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Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:03 pm
by Oktagon
Hi all,

Been lurking for a few months, happy to find a place with an active and informed techno production community.

I'm from London and have been producing on/off (much more off than on tbh) for 15 years. Trying to take things more seriously the last year or so, we'll see where that ends up.

Just returned from a pilgrimage to Berlin, I enjoy techno that is on the darker side, texturally interesting, rhythmically deft. I don't closely follow individual producers but I enjoy the work of Lewis Fautzi, SHDW & Obscure Shape, Tale of Us, Etapp Kyle among others. Or anything that makes me dance really.

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 9:06 pm
by winston
this thread is pretty good for getting a list of artists i haven't heard of.
am checking out some names on the last couple of pages i didn't recognize.

hello, you'll find this to be a friendly place. :)

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 7:29 pm
by LV426
Hey everyone.

Been lurking for months and thought it time I register. Community is great and I've learnt so much reading through everything :) Hope I can contribute!

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:12 am
by Hades
welcome, you cunts !

in case you use Live,
I made a free liveset for the subsekt community a few months back.
The topic with details is somewhere in the hole part,
but I won't bore you with reading all that.
It has like 50 different kicks, most of them sampled from my Jomox,
and about 50 or so clips with all kinds of sounds, (lots of good atmospheres and textures)
plus about 15 presets for Analog I programmed from scratch.

It's free, so abuse as much as you please.
Just hit me with a PM on SC if any of you want it
(I would say use the PM here, but if you're new, you can't send PM's until you reached a minimum amount of posts).

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:17 pm
by jordanneke
SFBM wrote:
SLHFR wrote:Hey guys,
found this forum a while ago and now I've decided to join.
I'm from Germany and I got into Techno about two or three years ago. I enjoy a lot of different styles, be it the more straight-forward kind (e.g. Cleric, Setaoc Mass, Dax J, Amotik etc.) or deeper stuff (Deepbass & Ness, Donato Dozzy, Luigi Tozzi and others).

Recently I got into producing and djing aswell, so I hope I'll be able to learn something from you people :)
Welcome to the forums! Luigi Tozzi is playing here (Melbourne) next month, actually. Can't wait to go!
Luigi used to be quite active on this forum.

I guess he 'out-grew' us now ;)

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2017 6:19 pm
by jordanneke
winston wrote:this thread is pretty good for getting a list of artists i haven't heard of.
am checking out some names on the last couple of pages i didn't recognize.

hello, you'll find this to be a friendly place. :)
Ha ha ha ha ha, Winston you just made me choke on my beer.

You are indeed the master of irony.
:D

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 7:06 pm
by Andre_Crom
Hi guys,

been on here for a few weeks, but better late than never a few words about me:

Some of you will know me from my earlier house music releases and my label OFF Recordings, but since 2-3 years i grew tired of that sound, and decided to reinvent myself with techno, and move from being "the guy behind a wellknown label" to a producer.

For that i've been pretty obsessively producing music since around 2 years.

Wish i had discovered this forum before, as i really feel it can help a lot to ask advice about tricky things in terms of production; and i also enjoy sharing what i know with others. Besides i love the family vibe around here; which gives a healthy social touch to the often hermit-like life in the studio!

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 7:25 pm
by Hades
Andre_Crom wrote: Wish i had discovered this forum before, as i really feel it can help a lot to ask advice about tricky things in terms of production; and i also enjoy sharing what i know with others. Besides i love the family vibe around here; which gives a healthy social touch to the often hermit-like life in the studio!

Hi André,
as I said before : this forum is the best place I know on the internet to learn more about techno production.
You can learn more by looking at old topics here than if you'd watch 20 hours of youtube tutorials.

and yes, the family vibe, as you describe it, is most certainly there,
we might be a brutal bunch from time to time,
and we love anal jokes (it's been an ongoing issue for years now,
any homophobic asshole who feels uncomfortable about this can go fuck himself 8-) ),
but we have an open mind for anything as long as people treat us with respect.

welcome to subsekt !

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:17 pm
by Boisvelone
Hi!

New here, some interesting content here which i'm glad to have come across.
I have DJ'ed since 2005, released music since 2008 and run a techno/electronica label since this year. Based in London

Cheers!

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:49 pm
by Hades
Boisvelone wrote:Hi!

New here, some interesting content here which i'm glad to have come across.
I have DJ'ed since 2005, released music since 2008 and run a techno/electronica label since this year. Based in London

Cheers!

welcome to subsekt.

any links to your music ?

