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smackos
Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: The Hague Holland
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject:
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Hi!
I am Smackos, synthesizer freak since 1991.
I reside in The Hague, The Netherlands.
I recently developed an unhealthy love for the Clavia G2 series and I was attended to this place by Kassen and some other people. So far it looks
pretty interesting with lots of knowledge around and I already downloaded some patches, and I was in particular impressed by the Koto patch!
I am the proud owner of a G2X which I traded my Andromeda A6 for, which interface I just couldn't feel.. the G2X on the other hand has made an incredible impression on me. I already had some experience with a Micromodular but this is way beyond there. Especially the detail and broad range of nuances in sound character surprise me (compared to the old classic Clavia modulars).
To make it even more tragic I traded my Jupiter 6 today for a G2 engine to spice up the multitrimbality of my G2 world cause I was running on empty in the slot department...so to speak.
Furthermore I produce various types of "dark" electronic music and mainly like old synthesizer music, as long as it is not cheesy.
Some other synths I use: Rhodes Chroma, Jupiter 8 and 4(The 4 is one of my all time favorites), DX7IID & DX7 and a bag of old monos. |
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mosc
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Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 18197 Location: Durham, NC
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject:
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smackos
There are certainly a lot of people from The Hague and from the rest of The Netherlands as well, here on electro-music.com. It's a great music center.
Congratulations on your new G2s, and welcome aboard... _________________ --Howard
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smackos
Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: The Hague Holland
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:
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Well, The Hague is always been -kind off - the electronic music capital of Holland. In my imagination mostly. |
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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seraph
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Joined: Jun 21, 2003 Posts: 12398 Location: Firenze, Italy
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:53 am Post subject:
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smackos wrote: | I traded my Jupiter 6 today for a G2 engine to spice up the multitrimbality of my G2 |
you must be really addicted to Clavia anyway... you are not the only one around here welcome to electro-music.com _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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seraph
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Joined: Jun 21, 2003 Posts: 12398 Location: Firenze, Italy
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:25 am Post subject:
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smackos wrote: | Well, The Hague is always been -kind off - the electronic music capital of Holland. In my imagination mostly. |
I visited a synthesizer museum in your town, maybe you are right _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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Kassen
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Joined: Jul 06, 2004 Posts: 7678 Location: The Hague, NL
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:30 am Post subject:
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Ah, herr Smackos, good to see you here.
It's kinda nice here, there's all these old people that know stuff and they don't even demand all those boring drum sounds all the time.
:-p _________________ Kassen |
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smackos
Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: The Hague Holland
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Kassen
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:04 am Post subject:
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smackos wrote: | We are old too Kassen. Grumpy old men.
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I'm kinda woried about those couple of grey hairs but at least I'm not joining the "live together and get kids" crew yet. I think we'll survive.
I did get earplugs just now but then again i got them because mr. chinetti, mr. ranger and me are going to a hardcore party tonoight so..... _________________ Kassen |
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smackos
Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: The Hague Holland
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:
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Sounds like you are going to purgatory hell... |
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mosc
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smackos
Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: The Hague Holland
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diskonext
Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:53 am Post subject:
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Hiya Smackos (en welkom),
indeed a busy town, The Hague.
I saw you perform at Zuidwal three(ish?) weeks ago, right? Had a great time that night!
-diskonext _________________ :wq |
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Johan Zwart
Joined: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 496 Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:39 am Post subject:
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Hi smackos.
Good to see you here too. |
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Kassen
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:12 am Post subject:
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diskonext wrote: | Hiya Smackos (en welkom),
indeed a busy town, The Hague.
I saw you perform at Zuidwal three(ish?) weeks ago, right? Had a great time that night!
-diskonext |
Quite possible though I think Smackos only played for a short while. Chinetti (did a set, i think), Rob, Wout Blommers and me (spinning in the third room) were also there. You should shake hands next time. _________________ Kassen |
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diskonext
Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject:
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Haha,
I will definitely try to pick you guys out next time, I can use the NM-meeting pics for reference!
I vaguely recall someone vaguely resembling the Smackos pic posted here, closing some sliders on a mixing desk with loads of applause
-diskonext _________________ :wq |
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mosc
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:
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diskonext wrote: | I vaguely recall someone vaguely resembling the Smackos pic posted here, closing some sliders on a mixing desk with loads of applause |
It has been reported to me by someone who would know that Smackos is a bit of a star in Europe. I hope he figures a way to get to Philadelphis and electro-music 2005 in June _________________ --Howard
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smackos
Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: The Hague Holland
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Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:18 am Post subject:
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Quote: | I hope he figures a way to get to Philadelphis and electro-music 2005 in June |
Only if Kassen comes along...perhaps I might be in the neighbourhood.
Quote: | Quite possible though I think Smackos only played for a short while. Chinetti (did a set, i think), Rob, Wout Blommers and me (spinning in the third room) were also there. |
Yes I only played "Romantic Smack" straight from my micro modular, then I put on Skinny Boys - Jockbox on the recordplayer and Sendex started a human beatbox frenzy over it and a DJ took over before I even knew it. |
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Kassen
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:
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smackos wrote: | Quote: | I hope he figures a way to get to Philadelphis and electro-music 2005 in June |
Only if Kassen comes along...perhaps I might be in the neighbourhood.
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It does sound like a lot of fun but I need to considder pratical matters like the price of flight tickets. Perhaps we could make that Spec. guy book a couple of nights? I could play my own stuff before anybody that might be chased away gets in, you could play, we could have spec spin and perhaps do a couple of Laura V. style tracks together? Surely some people would pay for that?
Presentations are no problem I will cheerfully rant for a hour on some topic nobody has ever heard of but which needs to become standard yesterday. I have a couple of those in the closet. Nobody realy likes those or understands the need for them and certainly nobody in his right mind would implement them but I could use images and big words and we could pretend it´s impressively advanced. We could also refuse to comb our hair and set up the theremin controler; looking like a mad scientist is always good for presentations. _________________ Kassen |
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mosc
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject:
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Kassen wrote: | looking like a mad scientist is always good for presentations. |
That's a good role from time to time - for sure... _________________ --Howard
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zynthetix
Joined: Jun 12, 2003 Posts: 838 Location: nyc
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:
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got my ear... |
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smackos
Joined: Dec 26, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: The Hague Holland
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:25 am Post subject:
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Quote: | Perhaps we could make that Spec. guy book a couple of nights? |
Yes that was what I thought anyway.
Philly ain't for from NY...
Maybe Spec can play too with his Grackle project? |
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mosc
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Kassen
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject:
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mosc wrote: | There are lots of Grackles in the Eastern Pennsylvania area.
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It´s also the name of the experimental project of our u.s. tourmanager. It´s actually quite good and nicely quircky. I would like to link to tracks but my friendly server admin messed up my server in recent reinstall and I´ll have to spank him first before it all gets back up. _________________ Kassen |
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