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thanks heaps guys. Jon, i've already done a few tracks thanks to your instructions.

Cambian, i get well into glitch hop and dubstep and i'm pretty sure when i do listen to drum and bass it's on the heavier side of the spectrum. I don't really know enough about the drum and bass scene to be too informed about what's the heavy stuff. Noisia and shock one are really the extent of my drum and bass knowledge currently

marathons are painful enough with that.

yep, dopp, that's the plan, legs move at 180bpm for the whole time. Stride may shorten towards the end but the goal is to keep the legs churning at the same pace.

Tried doing it with drum and bass but just found that 90bpm hip-hop is a little more agreeable for 4 hours. It feels better somehow to have the beat hit on my left leg every time too. Marathoners are weird in general. Maybe I could switch to drum and bass for the last 10, painful kms. Cambian, you got about an hours worth? I've got ableton on here somewhere Jon but never played with whole songs in it before. Could you chuck in a couple more instructions on what i need to do to make this happen?

Hi guys. Been ages since i posted anything on here but i still lurk and keep an eye on what's what. I don't really DJ anymore but i was wondering if somebody here could help me out. In about a month i'm going to be running my first marathon. 42.2km's of torture. It should take me about 3 hours 45 minutes to get it done. Anyway, i've found that my running cadence is about 180 steps per minute if i'm running well. Is anyone willing to help me out with a whole bunch of tracks that are running at exactly 90BPM so i can run in time with them? I don't know if there's a quick way to set a whole bunch of tracks to that speed with ableton or whatever. Thanks heaps if you can help. peace

Just stumbled on this site and i've been in nostalgia overload for the last couple of days. http://www.abandoneer.com/ Prince of Persia, Civilization, leisure suit larry. Let me know which games here tickle your late 80's fancy.

it's all about the electric cars innit. This means that realistically you could drive your electric car up to the servo, plug it in for a minute, and piss off for another 300 kilometres. Just like petrol cars, only more tree huggy.

just switch over to jj. download the akai manual, and just keep in mind that certain things might not be where they say they are. Apart from that, it's all in there somewhere. Have fun!

um...have the world finals already been? According to the DMC website, i'm reading that some dude from france won it. This tells me that yes, DMC has taken place. If this is the case then where is the 1. Battling is shit thread 2. The UK DJ was robbed thread 3. Video thread The lack of these threads tell me that DMC hasn't happened yet. I'm confused.

bump a little bit, really interested in anything you guys can offer on this one.

Hey guys, just a live one take, lets see what happens thing from me and a mate. I'm playing drums and Bass on the mpc, and he's getting freaky on his synth. All comments and feedback most appreciated, as we've got a bunch of live tracks like this one ready to send out and try to start getting gigs, just wanna betterise them a bit before we do. Project eject - out of control

i got the 24 and it's wicked. but the 32 does look pretty sweet. I guess it all depends on what you think you're going to be doing with it. I mean, sliders and knobs don't help me much because i use mine for drumming, but if you're ableton set has loads and loads of different effects, you might need all those extra sliders. I would love to have note repeat on the 24 though....

sick beat.

it'll be fine, posties drop shit that far all the time in transit, and the 909 is a pretty tough mixer. I used to be a baggage handler at the airport and we are total arseholes. don't put ANYTHING breakable in your checked luggage people.

rush out and get a foot pedal for it before it arrives. foot pedal effects plus scratching is way fun!

i saw they just released a 32 gig Flash card or something. Am i crazy, or is it possible they'll scrap all this DVD nonsense and just start putting movies on these suckers?

will definitely hold out for the new one then. I went and had a play with one and while it is very cool, the keyboard is just a tiny bit cramped. Hopefully having a nine inch screen will fix that problem a little bit.

i reckon it's super sweet. friends of mine are already running ableton and windows on it, so it's definitely got the live music potential. I'm gonna get one to run midi into from my MPC and trigger visuals using resolume. gonna be sweet.

Asus Eee laptop This thing looks freakin awesome!! 7 inch screen, weighs 920 grams, and has apple white sexiness. Plus it only costs $500 australian, which is about oh...ten quid i think Anyone else getting one of these?

yeah, i actually had this virus for a while. Definitely annoying as all hell. you're friend is gonna need serious help to get rid of it too. I think steve helped me be rid of mine, and it involved downloading something called killbox and something else as well i think. if he's not interested in getting rid of it, maybe you should delete him as a contact.

yo... The whole set's pretty hot man. I really enjoyed whatever you guys were doing from about 13 minutes to 16:30. That jam there is the business for sure. What synth is buttonbasher on? Your scratches were fresh throughout, especially for an entire live set (no retakes up there). Rockit was hot, definitely a cool cover to throw in there and your solo scratches were tasty too. and the intro from 22:30 to 24:30. you should turn that into a proper deep dj shadow type track, just jam a bassline in at 24:30. Constructively, i would suggest: 1. Stealing Eddie's toms. Hip hop is about kicks, snares and hats, maybe 1 cymbal. If his kits bigger than that kick the other bits off stage! I was in a ten piece hip hop band for a while, and we switched drums from 1 dude with a full kit, to another dude with a 3 piece kit. We just sounded ALOT more hip hop with the second dude. 2. Don't blow your wad too early. I hang with a lot of improv muso's and they say this all the time. start with a simple simple riff, whether it's a lead or a bassline, lay down a groove, then after the groove is established you can go off on a tangent. Mainly that comes down to button basher holding off a bit, as he's obviously a very talented keyboard player. Get him to check out more herbie hancock for examples of not blowing your wad(Chameleon anyone). 3. Did you have a sound guy on the night? Since you're a real, fully fledged band now, you need a proper sound guy. Hard to say without seeing you guys play it all, but it sounded like button basher was splitting his keyboard and playing basslines and leads at the same time at one point? depending on his synth, he should be able to send 2 signals to the desk, and the sound guy can balance them out for you. same goes for the MPC. It's impossible to do your own sound, and a good sound guy can make or break your entire act. (plus he might even organise some much needed foldback for you guys!) 4. You guys were definitely the coolest when you were doing the tracks yourself. Get in the rehearsal room for a month and get 45 minutes worth of original material. you guys will be gods! All up it was an awesome first gig man, looking forward to the next installment!

listening now...tis well cool. Up to the first Improv and it's hot. I've almost got a live set up and running with a friend of mine, mpc's synths and visuals. Would love to hear some of your thoughts on how the night went and what you did wrong/right. sounding good!

yo jon, reckon you can get some video action of this stuff? Anyone called button basher has already got mad respect from me, i wanna see it in action.

it's not japanese, it's african i think. They've got a few different names, but the only one i can think of right now is Asalato. Asalato Japanese dudes seem to love them though, Hifana are all over those things like a rash.