LiquidEyes

Rated this thread a '5'.

I am truly fascinated that you can dislike me with such a passion, when all you know about me is a few posts on a message board. In your own words ... "What is the world coming to???" And what is this shit about casinos -- please elaborate? BTW, I'm loving the attention though.

What have casinos got to do with this?! "Chip on the shoulder" alert...!

It amazes you that a negative comment could lead to more negative comments? Fair enough if you don't like my mix Ginge. But can we just clear one thing up ... we've never met, right?

Spot the irony ... this is from the man that says it's "enough to make ur stomach churn" that I have landed the Wildchild gig. What a lovely remark.

Hi James/Maria/Wonky.

Thanks for your vote of confidence Ginge. Thanks for checking out my mix anyway. Out of interest, which one was it? I play quite a lot of different styles. Take it easy.

Did I vote in what? The general election? Or this poll?

re "nicking" bits from other people's tunes... There is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. The right way is to get in touch with the copyright-holder and get permission before you release the track. Otherwise you're breaking the law. If you want to cover a tune (but not sample it) I believe you can do this via the MCPS/PRS Alliance without having to talk to the copyright-holder; this way a fixed percentage of your proceeds goes to the copyright-holder automatically. (Will have to check my exact facts on that one.) Yes sampling has always been a key element of dance music, but there is a big difference between lifting somebody else's work, barely changing it and passing it off as your own, and actually changing the riff/vocal/loop/sample/whatever and doing something creative with it. Ultimately, a serial freeloader WILL become unstuck eventually. He/she will either get their ass sued, or at the very least get on the wrong side of people in the industry.

That is a daft reason to decide how you vote. Don't vote for what somebody else believes. Vote for what YOU believe! My girlfriend and I voted for different parties... it isn't an issue.

LOL I always wondered who the fuck voted Tory...

Tunes so shit, they can't even GIVE them away... AboveTheSky records have also slashed all their hard house prices. What does this tell you about hard house...

LiquidEyes "Endothermic" Frank Brook "The Bait" Underworld Recordings Zzino "Life Is Beautiful" white label Faculty X "What You've Always Known" (Cherry Bomb remix) white label Umberto Carmignani "Element D" G-Force Records Psycatron "7th Morning" Little Mountain Recordings Probspot "Midnight" Lost Language Roland Klinkenberg "Monday Groove" Electronic Elements Hiratzka & Kazell "Reaction" (Future Funk mix) Alternative Route Mitch Wells "Where I" (Chris & Kai instrumental mix) DK Records Nathan Fake "Adamedge" Saw Recordings Pig & Dan "Ruspel's Revenge" Submission Tadi & NV "Indian Hashish" Electronic Elements Paco Lesotto "Mirage" X-Trax Activa "In Essence" (Hardwick vs Smith & Pledger mix) Somatic Sense Vadim Zhukov "Exit" Captivating Sounds A selection of tuneful tunes and funky beats, loosely strung together with some of the tunes cleverly overlapping and the beats roughly in time. Who knows, your grandma might even like it. Listen here.

Mixing was fine, as if I need to say it! A few dodgy sounding effects though -- was that live or was it part of the records? (I will get back to you with an example, there was what sounded like a ropy use of delay.) Just a few criticisms,,, Too many tunes with dodgy guitar samples in them -- my least favourite psy trance cliche -- sorry! Also there are some seriously dodgy vocals in there. I've always thought of psy trance as quite serious-sounding music, so some of the cheesy vocals, and some of the dafter-sounding vocal effects, kinda put a downer on the atmosphere for me. My main criticism is that nearly every tune has an almost identical bassline! There were a couple of tunes I liked in particular (more hard house / hard trance really) I'll try to work out which tunes they were later. Cheers.

Don't get left behind, fifedjdomo...

Nah, drum & bass is piss to mix. (And a lot of DJs don't even bother mixing it.)

Good on you. Everyone's got some shit tunes, I know I have! I only took the piss because you patronised Ian... (I'm no music fascist -- I have some cheesy stuff too.)

Got myself an external Lacie hard disc for backing up my tunes, and also for archiving old DJ mixes that are taking up lots of disc space. 250 gig for £114 ... USB2 interface ... 7200rpm Bargain! With portable hard discs getting so affordable, I think Zip drives are going to become obsolete.

^ yeah that!

Ah I see.

Can you give me an example of one of his tunes that doesn't have an obvious hard house 'stomp' to it?

fifedjdomo, I hope you're taking the piss... So you mix * cheesy Euro trance * some mainstream disco house * a couple of half-decent trance & hard trance records by very well-known producers You have 40 records, and you are telling Ian "he must not be a very good DJ?" Basically mate, you don't have a clue what Ian is on about, do you?

What styles of music do you play? Some genres are more prone to loose quantisation than others (e.g. funky techno). It just means the rhythm is not strictly in time -- therefore it makes it harder to beatmatch.

I reckon you will like harderfaster.net mate. There are plenty of people like you on there.

What Ian is saying is quite simple. It is harder to beatmatch tunes where the quantisation/swing is 'looser'. I find this with some funky techno.