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stationlost posted:If anyone hasn't seen this video of Fracture and Neptune putting 808 kicks through their Emu here is is. Amazing what you can do with some gain and a few filters... Nice! Now I am really thinking about getting another EMU.
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SUBFRIES posted:Nice! Now I am really thinking about getting another EMU. I'm actually more interested in the desk they're using. Is it a Mackie? Beats my old Soundcraft 8 channel thing that sadly met an unfortunate end when I decided the solution to a frayed power cable was obviously to use my limited soldering experience. Ah the follys of youth, at least it only cost me about 15 quid at the time.
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:I'm actually more interested in the desk they're using. Is it a Mackie? Beats my old Soundcraft 8 channel thing that sadly met an unfortunate end when I decided the solution to a frayed power cable was obviously to use my limited soldering experience. Ah the follys of youth, at least it only cost me about 15 quid at the time. It's the 24x4 version of this: http://www.mackie.com/products/sr32-4vlzpro/
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stationlost posted:It's the 24x4 version of this: Ah nice. Interesting they haven't went for the Onyx series with the onboard firewire. I thought that's what everyone would go for. I guess the only real difference is for the VLZ you'd just need to output it into another interface. And the price, a decent bit cheaper for more channels. Fake edit: Ah some come with USB. I'll need to remember that if I ever fancy inflicting the world with terrible, terrible tuneless music again. Well that and if I win the lottery. Luckily for the world so far no lottery win, and most of my old stuff has long since disappeared many hard drives ago.
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Ah nice. Interesting they haven't went for the Onyx series with the onboard firewire. I thought that's what everyone would go for. I guess the only real difference is for the VLZ you'd just need to output it into another interface. And the price, a decent bit cheaper for more channels. Well this is actually a pretty old desk and isn't really related at all to the current Mackie vlz series. This is more along the lines of a small version of the Mackie 8Bus which was used on all the old virus records.
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The older Mackie's were known for how they distorted audio when you turned up the gains. I imagine that's what they were going for. Have to be careful which Mackie you get, as they don't all produce the same effect. My work has a 16/4 sitting around in our shop, hasn't been used in over a year, might see if I can borrow it indefinitely...
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Wow, I've tried to get into Drum & Bass before, but it never really "clicked" until I heard some Hospital stuff the other day. Now I can't stop listening to it. Thanks goons 
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Riot.EXE posted:Friday 5: Label Showcase Edition! Oh dear. I was skimming through the FFs and I stumble on a track in which part of the music is taken from a piece of work from our national composer. For example, it plays in important events/ceremonies in which the Finnish flag is brought into the room and everyone has to stand up. There's no way I could listen to this normally  In other news, I found a likeable, unknown artist, Gradon & Janky who currently don't have too many songs under their belt but The Flow and Heritage plus the four songs made by Gradon are worth listening to if you're into this sort of (liquid) dnb.
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QPZIL posted:Wow, I've tried to get into Drum & Bass before, but it never really "clicked" until I heard some Hospital stuff the other day. Now I can't stop listening to it. Thanks goons If you like Hospital then you might like some of the stuff on Viper Recordings. They are not as poppy sounding as much of Hospital, but they produce mostly Liquid DnB too.
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QPZIL posted:Wow, I've tried to get into Drum & Bass before, but it never really "clicked" until I heard some Hospital stuff the other day. Now I can't stop listening to it. Thanks goons Very glad to hear it  Also, I added a note about the Label 5s into the OP, under "What Should I Start With If I Want To Get Into Drum & Bass?".
