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I'm playing a dnb set in DC this Saturday. Evol Intent and Mayhem are playing here next Thursday. Klute is here at the same club on Feb. 29th. Maybe we'll get jumbo slice and post pictures for 28GBB? And I'm not sure if anyone is interested, by Xtrah did a production Q&A at Point Blank today, was streamed live (8AM EST), and the archive is already up: http://livestre.am/1fKey
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SUBFRIES posted:And I'm not sure if anyone is interested, by Xtrah did a production Q&A at Point Blank today, was streamed live (8AM EST), and the archive is already up: Awesome, thanks for the link. I almost forgot he was doing that.
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Really this mythical place with giant slices of pizza is the only reason Washington is even on my map. Not the history, culture or the apparently pretty good music scene. Purely giant slices of pizza. I could bring the idea back here, deep fry them and make millions.
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Really this mythical place with giant slices of pizza is the only reason Washington is even on my map. Not the history, culture or the apparently pretty good music scene. Purely giant slices of pizza. I could bring the idea back here, deep fry them and make millions. The jumbo slice is probably akin to a chippy / kebab shop? I haven't had a slice in years, it's totally drunk food and I don't drink that heavy anymore. The neighborhood is the big "weekend warrior" bar scene too, total mess on the weekends. The club the event is at has a great little kitchen though, will try to convince him to get the Pho Dog (hot dog made in Vietnamese pho broth, topped with Asian slaw, Srichia sauce and hosin sauce). Also going to try to record my set on Saturday for you guys.
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Also, any chatter about Commix and their 'Dusted' LP of unreleased tunes from 2003 to 2007? I'm looking forward to it, I still love their 'Call To Mind' LP. Been hunting down their techno stuff too (Shifted / Relay / Pacific Blue). Haven't listened to it enough to go "oooh, yeah, that's totally those guys". And I am also wondering why the name change to CMX?
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chrix posted:High Contrast, while still relevant, hasn't put out a top-quality tune since 2004. I don't agree with this personally, but I kinda know where you're coming from, and there's a couple of bits on his upcoming album that sound a bit more like his older stuff, such as Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?. I get the feeling the album's going to have a bit of something for everyone, which is more than can be said for a few of Hospital's releases of late. chrix posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7OPZOBJZyI This is so similar to Watercolour it's unreal. I heard an instrumental version of it the other day and it took me a while to realise it wasn't the Pendulum tune.
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HJB posted:I haven't heard about this but I assume it's because they're moving away from dnb. Maybe the techno aliases might be more solo projects then?
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HJB posted:I don't agree with this personally, but I kinda know where you're coming from, and there's a couple of bits on his upcoming album that sound a bit more like his older stuff, such as Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?. I get the feeling the album's going to have a bit of something for everyone, which is more than can be said for a few of Hospital's releases of late. I was hasty with the 2004 remark. If We Ever & Everything's Different are both very good. My point was that I just don't think anything from the new album is going to compare with his previous productions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBqsy1Paqsg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYrDCj4UBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUVWEIQIdIY I am in no way dissing High Contrast. In fact, I may be giving his old work too much credit. At the time, it was all anyone could talk about that wasn't related to the mutating techstep sound emerging at the time. He was the last bastion for what liquid drum & bass used to stand for and I hold his work in that era in pretty high regard.
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The Ghost Of Jungle Past is the best track on Tough Guys, in my opinion, and that album is one fantastic track after another. It's hard to pick a favorite from that album, but that track always gives me the shivers all over. It's just so loving good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvmnYId1ckI This was made after 2004 and is one of his best tracks period, I think.
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SUBFRIES posted:I'm playing a dnb set in DC this Saturday. Man...I can't fuckin' wait to see Evol Intent and Reso on Feb 11th...so hype.
