wooohooo !!!!!!!

alienzed.. i like it. not everyone gets this type of music, so don't worry about it. melodies are overrated. :P ;)

good bass sample is an oxymoron. so that might be your problem right there. invest in a simple analog monosynth and you'll never have a problem again. for kicks and basslines, analog is the only way to go. kick samples give me ear fatigue too :(

here is big bitch babicz (aka rob acid) on mastering if anyone is interested (warning.. it's depressing because he's got too much nice gear)--> [ www.vimeo.com ]

i will think of him everytime i use bluetooth on my laptop / cell-phone... glad to see that my money went to such good things. (i.e. crystal meth and whores for some rich bastard) ;)

yeah.. but i highly doubt that this dude is buying fair trade coffee and donating to the red cross. hehe

if you get a business loan, then it costs zero to you.. and when it flops... then the business goes bankrupt. no loss to you. all you need is to have a good plan and some peeps involved who have some management/business/accounting [and graphic design hehe] experience to convince the bank/government. :)

don't invest your personal money!!! no other smart business does! :P

and what about making it a non-profit harm-reduction safe crack-smoking zone? :/

(･_･?) hoax i hope.

...however.... cell phones do transmit their signal using microwave radiation.

@screwhead: i agree that the Jungle-family of music producers have come up with the most innovative and cool basslines in recent times. but they don't have a monopoly on either drums nor bass :P :/ hehe j/k

@rawali: i do naaa wat u mean. an i blame the vocals for the h8. :)

@melooodie: what demo?

that will teach you what happens when you try to pay for your music!!!! ;) :/ :D

... i don't use this site, but you should just email them with the details and they _should_ restore your credit... this type of business model loses all its legitimacy if programming bugs screw you out of your download after you have paid.

is there ANY genre you like _all_ the songs tho??

just as long as they don't have too many wannabe cheezball UK RnB singers in it, i'm fine with it.

Bassline (a.k.a "Niche" music, named after the club which played it alot which closed in 2005, i.e. maybe it's new to us, but not to those in sunny Engurland) it's really just "post-grime 4x4 UKG". doesn't need a new name. calling it bassline is like calling a genre of music "Bass" music ... what genre has a monopoly on bass??? even if it IS million dollar bass. ;) :P

isn't thizzle "ecstasy" (i.e. bad speed) ?

ouuuu yeaaaaahhhh... everyone get dumb!!!!!

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it's definitely on vinyl since that's all she plays.. sounds like sum kind of gud tech-house / minimal techno. just skim through songs in beatport.. you prolly wont find these two, but you'll find similar stuff that you like...hehe. sorry i can't be of more help :/

cocaine-fuelled orgy at my house tonight! we won't stop until we all have amphetamine psychosis!

cute? cute?!!?! a french girl speaking english with an accent is dayum sexy.

but me trying to speak french just makes me sound retarded. :( such a double standard.

hopefully she shows up at the Coda club after the show ends at the metropolis. ;)

O M G !!!! i saw those photos of her by dannygirl photography before. hawtness. i have to say this new trend for girls to be into doing burlesque shows is well nice! :P :P :P big ups!

we shouldn't really see left vs. right / socialism vs. capitalism as dualistic as a sports match. :/

canada is a hybrid of those things anyways. often the best role of the state (which is unfortunately corrupted by lobbyists) is to PROTECT individual liberty from the companies. (one obvious example is that a company will privately profit short-term from environmental exploitation and ruination, while the people who have to live with the effects are fucked for the long-term)

the purest theory of capitalism is itself suspect, when numbers (the consensual hallucination that is money) in the form of the numbers relating to 'profit' is what determines what is valid and should grow and continue in society... INSTEAD of what benefits people (i.e. happiness) means that we have a society where insecurities are exploited in advertisments and narratives imposed as a standard industry. multi-national conglomerates all own the media, which shapes our vision of reality which is how we make our decisions. very openly machiavellian.

countries' economies are judged often by growth in GDP:. i.e. an oil spill in Alaska... the cleanup to a crisis is expensive, lots of spending... GDP goes up... another cancer patient diagnosed, lots of money must be spent GDP goes up.. then a good year in the economic charts. whooopeee!! ;)


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and back to the geopolitical scene (zooooom-out) we have the corrupt governments in 3rd world countries taking loans and bribes for the contract to allow GE or gold mining companies to rape their land and people, while privately the corrupt leaders have mansions, yachts and most importantly swiss bank accounts and sympathetic (we bribed you before remember) countries which they run to in sanctuary when they are kicked out of power and the country is left in a cycle of debt that they didn't even benefit from but now have to pay!