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 11:56 am
by Boisvelone
Hades wrote:
Boisvelone wrote:Hi!

New here, some interesting content here which i'm glad to have come across.
I have DJ'ed since 2005, released music since 2008 and run a techno/electronica label since this year. Based in London

Cheers!

welcome to subsekt.

any links to your music ?
Hi,

I prefer to remain anonymous. But i'ts possible some of diggers here have come across a recent vinyl release of mine :)

Thanks and looking forward to learn / contribute here

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:45 am
by WCO4
Hello Everyone,
My name is Billy, I was born and raised in Detroit Michigan, but am now momentarily living in Florida.
I am most into dark hypnotic techno & harder techno.
Some of my influences are Jeff Mills, Plastikman, Rrose, Sleeparchive, DVS1, Andy Stott, O phase, SHXCXCHCXSH, Function, ect.
I have been producing for about 5 years but have been taking it more seriously over the last couple years,
glad to be apart of this community, looks awesome.

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:28 am
by Hades
Boisvelone wrote: Hi,

I prefer to remain anonymous. But i'ts possible some of diggers here have come across a recent vinyl release of mine :)

Thanks and looking forward to learn / contribute here
is it that bad ? :D

seriously though, why remain anonymous ?
The best/worst that can happen here is we call you a cunt ! ;)

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 7:34 am
by Hades
WCO4 wrote:Hello Everyone,
My name is Billy, I was born and raised in Detroit Michigan, but am now momentarily living in Florida.
I am most into dark hypnotic techno & harder techno.
Some of my influences are Jeff Mills, Plastikman, Rrose, Sleeparchive, DVS1, Andy Stott, O phase, SHXCXCHCXSH, Function, ect.
I have been producing for about 5 years but have been taking it more seriously over the last couple years,
glad to be apart of this community, looks awesome.
welcome new cunt !
just had a listen to your music.
your newest track was urmm, hefty !

How did you end up in Jupiter when you're from Detroit ?
That's quite the change of weather/scenery/mentality, no ?

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:38 pm
by WCO4
Hades wrote: welcome new cunt !
just had a listen to your music.
your newest track was urmm, hefty !

How did you end up in Jupiter when you're from Detroit ?
That's quite the change of weather/scenery/mentality, no ?
Hey Hades, thank you, I appreciate that!

I have been in Jupiter for a couple years, I am here helping take care of my grandmother & just taking a break from the city. I really want to move back to Detroit though before long, I miss it a lot, Jupiter is pretty un-techno lmao, pretty bored here to be honest but it has given me some time to sit back and get better at productions.

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:22 pm
by Hades
WCO4 wrote:
Hey Hades, thank you, I appreciate that!

I have been in Jupiter for a couple years, I am here helping take care of my grandmother & just taking a break from the city. I really want to move back to Detroit though before long, I miss it a lot, Jupiter is pretty un-techno lmao, pretty bored here to be honest but it has given me some time to sit back and get better at productions.
well, it's always a good thing if someone wants to take care of his/her family.
respect for that ! 8-)

But yeah, I can imagine it can get rather boring over there.
I've only been in about 16 states, and my last visit to the US and Canada was about 20 years ago,
but I've never been to Florida (though I'd love to visit the keys some day).
From what I heard, nowadays, it's all mostly retired folks and golf courts and stuff...
Used to be different, but not any more.
I could be wrong though. :)

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:50 pm
by WCO4
Hades wrote:
well, it's always a good thing if someone wants to take care of his/her family.
respect for that ! 8-)

But yeah, I can imagine it can get rather boring over there.
I've only been in about 16 states, and my last visit to the US and Canada was about 20 years ago,
but I've never been to Florida (though I'd love to visit the keys some day).
From what I heard, nowadays, it's all mostly retired folks and golf courts and stuff...
Used to be different, but not any more.
I could be wrong though. :)
Thank you. & yeah it does, I just wish there was somewhere to go to hear some music that I enjoy. It's nice though, really can't complain. I do enjoy the weather! lol
Oh nice! 16 states is a lot! Yea you'll have to check out the keys sometime it's really nice down there! good snorkeling and people like to party haha it's a fun time.

Yes retired folks and golf pretty much sums it up!! at least where I am at in the palm beach area!
Miami can be fun though. I very much hope to come to Europe in the near future! only ever been to Canada once but I dream to see more of the world!

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:57 am
by dcom
Greetings from Helsinki, Finland.

