Quote Originally Posted by massplanck
Seriously.

Whatever happened to the shroud of mystery surrounding techno & techno artists. Staring at a weird psedonym on a vinyl gave me such a hard on. - example A - Drexciya
Sometimes in a while i'm fortunatly still surprised about some music on vinyl. The same mystery when you hear something and you ask yourself "How the F*** did he managed this sound??" And most of the time it just takes me 1 or 2 seconds of my time to hear that the music om the record is made with standard patterns with nothing special extra...

Abelton- yeah i use it. like i use a toaster - occasionaly. whatever happened to breaking (your own) boundaries -i.e not using what everyone else uses or is pre packadged for you by some company?
I also use ableton. But I use it as a sequencer, and sometimes some audio tracks to edit samples like you're using a normal sampler. But not really to make complete tracks with it. That's why I started using hardware. Maybe it sounds corney because it's told here like 100.000 times, but the sounds you can create with hardware are a hundred times more inspirational and qualitative. It all depends on the little things in sculpturing a sound.

Sampled Loops - as cliched as a hoover stab these days. Why bother with em? Convienient?
It's always nice to explore loops when you're just beginning producing. When you still have to realise how to construct a rhythm. If you passed that stage, then go do your own thing if you want to produce something on vinyl.

Death - very welcome within the techno scene *personally*. When it rots (its starting now) flowers should start growing out from its arse & eye sockets.. give it a few years though.
Difficult... But like any evolution the bad apples always rot away, and the good seeds always survive.

Emotion - fairy nob goggles its really non-existant these days.

Techno = loads of solitary dudes in their bedrooms clicking mice & assigning knobs.

Get the fairy nob goggles out. find 4 other kindred souls.. a big room. bring your machines & biscuit tins togther and forget about the rigidity of it all Scream & Squeeze it out.

That is the word of our lord massplank who is talking shite as usuall.
Just stop fecking complaining, go out make some fecking great tunes and let me hear your stuff...