Things what are exciting for you in.........

[wub]

Ok, album wise are loving the Shigeto - Full Circle Remixes EP that's just come out. The Mike Slott remix of Relentless Drag is just fucking beautiful to my ears;




I'm making more time in the evenings and weekends to listen to new beats, and going to London night like Streets Of Beige to get my beat scene fix. As such, I'm getting introduced to artists that I wouldn't normally have come across, like Young Montana;



I'm turning off the grid a lot more now and programming my drum hits in by hand, going for that looser feel of stuff. I'm sampling a lot more too, at least 30mins a day through lunch I dedicate to cutting out of old LPs with Audacity. I've also printed out a couple of beginner guides to chord sequences, to teach myself what keys to press go well with what other keys. I've never learnt a musical instrument, so it's a bit harder for me to get my head round things, but I'm getting there.

Processing wise, I've started looking into alternative ways of sidechaining. November last year, I maybe had one tried and tested way of doing it; now I've got 3 that I'm comfortable with and more importantly can understand the differences each one will make to the sound when applied.

VST wise, I've slacked off getting any new ones until I've learnt the ones I've got in and out. A lot of my output in the last fortnight has been 8-bit orientated, so I'm going through the TweakBench set of synths, notably Peach and Toad for leads and glitch effects respectively. Also hammering SupaTrigga, and been bouncing out my tracks live using it as a real time manipulator as opposed to programming in automation.

From my tech house side of things, I've finished my first tune to a standard where I'm comfortable playing it out, and have nearly finished the second (melody tweaks and arrangement aside). Am hoping that this side of things, I should be able to put out a mix CD by June with at least 4 of my own tech house productions on.

[gravity]

learning to play the piano - slowly, but even so. its an enlightening experience, suddenly theory makes so much more sense - scales, chords, etc. are all sticking in my head.

decided to learn to read music too.

[Debaser1]

oh, and any new releases from Bovinyl Moosick and Prime Audio are eagerly awaited. MOO005 is out soon(ISH) i think.

[mojomusic]

benga's got a new album in the works apparently. really looking forward to that, and it's about floopin' time

Benga was without a doubt one of my faves, but I just could not listen to phaze one. Like, just painful to listen to.

yeah i forgot about phaze one actually.. i liked rock music on there, but the rest were pants.

if it's half as good as diary of an afro warrior i'll be happy!

[nowaysj]

if it's half as good as diary of an afro warrior i'll be happy!

I'm with you on that one!

[hutyluty]

Pangaea bringing out another realeease- finally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKWVZbEyJM

[logic pro]

getting a buchla......

[jaydot]

For me personally the outlook is bleak. But that encapsulates my life's outlook, it's not exclusive to my producing. And to think that I had started to get into the swing of things, too.

[project midnight]

which one bro?

Not sure to be honest. Need to get some demo's

I've always fancied playing with absynth

[nowaysj]

getting a buchla......

WHHAAAT? For realz?

For me personally the outlook is bleak. But that encapsulates my life's outlook, it's not exclusive to my producing. And to think that I had started to get into the swing of things, too.

dOOOOWWWWnnnner

[Pedro Sánchez]

Cubase 6, at a glance it looked like a small step from 5 but under the hood it's fucking awesome and the most rock solid version yet.

[dddemain]

The James Blake LP.
Amon Tobin's got an album in the works too.
Some sick DSF producers doing big things too.
2011 is going to be huge

[FSTZ]

I have been getting ready to launch my new label.. the first singles are all mastered up and ready for initial presentation to my distro company.

got all the files ready and I'm going to edit the video as well

oh and the new monitor stands are also a nice addition to the studio

[Ongelegen]

just ordered the dark energy

[nowaysj]

wow, you've got to keep us updated on that. When you get it and have some time to spend with it, post up a thread with some soundclips and thoughts on it. It really is entry level modular. It was suggested that they would be releasing other units that would work with it. The future is bright.

[Ongelegen]

Will do. Yeah the dark time, analog sequencer is also available already iirc.

[paravrais]

the last thing that had my jaw drop was the DNA tech in melodyne

Oh my shitting lord. I just looked that up for the first time O.o

Consider this jaw dropped.

[tintala]

Finally after 15 years of training in Indian Classical music I will be intergrating it with dubstep and electronica, built a studio just for that , now need to learn these Daws to produce what's been going thru my head all these years with dubstep being a new addition to my reportoire, so much so that I haven't practiced any only to study and learn about producing dubstep in my nice cozy little basement studio, good thing, there is a goddamn blizzard righ freeekn now!

[BeastModeForDummies]

i didnt read through this whole post but FLUX P's bass cannon release in march can't wait!

[Johnst]

the last thing that had my jaw drop was the DNA tech in melodyne

Oh my shitting lord. I just looked that up for the first time O.o

Consider this jaw dropped.

+1. who the hell knew that was even possible?!