I've been accumulating electronic music vinyl and used them to perform publicly as a DJ since the beginning of the 1990s and still actively play whenever I'm given the opportunity. I have intensely idiosyncratic and purposefully cultivated musical preferences, intensely opinionated, sarcastically inclined, at times way too serious and do not care what anyone thinks of my pursuits and activities. The signature below contains a pair of links to my network presence relevant to this forum's interests: mixes and sets spanning nearly two decades, a handful of completed compositions, and the current state of my record collection, currently missing almost six months of most recent acquisitions.

After the discontinuation of The Nursery forum Subsekt is the only one I've found interesting enough to lurk on and now, join.

Hello.

Cheers, Nuutti.

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:10 am
by Hades
dcom wrote:Greetings from Helsinki, Finland.

I've been accumulating electronic music vinyl and used them to perform publicly as a DJ since the beginning of the 1990s and still actively play whenever I'm given the opportunity. I have intensely idiosyncratic and purposefully cultivated musical preferences, intensely opinionated, sarcastically inclined, at times way too serious and do not care what anyone thinks of my pursuits and activities. The signature below contains a pair of links to my network presence relevant to this forum's interests: mixes and sets spanning nearly two decades, a handful of completed compositions, and the current state of my record collection, currently missing almost six months of most recent acquisitions.

After the discontinuation of The Nursery forum Subsekt is the only one I've found interesting enough to lurk on and now, join.

Hello.

Cheers, Nuutti.
hello new cunt !

may I ask : how do you keep track of all the tracks on your vinyl collection ?

I mean, I bought about 700 vinyls in a few years time, and I'm still slowly trying to inject some sort of system into them.

ow, and if I may : a good DJ friend of mine once told me it's a good idea to put your collection to private.
He once had someone break into his apartment and steal all the most valuable ones.
I doubt people would come into my house for that, but I'm not taking the risk.

you can really tell you had a classical training when you listen to your tracks btw,
lovely work on your melodies.

Re: New members say hello...

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:14 am
by dcom
Hades wrote:may I ask : how do you keep track of all the tracks on your vinyl collection ?
Excellent question.

A track has myriad of candidate identifying attributes (metadata), the simplest being the name of the track. Many tracks have the same name (some have no name at all), so uniquely identifying a track requires a graph of attributes, e.g. artist → release title → track. Then there's the track itself, the music: composition, arrangement, structure, instrumentation and so on, based on what you hear, stored and recalled by auditive memory. It would be a superhuman feat of cognitive mastery to remember each and every track in just one dimension (like name), let alone multiple due to the combinatory multiplication of data points to memorize if required to uniquely identify a track. Techniques used by the best memorizers at the World Memory Championships are useless - it would require an individual with an eidetic (photographic) memory (which is a neuromyth, no confirmed instances exist). The simplest answer therefore is that I don't, if keeping track means recalling a specific track's metadata from memory - so I've externalized it to Discogs. I remember enough metadata to impress people, but definitely not everything.

How do I locate a record with a specific track? I usually remember at least the label, narrowing the search space. Labels mostly have an identifying sound/genre signature, so this applies when I remember what the track sounds like. I have grouped records by label and clustered labels by top-level genre (techno, electro, IDM...) on the shelves, so if I remember only the music and it's techno, sometimes I have to do an exhaustive manual search of the techno shelves.

How do I choose records for a set (at a party)? Cherry-picking the ones I know well, then listening/playing through others, lather, rinse repeat. I always have from two to five times more records required for the slot's duration, allowing me to adapt the set's dramatic arc, mood and intensity if required. I almost never fixate on specific tracks when selecting material for a set; the process is more heuristic, guided by levity/intensity, simplicity/complexity, tension/release, flow/continuity... The only tracks I deliberately choose are the first and last ones, the void between them is filled dynamically in situ behind the decks.

Do I unintentionally acquire duplicates? Rarely, but yes.

If this didn't answer what you had in mind, please elaborate and I'll respond.
Hades wrote:a good DJ friend of mine once told me it's a good idea to put your collection to private.
He once had someone break into his apartment and steal all the most valuable ones.
Burglaries are mostly crimes of opportunity and targeted operations to acquire a specific item are exceedingly rare. Nevertheless, from a risk assessment standpoint this is a valid concern, but the base level of physical security in Finland is very high, especially in urban areas. The probability and risk of fire in our apartment is much higher, as is the possibility of me getting run over by a car. I also have some extra security measures in place.
Hades wrote:you can really tell you had a classical training when you listen to your tracks btw,
lovely work on your melodies.
Thank you.

Cheers, Nuutti.