Oh but I did. Zing!

Thing is I just sonned you on politics and you can't stand the bum rush.

Chuck Norris gave him that PS3 just so that he could chase him down and make him give it back.

Breakcore and dubstep most certainly aren't the same thing, but some of the first dubstep was done by IDM and breakcore artists. A lot of Venetian Snares' "Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett" album (the suicide album) is in a sort of half-time step that resembles the current dubstep swing and roll rhythm (not sure how else to describe it but it's a heavy quarter note swing), particularly his remix of "Gloomy Sunday". Of course the album is totally different from anything else but it has the feel. But I'm not going to even suggest I really know where it first turned up, all I know is that was how I first connected the two.

As for glitch, one of my classmates was the so-called inventor of the style (Tomas Jirku) and I don't believe that it's relevant anymore. It's essentially a style of minimal tech crossed with IDM, with more of an experimental feel to it. Fennesz, Oval, that kind of thing... really haven't heard anything new in years and I think it sort of got absorbed as it became easier and easier to create. Honestly if you like glitch just go to improv EA shows kids. That's where that shit's at. But just don't make any noise or wear whistles and horns to the events, they're sort of for intellectual snobs.

You'll meet her soon. She was married to the former president of the United States and one day a lot of you kids will be inundated with her name. Until you finally clean up.

Good lord ppl, lrn2 facebomb.

Yeah Bliss, way to push everyone's buttons again. Read up on the Shatila massacre and tell me if that sounds justified. I think that it may be true that there's a ton of horrible hatemongering going on in every religion but the Judeo-Christian side has an obvious advantage that they exploit continually. There is no way that a threat of an Intifada (push the jews into the sea) is somehow a valid excuse for genocide. You are supporting what is essentially exactly the same ideology that has persisted in any country that practices violent religio-social apartheid. I thought you'd been to South Africa, would you tell us that the blacks deserved to be fenced off? Also, Yugoslavia, was Milosevic justified? Oh oh oh, Rwanda, I guess the Tutsi had it coming? And who could forget WWII? Well nobody, because after WWII the powers that be learned to come up with less conspicuous ways to conduct worldwide population control.

Wake up man, this is nothing but Realpolitik. The same old Kissinger politics of culling the masses before they revolt. And it's going on worldwide. It will at some point target you, too, as if it doesn't already.

And it's been that way since 41 AD. The empire never ended. Divide et impera is still the most effective way to practice total war.

Come back when you've read up, until then STFU and GTFO. And I will say right now that I'm not saying I prefer fundamentalist islamic ideas either, but this whole idea that innocent people need to be punished for what their government or church does is straight out of the Third Reich.

You really are a cunt. One day I'm going to destroy your record collection with yogourt. Just not yet.

Yeah that's right, I said "I will say right now that I'm not saying". Go to town on that because you have nothing else to pick on in that paragraph.

Son you gotta lay off the cheeseburgers.

^- This guy's a good tech.

I'm just fucking around. Of course you can play chiptune on a big system, but just try to find the stuff with decent drums. And yeah, I know you have all that gear hehe. The transients can be loud but I have yet to hear of artifacts from chiptune wrecking anything.

I just can't imagine just dancing to standard chiptunes all night. I know a bunch of people who write stuff that uses C64 chips or nintendo sounds, and that includes me. But I still think the purely chip stuff sounds fucking annoying really loud. I always use a bunch of plugins to round it out.

Yeah but the artifacts! You'll also need a compressor really. Careful with the transients.

Carbon Copy Cloner works for that too, for anyone trying to clone on Bootcamp. Really good program, I managed to clone an old hard drive and make it my main drive, and then successfully did the same for the Windows partition from my mother's IMac (before wiping it to install Win7). I dunno, that program is pretty solid. Don't know if it works with Tuxera NTFS or not but I'd imagine it does a fine job.

I know a nice lady who can help you get rid of all those problems.

Why? Chiptune is 8-bit music and sounds terrible on loudspeakers.

:,( I miss you Colin. Once again, you know exactly what you're talking about and tell it like it is.

The 90s were full of a lot of amazing innovation. Tons. Some of my favourites were on totally unknown labels as far as the rest of the world was concerned but made the nicest music and some of the most amazing albums (art especially) ever concocted. Schematic, Skam, Warp, Planet Mu, Rephlex, DHR, to name a few... the IDM (and to a lesser extent digital hardcore) sound which now influences pretty much everything from dirty south hip hop to dubstep (to stay on topic) developed behind the scenes of the more mainstream (but still underground) electronic scenes, which I'm sure I don't need to list here, for the sake of brevity.