the long-term effect of our history of colonialism is twofold.. one that NOW we want to play on an even playing field (i.e. free-market) after hundreds of years of completely non-even playing field stealing all their gold, resources and having built up our countries on unpaid free labour (i.e. slavery) ... which now of course we outsource. :/

the second, is that our colonial forebearers have carved up the 3rd world's national boundaries, making countries not based on linguistic and cultural ties, splitting one group of people into two countries and in another forcing rival peoples to live together. these all combine into problems like that in the D.R.C. and more popularly Iraq. countries like Iraq (and China) need a totalitarian dictator to force those different rival groups to live together. unfortunately, the current U.S.A administration views a break up of Iraq as a political failure at home and they forced the new supposedly Iraqi constitution to include a "no talk or debate on splitting the country up" as a main rule.

as much as I regret the U.S.A interference (first by propping up the dictator Saddam then tearing him down) in the region, they should really wise up, and not pull out immediately, but stay as a peace-keeping force only while allowing the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shias, to split the country into three.... and then fucking totally leave!!! hehe... obviously we need to learn from the disaster that happened with India/Pakistan partition when the british pulled out after independence.

and we need to move our troops out of Affie and into D.R.C and Sudan as peace-keeping forces (NOT war-fighting forces, which they never have been properly trained for anyways)

in my humble opinion. ;)

well the chavs we are making fun of are more the equivalent of suburban wiggers here.

but we don't have the same classist culture as say london.... it's different here. sort of like racism in the south-eastern U.s. it is "stewed to a perfection" there . .. ;) :P
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candy ravers are just immature and/or exhibitionistic which is forgivable... ...and in the case of some cute girls.. adorable! :I


but goths/metalheads depress everyone...should just stay at home and sleep... and really should know better so have no excuse and are therefore fair game . ;) :/

"innit" etc.. is cockney. the whole make fun of chavs thing is very much classist which is a long (unfortunate) british tradition.

most of our fav electronic music is made by these "chavs" ... acid house, jungle, dnb, grime, dubstep :/

but B.O.M is soooo corrupt.... worst haircut i ever got in my life was from "dave" from funky toque. :P :P :P

except for the "melodie is a good bartender" part... of course!!!! ;)

i know and agree that there is no "unbiased" news source. however, i was just stating that the economist is open in its agenda, namely in their last anniversary issue they state clearly that the magazine was founded to push a particular ideology.
Editors can range in what they do, some just cut text to make stuff fit, and hopefully make sure there are no spelling mistakes. While in the case of the economist, they completely rework it and make sure that it supports their particular anarcho-capitalist stance. the namelessness of the articles bothers me because it doesn't allow for a variety of opinions which the authors are accountable for. instead every article is the dogma of the faceless organization. :/

"Globalization" is a tricky issue, and yes, a vague term.
The real problem are what goes on with the WTO , IMF and world bank. The problem in the globalizing economy is that "western" countries do not truly want to play on a level playing ground... they want the "rules" heavily tilted in their favour. "developing" countries are supposed to not "develop" but continue to work at their "comparative advantage" which of course means not allowing them access to education and health-care (see SAPs = Structural Adjustment Policies for how this is done) using them as physical labour and rape their resources... while we are good at the capital owning money makes money white collar stuff. ;)

-> haven't you heard that if China and India become as "developed" as us then we will all run out of oil and energy and it will be a great apocalypse!!! ;P

...and of course gender/class equality is very important... and so is maintaining a 'sustainable' lifestyle (i think our lifestyle in the west is not). but every country has its pros and cons. if you want to believe that the 'west is the best' then go right ahead [basdini] but i have lived outside the west for probably longer than you [so i guess that makes ME the 'authority' :/ lol.. no really... fuck authority.] and personally... most of the time i prefer 3rd world anarchy. ;) quality of life can be measured in so many ways... and while scandinavian countries tend to do well in UN quality of life reports, they also have some of the highest suicide rates and rates of depression. it's fucking cold and dark and boring up there. that should be a big minus for Q.O.L in my humble opinion!!!!!!! :P :P :P

isn't caca spelt kaka ? ;)


i just think it is kind of funny that daft punk are now seen as these revolutionary genre-starting geniuses.... when at the time when they first came out we though of them as watered-down-techno sell-out bitches :/

at least the economist doesn't use doublespeak like "fair and balanced" fox news in the "culture war" .... the economist is openly pushing a particular ideology. They don't even have the journalists' names on their articles, because all the words have to pass through the official censors.

plz don't refer to a small north-eastern section of the D.R.C as "Africa"... there is a difference between a civil-war in a part of a country and a huge diverse continent. i'd still hit the capital Kinshasa for a Soukouss dance party. ;)

...and i have talked to Tibetan nuns who have been raped with electric cattleprods by chinese soldiers, monks and nuns that have been forced to have sex at gunpoint and children who have had their parents shot in front of them, so let's not forget that when we buy chinese goods (pretty much everything) we are outsourcing slavery and supporting tyranny.

