tracks usually get played months (even years) in advance to the point that when they're generally available or well known, the artist is usually bored and rinsing new material. at least that's my experience with it. festival sets usually have more of the 'bangers' because that's what people want to hear, but not always the case/differs from artist to artist and how they approach festival v club sets.
i make speed garage and generally use multiband sidechain. subs are hard chained and pumping usually, but the mids like warpers/reeses i'll dial in more methodically so it's carving space vs pumping.
only time being an introvert with a quickly draining social battery helps. after sets i turn into a piece of furniture in the green room whose only job is consuming red bull and falling asleep.
you could say that about any composition though. im not saying don't make them, rather they've just lost their luster in the club because everyone makes them in 2024.
it used to be a good way to standout, but now i think the opposite is true given how many people are just making stem separated remixes with no soul.
mvc2 plays, but it drops frames like wild when it gets busy on screen.
post is so ingenuine it's like im reading fucking cnn.
i love pioneer gear at a venue, but i think most of their low end/mid range gear sucks. the flx6 is vastly overpriced for what it is. try looking into the traktor s3 if you're not tied down to rekordbox yet. rekordbox will eventually become a part of your life if you play gigs, but theres no reason to punish yourself with crappy hardware just to use it now.
this part. apple is a terrible company and causes so much waste by slowing down old devices via software. their new marketing campaign solidifies this.
tldr massive labels are too big to give a fuck about anything happening beneath them unless you literally shove it in their face.
which most of us knew already i think.
implying 'electric daisy carnival' is somehow on the pulse of house and techno.
it's alright to be wrong, no need to get defensive.
independent tuning per voice
I don’t think there’s much demand in the market right now for classic house.
says who?
have to emulate older gear, which in modern speak just means using bit reduction and analog modeled saturation. modern vsts and sounds are usually sterile, so you gotta run them through the ringer to get that grit and weight.
i find them on the internet and sample them through a chrome extension called sample. it's pretty easy and user friendly, quality is decent as well - better than most youtube rippers or other shit ive used. bare in mind it can sample anything that plays audio, so use that power at your discretion (or not).
that one really rustled my jimmies
the slow increment of the transient shifting off the rekordbox grid.. oof.
can't layer one shots per slice as it's based on an 8bit amiga. it's basically just a jungle centric sampler; sample rate/interpolation control, akai stretching per slice, phasing control, rev/fwd, pitch, chord memory and so on. not really comparable to a modern sampler because it will do a bunch of crap those cant, but modern samplers will similarly do a bunch of crap amigo cant.
absolutely insane plug for ten bucks
after over a decade of doing this i can say this is usually my go to. always nice to remind myself why i make this music, which usually only happens on a sweaty dancefloor.
fl studio mobile is pretty crazy. ive heard some tracks made in that app that sounded really well done. you can also move into desktop with it i believe, but ive never really used it.
the human urge to categorize things is usually crushed by dance music. there's a million subgenres and some of them are even country specific like makina. so in other words, no not really.
djing is by far the quickest method. you learn a lot about arrangement decisions and tension when you're mixing tracks in context.
sammy virji seems odd on this lineup. would love to see him wheel up shella verse to a see of black tshirt wearing techno people.
Seismic Festival- Nov 2024 - Austin TX
Techno