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Got busy at work Friday and wasn't able to find some time to dedicate to this over the weekend, so here's a very late F5. Friday 5 - Critical Recordings Breakage - Cooper - CRIT030 - 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWk0EHtVG2c What can't I say about this track? The bassline is so thick, it's unavoidable. With classic Breakage style, there's still a good bit of chopped amen in here for good measure. Chris Su - Satisfy - CRIT011 - 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=242UC1YePWg This one represents what I feel Critical was all about. Nice, quick drums that do not ever stop once they start. Chris Su produces some of the deepest, most introspective DnB and no one does it better. The wild synth after the breakdown is icing on the cake of this well crafted gem. Rockwell - Noir - CRIT043 - 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ6sxvm0wmo Rockwell's first ever release, Underpass, was a HUGE smash that threw Rockwell into the spotlight. The Noir EP was his follow-up and what a release it was. I feel Rockwell defined his sound with this release and the title track, Noir, is pretty timeless. Spectrasoul - Alibi (Break remix) - CRIT033 - 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEuhFW7eCo Absolutely love this one. The smooth, yet, haunting vibe of Spectrasoul combined with the fantastic drumwork of Break makes this an abolute keeper. This track turns heads every time I play it. Ill.Skillz - Forgive Myself - CRIT008 - 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJ5UdmkTec I love the drum programming on this one. Every phrase in the intro, you can hear a different drum sample. Once the first drop comes, you're in breakbeat heaven. It's so simple, yet put together very well. I should start playing this one out more often than I do... BONUS - Since I'm late to F5, here's a couple more great Critical tracks: Total Science f/ Riya - Redlines (Break remix) - CRIT048 - 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhFsG1rtQbc If you know anything about current DnB, you've no doubt heard the original from Total Science and Riya, but the remix switches things up a little. As you can probably tell, I LOVE the remix work Break does and this stays very true to his style. Drums all up in yo' rear end. Young Ax - Something Wondeful - CRIT017 - 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVU5c15npZk This one DEMANDS your attention as soon as it sneaks in. It borders drumfunk at times, but still stays very true to the same Critical drum sound. Young Ax does not get enough love for thinking outside the box, while still allowing listeners to find some familiarity in the beats.
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Dr. Goonstein posted:If you like Hospital then you might like some of the stuff on Viper Recordings. They are not as poppy sounding as much of Hospital, but they produce mostly Liquid DnB too. Thanks for this, I checked out a couple mixes by Futurebound and GeneticBros and really dug them. A little more aggressive than Hospital stuff, but I like it. Along with that, the "Drum And Bass TV" series on YouTube is pretty good. Lots of mixes there to listen to.
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May 24, 2011 16:12
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This week: A producer whose handle begins with the first letter of YOUR handle.
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Riot.EXE posted:This week: A producer whose handle begins with the first letter of YOUR handle. Hmm...there's Rockwell, RAM Trilogy, Roni Size, Reprazent... Rush, Ed...
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Can't think of any other producers I like beginning with H besides High Contrast, and it's a bit redundant making yet another list of his tunes. Think I might pull out another alternative five.
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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Got the EMU, price was too good for the features (32 gig internal HD, current OS, SCSI Zip drive), and my solution is to take a USB Zip drive from work (we have boxes of them) to get stuff from my G5 to the EMU, process in the EMU and re-sample internally.
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The only producer I can think of with my first letter is Q Project from Hospital... I guess I could do a F5 with him.
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SUBFRIES posted:Got the EMU, price was too good for the features (32 gig internal HD, current OS, SCSI Zip drive), and my solution is to take a USB Zip drive from work (we have boxes of them) to get stuff from my G5 to the EMU, process in the EMU and re-sample internally. I salute you for you're good choice! Hardware makes you a better man and more attractive to women. Possibly. The spec sounds pretty impressive as well, especially with the large hard drive. I've no idea why Emu didn't put in a HDD in the ESI-2000, I think the 4000 series came with an optional one. Makes the storage problem etc a complete doddle. The Zip disk solution sounds like the best, at least it's the only way I can really think of to solve that problem. Though have fun with the Zip disks. More than once I had them fail on me. No clue why, but they're fairly prone to it. Probably why you have boxes of them actually. They do feel awesome though, like floppy disks, when you hold one in your hand it just feels right. It's like "I have important data here in my hand!"
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:I salute you for you're good choice! Hardware makes you a better man and more attractive to women. Possibly. I'll have to teach my girlfriend how to make some bass patches. She already teases me about helping me make drum kits in Logic.
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QPZIL posted:The only producer I can think of with my first letter is Q Project from Hospital... I guess I could do a F5 with him.  I think you mean C.I.A., not Hospital.
