Grin-troducing..

matt_bailey · Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Washington, DC, USA

Howdy everyone - I first stumbled on this site through the RSS feeds - which I highly recommend as a good way to keep on top of the forums, by the by - and now I'm finally getting around to joining up and participating.

I've been doing work with electronic/IDM/anti-IDM/experimental looping for since I was about 15 (now 23). What I'm hoping for out of this community is, I think, exactly in line with what the community is trying to accomplish - the synthesis (sic) of old directions, and the exploration of new ones.

Here is my question - how many people out there are dance/beat-centric, and how many are abstraction-centric? Like I said, I've been reading the forums for a while, and listening to tracks some, but I'm still having a hard time getting a handle on everyone's fundamental allegiances..

Dovdimus Prime · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:20 am Post subject:

Alright champ.

Regarding your question, I think the originators of the site are in the abstract camp, although there's plenty of us dance junkies kicking around as well. You'll find all sorts here! Very Happy

Word and that

Dovdimus

matt_bailey · Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Washington, DC, USA

Good answer - anyone around who still loves the old Trackers like Fast Tracker? I finally had to give up on mine with my new machine - couldn't get the legacy drivers to work with any of them.

mosc · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:13 am Post subject:

I'm certainly not in the dance camp, although I'm on a personal mission to learn to enjoy it as much as I can. The spirit of this site is mutual respect and support, which by it very nature attracts people who want to expand their musical horizons. So it looks like you came to the right place.

When you mention tracker music, one member comes to mind, Static Strobe Emitter. Check out his stuff on his artists forum, http://electro-music.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=82 He's even posted some tracker files there. I've been facinated by this technology for many years but never jumped in and gave it a try.

Maybe if there is enough interest, we could start a "trackers corner" forum, who knows.

You can hear a little bit of my music at my artist's forum here: http://electro-music.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

mosc · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:17 am Post subject:

Matt,

Would you please add your location to your profile?

thanks

matt_bailey · Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Washington, DC, USA

No problem. I'm in DC, but I've only been here a few months. I am Seattle born and raised. I wonder what Kurt Cobain would have sounded like with 8 bit synths?

Probably like a more melancholy Kraftwerk, now that I'm thinking about it.

Dovdimus Prime · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject:

Trackers. I use to use them all the time when I was a teenager, but I use Cakewalk nowadays.

Hardliner, who lives at http://www.cnidarian.org/ posted some tracks he did on a tracker a little while back. You can get them off his site. I absolutely love them, as you can tell by the quote of mine he has put on his front page...

gsga · Joined: Jul 22, 2004 Posts: 267 Location: allentown, pa

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mosc · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject:

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

Hey there!

I've been a long-term tracker user (try Renoise, it offers full Windows and VST support), but since I got hip to Ableton Live 4 I haven't looked back. I might look back once I get back into micro-programming drums etcetera.

Welcome to the forums!

-diskonext

matt_bailey · Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Washington, DC, USA

Dovdimus Prime · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:24 pm Post subject:

This one is free, sir!

http://www.modplug.com/modplug/download.php3?session=&download=Tracker