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by Torque
Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:51 pm
Forum: • producers
Topic: "Vinyl sales up 14% in 2010 compared to 2009"
Replies: 80
Views: 26533

"Vinyl sales up 14% in 2010 compared to 2009"

Still think it's a dead format?
I knew i wasn't crazy. Our numbers at Submerge went up too.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_b ... mbers.html
by Torque
Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:31 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: DX7/TX7 Editor?
Replies: 11
Views: 4128

I've never seen one of those in person before. It's kinda sweet from what i read of it. I use a TX-81Z all the time which is a 4 operator version of that thing. It has really good low end but in order to get allot of the presence on the low end you have to cut it down to 2 operators then it'll just ...
by Torque
Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:15 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: Producing Berghain techno?
Replies: 217
Views: 144101

What the hell is Berghain techno?
by Torque
Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:01 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: number of downloads/income from beatport
Replies: 175
Views: 54775

nevermind.....
by Torque
Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:39 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: techno isnt about the past, its about the future
Replies: 105
Views: 16649

i'd just like to finish my involvement in this thread by saying something positive. i'm optimistic about the future of techno, i think there are already signs its moving forward. theres nothing wrong with looking at the past to its roots and taking inspiration from the pioneers, as long as you dont...
by Torque
Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:24 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: techno isnt about the past, its about the future
Replies: 105
Views: 16649

Hold on a second there... The reason the technology was used allot in detroit was completely a different motivation than what you're talking about. Allot of these guys were playing in funk and rock and roll bands and allot of that kind of stuff coming out of detroit was based on futurism as well, j...
by Torque
Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:17 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: techno isnt about the past, its about the future
Replies: 105
Views: 16649

Again you're giving far too much credit to the tools and not the person using them. The best artists i know are in constant battle with machines to do what the artist want, not the other way around. The second you give up control of art to a machine it becomes like a machine and is emotionless and ...
by Torque
Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:43 am
Forum: • producers
Topic: techno isnt about the past, its about the future
Replies: 105
Views: 16649

all sound which we percieve is in the past. all music is about the past, it was created there. This is true, everything recorded is a snapshot of something that already happened. i think, like many works of science fiction, that when we speak about futurism, that we are really just evaluating the p...