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So I thought some goons might want to hear the best news of the month...Spor posted:I think I'll put an album out in August. Made my day to say the least. Spor business aside, I come bearing a (lovely) gift. I just got done with my very first mix last night for a competition here in Lincoln. Starts out with mostly liquid stuff, then transitions to a more neurofunk vibe, then to jump up, and finishes with some drumstep. Like I said, this is my very first mix so any feedback at all is welcome. http://soundcloud.com/euphorik-3/the-sound-of-euphoria-ledm
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http://soundcloud.com/singularity/nanox-original-mix Singularity - Nanox One of the best songs Ive heard in a long time. Fresh style. Really dope, check it out. edit: this isnt even dnb, my bad. Just thought of this thread when I heard it. zeldadude fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Jan 31, 2012 |
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zeldadude posted:http://soundcloud.com/singularity/nanox-original-mix Whatever, man...this is still really good. Thanks for sharing it.
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Not a new track at all (probably eight years old now) but not something most will have heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lViRL2Az4eE&feature=related
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Can anyone please recommend some up tempo kind of drum and bass influenced recent dub that sounds anything like Tiki Taane- Dub Soldier- http://youtu.be/TP-xlCFhdjk or Roots Manuva - Witness Dub - http://youtu.be/mBNGt329auQ Any other recent dub/reggae recommendations welcome. I love vintage too but more looking for recent stuff. Been listening to a lot of- Tiklah- http://youtu.be/6X-kLKIDqCo Spacemonkeyz vs Gorillaz – Laika Come Home- http://youtu.be/MtS0XEWyI7E Bob Marley & The Wailers In Dub Vol.1 Thievery Corporation Chant Down Babylon etc
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yarichinchin posted:Can anyone please recommend some up tempo kind of drum and bass influenced recent dub that sounds anything like Check out Salmonella Dub (Tiki used to be in the band). Fat Freddies Drop is pretty great. Not D+B but really nice NZ dub. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyxktRPuSrk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfsf-d1aDc Pacific Heights (one of the guys from Shapeshifters side project) do D+B and dub. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7TFbUD5vY Ewar Woowar fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Feb 1, 2012 |
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Ewar Woowar posted:Not a new track at all (probably eight years old now) but not something most will have heard. Fuuuuuuck. This is so simple, yet so elegant. Also, another new High Contrast track is out. Here's a snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_fpQsxFmU I think it's safe to say he's trying to be the Coldplay of liquid drum & bass, and well....that just blows. That's not what I want to hear from him at all.
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yarichinchin posted:Can anyone please recommend some up tempo kind of drum and bass influenced recent dub that sounds anything like Calibre has been quietly killing the dub game for a while now. starting with the most popular: Calibre - Step Toe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7H_Znqp7Zw Calibre - Overreaction Dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKp_WSKh3DU Calibre - Thirst Dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHcN5w2RCq4
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Fuuuuuuck. This is so simple, yet so elegant. Mostly why I'm not hype at all for him and Netsky coming to Chicago...
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SUBFRIES posted:And I'm not sure if anyone is interested, by Xtrah did a production Q&A at Point Blank today, was streamed live (8AM EST), and the archive is already up: Definitely interested, thanks for posting. I've only watched about 10 minutes but so far it's probably one of the most helpful producer classes I've seen yet.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Fuuuuuuck. This is so simple, yet so elegant. It sucks as I love High Contrast but he's paid his dues, dude just wants to make that long paper.
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im a girl btw posted:Definitely interested, thanks for posting. I've only watched about 10 minutes but so far it's probably one of the most helpful producer classes I've seen yet. I was extra nerdy and went through it twice, taking lots of notes the second time. Some of the main things I took from it was that there were a few techniques I just either didn't know or did not pay much attention to, but I'm getting a better handle on why he used some of them. Mainly stuff like using a notch EQ band to find "bad" frequencies (pretty much anything that was harsh & whistling), Flextime's speed mode for pitching breakbeats. I kind of agreed with his statement about doing things fast, using presets and tweaking them a little, but then I also think getting to know how to use certain synths and making your own sounds from scratch can be fun. The EFM1 synth in Logic is fun too, I've been using it a lot lately and it was cool to see he used it for some of his bass sounds (which looked like about 11 different channels: mid bass, mid growl, a reece, bass stab, 3 high freq basses, 3x sub basses, and an intermittent wobble).
