Simply put, what are things that you guys look / listen for in a track? What are things that will make a production stand out from the crowd? The very nature of minimal techno determines that a single misplaced, malformed, or absent element can have a serious impact on the overall quality of a track...

One of my favorite deepchord records. The A1 cut on Deepchord #7 is the dopest dub techno tune ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERDxuJr2X1E AK, you've got to take the &feature=related bit off the end of the YouTube link for it to work right. Phase Ghost, that track is amazing. I can't wait ...

^^^Quite like that. If you like doing chord based harmony, have you ever tried writing music to a set of chords and then removing those chords after? That can be an interesting way to develop a musical idea too. Man, everybody is on that soundcloud, I'm on a PAYG dongle so uploading and downloading...

Holy sh!t, you guys are overwhelming. There is so much good info in this thread that I don't even know where to begin, as far as replying to some of your suggestions. I have experimented with jamming live before - actually, two years ago, I did an entire track that way. Back when I still used FL, I ...

I was referring to the other thread where we were discussing some different and interesting chord shapes. Some were stating a preference for not wanting to use basic major or minor triads but with Dub techno stuff, well, it's sacrilegious not to use minor chord stabs. Man, I keep meaning to try and...

AK wrote:All the chord talk and yet dub chords NEED minor chords.

What do you mean, exactly?

Thank you so much for posting in this thread and bumping it up to the active topics section. I probably wouldn't have come across it, otherwise.

I just read this whole thread, and when I get home I'm probably going to read it all again, fire up Ableton, and come back with questions.

Yes, please do that!