mr_john

Whoever Sean Kingstons DJ was at a free “end of the year” party I went to. First of all I wasn’t there for kingston… But anyway, his DJ would play a song just long enough for you to be like “alright this songs ok” then he’d cut it. Seriously every time. And he kept hitting the air horn sample all night long. The only songs he didn’t cut were kingstons songs because all he had to do was push play and stand there. But occasionally he’d start playing some other song like the black eyed peas for example. He’d play it just long enough to get some people dancing, then cut it and they’d start talking again, rinse repeat. Also, he would constantly cut out the music to have people sing along. Which is fine every now and then with songs that everyone knows. But he did it on every song.

Needless to say he made the local guy who came on after him to finish off the night look like a god.

get the mixtrack for sure.. It’l just be maddening to have a soundcard for no reason. Im running the same setup and I had my mixtrack a few days before my card showed up. Just worked around it.

I really need some decent speakers. Right now I’m rockin some pos “creAtive” pc speakers. I’d like to get some krks but 150 a box is too expensive for me. I figure if I actually start bringing in some money from this I’ll invest in speakers.

fav team is AC Milan. I follow it as much as I can, but being in the states it’s kinda difficult. For instance I stopped paying attention and had no idea Ronaldinho went to flamengo until I came across a random facebook post about it.
It’s the only sport I can watch on tv and get really into (screaming at the TV :p). I’ll watch basketball, football, hockey, etc. But soccer is just so much more interesting to me. I love to play it as well. I was in heaven when the world cup was on. Suddenly the US cared and I could watch games and get highlights, good times waking up at 6 to watch the games. But much like the olympics, the media lost all interest when it ended.

Emma Partnow, post: 1782 wrote: I have Ableton 8 and Reason 5; and I ‘Know’ that feeling of sitting looking at a Blank Page Very Well :);
I don’t know if this will help you; but what I have done recently is to Build Templates for Both Ableton and Reason; which in Ableton contains a Kick Drum Track; Snare; Hi-Hats; and Percussion (which I have already Composed from Loops); 3 Empty Bass Tracks; and then a further 8 Empty Tracks; All these Tracks have their Own EQ Eight on them; and it just means that I have ‘Something’ rather than an ‘Empty Page’ to work with when I begin;
In Reason I have again made a Template which contains the Instruments I ‘Know’ I will be using as a Skeleton (Favourites such as the M-Class Mastering Suite; followed by the 14 Channel Mixer; then Kong – with a Favourite Drum Loop that is being Sequenced by a Redrum – ; then a Subtractor followed by a Matrix (which will run the Substracto); then a Thor followed by an RPG-8 (which will run the Thor); then a Malstrom; followed by a Dr OctoRex; then an NN-19 Sampler and an NN-XT Sampler; finishing off with a Scream 4; this gives me an Opportunity to begin Composing straight away;

But for me; when I feel I am stuck in a ‘Writers Block’; I take ‘Time Out’ by just listening to Tracks for a few days 🙂

thats a good idea, I started doing that in reason just because I got sick of the default song always loading. Never thought to do that in ableton though. :doh:
I still don’t really know what I’m doing with reason haha, I know very basically how to work the thor, malstrom, redrum, and the kong, but I like it better than ableton for making something from scratch.

i feel the same way about some topics.. For instance beatgirding. 😳 At a complete loss on that one.

im a fan of sneaking in the old hits, like dropping let me clear my throat, jump around, walk it out, etc. in addition to the top 40 stuff. Helps break up the monotony for me. In my experience there’s always some people in the crowd who like EDM. And even more who don’t know they do. Personally I’d go with something popular yet obscure enough. (idk about your area but around here the edm scene doesn’t overlap into the top 40s.) So even ghosts n stuff would be unknown to some in a top 40 club.
And even if you play something that absolutely no one in the place has ever heard, as long as you don’t stray too far from the chart very often I bet you’ll get away with it.

I started producing about a year ago (by started I mean fooling around with garageband) I made some basic tracks but didn’t care for them enough to keep them around. Then I discovered ableton, which then led me to Reason. Love both of them. I’m still learning how to use them, especially reason. But I like it more than Djing. Djing strikes me as a way to actually “make it” though. And would no doubt help get my productions out there. I’m currently reading the dance music manual, which is incredible btw, and that’s really helped me understand what all those buttons and knobs do on those synthesizers.
It does get extremely overwhelming though. Sitting, staring at that blank page, having some idea in your head but not being 100% sure how to make it happen. I’ve been taking a break from it recently and focusing on mixing. I just want to learn it all right away :p but it takes a lot of time.