Official Discussion Thread (Ghost Edit)

[Freewave]

Dj'ing is the closest way to get into music and control and make something using existing music. Taking your favorite tracks and making a comprehensive journey through them. Way before i discovered i could make my own music i simply found joy in dj'ing and its a great way to hear what you want and not to have to succumb to the radio or anyone else's control. To tell the story of your own listening habits and to have them be compltely unique from anyone else's. Going to a club and hearing your favorite tracks and discovering new ones as you dance the night away is one of the best expereinces of my life. To be the dj controlling that communal glee is akin to directing an orchestra and having an audience that feeds that joy back. That's why i love dj'ing.

[FLAOFEI]

I don't really DJ a lot, but I do have a dj controller laying around for when I feel like it.
When I do dj I do it cause I want to listen to my favourite music, and just pick out the best parts of them.

I prefer playing instruments though. Both DJing and playing an instrument are good ways of experiencing music. The difference to me is that playing an instrument both feels more independent, and it gives more room to experiment how it could sound.

[RCYouKnowMe]

I totally feel the vibe with what your laying down peeps. I play an instrument to it's clarinet...and yeah I just can't stand the radio...the songs on there are all about...well bad stuff in general. There's always that little suggestion you break up, do drugs, drink, be paranoid...all that in 5 minutes you know? I can Listen to two stations: 89.3 kuvo jazz, and 91.1 KLOVE...and that's hardly. i see alot of metal heads listening to screamo, AT WORK on a portable speaker. I try and respect taste but...oy...it's so angry. I digress though my jobs been O.K. to say the least. Have you ever been in auto pitlot when working, and then a melody just pops into your head like that?

[Stuntddude]

I can't say I've ever done much to the effect of DJing - I come from a pretty deep-rooted background of playing the piano most of my life, and I've always been the sort of person to incorporate my own little details and affectations into pieces that I play, and in terms of performing in front of people, I don't think I could leave well enough alone to just do a regular sort of DJ set - I can't honestly see myself doing anything less personal and involved than a live mashup performance.

I guess I feel like, for me, it's always about coming up with my own stuff; if I want to share a narrative progression of other people's music, I'll just compile a playlist. If I really want to go HAM, I'll spend the extra 15 minutes concocting simple transitions. If I'm going to do some sort of live set, I want it to be personal, something I can feel like I've *created*, one way or another.

I can, however, totally relate to hating radio. The idea of just sitting there and having some stranger decide what top-40-hit song I'm going to listen to next, with no agency of my own, sounds absolutely absurd and unenjoyable to me. I'm really into self-determination and developing my own musical tastes and finding new music by myself - I don't know if I've listened to the radio a day in my life.

That said, I'm not at all averse to having other people pick out collections of music for me in certain contexts, like being sent a playlist by a friend, or listening to somebody else do DJ stuff (even if I wouldn't normally do it myself). The difference is that both the friend and the DJ are inherently more personal than a radio host, and less corporate/institutionalized/whatever. They're both compiling the track list, in one way or another, specifically *for* their small receiving audiences, and because the expectation is that you'll probably be there to listen all the way through, it tends to be more geared towards telling a cohesive chronological story in both cases than on the radio. Also, you have some power of your own; you can always modify your friend's playlist if you want, and you can often request songs for a DJ to play, even if it's ultimately up to them whether to go with your suggestion or not.

[FLAOFEI]

I can't realy relate to hating radio... I mean, what they play is over all shit, and I do hate them for the themes of most songs... so I do hateit, but not realy, cause I still listen to it once in a while. I try to look at the bright side of things, like blurred lines, it's got horible lyrics, it's insanely repetetive, and pretty darn booring, but it does have a hell of a beat! That drumbeat! I could strutt around all day to that cause it's so catchy.

I guess I'm trained in the art of hearing what I want to hear instead of what I'm listening to :I

so I hate the radio, but not really... idk, I should sleep

[ExoBassTix]

I dislike radio, but then again there are rare moments when it gives me something good, like Chris Malinchak's So Good To Me (seriously, the talent drips off of that dude) and Route94's My Love (so cool they got popular, Route94's always been good). Also another track I hear a lot last time around (when I do hear radio; when I get brought to CCL usually) that I don't know the name of but daaaaaamn. Lush plucks and stuff, top production.
That aside, I find radio (as in, big national radio) to be bullshit. People who listen to it are usually just afraid little individuals. Wèèèèèh, different music, scary. Let's listen to Tsunami 100 times on one day (this happened on a radio station here when they did another edition of their fundraiser event) and dance ourselves silly in the tightest crowd ever because that track's popular.

