Techno-Fetichisme: the Podcast
Techno-Fetichisme 1 & 2: House and Techno
Ok on a different note, I would like to introduce, Techno-Fetichisme, the podcast. Both first issues, TF1 and TF2 are about 25 minutes long. I use Ableton Live as the mixing software although works are studio mixes. I mix stuff from 20 years ago with techno from yesterday or "Bacalao" like the spaniards used to call the music coming out of the UK and the little Baleric islands of Eivissa and Majorca as if it was fresh fish.
Back to Mac
Oh, and now is the time to admit it: I went back to mac. I am publishing the podcast on web.mac.com. What can I say? Those who know me will understand. The new imacs are really sick and I can't wait to get mine touch enabled with one of those glass screens like on the iPhone. Look at me, I am pitiful. I guess seeing all the guys at the laptop battle, performing with Live on macs, without glitches was enough for me to change my mind. The mind is not so strong and the flesh is weaker. I am loving it.
Ok on a different note, I would like to introduce, Techno-Fetichisme, the podcast. Both first issues, TF1 and TF2 are about 25 minutes long. I use Ableton Live as the mixing software although works are studio mixes. I mix stuff from 20 years ago with techno from yesterday or "Bacalao" like the spaniards used to call the music coming out of the UK and the little Baleric islands of Eivissa and Majorca as if it was fresh fish.
Back to Mac
Oh, and now is the time to admit it: I went back to mac. I am publishing the podcast on web.mac.com. What can I say? Those who know me will understand. The new imacs are really sick and I can't wait to get mine touch enabled with one of those glass screens like on the iPhone. Look at me, I am pitiful. I guess seeing all the guys at the laptop battle, performing with Live on macs, without glitches was enough for me to change my mind. The mind is not so strong and the flesh is weaker. I am loving it.
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I also converted to the mac for all useless-related activities (like browsing the web on my sofa). My preferred feature: the time it takes for the WIFI to reconnect when resuming from standby: super-quick. But I hate the impossibility to change the default focus on modal dialogs from the keyboard, that's outrageous.
Great music, I like that. More please!
For me, its not METAL, so blah.
So it is the wife huh? Yeah I know, I buy trains, it is for the kids! Daniel Brum wrote in saying "my 12 year old listened to TF1 and wanted it for his iPod", that was a true compliment! stop hiding behind your wife and come out as the house loving bopping head that you are, you little bitch.
I am playing with a new mix that gets in some punk from Joy Division, in honor of Tony Wilson from Factory Records (see previous blog on 24hr party people and the comments). I mix the punk with modern techno, that is about as close (not very) I will ever get to METAL. If you can find me a good metal tune in the 120-140bpm range I will see what I can do for you. Oh wait, I thought metal didn't have rythm, just guys yelling in a mic? no?
You're killing me, Marc. Joy Division, punk? Then Avril Lavigne is punk too? Punk is Sex Pistols, Misfits, and DRI. Not Green Day.
I don't know of the bpm's you speak of, and I do not want you "mixing METAL". METAL is a holy place, and it should not be desecrated by the likes of little turn tables with guys wearing half-a-head-set.
Perhaps some tighter drumming may work - Rush, Primus, Tool, to name a few.
METAL is shite. I have observed that what you guys usually get off on with the head banging and air-guitar is the long guitar riffs that sound like proto-trance. BTW Paul Oakenfold is coming to ATL, if you can find a hip outfit, I recommend checking him out at Opera in Nov, you never know, maybe some cool will actually rub off on you. But, really, METAL is not music it is an attitude at best, which explains why you would be drawn to it in the first place.
If it wasn't because you like it, or pretend to, and Scott Stark, really likes it, and I like both you guys, I wouldn't even mention it. Yuck!
Correct. METAL IS an attitude, like most music forms. We gravitate toward what we can relate to. I can relate to Punk and METAL. I can't relate to the caca that is hip-hop (I'm too white).
What makes good METAL, is not the Steve-Vai-type long guitar riffs. I'm more drawn to a heavy (thundering/crunching) rythm-section of a band. Slayer, Tool, Maiden, and even Rage Against the Machine have that in common.
I'll raid Gavin's closet and see what I can dig up as a "hip outfit".
My little VAIO (the tiny one series) is really neat and hasn't died in 18 mo, I am proud of it, still using it, although it is soooo slow.
What I really want a tablet format with a touchscreen like the iPhone and the keyboard in the back. Meaning something you can hold like a PSP, a little bit bigger with natural size keyboard IN THE BACK so your fingers do the walking. That would be killer.
Is there any creative hiphop you've been listening to? After Digable Planets and 3rd Bass split up (1995'ish?) I couldn't find anything creative so I stopped listening. I know Aceyalone is still putting some stuff out and Tribe Called Quest pops their heads up now and then. Anything else worth listening to?
I can't recommend any hiphop these days as I am not listening much. I tend to go to hip hop when there was a darth of decent techno. That isn't the case these days :) there is a revival of techno.
That being said. I was listening to it again on internet radio about 3 years ago and was really taken aback by how creative it had gotten. I may go and dig a bit one day for you since I have some time:)
I can recommend http://www.beatport.com, this is the site I shop at, they do have a hip hop section that is updated daily and you may want to check that out.
Tribe Called Quest, what great group that was, I truly loved the whole "native tongues" collective, them, the Stereo MC's.
It's a shame violence has lessened some of the fun that was early rap/hiphop. I remember catching Digable Planets at the Roxy in Boston around 1993/4. (A British group called D'Influence opened up.) What a fun show. Everyone was just dancing and singing the lyrics. The DP's had a jazz band backing them up along with their DJ so some incredible music came out.
Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.