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I've still only watched to about half way (reached our bandwidth cap) but there were lots of small things he mentioned that I never really bothered with. Things like keeping all your hihats, rides and shakers occupying slightly different frequencies. It makes sense and left me wondering why I never thought of it myself, just small things like that which make tunes sound so much better. It always surprises me the extent to which big name producers use presets and sample packs. I always figured they'd make almost everything from scratch.
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im a girl btw posted:I've still only watched to about half way (reached our bandwidth cap) but there were lots of small things he mentioned that I never really bothered with. Things like keeping all your hihats, rides and shakers occupying slightly different frequencies. It makes sense and left me wondering why I never thought of it myself, just small things like that which make tunes sound so much better. That was one of the things reinforced to me. I tend to use a tiny bit of distortion on hats now, keep them stereo, and also use a simple sample delay plug-in (same one he uses in Logic), to spread them out a little. im a girl btw posted:It always surprises me the extent to which big name producers use presets and sample packs. I always figured they'd make almost everything from scratch. Same. In the past few months I've started doing that more, just to churn out ideas faster, but making sure to get in to processing A LOT more. Resampling resampling resampling. Hopefully I'll have some links to share soon.
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SUBFRIES posted:That was one of the things reinforced to me. I tend to use a tiny bit of distortion on hats now, keep them stereo, and also use a simple sample delay plug-in (same one he uses in Logic), to spread them out a little. You know what, I always found it more amazing at the stuff good producers don't use. Recently I was looking at the B2VOS forums and noticed Ron Wells aka Jack Smooth, Hedgehog Affair, Fast Floor + a million other alias (with a lot of them mainly for Basement Records/Sound Entity) was on it and had posted up his old Sound Entity Studios kit list. Jack Smooth's Kitlist posted:* Roland JX8-P (tek basses) Sure a half decent collection of late 80s/early 90s synths, but really not too much bar some basic effects. Nothing too exotic. I even read something from Martin Ikin (DJ Mayhem, Soul Purpose) saying that the Basement stuff wasn't even done on an Amiga or Atari either, but a hardware sequencer. No idea what one but fair chance something like an Yamaha QX series. Having a much later and much more user friendly Yamaha RM1X gathering dust I know they're not exactly the most streamlined way to produce. Just goes to show you really how easy it is to get carried away and think things are so ultra complicated when they may not be.
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Just goes to show you really how easy it is to get carried away and think things are so ultra complicated when they may not be. It becomes a conflicted disheartening & empowering feeling for me. Like you can do so much with just certain pieces, but figuring out how to use them fully is a huge challenge. I did break down in the past few months and get a few plug-ins (a free plug-in called SupaTrigga for glitches, a couple free soft synths like the TAL stuff and the u-He Tyrell, and then bought CamelPhat and NI's Razor), but I need to work on how I'll use it all in time. Also bought a GoldBaby 808 sample set, and the Octane & DLR and Icicle & Friction sample packs. Now to just focus on using that stuff for a bit for drums and what not.