Rant aside, I DJ because I want to, because I want to express myself, and because I want to promote the music I listen to on a daily basis, and it doesn't matter one bit which genre it happens to be.
Plenty of room to be creative. Two DJ mixes that I always use to point out how damn creative you can be with mixing:
https://soundcloud.com/jakazid/jakazid-party-2012-03-01-2014
https://soundcloud.com/chris-hartgers/5-uur-38-mix-1508
(Wait out the talking; basically, the dude's leaving 538, one of the two most successful radio stations in Holland, for a radio DJ career in England. He made a lot of 538's jingles (the jingles in this recording are all his) and mixes. He's the world's number one radio DJ (and nobody even knows his name, go figure), and he's saying goodbye by perfectly fitting the normal procedure of a DJ doing a mix of 3 tracks in 4 minutes or 4 tracks in 3 minutes: 15 tracks in 3,5 minutes. If you wanna have fun, try counting the different tracks you hear.)

So yeah. You could say I really enjoy DJ-mixing at times, when I have some inspiration. Still have to re-play (and record) my DnB/Jungle/Raggaejungle/Trap/Jazz mix I played a little while ago for the people at the CCL.

[LFP]

I'm graduating today horray!
And I already got into my university ^^

[Acsii]

Has anyone had any experiences with strangely perfect timing?

Here's my story:
>Puts something in microwave
>Walks off to toilet
>Finishes in toilet
>Walks back into room with microwave as microwave beeps

[LFP]

I'm graduating today horray!
And I already got into my university ^^

Dude, congrats, that's awesome! What are you going to study at uni? :3

Thanks, I'm going to study music song writing and production
It's a pretty cool school which is open 24/7 so I'm going to moozik all day and all night :3

Has anyone had any experiences with strangely perfect timing?

Here's my story:
>Puts something in microwave
>Walks off to toilet
>Finishes in toilet
>Walks back into room with microwave as microwave beeps

Considering the average thing one microwaves (sandwich etc) takes about the same time as taking a toilet break that's pretty much bound to happen, and considering the amount of times people use the microwave the chances are pretty high ^^

[Acsii]

I forgot to mention that this was at uni so I had to walk to other side of the building to go to the toilet.

[ExoBassTix]

Has anyone had any experiences with strangely perfect timing?

Here's my story:
>Puts something in microwave
>Walks off to toilet
>Finishes in toilet
>Walks back into room with microwave as microwave beeps

Similar things happen to me all the damn time. I might not have examples, but I love these moments.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

So one of my lecturers took some time off last year to travel around India and write an album. A friend of his came along and they made a documentary, it's pretty neat.

http://www.waitingforpostcards.com/

[FLAOFEI]

I'm graduating today horray!
And I already got into my university ^^

Congratilations! Grattis på studenten! I graduate tomorrow. I think I know what shool you're going to, I went there to see if it was my sort of thing, but all the musicy ppl and fancy equipmeent scared me :I Which school is it?
Did you have fun spraying beer on people on a truck playing loud dance music while driving around town? (That's a student tradition here in sweden btw)

Has anyone had any experiences with strangely perfect timing?

I had thad. We where buying sushi take away and I wasn't happy with the tiny bags of soy you got. Therefor I went to the store and bought a botle. I came back just as the others where getting ready to leave. That was nice.

[LFP]

I'm graduating today horray!
And I already got into my university ^^

Congratilations! Grattis på studenten! I graduate tomorrow. I think I know what shool you're going to, I went there to see if it was my sort of thing, but all the musicy ppl and fancy equipmeent scared me :I Which school is it?
Did you have fun spraying beer on people on a truck playing loud dance music while driving around town? (That's a student tradition here in sweden btw)

Has anyone had any experiences with strangely perfect timing?

