dropped to such a low mark as never before. CDs and 12 inches are dying, that kills from one side. Lots of illegal downloads and torrents kill from the other side. What is left? There's no motivation for listeners to buy tracks. And tracks itselves became commercially-aimed on an average stupid listener, who never cares about track title (not even talking about label which released). Only gigs are left for producers to get money from the industry. If Jon O'Bir says even gigs are left aside now. Well.. I shake his hand. All the best to you, man!