Not to make a real argument out of it, since I also like industrial-metal sounds, but what was on the radio was barely ever reflective of what was actually going on behind it all. Most of the bands that made it there were referencing and underground early 90s sound or groups from the 80s, and that covers everything from industrial to metal to shoegazer to post-punk to grunge to punk to fucking whatever. The lineage always goes back because the truly talented musicians pay their dues. They listen to everything they can get their hands on. They don't pigeonhole their tastes like a lot of scenesters do. This is why I think it's so hard to understand any genres that suddenly blow up. The worry with a lot of people is that the scenes that start up have no regard for what came before, and that the styles of music that develop are breaking away too much from the lineage.

I thought that was the case with dubstep, but for all the shitty brostep and clubstep remixes of LaRoux that everyone can't seem to get enough of there is some serious innovation going on with it. And I think the reason has to do with it being a different rhythm. After the 90s it felt like electronic music had exhausted all its potential moods and feels. And here comes something that sort of stands astride of a bunch of them.

In many ways I feel like it sounds remotely like industrial music, but if placed side by side with say, Throbbing Gristle, it's clear it's not as experimental, and placed side by side with Fear Factory, unfortunately Fear Factory sounds weak. We've gotten used to louder and more abrasive sounds as the world evolves, and have accepted more "noise" into the fold of "music". This is why these squelchy stepping filters and sidechained compression tricks are now so central.

I see your request and raise you MOTHERFUCKING BREAKCORE! GET WITH IT! FOR FUCK'S SAKES WHY DON'T YOU KIDS GET IT?

The zebra is a freakin' insider. She's an Igloofest scenester getting the votes because she's popular, not based on quality of her costume. I'm surprised Wasabibi San isn't in there, dressed as a panda or something ridiculous. She might be the gingerbread man though.

I fucking love psychiatric trance.

Yeah use the c word instead. Bliss, you're a cunt.

Tom muhfuckin Waits.

Sorry kids, I'm keeping it Vanilla for now. It's going to say "Safe for kittehs" on the back.

Noob detected. Trollpedoes have hit the target and we are moving on.

How the hell is it that you kids can read this from the k-hole? Shouldn't you be busy trying to find your way back home?

No silly, Austria's a continent, not a country. He's from Australia.

I liked the idea with the [ ] and MOM tattoo, but have a better suggestion:

This

And then just superimpose [ rave.ca ] over it.

I know this guy who lives in Australia and has a creepy basement, his name was Fritzl something. Too creepy?

BTW can I be a Suicide Girl? If not that's sexist.

Je sais seulement ou trouver des collations façiles.

Ben c'est chez ta mère, elle a tellement les meilleurs. Des Doritos, des Cheetos, toute sortes de collations. Pis une chatte slaque en criss, moi j'aime ça, l'effet "hotdog in hallway". C'est ben le fun.

Protip: There is no more real k.

2012 is going to be a very normal year and the apocalypse will once again be delayed for 12 years.

My advice is a budget recommendation, like a quick fix in the interim. Of course you ideally want to have a series of patchbays and a multi-input mixer but I personally can't afford that shit. Although I admit I'd probably just record a track at a time too, in some cases that's just a load of extra work for nothing. Especially when the device in question sounds fine already. You could either work on mastering the samples first and then use them on the MPC or track with the MPC and then fine tune the tracks later, and both work, even though I know the latter is more "professional".

All I have to say is that dude should have weak game given his silly look, but somehow there's always a girl out there who wants the ego boost of a photo op.

I have still, to this date, managed to avoid every opportunity to wind up in an ubiquitous Antonino photo, but of course, I don't have a vag, so that makes things a bit easier.

[ rave.ca ] has got no game.

You raver kids are always talking about the future even though it's clear you're stuck in the past (circa 2001)... [ rave.ca ] should change its name to something more current I think.

Like [ dubstep.ca ] that'll never get old.

WEMF 2000 was the most debaucherous event I've ever attended.

Kushikime Takamishi Mokina

I fucking love this song, Dee. Good pick. :)




A couple of songs I love from the Mississippi Records tapes "We're Gonna Make It" and "Why Did You Make Me Human", amazing music really. I find myself listening to more of that than anything.




Robert Johnson rules btw, in case there's any doubt.

How exactly is he going to record anything from the MPC, which is multi-track, without somehow having a) a soundcard with 6 stereo 1/4" inputs or b) a mixer with at least six channels? And why the hell would you want to record one track at a time? Why not just make things easier and get some kind of board at the core of everything so that one doesn't have to rewire everything to record each track? I can't understand doing it that way. Tedious.

To me it seems obvious to want to track to the DAW, all at once. After all, that's how you do it.

If you're going to do it the hard way though take the man's advice or make things more difficult and get a BR-20 (reel-to-reel rocks for tone anyway) and then you can not only record one track at a time but splice and overdub for years to get one stinking thing done. But it'll be worth it. If you like making strange experimental music with a lot of tape saturation.

You're going to have to allow this, mother nature always wins. Hey at least you guys don't get slush all winter, it's actual winter in Montreal instead of being soggy and cold like in Toronto.

Ok well a small desktop mixer is what you need next, when the MPC arrives I'd go get some Behringer mixer or better.