721

(29 replies, posted in General Discussion)

shitty news, cancer fucking sucks. big up MCA !

722

(59 replies, posted in General Discussion)

im more into witch-core-rap now anway : P

723

(59 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i dont really put them under a genre heading all these people, but for ease on the interweb stuff gets all labelled under this witch house moniker. so i state i like witch house, but i dont in the respect of all the people with just symbols for names and an 'evil' aesthetic but utter shite music. when i say i like it im more thinking of stuff like holy other, burial hex, salem........alot of the stuff thats really over done with the occult shit is more than likely made and listened to by a 15 year old. i think there is not much in common between this and the stuff on tri-angle and that aside from the kind of spooky aesthetic, vague artwork so it all got lumped together. balam acab and holy other isnt really dark, or trying to be 'eviiiiil' for the sake of being 'eviiiil', id just call that stuff ambient electronica with a goth tinge haha.i mean all that shit with the alastair crowley artworks and up side down crosses and stuff is 90% percent shit. not all of it, but most.

724

(50 replies, posted in General Discussion)

firebrandboy wrote:
boomlinde wrote:

If you aren't offering artists any money (in case you decide to go for a commercial game release), you could at least give some more detailed information about the game. I think that the offer, and the way you put it, will at best attract a bunch of mediocre artists interested in the publicity opportunity, and you could end up with a haphazard and disjointed collection of bad music. In the end I think it's better if you do it yourself after all, or pay someone good to do a coherent soundtrack.

this should be the default response to these kinds of threads.

725

(15 replies, posted in Trading Post)

ok but dont come to crying to me when you cant play manhunt 2 : P

726

(49 replies, posted in General Discussion)

VCMG wrote:

Sometimes I'll listen to a song (might not even be one that I like) and there'll be one element in there that I think is really cool, so I try and write a song based around that element. Other times an idea will just pop into my head during the most unexpected moments (shower, toilet, math class, an all-day tour of a city) and if I can write it down quick enough it becomes a song.


pretty much this. and dope

727

(59 replies, posted in General Discussion)

also i forgot to mention Evian Christ. so dope that is. shit i sound like a right tri-angle records fanboy haha, but man that label has put out consistent stuff. i agree with the dude that said when something gets alot of media/internet circulation alot of people will dive into the genre and make shit, like with dubstep. Ive heard alot of stuff that is such a shamefull salem rip off. there's just no point making something that sounds like a carbon copy of king night. did i mention i went a bit in this direction. so if anyone wants to listen to what i making these days.....its sometimes like this....http://soundcloud.com/downstate/i-have-no-one-to-share-my _______i wouldnt call it witch house, but of course ive been listening to a ton of it and clams casino etc, its hard sometimes not to get overly influenced by a vibe you like....so this is the downstate gone DWNS†▲†Ξ. I want to keep my chip raw right now, so work on a seperate record with that midi megadrive oh yeah !

728

(59 replies, posted in General Discussion)

balam acab is amazing. im fond of some Salem too for sure. i think people get put off by the symbols and the hipster side of witchhouse/synthwave and all that. There is some absolute tosh thats all just style and no substance. but there's some wicked stuff. Holy Other is very good....xxyyxx is pretty nice too. i like the dark ambient side too like burial hex, haxan cloak etc.....i play alot of that stuff now, my hip hop buddies call me a hipster but it doesnt bother me.....the cute goth chicks lap that shit up : P ........also 'How to dress well' - Love remains. . . . possibly the best song of 2011.
PΞ▲CΞ

729

(32 replies, posted in General Discussion)

its biro surely

730

(15 replies, posted in Trading Post)

cant trade mine cos im addicted to loco roco and manhunt 2 you see

731

(15 replies, posted in Trading Post)

u sir needs a psp and thats that

732

(24 replies, posted in Audio Production)

WALLOFTEXTWALLOFTEXT SORRI

733

(24 replies, posted in Audio Production)

try not to over think about numbers and technicalities. really on your ears much more. i say this from my own experiences of just fiddling and fiddling and then making it sound shit. a decent song will get you further than a decent mix down on a shit song ! one thing i do too much is make my song too busy with too many layers all mudding up frequencies.......like when im just hamming late at night, writing melodies....then its a cunt to mix it down nicely. so i try to make decisions when i set up the track, like what takes the prominent bass, a subby 808 kick, or a deep bassline. often i sidechain sub with a kick if its beefy (like dem 808's) and then maybe the midrange bass/low meoldy frequency's are chained to the sub also.   
also another nice method if you have volume issues somehow, drowned or peaked mid to highs....i like to just load up a multi band eq and go through all the freq's low to high with the level right up, its easy to hear where you've got frquencies that make your ears bleed at just a small boost. i dont know if thats correct way but it helps me identify where i have some over lapping frequencies or reverb peaks and shit.....its good to clear that up mixdown era before going into the mastering. some mastering tips - dont buy krk's ever haha cos i hate them colouring bass heaps of dung. (yes i have them) the yamaha monitors made SO SO ,uch difference to my mixdowns when i had them. its true what their tag is 'if it sounds good on these it does anywhere'. they re great. anyway............check for sure at high volume but also low, i read somewhere that even when low volume you should still be able to hear the seperate tracks. like play a shit mastered track low and all you can hear is the high melody and hi hat haha, also i like to check like others, on everything i can. shit mp3 headphones. i have some i check my track on the, the high is peaking, no bass......blamed the headphones...listened to dope stuff like ital tek or apparat on them......no peaks, can hear bass.......so its my mixdown that sucks. if you're that bothered do your mixdown with at least 5 or 6db headroom to work with on mastering. and pay someone to master it to be happiest ! you can get okay jobs done by semi pro's over interweb. my friend got an ep mastered and when i mix the tracks in the bar i play at, they bump the club hust like everything else. i heard the b4's and afters, the mixdown was nice, but the mastering job really spread it like nice warm butter and got a few more db's out of for sure, without brickwalling it to sound shit with a compressor on the master. I wouldnt advise a compressor on the main master either ! anyway i hate this shit too, we all do....im recording my synths to 4 track, back into pc now, some field recording and basically producing in a way i like...just low fi but still cleanish.......but the low fi elements i like, and stops me going insane trying to make an overclean mixdown. that over produced shit has no soul and is just shit !

734

(12 replies, posted in Releases)

tidal force i liked alot. especially from half way to the end .

735

(12 replies, posted in Releases)

has some very nice tunes on it actually. love the art

736

(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

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