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Pfft Hospital? C.I.A.? Legend Records bitches drat son, you're takin it BACK. I was referring to the fact that Q-Project & Spinback (Total Science) founded C.I.A. but you just elevated it to the next level.
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http://www.hospitalrecords.com/artists/qproject/ ??? edit-- Beaten, I get it now, nevermind.
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ITT we talk about the change in sound of Timeless Recordings, after the change in catalog numbers from DJ ### to TYME ###.
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SUBFRIES posted:ITT we talk about the change in sound of Timeless Recordings, after the change in catalog numbers from DJ ### to TYME ###. Catalogue numbers or label slogans changing are never usually a good thing (Moving Shadow changing from World Domination to 'Audio Couture' starting their slow descent in quality and relevance. I mean Audio Couture, what a crap slogan just reeks of boringness) and it's generally the same for Timeless. Moving from the older, proper, soulful Jungle stuff of the DJ#s to the TYME#s with it's mostly boring and worthless Techstep/Neurofunk D&B(sorry man, know how much you love that stuff) and it's offspring with some brief head above water moments with the Kemal & Rob Data singles, and some of the Digital stuff. Really releasing tracks by some folk called Duo Infernale should be enough to take it off any cool lists. What a loving terrible name. I half expect it to be a terrible Joy Division/The Cure knock-off with a name like that. What a loving boring tune as well, and this coming from the guy who normally loves female vocals on stuff. Lost in the world is right. Not anywhere near the place on the map marked "Here Be Dragons" - the cool and interesting edge of the map - just lost in a well documented, safe suburban estate of blandness and irrelevance and Carhartt hoodies. Too harsh?
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:Too harsh? Hehe, no not at all. The catalog number thing was something I've definitely noticed too, just poking a little fun. As for Timeless's shift with their catalog, I wasn't in to a ton of the releases. The Kemal & Rob Data stuff was great, I liked the one C4C single, and Sonic & Silver's "Hard Times" and Phantom Audio's "Void" are huge favorites of mine, from about when I relaxed my techstep stance.
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SUBFRIES posted:Hehe, no not at all. The catalog number thing was something I've definitely noticed too, just poking a little fun. As for Timeless's shift with their catalog, I wasn't in to a ton of the releases. The Kemal & Rob Data stuff was great, I liked the one C4C single, and Sonic & Silver's "Hard Times" and Phantom Audio's "Void" are huge favorites of mine, from about when I relaxed my techstep stance. Speaking of Kemal and Rob Data, on a completely different non-D&B musical note, I was always sad no one - except it seemed, me and like 5 others - bought the album from Kemal's latest(well from 2007) musical project Nomadiqa. To be fair probably not everyone one's cup of tea, and it did get pretty mediocre reviews from the few places that actually reviewed it, but dammit I'm a sucker for artwork with a desert on it. No idea why.
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Dr. Goonstein posted:So with that, let me reign in the fun with a few new-ish summer tracks for you to enjoy. Big choon, also peep the Zed Bias remix for a good time. Also chrix sent me a mix from Subfries a little while back. Def. dug the mix man, post more of them up. Oh, and if yxou don't listen to chrix on Boost.FM on wednesday nights...well, you're an idiot. It's not a shameless plug, dude really does bring the heat. Well, that's my post for the next 2 or 3 months.
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Cross posting this from another forum I'm on, one for the liquid / vocally dnb fans, a mix by Pacific from Vancouver:quote:Hi all - long time no posty
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HJB posted:Can't think of any other producers I like beginning with H besides High Contrast, and it's a bit redundant making yet another list of his tunes. Think I might pull out another alternative five. Hazard, Hydro, Heist, Hive... By the way...we're treating "DJ" like the word "The". Go with whatever is after "DJ" if your producer of choice happens to have that prefix, ok?
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"Days of Rage VIP" - Artificial Intelligence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCSyfHk0Q7s God I love this tune. gently caress whoever says the original better because SPOILER ALERT: it's not. Also that mix looks decent, I think i'll give it a try. Shame it wasn't TC's remix of Rude Boy though.
