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Pirate Radio Djs I know a lot of people will disagree with this one, but pirate radio djs do my head in. I get sick of the shouts and the rewinds after 10 mins - just play the tunes! I know that it's part of the whole culture and all that, but really some pirate djs should just STFU...

I like Kanye West's music - the only single I've hated from him was "Touch The Sky', which was an awful P. Diddy style karaoke singalong. And why do rappers sing so badly? Is it because singing is seen as effeminate? Anyway, I digress. I like Kanye's production on Jay Z's The Blueprint album...

People who insist on showing you something really funny on their phones that was filmed on a night out. It's invariably filmed in a pub/club - you can't see/hear what's going on. A mate of mine used to do it all the time - even when told him I wasn't interested. I used to say something along...

God I hate that crap! It's infected the world of education too. The one I hate the most I think is 'parachute teams'. Also 'going forward' is a bugbear. Which other way would you go? Kind of on the same topic, but a little different is when customer services use the word "yourself" rather...

I hate it when you get a house track that suddenly gets an inappropriate diva on it for a chart remix. I'm thinking of something like Love Story by Layo & Bushwhacka. Not an amazing tune, but one that's totally ruined by the rubbish singing and sax solo - that wasn't in the original when I...

I completely empathise with Rich. I still can't quite understand why people get so excited about this total bollocks. What is so great about pretending to be Irish for one day a year? If I was Irish I'd be quite offended by the complete nonsense that goes on inside o'neills, scruffy murphys et...

sorry to be picky but it's actually two or more notes ;)

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How do you mean, get a fix on it? And do you mean the UK Garage guys? I always assumed they used what you say - MPC (or Akai samplers) and Cubase on Atari. The beats are swung quite a lot the garage tracks aren't they? that could be something to do with the improved (and increased) MIDI...

Yeah but you get the same thing happening with other genres - there's no reason IDM should be immune from that kind of fallacy. I remember years ago when Luke Vibert was doing stuff under the Plug name, he did the album Drum & bass for papa. At the time a few Warp people were calling it 'speed...

I think your setup is probably really good - what I would do is minimise the inconveniences. You might already be doing this, but maybe you could set up a Reason template with all the outputs from redrum going straight to the hardware interface as a slave. Save this template and always start...

I agree - what it comes down to with the major sequencers is workflow. I like programming beats in Reason and Renoise because it's quick - its immediate, and I can set up new drum kits painlessly. I daresay I could do the same in Logic, but it would take far longer. For recording in synthy...

Wicked! Enjoying this loads cheers

I always hated the term IDM, although I loved the music. When people asked me what music I was into, I would always just give a list of labels - Warp, Planet Mu etc. I remember when I started listening to DJ Scud though, and Atari Teenage Riot, suddenly a lof of IDM seemed quite pallid in...

Scheduled ripping with no extra sofware Hey I've found a way of automating recordings of radio stations Using automator you can record Resonance streams while you're away, using no extra software. If you use Leopard this will be of interest to you. It might work on Tiger, but I haven't...

Drum machine What I always found funny is that Mac OSX hardly has any drum-machine plugins. There's iDrum, and I think that's it. Although I sometimes play beats in on keyboard, I like the old-skool Redrum in Reason - there's a way of working there for me that seems much more enjoyable and...

Evolultion, not revolution I've been using Logic since version 6. Before then I was using Cubase, and years back before that I was using Notator on the Atari ST (along with Octamed on the Amiga 500). I haven't used the new version of Logic yet, but it seems that the features that are included...