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SUBFRIES posted:It becomes a conflicted disheartening & empowering feeling for me. Like you can do so much with just certain pieces, but figuring out how to use them fully is a huge challenge. Ya young whippersnappers with your TALs and your PhamelsCats and your NI Shavers! In my day I had an sampler and a Midiverb and that drat well had to do me! And then I sold the Midiverb to a friend and now I've got nothing! Having more samples is never a bad thing though. Actually while I used to occasionally curse that ol' ESI-2000 for it's lack of waveform editing (nothing says fun and spontaneous than setting stop and end points via milliseconds!) I was always glad that is came with like a dozen sample discs, with sounds from all the old Emulator series as well as like all those old Proteus and Carnival sound modules. But yeah lots of things blew my mind once I realised how simple they were. Listening to El-B talk about stuff and how simple all his classic tracks really were (I also got way too jealous at his classic Yamaha 02R mixer - Motorised faders!!). Learning that the track you love isn't as complicated as you think 'cause the guys nicked 90% off it from some obscure UK Techno record anyway! Or learning a lot of the early and really popular Artful Dodger stuff was sourced from a GM sound module. The same sounds everyone just laughs off at first sight, but whack it through some simple and light effects and it's a whole new ball game. Easy. That's one thing I used to try and remember when I was trying to produce stuff. Just keep it simple. I think nowadays especially people can go a bit crazy and listen to randoms advice on the net, all trying to layer this, filter that, automate this. I'd just try and remember all the tracks I love, half the time they're nothing fancy technically. Like Voodoo Ray is just pretty much a couple of cheap (well back then) synths and drums machines, a cheap sampler with like a 1.5sec sampling time, stick it in a cheap second hand 8-channel desk and out to some cheap cassette recorder or something. Nothing fancy, no million pound software. Simple but man it works so well. And it's the same for a lot of stuff. Some of the old grime stuff I used to love and which would totally melt my brain was cooked up on like a loving Playstation! Just mental. I don't know, I think a lot of stuff done by people nowadays would benefit just from being that bit more frugal with stuff. Just simply listening with your ears and trusting your feelings rather than watching the pretty coloured bars on the screen and assuming it needs to be stuffed with some fancy VST or effect because some guy on Youtube said that's how Famous Artist #1 does it. So this synth isn't resampled a billion times with stuff under it. So what? Sounds good? Yeah, loving cushty. Play it. Like it. Record it. Cut it. Sell it. 'course it's never quite that easy though is it?
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Ya young whippersnappers with your TALs and your PhamelsCats and your NI Shavers! In my day I had an sampler and a Midiverb and that drat well had to do me! And then I sold the Midiverb to a friend and now I've got nothing! Heheh, to be honest, I am probably the oldest poster in this thread. 28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Having more samples is never a bad thing though. Actually while I used to occasionally curse that ol' ESI-2000 for it's lack of waveform editing (nothing says fun and spontaneous than setting stop and end points via milliseconds!) I was always glad that is came with like a dozen sample discs, with sounds from all the old Emulator series as well as like all those old Proteus and Carnival sound modules. I'm trying to figure out the best way to go through all the CDs (21 of them) this E-MU came with. All of it the after-market stuff that wasn't originally packaged with the E-MU. Also how to best use the hard drive, might just chuck in a bunch of bass samples, organized by key or something significant. 28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Or learning a lot of the early and really popular Artful Dodger stuff was sourced from a GM sound module. The same sounds everyone just laughs off at first sight, but whack it through some simple and light effects and it's a whole new ball game. Easy. I want old copies of Future Music CDs, from the mid-90s. I got one, and heard samples from probably three or four old Ram Records tracks. I've got a few of the old CDs that Jonny L just pillaged on his first album. 28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Like Voodoo Ray is just pretty much a couple of cheap (well back then) synths and drums machines, a cheap sampler with like a 1.5sec sampling time, stick it in a cheap second hand 8-channel desk and out to some cheap cassette recorder or something. Nothing fancy, no million pound software. Simple but man it works so well. From what I understand, the old SP-1200 trick hip hop producers used was to get a record spinning as fast as possible by hand, record that 1.5 seconds, and then just pitch the sample down and chop that up. Maybe that's the secret formula? 28 Gun Bad Boy posted:I don't know, I think a lot of stuff done by people nowadays would benefit just from being that bit more frugal with stuff. Just simply listening with your ears and trusting your feelings rather than watching the pretty coloured bars on the screen and assuming it needs to be stuffed with some fancy VST or effect because some guy on Youtube said that's how Famous Artist #1 does it. So this synth isn't resampled a billion times with stuff under it. So what? Sounds good? Yeah, loving cushty. I am really trying to get on the mindset of "copying an example of success without understanding it with theory, may lead to disaster". Also, "there is no instant pudding".
