Good call, a muffling sounds cool as long as it don't mean a towel ower the speakers.

What's wrong with trance ? I think paul van dyke, gatecrasher, Chicane and APB can asnwer that one and many like them, not that I have major beef , but you did ask :) As for what was once right with trance ? A couple of examples : http://www.discogs.com/release/185400 http://www.discogs.com/label/Ri...

Thst's very true about a lot of the records being produced with digital technology. To several thousand people over a big PA - the sound difference is undetectable anyway. A point about DJ's playing whole MP3's thru ableton/whatever. I don't see why I should be ashamed for doing this at all - I've D...

Along with what the guys are saying, You should check some of the 3Carbine stuff on our label : Avionix http://www.avionixrecords.com/ Proper dancefloor gear - I'd reccomend Antivision, singularity or Ghostline - the other is probably not what you are lookking for - it's more on a sutekh/murcof tip ...

Yup - amen to that, it's all about the music that gets people off. People who say they dislike seeing someone who just stands and presses buttons should go check Surgeon - the guy hardly flinches when he plays, extremely composed, and focused, he plays music, and does it well, people love it - well ...

big up to Shubu-grunthammer II, 0454 BC - 0500 BC Inventer of the Animal skin drum, creator of drum and bass, jungle and tribalistik riddem. All of these other badboys are pretenders. And I'd rather give props to the chap that came up with the 303 or the 1st step sequencer, those were the real innov...

it's like many things on the market when you change the packaging, people perceive as something new, whereas it's actually still the same and add some clever marketing and people will swallow it's not about what is or is not, it's about what people are tricked into believing what is or is not spot ...

s weird, 've seen many sub-genres slagged, praised, slagged again, praised. Fickle fickle fickle, and a lot of the hype comes I guess from journalists and PR people with a vested interest in grabbing folks attention in "the new craze' Look at that freakin sudoku or whatever over in the UK just ...