and discussing things like this on a rave forum or anywhere is important. to have dialogue and community. let's not marginalize ourselves... systems are made of people (like soylent green!) it's nice to have fun and joke around too of course, but you get your crunchy with your smoothy. ;)

i love it when synth geek stuff gets on the featured youtube videos though. means i must be somewhat normal. :/ dayum.


but claiming that this is triggering a tr-808 goes a bit far... those are quite obviously samples of an 808 (booooooo). :P

here's another one ... cheap but the vocoder is busted (thank God!) ;) -> [ montreal.en.craigslist.ca ]

...and yes, i am a craigrs addict. :I


i need this thing - > [ montreal.en.craigslist.ca ]

check craiggers... they come up on d regular.

like dis -> [ montreal.en.craigslist.ca ]

air canada? i dunno about that. The one i went to is in the basement right across from Vendome metro. highly highly recommended. mmmmmmm

I remember the day on his 100th birthday when he went to a techno party with two beautiful 20 year old chicas on his arms... we'll miss you papa Hoffmann.

A defanged Cobra is a sorry sight indeed.

I just ate at the basement place across from Vendome 2 hours ago LOL!! Carribean Montreal it's called. dayum fine roti. . but those are all Jam / Trini spots... you be tinkin' WEST Indian... not _South_ Indian. :P :/

another vote for bombay mahal and pushaps.... although.. I'd go to Toronto to eat good Desi food... miammm.

is there even a single SOUTH Indian restaurant in MTL???????

it doesn't totally sound like anti-social, sounds more like loneliness. Anti-social is a vague term but means either you damage other people or you don't care about spending any time with others (therefore resistant to loneliness).

from your description [talking about yourself too much without listening as much as you talk / speaking about inappropriate things that turn into hostile confrontations] that sounds like low social intelligence (or being a drunkard/coke wanker! hehe). i'm no social genius myself :/ but it is definitely something that can be improved with some attention and motivation like any other form of intelligence. Often we tend to pick up a lot of the bad social habits of our parents (or whomever raised us) so take a look at them to see if you see any pattern. You need to be fully aware of what is going on before you can change something. You can't hit what you can't see! ;)

part of a confounding factor, however, is that after prolonged loneliness, you can get into a depression. When you are depressed, that is when you "ruminate" or think negative thoughts in a cyclical fashion. it's hard when we are depressed to get out of it because you won't remember the good times you've had, since they are harder to access. That has to do with what is called "state dependent memory" which is an effect where we can recall information easier when we are in a similar "state" as when we encoded it. so when we are depressed, it is easier to remember negative memories and harder to remember/think about positive things. also, we tend to surround ourselves with similar things (depressing music/books/movies/clothes). So you need to make an effort and do some noticable changes to break out of the state (i.e. force yourself to go out more, clean your room, get some new clothes, get a haircut, contact any positive friends you have, whatever).

And.... don't feel bad about seeking professional help. All of us have different physical/genetic situations too, and some people can really benefit with some cognitive therapy or even drugs (gasp!) ;)

"but i was just following orders!"

well one of the members was dead, so that is a fair reason not to show up. and for the other three, apparently if you have a felony conviction in the states, it's hard to travel internationally. That was explained by the wu on stage, but the crowd booed them anyways :/ and then the crowd immediately flipped back into cult mode and thousands of worshippers put up the W sign with their hands up on command.... nuttttty :D

Funny this news item just came up as we are discussing this -> BBC news "US military recruits more ex-cons" [ news.bbc.co.uk ]
apparently they have been pardoning criminals who agree to join the forces of death :/

_irooonically_ this was a similar tactic used by european nations in the middle ages during the CRUSADES of the 1100s where the so-called "crusaders" became infamous in the middle east for their barbarism.


granted... within the canadian and american armies, there are some recruits who are genuinely naively idealistic (read: brainwashed), but having worked with both groups, a lot of them are psychos who just want to kill people. :(

PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

if there was no "political" motivation, why were no civilian cars torched?

you guys forgot the u.s. marine throwing the puppy off the cliff video (i won't post that here) :(

woah.. i came out of the Wu-tang show where the crowd was getting frisky due to a couple wu-members missing, then greeted with riot police and burning cars on the way out..

apparently the foot locker was looted! lmao..



on a related note:

hahaa. i can never get stuff to emb3ed properly on this site :(
-> [ www.youtube.com ]

to be fair it does look like they've taken a lot of those criticisms in mind when designing the xone 42... looks alright actually.

how oldskool are you looking for? Paul's Boutique on mont royal and Popshop on st.laurent has some 90s stuff... The shops on st.denis are always good (Beatnick, Primitive, and that other one) if you ever find a place that has 80s hiphop... PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ --> let me know!!! :D

sorry i've already smoked the business card :( :( :( :D

lol