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^ all clubs need a crundyy.

yes eggs, some of kanyes graduation album was a real eye opener. Big daddy kane ftw tho. And here's my offering for today. Krimewave is a blud brother part of our crew and the poor lad is going down in 2013 for growing some medecines. Out of respect and just coz the tune is dope I thought I'd share the love: hit him up on facebook and bandcamp to get more similar flava, links are on the youtube channel

ahk, if you bovvered let me know and i'll tell you how i did or if it was just a simple cut. if was a simple cut then the mix is exactly that, simple cut. What makes it work is the choice of songs much more than the technique. and here you go: http://soundcloud.com/srdefunk/shake_on_me_free_download free dl still open but do the right thing and share some love on his page innit bro

'kin LOL Russel, Morley Orbit and Back to Basics were both famous for their toilet corridors. And yeah Gremmis, things change, the scene I love has changed massively too. I keep up with it. Changes in technology, chemicals, fashion, music, DJ styles, sound systems and police attitudes all affect the party. But the one thing that stays the same is the basic reason why people are coming out to party: either they are there as an individual willing to be a part of a party, to give as much as they take, and to build and share the vibe. Or they are there to soak up an event, taking only the experience offered from stage. One is club culture and requires interaction between everybody. The other is a professionally rehearsed show which is the same wherever it takes place due to it's stage directions and timed lighting effects. One is a party, the other is a show. I'm not hating on EDM stadium gigs or it's scene, I just know that I prefer a constantly evolving and changing party-scene led by participants. Not a commercial venture by corporations leading mob-mentality consumers. Fortunately, and as already mentioned, the scene I love is and always will be available, always will be evolving and always will be (mostly) free as it is produced by the party people for the party people. The EDM stadium scene will slow down as fashion changes and the corporations decide to invest in an alternative genre to suck the pennies out of the consumers.

"The audience consumes rather than participates" This sentence absolutely sums up my issue with clubbing as it has become. In the UK there is another factor that has hugely affected our clubs. This is the smoking ban. It means people have to leave for a ciggie. It means no one gets away with smoking trees in the thick smoke. It means you never get that hardcore group on the dancefloor who don't move and just dance for hours. These two factors are why I now only go out in town when I'm paid to play. But I do go to outdoor festivals, house parties and DIY raves as often as possible. These are where the smoking ban is irrelevant and where I find like-minded people who attend, not as consumers but always as a participant. Never paying or getting paid but willing to do anything from dancing to djing to wiring the power to emptying the bins, just to do our bit to help the vibe. So funnily enough, all the places that I learnt about this scene back in the 80s/90s are all the places I still go. Whereas all the places that have tried to cash in on the scene - I just leave alone. the underground will live forever.

^cheers eggs, wondered if you'd be up for that slice of MJ disco funk. that bustapella is already on that track, it's a soundcloud mashup i found. Will find and link if you want? But not sure what you mean about trainwrekcing a fade out transition? notsureifsrs.jpeg? That first transition was a fade out, silence/pause, next track - done only because I had a drummer need me to get out of the way while he loaded his kit on stage!

Interesting article which I for one am absolutley in agreement with. It's not that i'm against EDM as it is now, just pointing out that it is as different to the roots of club culture as U2 are from a punk gig in the local pub. from the guardian again. Bill Brewster no less. "The latest mania for US electronic dance music takes its cue from stadium rock rather than the spontaneity of club culture: Back in the mid-90s, an act from the record label I ran at the time was selected to appear on Top of the Pops. But when we went to meet the American duo at Heathrow, neither of them got off the plane: they had decided to stay at home. Eventually, we hired two actors to play the role of DJ and keyboard player. They looked the part and no one seemed to notice. I was reminded of this episode yesterday when reading that DJ Calvin Harris has threatened legal action against the BBC for quoting him in a Radio 1 Newsbeat programme in which he appears to endorse prerecorded DJ sets. Like wrestling in the 1970s, there's always been an element of knowing subterfuge in dance music. Since much of the alchemy of the 12-inch mix is often down to one person and a bunch of machines, it does not always translate well to live performance. The real magic is when a skilled DJ and a box of records – or laptop or memory stick, as it increasingly is today – take those solitary studio moments and turn them into something communal and occasionally transcendental, with the assistance of a packed dancefloor. But where there's brass there's muck and the latest mania for EDM (an acronym for electronic dance music) in the US has brought with it a whole new set of rules. EDM has effectively bypassed the club culture on which house and techno were founded and gone straight for the stadiums and festival jugular. Judging by the many clips on YouTube, its stars have taken their cues from rock stars rather than the clubbers who helped to create dance culture around the skill of DJs such as Frankie Knuckles. This new breed of star DJ is not content to be hidden away in a booth with a tiny slit, like Junior Vasquez was at New York's seminal Sound Factory. Instead they mosh and crowd surf (DJ Steve Aoki was hospitalised after an incident involving a trampoline last week: he's clearly no Nils Lofgren) from their elevated stage, while the crowd look on, shuffling and whooping. Worse still, some of them are alleged to perform to the kind of pre-mixed sets that have caused the Calvin Harris controversy. Prerecording sets is a curious phenomenon, because it's the live interaction between DJ and dancefloor where the real fun occurs. Without the ability to change the mood, change the tempo, change the style, you're nothing more than a jukebox that needs a toilet break every so often. It's what makes DJing more elastic and versatile than, say, a rock band, whose members are tied to their audience by the songs they know and have rehearsed. Good DJs have the world of recorded music at their disposal. Half the pleasure of playing is to seamlessly go from an Underground Resistance tune into a Queen B-side before anyone realises what's happening. Prerecording misses the point entirely. Like the trend towards ghostwritten tracks (as documented in the latest issue of Mixmag), it's all part of the same culture that has grown up around, but not truly connected to, the roots of club culture. Two seasons ago, I spent a night checking out all the big clubs in Ibiza and was struck by how surprisingly dull a lot of it is these days. Tiesto's performance at Privilege looked like 10,000 people waiting for the world's largest bus to arrive. Those supernatural nights where the DJ appears to be communicating personally with each member of the dancefloor were nowhere to be seen. What marks out these events is how little interaction there is between DJ and audience. The audience consumes rather than participates, foregoing any form of empathetic experience in favour of bland ingestion (and usually faithfully documented by the cancerous presence of a thousand camera phones held aloft). A great DJ can coax you into places you didn't know you wanted to go until you get there. It's what marks them out from a ninny with too many tattoos playing a CD.

