A Music Thread

[ahasverus]

Time to post this

techno.org/electronic-music-guide

[Thoth]

[C0ckney]

and here's something for your musical education. this is a brief summary of what i consider techno, it's by no means exhaustive, but should give you an idea of what techno, as opposed to other forms of dance music, actually is. they're all reasonably well known, well ok maybe 1 or 2 aren't but they're forgotten classics!

be sure to listen to them all.



plastikman - spastik



basic channel - phylyps track



inftinti - i-94



josh wink - higher state of consciousness



green velvet - la la land



fc kahuna - mind set to cycle



o.c.b. - synchronicity (spincycle remix)



alex under - el encuentro



marc houle - kicker



martin buttirch - full clip



mattihas meyer - reichenbach



cobblestone jazz - india in me (part 1)

phew that's all. as i say not an exhaustive list, and i've deliberately left out stuff with techno elements, like electro-tech, tech-house and tech-trance to concentrate on just techno.

[Al B. Sure!]

Rapping over the Seinfeld theme song

[Thoth]

More Spike Milligan:

[Al B. Sure!]

Wale before he blew up. He had a free Seinfeld-themed mixtape.

[Thoth]

the membranes - spike milligan's tape recorder

Membranes

Spike Milligan




(not a music video, but a classic nonetheless)

[C0ckney]

****ing hell that was dire albert.

it's pop music, and really bad music at that. obviously in pop music you get a lot of watered down versions of other types of music. people like lady gaga look at what's popular and make something based on that, just like madona used to. the track above, well it's hard to call it anything other than ****, but the ideas come from house music, in the case of lady gaga, clearly she's been influenced by electro house.

in my opinion, the best pop music comes from people who are committed to make pop music (see for example britney spear's last two albums), rather than people who are simply trying to sell a watered down version of something else.

[Al B. Sure!]

Cockney, would that Kim Kardashian song be considered 'techno'? What do you call people like Lady Gaga and Kesha? The music sounds like techno.

[C0ckney]

kode 9 - babylon (dub mix)

[Al B. Sure!]

Why am I posting this? Yes, it's terrible. Beyond terrible.

The reason I'm posting this is because of the hilarious like-dislike ratio on youtube (1,737 likes and 25,895 dislikes as of right now)...

Don't listen to it (please do not subject yourself to that!). Just hear a little bit of it to take in how bad it is. This is cultural history



I actually pity her a little now

[C0ckney]

the membranes - spike milligan's tape recorder

and something rather different...



belle and sebastian - judy and the dream of horses

[R1zbear]

Tombstone Blues - Bob Dylan

[Al B. Sure!]

I played around with FL Studio for a few nights in January. I got making a basic beat down but that's easy anyway. Adding melodies and stuff throws me off. It always sounds to me like the melody is fighting the beat or is on top of the beat. I don't know. I need to practice more but I got kind of frustrated and stopped messing with it.

I just put up 6 little 12-20 second beats... no melodies. Just loops I guess.

http://soundcloud.com/ramseya/sets/randomloops

[C0ckney]

cheers al. i appreciate the feedback, it's nice to hear it, from the perspective of someone who doesn't listen to that sort of music.

threeofthree was an experiment, i just used an 808 drum machine and 303 synth to make all the sounds. the little synth is a tease, the main lead is the acid line which starts at 1:16.

as novas aventuras de...(acid mix), this is probably the best thing i've made so far, it works, a lot of people i've played it to say that they like it. i don't think there's any change at 1:20...the rhythm is constant. also the lead for this is very long, in fact no part really repeats, who says i don't write long melodies

as novas aventuras de...(space mix), in many ways this is an improvement on the other mix, i feel the drum sound a little better and the bass is all in key. however, the acid mix sounds better to my ears too.

moog dub, that's how it's meant to sound but yeah i need to work on how i make dubstep tracks.

sucriliho, i wasn't very happy with how this sounded, i tried for quite a long time to finish this track, but i could never quite get it right. i wanted to get it 'finished' in order to start work making some new ideas i've had recently.

again thank you for taking the time to listen and give some feedback