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It’s excellent and I love the radio station interludes 😂

The thing that got me back into making music, besides the pandemic, was picking up the two Behringer acid boxes clones (the 606 and 303 clones). They are super fun, sound amazing, are really stupid, and you can legitimately record an acid track from beginning to end in only slightly longer than the actual runtime of the track using them. The other thing I realized is that, at least for me personally, although it is somewhat disappointing to have nowhere near the free time to write and perfect the next drill n bass masterpiece or whatever, it is _almost as fun_ to just record down some jams. I really enjoy just stacking up a little audio journal of a bunch of jams. This pleases me. I don’t know why! I experimented with uploading some, it didn’t really do much for me to do so. I send some to friends sometimes. I dunno. The funnest part is just… having them? Listening back to them sometimes? I got a decent Zoom recorder so I can push record, record whatever I’ve got that seems interesting, and then when it’s done, I just turn off the lights and go to bed. Later I take the files off the SD card in batches and clean them up or whatever. I sort of agree with the sentiment earlier in the thread that the days of writing an electronic album in your bedroom and then having that mean anything to you in terms of a career, or for it to even result in significant acclaim such that your life may change in any way, are mostly over. But I actually sort of think of that as a good thing. A lot of the unhealthy ways that musicians relate to their music (for example, obsessively wanting to perfect it) are in my opinion essentially because we’ve been trained for so long to think of music as a product that must be packaged up to _compete in a marketplace_. If we’re not competing for ears or dollars anymore then what does it matter if the build up of my intro is more finely tuned than the build up of your intro? What if a song “goes on too long” if you’re not trying to sell it to anyone? Or if “acid is played out”? Or any of the typical measurements of a track? My tune isn’t “mastered well” enough or whatever? Well like… mastered for whom? And why? TO WHAT END?? I guess this might sound silly but I think once you stop thinking of songs as products to be sold you sort of have to start questioning everything about what seemed to be the practice of even being a musician, at least from before. Better to just zone out and… EXPLORE THE SPACE??

Oh, completely agreed, my list was just having some fun. LOL how did I become the bad guy in this thread, hahaha

Snagged! And Apple Pay for the win, too easy to buy

Great idea for a thread! Here are some random thoughts (just my opinion) 1. don’t sample artists in your same genre (agreed) 2. don’t sample things that are already sampled 3. don’t sample lossy sources 4. don’t sample SEX SOUNDS. Way worse than blade runner samples, y’all. SO MANY electronic tracks ruined by sexy lady sounds. Ugh 5. don’t sample rappers rapping more than a few words 6. don’t sample other people’s versions of breaks 7. don’t sample other people’s 303 linez 8. DO sample the 808 state loon sound 9. DO sample the hoover bass sound 10. DON’T sample reggae (hot take here) 11. DON’T sample the door opening sound from Doom (distracting, makes me think I am playing Doom) 12. DON’T sample Autechre or Boards of Canada. Just don’t do it 13. DON’T put an annoying sample in your tracks just so people know it’s you (looking at you Terror Danjah) 14. DON’T sample video games (looking at you Burial) EDIT: oh yeah 15. DON’T SAMPLE VINYL CRACKLE. WE GET IT

I bought it. It’s good! Don’t know all the history, but that manifesto page makes some decent points, if in a bit of a pretentious way. 🤷‍♀️

INSTABONKED

Based on nothing more than the information in this thread, I have purchased this item

Killer idea for a thread. It would be this Knowing the backstory might help. Pasted from BC:

Looks great! I think I’m in for trying out the CD box. Curious if anyone has any suggestions for the best place to buy for the USA. Looks like boomkat has it, but the shipping may be pricey…

The last couple ones (basically since he stopped doing more straightforward “dub techno” 😐) haven’t really clicked for me. This one seems… fine? I dunno.

The attack isn’t quite right, but it reminds me of the Mellotron choir sound

Anyone have the OLPC tracks, or know where I can get them?

Whoa, this sounds amazon. Completely unfamiliar with this guy, got a recommendation where to start?