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there seems to be an assertion that this tempo (130ish) + drum groove (unswung 2step/"funk" patterns) + aesthetic (electro / rave / hiphop) is generally a bad place. And truthfully, that turn of the century "nu skool breakz" scene was hadly the pinnacle of electronic music. im sure there were...

gunplay reminds me of juggalo rappers. Block Beataz beats are fantastic. starship 808s.

well an mpc2000 too. there's a youtube vid of him writing on a gameboy, so that also more generally, people who use a lot of sampling (and resampling), tend to sound less reason-y/fruity loops-y/ableton-y.

Personally i like the fact that kids can get a rough n ready warm mixdown using cracked plug ins and not knowing shit about proper gain staging. People who genuinely engineer their tracks will always sound better, and will always be there. Nothing wrong with slapping something on and liking what...

oh i meant 1st gen plug in synths, the shitty direct x ones that came with cubase 4 or whatever. Those 80s digital hardware synths were beautiful, crafted things.. DX7, D50, SQ80 etc. Some ways I prefer the sound of those wavetable synths to the grizzly 70s analog beasts.

well they're also great instruments, lovely to use, aesthetically and physically. They also have amazing filters & tough DACs. In 90s rap, the source material was vinyl, and the recording medium was tape, so there's still a strong analog element in those records. Also, amazingly, the pitch...

i think we're using outmoded definitions of digital and analog. It's really saturated vs unsaturated. The human ear likes harmonic saturation, it's a pleasing 'warm' kind of complex distortion, like the warm inprecision of old photographic film. This is an inherent factor in analog realm, in...

no they're both midi devices ok usb-midi ffs

fuckin hell thats true. ironic in this thread topic though.

amazing how can you so assuredly differentiate between the sound of the vsts and the 'sound' of the mixing software.. :) and be so sure the vsts are cheap/free. to say he was the first to do the digital thing well is quite an extraordinary claim also.. negating burial, fly lo, zomby, etcetc...

if your process and head is in the right place, there's no reason why using only software will inevitabley sound computer-y. 'Computery' meaning, what, grid-ed, un-textured, stiff, un-saturated. the whole idea that digital = cold/lacking will probably be outmoded eventually.. hopefully. the...

lol, I totally agree. Nonetheless some genuinely affective, pretty music is being created, albiet hapharzadly. They're having great ideas, but the lack of technical ability (musicianship wise & production wise) diminishes the end result - and the emotional reaction to it all. Drenching in reverb...

listened to that stupid ass 'Fuck NoOoOO: the anti witch house mixtape' yesterday, and it made all these bands seem all the more fresh and inspired balem caleb one is lovely.

yep, when people outside of a locality based music try to emulate it authentically - they tend to end up with a limp version of it, as well as stagnate the original idea. It's like when uk people trying to authentically emulate hip hop.. you get shit student uk hip hop, which no one in america...

i think whats happening people are listening to tunes, having a bunch of qualitative reactions to them.. dance-able, aesthetically interesting, emotionally engaging etc.. then having a conversation to work out whether the criteria for those good-bad reactions are fair, or misplaced. debating...

you cant really get a decent one for 75 unfortunately. If you get a micro one, get the akai one, the korg one will fall apart after a few weeks. If you want expressive playing (pitch bend, decent key action etc) you need to drop some more money. maybe that cakewalk a 500s.

it's only ever an issue if the artists are claiming or to be authentic, as dave alludes to. but girl unit & addison arent making any false claims, so there's simply isnt an issue there. re jungle influence in footcrab & andrea (and pev).. there's semantic difficulties in what is meant by...

possible suggestion that girl unit & addison groove are less worthy because they are less generically and singularly juke? i dont know, to me straight juke made outside of chicago is more problematic identity wise than hybrid stuff.

so it sounds like you're concerned that it's becoming a pre-requisite for an artist to be "nice", and if he/she isn't, appreciation for their work is diminished. that i totally sympathise with.. as if not's enough for simply artists to make good art? I sense its a result of a lot of modern...

dude could you not do that please