Alex

I'm not being anti-8bit sounds, I'm talking about people who use them inappropriately or in a shit way, or as an excuse for bad production values while insisting it's trendy/retro/ironic.

dude, you could just like...not listen to shit music? You just say there you're not in this thread to try and see something positive, just to whine about all the crap out there and reminice about when it was truly "cutting edge". Press the ff button or summat. Must be a burden having to care so much about all the shit music out there. Rise above it. Incidentally, I quite like sabrepulse's stuff (www.myspace.com/sabrepulse). And germlin tho that's mainly just for ADD sufferers.

Duracell also - the guy is a fucking shithot drummer - you're trying to tell us that some guy twiddling fingers on an MPC compares to that? (on the 1 in 10 occasion when his triggers actually work the whole set).

Alex

p.s. Why don't you try getting a dirty jungle set on at one of aberdeen's many shitty venues? - there's something about an actual live connection I don't think you get sitting on your arse being superior. You should have more fun, sir!

immediate reaction: just because it's japanese doesn't mean it's not shit

I've always found it damn near impossible to make out lyrics/words with music going on, so with fred durst reduced to a background whine, limp bizkit's first couple of albums have some fucking tasty tunes.

Nice. What colour is it and how much did it cost?

Hi Dan. Natural finish - light oak-ey, dark, light, dark, light. nice dense mahogany fingerboard. it cost 340 quid.

i've got bartolini's on my ibanez bass - lovely pickups, really crisp and clear - as long as you're not loading them with backEMF, they perform really well going into damn near anything.

I got a tasty ibanez bass made from wood of many kinds and colours with bartolini pickups and active circuitry. Slaptastic! Ummm...my 828Mk2 soundcard, a shitty EMI 2/6 USB card, BCR2000 MIDI control surface, another waldorf pulse+ (best monosynth i've used). I made a buffer/feedback loop pedal. Also Ableton live, using with max/msp, PD and other people's reaktor patches. Knobsnstuff to fix the sirius bass after, ummmm, about 6 years? My flatmate scored us a nice drumkit, and I stole a doublebass pedal from my dad. A couple of SM57s (re the mic thread earlier on, Get A Fucking Life!)

Not "strictly" music gear, but I got a couple of Arduinos (just ace) a PIC programmer, soldering/SMT air workstation, bitscope oscillyscope, bench PSU and lotsnlots of other electronic bitsbobs for the AlexLab. And a sylvanian families handmade doll's house.

Hey. I put some demos up HERE. They're still pretty basic as far as structure, spit and polish go. Also, I'm back in aberdeen until I manage to boot out a tenant in Glasgow. Anyone feels like hooking up, gies a PM.

Every song on MTV. Damn my lack of better things to do!

Excellently produced elevator music.

doubt it sir, stuck in glasgow running about like a partially beheaded chicken.

Cheers for the comments - in partial reply, the way I got good at guitar was playing classical pieces and piecing together my own style - there's going to be a lot of cliches, though I feel your definition is a little less forgiving than mine, stripey (I'll take the first couple of seconds, add a little two-step and sidechain the kick to the bass and repeat it for 7 minutes if you'd like, though). Twee as fuck, but I like chipbreak stuff because it has vulnerability about the imperfections that lends a (sadly replicable) human touch to it even when it's kicking ass. Still, it'll get less twee when I find time to get all my shit together (this is as near to an agreement on cliches as you'll get!). Fast retriggering...well, you find a way of getting LM7 to sound interesting without any inserts to play with.

www.myspace.com/sabrepulse and listen to the track "tageri". I have edirol orchestral, I just need a bit of time...

thanks a fuckload for the decent comments too. The next lot will/may/subjectively be better.

Hello. I've succumbed and put a myspace page up HERE

Anyone who wants to give some feedback, please do so. One day cubase won't fuck up once I get my groove on.

man, you're making me feel worse about posting on a board i have no connection with at all at sometime past midnight. that music is totally unneccessary

Classical was mozart, Baroque bach. Romanticism involved more "pure" (read, boring) structures, wheras neo-classicism appreciates that information can't be divorced from context, hence some drawing on folk music and that. Just words added later which do nothing at all except provide academics with tenure something to argue about.

Neoclassical - Check out Dmitri Shostakovich. He's been floating my boat for a while. Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Prokofiev, Bartok

Edit: agree with whomever put forth that one of the joys about music is broadening your horizons. I'd say anyone who thinks of music defined by genre should listen to more decent music.

man, i tried watching the series, but got bored of r kelly being really shit. Perhaps if J5 or someone had done it...

Anyway, on the subject of cheesy youtube vids,

The hoff's latest

American Gold - it doesn't have ANY additives to it, just tobacco. Tastes pretty damn nice. Plus I don't have to inhale cyanide. That one ALWAYS fucks me off.

A few of the deli's in glasgow get it in, i heartily reccomend it.

Soul Coughing - Circles

That was pretty fucking good. Still the twiddly bits leading into the chest-beating chori leave me a little cold. Sounds a little joined together rather than full on consuming.

Whisky and appletise

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cold spoon test

i trust my audio technica AT3035. It's cheap enough to bash around, can handle extremely high spl (for a condensor) without distorting. When it does distort, it sounds lovely. Sounds better than my GT66 on a guitar cab.

germlin, acronym or ME. Gabber!

You bastards stole my couch.