Recent content by Victor Xray

I just listened to "up side down" while counting the bars in and paying attention to the key changes and vocal emphasis ... it sounds like to me like there's a definite 2/4 (two beat) bridge (aka the pre-chorus, but herein called the bridge) between verse and chorus ... the chorus then starts at...

This is a top thread, given me some ideas to think about for my own drum and rhythm programming! I just want to address one small thing in the very first post ... which comes around also to maybe have some relevance the last few posts as well. You know, I think the key here, and sorry to take...

I'm a laptop musician (pretty much anyway) and I think that laptop performances - even when done as a DJ set - lack something essential. I don't mean that in a "keep music live" sort of reactionary way, having struggled with such attitudes from the 1980s, instead it's just a personal observation...

Poker machines in pubs almost killed the Sydney music scene stone dead (at the time very reliant on pubs as venues) for nearly a decade from the late 80s.

isn't there 1. music criticism, which is a theoretical engagement with music or the aesthetic theory of music and 2. music reviewing, a process of producing a "buyers guide to music", or, informing the potential listener whether they'd be interested in purchasing the music under review. the...

I stopped buying the NME (it is shitload expensive via airmail to .au!) when I realised they were no longer giving out "0" rated reviews for records.

Hello Dissensus I'm an Aussie from Sydney but living in the nearly deep north of Brisbane, QLD for the past year. I was turned onto dubstep by Seb & Luke from Sub Bass Snarl when Kode9 came out and played a set at Frigid, I can't remember when that was, but it must have been some time ago 'cos...