Id just add that (in my opinion) putting things like VW on the master buss only sounds good when a) you need to learn more about engineering and b) your monitors arent as revealing and truthful as they should be.

steevio wrote: you know when you've just settled infront of the TV to watch the cup final with a couple of beers and a bag of ketamine

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sht, in a club many people assume the music playing is the dj's... they have no clue. And posers drink it up. They walk to the dj and say "wow your music's awesome". Fucked up. Got to step in here. As a producer who has never DJ'd, *this* really, really fucks me off. Ive spent the last 2 ...

Atheory, thanks for your response. Im afraid neither of your alternatives are acceptable to me. Again referring to my studies - which were in truth ALL ultimately reducible to the central nature vs nurture discussion in some form - is that we are each a product of a complex and iterative interaction...

Atheory, you need to calm down. I for one posted a facile generalisation because I wanted to spark some discussion beyond that which i had time to fully engage in myself. I have a degree in psychology including two modules on gender formation, for what its worth. For your part you should do a bit mo...

The male brain is analytical and the female brain empathic.

Good replies here. I was suprised to bpm some of my favourite minimal house (Trentemoller for example) and saw tempos around 120-122. That to me is a fantastic tempo - my new tune is 122, and it worked faster but I deliberately decided to give it more time and space. Its interesting to canvas opinio...

I dont want to get into that circular debate on the validity of genre taxonomy. I'm all for identiying and descibing things, personally (whatever the threat to so-called "genreless" musical crusaders.) Even if the essence of house is at odds with the abstract CONCEPT of minimalism, to me w...