Yes i had fun spraying beer on people and listening to loud music :D

I'll go to a school called "Musikmakarna" it's located in the beautiful city "Örnsköldsvik" (which is located between Sundsvall and Umeå) I'm really thrilled to get in because they only accepted 30 people :)

Oh and: grattis på studenten du med!

[ExoBassTix]

Congratz :3

In other news, have you ever seen this much kitchen threads: http://www.extremesoundforum.com/viewforum.php?f=19

[Acsii]

So like I just built a 19" 2U rack to sit underneath my monitor for when I get a 19" rack audio interface.
but seeming I don't have one yet it acts as a good spot for my keyboard to slide under :3

[S.P.P]

Congratz :3

In other news, have you ever seen this much kitchen threads: http://www.extremesoundforum.com/viewforum.php?f=19

Good gravy that's a neglected board.

[Acsii]

Congratz :3

In other news, have you ever seen this much kitchen threads: http://www.extremesoundforum.com/viewforum.php?f=19

Good gravy that's a neglected board.

dat new avatar <3

[ph00tbag]

In other news, have you ever seen this much kitchen threads: http://www.extremesoundforum.com/viewforum.php?f=19

My "close thread" finger is itching.

[ExoBassTix]

In other news, have you ever seen this much kitchen threads: http://www.extremesoundforum.com/viewforum.php?f=19

My "close thread" finger is itching.

Same about my "report thread" finger o3o

The board might be neglected, but useful nonetheless. Low Entropy and Albo (Viral Conspiracy headhoncho) roam the board on frequent basis.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

So. I'm gonna tell a little story about today, because I learnt about something kinda special.

So my uncle is in town visiting, and while we're catching up he brings the conversation to my music. He starts telling me about how he's shown a few people he knows my Soundcloud and people are generally impressed, but he tells me about this one friend who has an autistic 6 year old son. This kid HATES music with vocals of any kind, and he adamantly refused to listen to music because of it. So after showing this friend my stuff she mentions that it's all instrumental, no words, no nothing. So she decides to try it on her son and he ends up loving it, and he listens almost every day. I really don't wanna come off as a braggart here but this kid never listened to any music before and I had a hand in giving him something he didn't hate listening to, and autistic kids are really difficult like that...it's kind of humbling to know that.

My point is, even if you're a small-time guy like me, you never know who could be listening, or even who you could be helping with what you're doing. It's easy to forget that your work can resonate with people, especially when you only write for your own enjoyment, you can have the same effect on other people that your favourite musicians have on you.

TL;DR today I learned that your music can actually effect things in the real world for the better and that's something I and all of you can all be proud of

[ExoBassTix]

It makes me so happy to read that, Biggles :)
Music is more powerful than most people already consider it to be.

Big, big thumbs up man!

EDIT - can't resist.
That young kid, have any of you tried to find out what exactly makes him hate music with vocals? Does he not like the general sound of voices accompanying music? Does he perhaps not want people to talk when he's enjoying music, as if the vocals are interruptions?

By pinning down what bothers him, you can better get to know how to be around him. Like with all autistic people really, get to know their ways (carefully), so you know what to do.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I wasn't really told but his mother might know. But I don't really see why it'd effect being around him, but the interruption thing is a possibility.

[ExoBassTix]

Knowing it can lead to discovering more about how he works. You have no idea (though maybe you do) how helpful it is to know how someone works, especially in cases when the person it's about is sensitive towards mistreatment (autistic people tend to be).

[FLAOFEI]

It could be particularly usefull if you are inviting people to dinner and you waant to have music in the background.

Anyway, I GRADUATED YESTERDAY!!! AND I JUMPED AROUND ON A TRUCK DRIVEING AROUND CENTRAL STOCKHOLM WHILE SPRAYING BEER ON PPL AND LISTENING TO LOUD MUSIC! You can say whatever about the quality of todays music, but it's perfect for beer spraying and truck bounceing. People usually have some sort of soundmakers on the truck, whistles airhorns and vuvuzelas mostly. I learnt something about cowbells thouh, they can be played with beer cans, and they are usefull for cracking open beer cans.

Needless to say, I had a shitload of fun! And got a bubch of presents, like cowbells to the drum kit, a micro snare and funding for an ms-20 mini. This is great, I should graduate more often!