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    Post "manly" tracks (in all genres)

    in Other Electronica

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    well as odd as it may sound here in Belgium the proportion of men and women at psy parties is about 50-50. As a general rule I found that what determines if more girls or men go to a venue isn't as much the music as the general atmosphere of the venue, for example if it's a big trendy club you will find like 80% men and 20% women, and the smaller the venue the more girls it seems to attract (don't ask me why tough...)

     

    As far as I know, the % of men liking dark electronic music and metal is waaaay higher than the % of women who are into that stuff. Which is logical since dark electronic music and metal neither have the qualities that are required to become 'popular' among women. The main themes of these genres are still KILLL KILLL KILLL DESTROY DESTROY!! which isn't really a common way of thinking for women isn't it? It's rather a manly thing.

     

    Correct me if I'm wrong. I might learn something new today :ph34r:

    Post "manly" tracks (in all genres)

    in Other Electronica

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    hmm I think it's more a question of the general mentality at the place you listen to it... for example I can gurantee that in Belgium you will find MANY girls dancing like crazy to that second track you've posted at a psy party :)

     

    Yeah, but the question is, would you rather find many women (compared to men) at these darkpsy/darkdnb raves?

     

    So far these tracks being posted both sound very great and I'm really a picky MF what concerns music, so thank you.

     

    And to be honest, I don't think masculine music equals dark music at all. But I generally find myself very attracted to "masculine" music and it's not because it's just labeled masculine, it's something with the sound and mood that attracts me. Just makes me feel so alive.

    Post "manly" tracks (in all genres)

    in Other Electronica

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    Like tracks that scare all the girls away from the place yet keep the most of the men dancing/moshing...

     

    Macho music, the sort of music where all the girls go like "jeezz, what's that horrible noise? Turn that off!!" yet all the guys are brocking out to it.

     

    Can be non-electronic music too (or even psytrance).

     

    Examples:

     

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    Interesting and aggressive

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    Tbh there is a lack of dark dubstep nowadays, a couple of gems here and there, gah wish they still made tracks like Vex'd - Thunder, that track is like 6 years old now isn't it, but it still sounds more modern than most stuff being released now, dunno maybe it's just me, can't really tell but lately, dnb & dubstep => :blink:

    All-time favorite Techno tracks

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    What do you guys think of Breathless? When people mention Laurent Garnier they talk about Acid Eiffel, Wake Up, The Man with the Red Face etc... but, for me, Breathless seems to be on an entirely different level. The manner in which the layers come together in this track...you can only listen in amazement.

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMXSWpJyx_E

     

     

     

    Sometimes I find the line between them hard to draw. I guess I need to listen to more music.

     

    Got to be the first Laurent Garnier track in the world that I actually tend to LIKE a bit! Surprise surprise! Never saw that coming personally.

    Final Mixdown Tips.

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    If you'd ask my opinion I'd say, the first thing to do is to make sure you've got a decent audio reference, decent monitors I mean or decent headphones, second I should tell you about the EQ stuff or just the plugins in general. If you process a tune, you'll always have to make sure that your adjustment actually IS a step forward. You can check this by bypassing (switching the on/off button to you know on and off) and see if it makes your audio sound better or not. Second, if you use a plugin, you'll always have to make sure you use all parameters of it in all it's positions, just fiddle around until you find the perfect setting. If you found it and you're sure it makes your audio sound better then leave it. Same for EQ, you'll just have to fiddle around browsing all frequency areas using a slight boost or cut and try to find the perfect setting. You can either do this horizontally by using a slight boost or cut and sweeping through all frequencies ranging from 20hz to 20khz, to find the perfect spot. Or you can do it vertically by picking a random frequency spot and sliding up and down till you found the perfect spot. If you found it just release your mouse button and remember it's important to boost AND cut. This goes for all the other plugins/instruments too, find the perfect setting and make sure you're 100% correct about the fact it makes your audio sound better before actually saving the changes. Then, the final thing you have to do is the rendering, you save the file of your whole track either as a wav or HQ mp3. Then play it using Winamp (if you have it, if you don't, download it), check the spectrum analyzer (or visualisation plugin or whatever that shows the peaks of the total frequency spectrum of your track) and check the frequency spectrum itself. Are there any obvious peaks or gaps in the frequency spectrum that you keep finding on every song you've made that show up like that no matter how you processed it? And do you notice a difference in the frequencies when you compare them with music that other people have recorded? If yes, then your audio reference (ie your monitors or headphones) is not a trustable reference and you should invest in better or try to change it in a way that it becomes better. Also small changes in processing audio are way more efficient than big changes since they're more precise and less abrupt, you should always work in small steps.

     

    Having trustable gear is always the main thing you need to check before you make or release music.

     

    Ah, feel quite drunk at this moment...

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    Urban Assault Mix (Techno/Breakbeat/Acid/Psy/DnB/Dubstep...)

    in Other Electronica

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    http://soundcloud.com/crackspunk/sets/urban-assault-mix-techno/

    Heavy Mix going from Dubstep to Breakbeat to Psy/Goa to Acid to Techno to Dubstep again and finally DnB.

    Done in Ableton.

     

    Length: 69 mins

    Filesize: 117 MB

    Format: 235kbps VBR LAME MP3

     

    Tracklist:

    1. Brainpain - Bombkicks Snareblades

    -> Vex'd - Thunder

    2. The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

    3. BK - Under The Influence

    4. Kratzer - Baby

    5. Xerox & Illumination - Battleship (Krunch Remix)

    6. Infected Mushroom feat. Xerox - Acid Killer

    7. Hallucinogen - Snakey Shaker

    8. Pzylo - Candyflipping

    9. Fabulous 23s - It's Fucking Dark

    10. Riino - Brainsucker

    11. New Order - Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)

    12. DK8 - Murder Was The Bass (Reworked)

    13. Vitalic - La Rock 01

    14. Dopplereffekt - Superior Race

    15. Broken Note - Crux

    16. Black Sun Empire - Arrakis

    -> Black Sun Empire & Corrupt Souls - Everything

    17. Audio - My Generation

     

    Enjoy it!

    All-time favorite Techno tracks

    in Other Electronica

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    Haven't heard a lot of techno but definitely Manhasset, Mind to Mind, Spastik, Plasticine, Gantz Graf, Breathless.... Techno is just so good at conveying a sense of the ineffable, you get this feeling you're barely scratching the surface of something immense and profoundly deep. Here's my list...

     

    http://www.listology.com/karan129/list/favourite-techno-tracks

     

    I was thinking about making these lists aswell somewhere but judging from the first post in this thread it looks like I already did.

     

    Gantz Graf isn't techno BTW, it's idm :P

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