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  1. Hi mate, you got any info on the drum size, cheers.
  2. Hi fives and mad props all round guys! I think the my point has been mis interpreted and maybe not made clear on my behalf. I wasn't going for a London vs the Deen vibe. What I was trying to point out is that music (in some cases) has been hi-jacked by people trying to make a name for themselves regardless of decent musical output or attitude. I'm not a fan of anything on the tuff wax label but I (nor anyone else) really cares. I don't 'hate' anyone and I'm certainly not jealous! haha. I'm quite happy to play music and if people turn up and like it then cool, if they don't, no worries. As for the London stuff I was asked to talk about it, so I did. I just can't hack this image driven 'label head/DJ/producer' crap, who is anyone kidding. I've seen a lot of this pish going on in aberdeen with people getting above their station and talking that big boy talk. Just about everyone on here makes a living through a full-time normal job that has little to do with music. Me included. And this whole idea of having a boutique label. What? Does tuff wax actually make money, and if so do you pump any of that back into the acts in order to improve and develop? Cause thats a music label. A music label makes money. Its not putting out your mates stuff or producing 200 ltd vinyl's or whatever. I suspect those cover bands your laugh at make more money through music than most people on here do, that people like droid probably have masses more knowledge on the music buisness and music labels than you do and that if you strip away the image, all this is propped up by sub standard tunes and guys that really do think they are all that. Just play music guys. Either way best of luck, if there's anywhere in the UK that stuff like this will get pretty popular, it Aberdeen.
  3. Its bigger, but the fact that I experienced or dealt with less pretentious people/musicians there than I do here says a lot. Even up to the people sessioning and playing with some pretty up there live ensembles. There are a lot more musicians there all striving to make music their living and therefore the standard of playing is better and the standard of attitude. Aberdeen is a bubble, a lot of people think they are shit hot but they aren't. Furthermore the people that do have their own 'label' believe they are something a bit special and think of themselves as slightly better. Just read the article. It stinks of unbelivable arrogance. There is some structured critisism in there somewhere, along the lines of fucking play your music and let that do the talking.
  4. London's great! It's by far and away (and obviously) the best place to study and perform music in the whole of the UK. Such an eclectic range of musicians and venues in even the smallest of bouroughs. For example take acton/ealing/chiswick (one very very very small portion of the city/greater area), you can catch the best jazzers in the country playing to a room full of 20 guys, the best teachers/players in the country plying their trade in workshops ranging from gavin harison to the JW method (not british but you get the point), hop to Acton to see some unbelievable young talent playing loads of various pubs from the kings head to the kings arse, visit the grand union and green rooms for musicians that turn up and play with no bullshit, just music, or head through to ealing broadway's o'neils and catch a run of the mill cover band that properly rocks the house and makes a living through playing music. Forget Aberdeen, lets talk about London, cause all I see in Aberdeen are boys playing at being record labels, musicians that talk a good talk but not much else, the biggest back patting community I've ever witnessed, people more interested in an image or 'creating a scene' rather than just playing music they apparently love....people who don't care as much about music as they do about the kudos they can bring in using it. Maybe not Aberdeen, but this website? For sure, yeah.
  5. Yeah man I guess you missed the 'good luck' part at the end of my post, as in I wish you luck with it, but nevermind
  6. Jojo and nerve are great but droid is right those beats are crazy swish, he is the best in the business and to get a sound anywhere near that level and to even begin to understand what the hell he is doing requires years and years and years of practice, good luck though.
  7. DMB

    Funk and hip-hop

    Anyone want to form a funk or hip-hop band with me. Me on drums everyone else doin their ting, bass, keys, guitar and maybe vocals. Could go from new orleans all the way to up to some neo soul and hip-hop. I really badly want to play this music in either a jam or tune format. Lets go with meters across the board to the roots and see what happens. Word
  8. If hitting the rim is causing them to split and fray in the middle of the stick you could try switching them for oak sticks instead of hickory, my mate swears by pro mark oak 747's. But it might be coming from cymbal work or moving round the toms so I agree with the others and get someone to check your technique out, I used to be exactly the same.
  9. Bump....Any crazy keyboard girls or guys out there?
  10. Hey everyone, I'm looking for some guys or girls to help put together an electronic outfit playing a combination and variety of DnB/Dub/Hip-Hop/Trip-Hop/2step. I've been playing drums for a while and studied it at college as well. I'm ideally looking for a bassist, Keyboardist and guitarist. Influences are varied but im interested in bands such as Jojo Mayer and Nerve, Massive Attack, Akufen, Burial, Nightmares on Wax, Chase and Status etc. If this sounds like your thing then get in touch and we'll make this shit happen.
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