use a bass guitar maybe!? Yes, because most people making techno use a bass guitar. Today's award for "standard-mnml.nl pointless and unhelpful" reply goes to you. A bass guitar is far from the best tool for generating sub bass - as you well know - but why waste an opportunity to re-tread...

Great example. It was only by breaking that "all-time golden rule" that I stumbled across the Tresor back catalogue.

Deliberate exaggeration, but you get my point.

Take this analogy: somebody is showing a talent for fine art and produces a series of works which one could say contains, 'raw talent'. A few years down the line, they have discovered a fair few techniques in painting, using different media etc etc. Now that raw talent hasnt gone anywhere but throu...

Agree 100% with this post.

Every technical step forward I've made, seems to have been accompanied by a creative step backwards.

Bet nobody can name me a new artist that came through and is playing out each weekend that releases only on vinyl? Some dubstep/garage folk have done just this, although I appreciate that scene is different, still very rooted in vinyl culture. A friend of a friend is Pariah who has his first releas...

AK wrote: im not sure what 'jacking' is in this context. Its a word I associate with House.

Shed - Boom Room is a great example. Pounding yet funky too = jacking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKf2ibxoMf0

::BLM:: wrote:On a track I made yesterday I used 2 sinewaves one pitched up to a 7th and it sounded really good.

You just made a kind of triangle wave!

edit - kind of.

I want more stuff considering the hopelessness of hopefulness (in a kinda political sense of constant global suffering). Music that makes you cry from the deepest part of your soul. Have you heard of a German guy called Paul Van Dyk? I think you'll like him, he frequently touches on these kinds of ...