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Dunno how many of you will be interested but Dieselboy just uploaded his latest mix 'Wake The Dead'. The link he posted was getting caned by a million people so I used one of the cooler features of Mediafire to stick it in my files so you can get at it. Enjoy: http://www.mediafire.com/?jqbn9b176n5to0j quote:Dieselboy - WAKE THE DEAD!
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88h88 posted:Dunno how many of you will be interested but Dieselboy just uploaded his latest mix 'Wake The Dead'. The link he posted was getting caned by a million people so I used one of the cooler features of Mediafire to stick it in my files so you can get at it. Yeah, I scooped it up yesterday and posted it on my blog...it's dope as gently caress.
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88h88 posted:Dunno how many of you will be interested but Dieselboy just uploaded his latest mix 'Wake The Dead'. The link he posted was getting caned by a million people so I used one of the cooler features of Mediafire to stick it in my files so you can get at it. This is amazing, thanks! e: holy poo poo is just gets better and better Darval fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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Basically anything Dieselboy puts out is heavy and hard-hitting as gently caress, so I can't wait to hear it. I'll check it out when I get home from work. Thanks for the link, 8h88 
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I'd like to thank this thread and in particular the OP for introducing me to Black Sun Empire. I've always liked a bit of drum & bass but never really found exactly what I wanted. Pendulum was awesome and energetic but not dark enough, Sub Focus was a bit dark at times but not energetic enough. Black Sun Empire so far are utterly fantastic. Now I need to know a good drum & bass night in Manchester, UK. I've seen a few, but they are aimed at the students and are on week nights, which is no good to me.
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Anjow posted:I'd like to thank this thread and in particular the OP for introducing me to Black Sun Empire. I've always liked a bit of drum & bass but never really found exactly what I wanted. Pendulum was awesome and energetic but not dark enough, Sub Focus was a bit dark at times but not energetic enough. Black Sun Empire so far are utterly fantastic. Glad you were able to get into them BSE has a ton of great darker DNB in their arsenal. The track I posted in the OP is from their latest album, but they've got stuff that goes back several years that's even better.Also, you sort of unintentionally reminded me to check up on the OP and see if there's anything I needed to edit. And I did! Took down all the non-working example videos and put working ones in their places (and swapped out some of the tracks for different ones while I was at it), and a few other things. So thanks  Also, Dieselboy's Wake The Dead will tear your face off, throw it on the floor and rip it to shreds with a chainsaw. Everybody should listen to it.
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88h88 posted:Dunno how many of you will be interested but Dieselboy just uploaded his latest mix 'Wake The Dead'. The link he posted was getting caned by a million people so I used one of the cooler features of Mediafire to stick it in my files so you can get at it. I appreciate the effort he put into this mix, but it sucks.
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A free, previously unreleased Loxy & Resound track AND the Logic project file for producers to take a look at? Awesome. (It's near the bottom of the page.) http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/1187/Loxy_and_Resound_-_Drum_And_Bass_Vol__8
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New High Contrast album is out. Listening to it now, and it's incredibly underwhelming. I've only heard 2 songs on here so far that are pretty good, and they don't even sound super memorable. Definitely don't expect to be humming these at random times like I do many other great d&b tracks. Why is the same vocalist used 3 times on this album? She doesn't even fit liquid that well. At least not in this current form. Maybe with a lot of vocal processing she would. Hell, then the album might at least sound unique in some way. Now it just kind of sounds like an album full of just okay remixes or something. Oh well. Just gonna listen to Tough Guys + High Society and forget this one even exists. edit: Wait, "Father, Can't You See I'm Burning?" is loving incredible, though its length could have been trimmed down a bit. 6 and a half minutes is too long for this one. Still, I wish all 12 tracks on the album could have been like this. This is so drat awesome. And "The Stand" is pretty drat good, too. No idea why a bunch of the other tracks weren't nearly as good as these two. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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