Multimillionaire DJ Calvin Harris started his music career with the Amiga

[nicholas]

Not my cup of tea.

I much prefer Mickey Finn, Andy C, Aphrodite, Randall and other oldskool producers that got started on the Amiga.

http://modp3.mikendezign.com/index.php?groupname=Suburban%20Base
http://www.urbantakeover.co.uk/aphro/index2.html

[nicholas]

What about Muffler, Dnb Producer, was talking to him on twitter the other day, he got started on Amiga and ProTacker, and is a million times better than that hack calvin harris or David tit face guetta

Just the other day I said to my teenage son "There was some crappy pop video on last night with Robbie Savage in it".

"No Dad, that's David Guetta!"

Lol

[nicholas]

That's some funny ****.


Real talent none of this pop ****. Some amazing producers about

Etherwood, London elektricity, logistics, high contrast, Danny byrd, metrik to name but a few.

Danny Byrd is a living genius. I partial to a bit of Sub Focus and Chase & Status myself too.

Not forgetting demoscene legend Hoffman!

[nicholas]

I think from the oldskool house dj's/producers about a third of them made some music on Amiga.

Back in the old days you either had a 520ST and and Akai sampler or an A500.

The whole hardcore/jungle/dnb scene started out of these little babies.

[nicholas]

You heard his latest album, got in on vinyl,  some amazing tracks on there, he really experimenting with non DnB within DnB at the moment, plenty of garage infulence at the mo

Golden Ticket?

Nah, not got it yet but will be buying it for my son for his 15th birthday in October as he loves Byrd's stuff.

Though I can't get enough of 170bpm+ breaks I do love a good stripped back 138bpm-ish tune.

Probably a throw back to my hardcore raving days.

[nicholas]

He cant even dj properly by all accounts, plays pre-recorded & pre-mixed sets, basically presses play and tweaks some eq

If it aint' done with two or more 1210's and slabs of vinyl it ain't DJ'ing IMNSHO.

Sticking a few tracks into Ableton and auto beat matching them is no talent at all.

Get off my lawn! lol

[nicholas]

Whilst you can not beat the sound of vinyl , I think there is a place for digital djing,  either time coded vinyl or cd to using thinks like trakor.  There is room for building up sets on the fly with loops and samples.

Whilst I agree that taking the skill of beat matching, mixing etc out of djing is a no go,  to me a big part of it is picking the tunes and the performace.

Cant beat live Dnb with a live drums and instruments

I remember 4Hero's album back in 97 was the first I remember using live instruments for DnB and then Roni Size not long after.  Good times indeed.

I sold my decks in 2003/4 before digital DJ'ing became popular. My younger cousin is into that Psy-Trance type stuf they play in Goa and swears by CD decks and Traktor.

Did you get the PM btw?

[nicholas]

Don't forget Aphex Twin...

Yeah he used Amigas, think I read somewhere that he still does occasionally.

I wouldn't classify him as live instrument performer though.

[nicholas]

What about all the prepared piano stuff in drukqs?

True.

What I should have said "Live instrument DnB musician"

There is a recentish trend of actual traditional bands playing DnB with a real drummer, live double bassist, trumpeteers etc with no computers or synths/samplers or other electronic equipment. Barring amps obviously.

[nicholas]

Who would be jealous of that silly french tit. his music is awful he has started working with pop bands, and for some un-known reason has become the poster boy for electronic music in America.
 
And He is not even close to being a decent talent in his sub genre of electronic music

He is? I thought it was that talentless Skrillex geezer who was America's poster boy?

I'm basing this on info acquired from my son, I'm just not cool enough to know who's cool and who isn't these days.

[nicholas]

You bet, I would love to make millions for using the same one bar sequence of 8 regular off beat notes on a loop throughout every song I've ever done!

I've just bought Logic Pro X now and it's actually really very nice (not much love for synth players, but enough to keep me going)

Worth the upgrade from Pro 9?

[nicholas]

I never bothered with 9... But it is a remarkable jump up from 8 (which was something of a waste of money from 7... Both of which cost stupid amounts)... FlexTime and FlexPitch make screwing with Audio much easier... The interface has been much improved too so for £130 it has to be unparalleled in the DAW space... I'm still itching for Reason 7 though :-/

I use LP9, FLS10 and Ableton 8. Depending on what mood i'm in.

[nicholas]

skrillex took dubstep from croydon made it sound like robots ****ing and took it back to america.

Do you know in america they call DnB fast dubstep lol

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