Wonder where they got that idea?

Live set done at one of my residencies. This is during the warm up hour while the band are setting up. Chunks of Northern Soul, Funk Rock, Carchase funk, Funky Disco and Ghetto Funk/Funky Beats. Anyone who listened to my last sumbeats mix will recognise a few tracks but other than those few none of the songs on here are quantised/produced in the modern way. It aint what you'll normally hear on here and i couldnt think of a better thread for it... but it moved the crowd and got me paid so fuck up whales. Educate yersen. nek minit = 0 listens edit Mitch: fixed mixcloud tags

best fred. That philly shit was hard but tight. Couldnt decide if I kept watching for the beats or those steak sanger piccies loving that raspody track too. Reminded me a lot of when common and erykah badu dropped some soulful vibes a few years ago. So... I think i posted this before somewhere but anyway, this is from my backyard, hence the broad yorkshire accents. We actually had these boys supporting lord finesse last tuesday. I couldnt go and was gutted. Hope you can dig it gents:

Just got pointed at this: http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/11/jim ... d-mirrors/ Another huge blog entry about this paedo whale. This one casts more doubts on wether he really was the originator of using two turntables. Posted for the sake of knowledge.

My first thought: the music folder will also be counting subfolders which won't show up as media files but will show in windows explorer as files? My 2nd thought: you have some duplicate media files which the music folder is counting but which rekord box and VDJ do not register as different songs? I am foolish though. Probably best you wait for some other users to post.

subscribed this thread.

my opinion regarding gear wont add anything to this thread. but: if you do choose to buy 2nd hand cd decks try and get a go on them 1st and use your dodgiest home-burnt cds covered in scratches. You want to test if the laser that reads the cd is still reliable. On most pioneer players the laser should be able to cope with a fairly battered disc. error messages on the player shoudl alert you to tired old lasers.

I have set skype up using my NS6 simply by choosing the audio in and out source as the NS6 in the skype preferences. I do get little dropouts but so far I have only noticed them when the people I'm talking to send audio at the same time as I am. All I want to do for now is see if we can even communicate (and hopefully share skills) using one camera each. If it looks good I'll be checking the paid versions of webinar software like gotomeeting etc. I dont want to spend money if the small screen means no one learns shit though. So beta testing for now. I aint finished yet

Ok, SKype looks like a winner. Have tested at home and works fine although audio gets crackly when happening from two users at same time. If you want free webinar sessions with me I will give you them, but you have to understand you are beta testing for me so if a session fails due to streaming or summat you just gonna have to roll with it. 1st things 1st: join skype, you'll need an email account then you make up a username and password for the skype account, confirm registration via your email account then send me your skype username. DO IT NOW!

Ok, SKype looks like a winner. Have tested at home and works fine although audio gets crackly when happening from two users at same time. If you want free webinar sessions with me I will give you them, but you have to understand you are beta testing for me so if a session fails due to streaming or summat you just gonna have to roll with it. 1st things 1st: join skype, you'll need an email account then you make up a username and password for the skype account, confirm registration via your email account then send me your skype username. DO IT NOW!

Ok, SKype looks like a winner. Have tested at home and works fine although audio gets crackly when happening from two users at same time. If you want free webinar sessions with me I will give you them, but you have to understand you are beta testing for me so if a session fails due to streaming or summat you just gonna have to roll with it. 1st things 1st: join skype, you'll need an email account then you make up a username and password for the skype account, confirm registration via your email account then send me your skype username. DO IT NOW!

+rep eggbot rest of you: see this man live. educate yourself.

Lol, thanx lads. Got a few replies on my FB too so I'll run with those 1st. Fallback plan is Fallback plan, cheers.

musical ability creative talent a spark of genius ...then some software and some buttons to work it with get involved Kris

sweet, cheers Mitch.

Anyone on here know of or is down with developing really simple games which could be featured on a website? By simple I mean: Hover mouse over picture of vinyl deck = makes wibble sound. Press mouse button and move fwd and back over picture of vinyl deck = makes picture of vinyl rotate back and forth and produces "wigga wigga" sound. If it works nice, and is half decent there would be some money in this for someone. PM me. Ta.

gave it half hour, gotta go work now. if you are a skype user and willing to help me test an idea please PM me your skype address.