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  1. What is the most fun to play around with?

    Anything that doesn't sound like anything that has been heard before, i.e. more experimental stuff that usually never ends up as finished tracks.

     

    hey Tamlin!! i forgot about your music. how come you have never put out an album? I remember Upside Out from years back, thats the craziest fucking track ive ever heard.

  2. i think it depends what you want to do as far as the recording bands setup. if your going to be doing the final recording i dont see why you would waste your money on protools. the only advantage would be if the rock band wants to do vocals/drums at a bigger studio with isolation booths, things like that.

    i think you would be better off getting sx/logic/whatever, UAD card and a soundcard with a massive number of i/o to be able to skip the mixer. you will have to spend a shitload to get a mixer thats not the weak link in the sound quality chain. line 6 toneport is a nice piece of gear for recording guitars. really the problem is drums/vocals for recording rock. mic on drums is an art in itself, vocals i have no idea.

    really i would think twice about this whole setup, with a psy setup and toneport you could do a rough rock recording but its going to be a huge project to get things right as far as a total proper solution for drums/vocals. would be better off asking that on prorec or some board like that.

  3. I am not planning to spend too much time with the scene next year. Hope there will be interesting IDM/Minimal/Ambient releases and some interesting findings from the far past. Planning to listen to some Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the likes.

     

    haha ever hear Neil Young - Harvest Moon? thats one of the most beautiful albums ive ever heard. Kind of like campfire music with acoustic guitar and harmonica. check that out if you never have.

  4. i responded to this on isra

    "75% plus of tracks released easily have stolen software used to make them. go to the prodution forum, everyone uses waves plugins, 1000 bucks easy for it.

     

    most flyers are probly made using a stolen version of photoshop. alot of visuals are made with stolen video software.

     

    the only thing thats not pirated in this scene are parties. really, who cares?"

     

    personally i dont buy cds at all. i dont even think listening to psy at home is much fun. i download more or less to see whats good that i would like to hear live. everyone bitches about this and takes this stupid moral highground about cd buying, the big artists make more than enough money for playing parties. its all about the parties, everything else is just promotion for parties IMO.

  5. Ott sounds fantastic...how you can any long time Simon fan possibly say that hallucinogen clip sounds good? Its just the same 5 cliche things he does now over and over and over. slower moving line over rolling melody, pumping bass/kick, throw some filter delay somewhere, then some weird flanged out sound, probly some chopped up vocals at some point in this track im sure. What made simon great is that you never knew what his new stuff would sound like, now its just cliches of himself.

  6. I'm on Nick's side that the true innovation lies in the idm-scene. And yeah, screw that name, it's just as sucky as psychill is. But people generally tend to understand what you mean by it, so I keep using it. Or, instead, I De-Am Bient.

     

    yea IDM is equally uncreative at this point. Bluetech is still great psychill wise IMO, i will buy his next album without question but i think thats just because hes a serious musician. I think this is just how genres go after a time. You have the early innovators, then a bunch of a copy cats and then maybe you get a really good musician who can do fresh stuff but overall it gets stale. "Breakcore" is really where its at but thats getting a bit old now.

     

    check out anything on sublight, they have really been putting out the innovative stuff the last few years

    www.sublightrecords.com

  7. I have heard songs by Hallucinogen past the 21st Century that disappointed me, songs that aren't that good at all.

     

    yea i think simons power vanished when he played the mi luny um track live to welcome in the 21st century.

     

    i would prefer he doesnt put out hallucinogen 3, obviously he's not inspired to do that type of music anymore, its been almost 10 years.

     

    shpongle 4? "nothing lasts... but sometimes we can stretch things out a little bit longer if we need to make a buck".

     

    fuck him, he should hang it up. The only way i would buy anything from him at this point is if by some act of the gods he gets Sean Williams to work with him again.

  8. pandamonium i dont get your point in posting the rave bill. like i said it was pretty much over before that was signed anyway just because the fad wore off. dont make it sound like the US has nothing going on at all though because of that bill and the promoters are all terrified of the government. it was nothing but a political show.

     

    We just had a drum n bass party here last night and i'm not even in a big city. its not my thing but i think usually 30-40 people show up. The people that throw those parties just do it because they love loud drum n bass and set the price to just break even and cover cost of the party. No one cares about parties here anymore accept the true lovers of the music. The government doesnt care because so few people go to these.

     

    the other city i lived in 2 years ago had the best party. an open deck night(records only) that would go until 6am. Free drinks untill 1am or the alcohol ran out. Being records only the only psy that really got played was when someone would show up with old goa :) it ruled.

  9. there are alot of great synthesis books to check out. For production books i have always found them to be rather useless just because it has more to do with producing band music than getting a good electronic kick/bass.

    the computer music tutorial is the bible of synthesis, will give you 10x more than you ever wanted to know about synthing sounds.

  10. Bush did sign off on an anti rave act, under the the patriot act 2. It stated that officials were legally allowed to shut down a party for no reason at all, just because they were playing electronic music.

     

    this is just wrong information. there is no patriot act 2, its draft legislation that has never been signed. The rave act was signed in 2003 and by that time the rave scene was already pretty dead.

    Basically from 1999 on back we had a great rave scene in major cities here. Then around 1999 it started getting more media attention, and frat boys/party types/normal people would show up just to party and take drugs. At that point the old school ravers who had gone awhile moved on, then maybe the frat boy/party types lasted about a year or 2. the fad wore off and then there was basically nothing left after that. It had very little to do with law enforcement/government, they were way late "to the party", no pun intended.

    Psytrance parties have always been on the small side, the ravers tended to like more variety of djs than just all psy all night so didnt show up all that much.

    at this point its totally unground, totally kicks ass. sounds way way better than anything i hear about in other countries. other countries psy parties sound very much like what happend to our raves in 2000 here.

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