Oh yeah I mean "art is never finished only abandoned" and all that, one has to draw a line under a song and move on at some point. That is why I said "very good" not "as good as Trash80" or nobody would release anything.
994 May 10, 2012 11:37 am
Re: Tips for an Ep? (65 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I don't think he was being facetious, if it is your first EP the main thing which is going to influence peoples opinions of it, unless you get very lucky of course, is how good it is. If I were you I would write all your tracks, find people to give you constructive criticism and don't release the EP until you are damn sure it is very good. Once you think it is release worthy, wait a couple of weeks without listening to it then see how you feel about it.
If you don;t get the quality bar high then all the subsequent stuff like promotion and layout isn't really that important, especially bearing in mind, with all due respect, you aren't very well known.
995 May 10, 2012 4:30 am
Re: is retro computing going to be viable in the future (28 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I must admit, I am consistently surprised at how robust some of the retro gear I have it. My DX11 is a fucking warrior. However my opl3 laptop is on its last legs. One of the reasons I got so into the midibox project is provided you have one (or 3 for opl3) core chips which aren't THAT hard to find. All the other electronics are basically cheap, replaceable off the self components which I guess provides a fair bit of future proofing,
996 May 9, 2012 12:17 pm
Re: Hi all. Some of you may know me but as I am new to this site... (11 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Cybergoth? Do people seriously call it that? Front242 must be spinning in their graves
997 May 9, 2012 1:44 am
Re: New user welcome thread / forum? (7 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
herr_prof wrote:
I think a getting Started/ Introductions forum is a great idea.
Yeah we could move some of the newbie centric faqs there to declutter the main forums
998 May 9, 2012 12:55 am
Re: New user welcome thread / forum? (7 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
Sweet, A gentle reminder to new users to check the pinned threads especially the rules/faq and do a quick search before posting new threads (ie tattos, how do I perform live) in the op of that thread might be a good idea too!
999 May 8, 2012 11:45 pm
Topic: New user welcome thread / forum? (7 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
Seems like there has been quite and influx of new users recently with quite a few "hi im new" threads and duplicate topics. Any thoughts on making a specific pinned "introduce yourself here" thread maybe with links to a couple of pertinent faqs? Might lower redundancy a little?
1,000 May 7, 2012 6:07 am
Re: discussion: the creative commons ND license (36 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yeah I mean, if you approach the CC licenses as concise "preference and plausible deniability gives" I totally get that.
1,001 May 7, 2012 3:41 am
Re: discussion: the creative commons ND license (36 replies, posted in General Discussion)
While I applaud the effort I have a couple of fundamental issues with CC. First it feels a bit toothless, even assuming it gives me a robust legal platform from which to ask someone not to do whatever with my songs I still need the time, money and effort to make said someone stop doing it. It doesn't seem better than traditional copyright in that way.
I tend to put my stuff up as cc-by-nc, basically "go head and do whatever with this music just dont use it in commercial ventures" but it isnt like I could stop Disney using my music in a movie. I feels cc is just a defacto expression of the creators preferences which they cant practically enforce.
CC seems very vauge on a couple of salient points, most notable cover versions and samples. No idea at all what it covers there.
Lastly quite a few people dont understand what the licenses mean, i have seen numerous cc-nc-nd works on weeklybeat for example which contain large samples of commercial music and movies which surely cant be right.
But as for nd being evil, I think it is a bit naive to expect your work to be exempt from people creating remixes or whatever but I assume it is to avoid alienating creators living in that bubble?
1,002 May 6, 2012 3:02 pm
Re: Hello again, my beauties! (29 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Saskrotch wrote:
basically this is what i've been listening to lately
http://www.ubiktune.org/releasesespecially the new coda, joshua morse, soundshock comp, and virt releases
Yeah I think if Ubik stop releasing albums till 2013 they would still win label of the year.
1,003 May 6, 2012 8:26 am
Re: Hello again, my beauties! (29 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Those are my top three for the last month for sure.
Also do I get a cookie for recognising the queen reference?
1,004 May 5, 2012 2:58 am
Re: Tips for my first live performance? (51 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This might sound facetious but it genuinely isnt. Not having your equipment fuck up or at least recovering from said fuck up fairly quickly will be a very positive thing. I would suggest a couple of things
1 - run through your set at least 3 or 4 times, get your timings and transitions nice and polished.
2 - take back up gear, make sure you have 1 more gb/lsdj cart than you need and if you can, just keep it running on a sPare channel so you can fade it up if one of your main units dies
1,005 May 5, 2012 1:55 am
Re: Tips for my first live performance? (51 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,006 May 5, 2012 12:25 am
Re: MCA is dead. (29 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Kinda cool how the beastie boys (and a bunch of others) were in that little window when technology was good enough but copyright was lax enough to do super creative sample based music using pretty much whatever the hell they pleased.
1,007 May 3, 2012 11:54 am
Re: [JP, Kyoto] 03.05 | 1H1D vol.25 @ Cafe la Siesta - Live Stream (5 replies, posted in Past Events)
This is cool, it looks like the Tokyo crew (加山, kizan, tappy, bun, saitone, xinon, hizmi and saitone) went down en masse.
Keep and eye out for Toriena, been hearing good things,
1,008 May 2, 2012 11:29 pm
Re: "Chip / Pixel" Tattoos You Have (32 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Thats such a coincidence! I have a charkdip tattoo on my knuckles!
Also check out the 7 page tattoo thread for more ideas