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Riot.EXE posted:Hazard, Hydro, Heist, Hive... I said producers I like, not I've heard of. Dr. Goonstein posted:"Days of Rage VIP" - Artificial Intelligence I will agree that the VIP is better than the original, though that's only because the original has one of the stupidest drops I've ever heard.
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SUBFRIES posted:Cross posting this from another forum I'm on, one for the liquid / vocally dnb fans, a mix by Pacific from Vancouver: In a cautionary tale of check on Discogs before you choose your DJ name, didn't Zinc also record under the name Pacific? I surprisingly did like most of the D&B Zinc put out at the beginning of the decade, maybe because all the Bingo business side stuff was handled by Ammunition I actually got used to hearing it all the time in the early Soulja/Road/Tempa/Dubplate.net days. The Faster LP is one of my favourites, though folk would probably complain that it was only really half D&B or whatever. Still cracking either way.
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:In a cautionary tale of check on Discogs before you choose your DJ name, didn't Zinc also record under the name Pacific? I surprisingly did like most of the D&B Zinc put out at the beginning of the decade, maybe because all the Bingo business side stuff was handled by Ammunition I actually got used to hearing it all the time in the early Soulja/Road/Tempa/Dubplate.net days. The Faster LP is one of my favourites, though folk would probably complain that it was only really half D&B or whatever. Still cracking either way. More than that, Matty C is 1/2 of the original Pacific from Vancouver. I knew that name sounded familiar...They did a track with Noisia and Mayhem called Centepod on Black Sun Empire's Cruel & Unusual.
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HJB posted:I will agree that the VIP is better than the original, though that's only because the original has one of the stupidest drops I've ever heard. Is it as stupid as the drop in "Screw Up" by Ewun / Kill the Noise?
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HJB posted:I said producers I like, not I've heard of. If you don't like Hive or Hype you've got bigger problems. Alternatively: Hyper-On-Experience Higher Sense House Crew Hype Hatcha Hedj Heavy Hittaz Hektagon Hiten Hold Tight Hermit Heretic Huggs Hardware H.M.P Hidden Agenda No excuse.
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28 Gun Bad Boy posted:In a cautionary tale of check on Discogs before you choose your DJ name, didn't Zinc also record under the name Pacific? I surprisingly did like most of the D&B Zinc put out at the beginning of the decade, maybe because all the Bingo business side stuff was handled by Ammunition I actually got used to hearing it all the time in the early Soulja/Road/Tempa/Dubplate.net days. The Faster LP is one of my favourites, though folk would probably complain that it was only really half D&B or whatever. Still cracking either way. There was just one or two Zinc/Pacific tunes, I think the label was Global Thing? Then there was Zenith on Frontline, the supposed U.S. producer who hated the U.S., but it was just some weird story those guys cooked up before playing in the U.S. became a viable, lucrative touring opportunity IMO. Also, on the whole "check discogs", I started using my DJ name in 1996, and then around 2000 or 2001 found out about Ransom in the U.K. (now goes by Joe Ransom, resident at Fabric for years) and Ransom in Australia, a DMC battle DJ, no idea if he still does anything. So then I just go with Harry Ransom since that's what a lot of my friends were calling me... and then I find out about THIS... chrix posted:More than that, Matty C is 1/2 of the original Pacific from Vancouver. I knew that name sounded familiar...They did a track with Noisia and Mayhem called Centepod on Black Sun Empire's Cruel & Unusual. Matty was half of Quadra, he is soley Pacific. To me, his releases in 2004~2006 were throwbacks to late 90s stuff by Matrix. He's been pretty quiet with dnb the past few years. Also, a buddy of mine sent me a new old school dnb mix that he did just last night: quote:Old School Jungle '95 Selection Stream: http://snd.sc/kCIpre Download: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/d2bg9t The Keen (also recorded as Neo, some of my favorite stuff from 95~96), T.I.C. (I think this is an old Technical Itch alias?), DJ Gunshot and DJ Harmony stuff are nice, possibly unknown stuff for people here to check out.
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