― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
does "not good at technology" = iTunes gives me insanely limited (yet "easy" to use) CD burning options here? speculating wildly of course.
― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:35 (seventeen years ago) link
1) how do i shot wav.?2) how do i shot audacity [sounds fun tho!]3) how do i shot EAC's wav editor (or Nero?)
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link
download, run (or unzip to somewhere like your apps/programs folder)
find your track (if you're using winamp you probably know where it is, in iTunes you can open the containing folder with a right click now I hear)
drag your mp3 in there (I'd keep a copy of the original to be safe) and it'll import/decompress it to wav... highlight the bit you want chopped, fiddle, listen back, delete/undo until you're happy.
Re-save, re-import into iTunes (which will probably turn the wav back into an .mp3 for you.
There are other options but I don't want to make this sound more complicated than it really needs be :)
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link
i shall try this at home.
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link
And that's about the shape of it, aren't people already digging up this stuff themselves nowadays? Every single DJ I know has a half decent knowledge of italo.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
is it part of the BBE series, "kings of jazz" etc etc?
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
NOTE: PROMO YOU HAVE [see tracklist above] IS NOT THE FINISHED CD
FINISHED CD will be a double mix CD featuring
PROMO features a selection of tracks featured on those mixes many of which are out of print and hard to get.
Not from email:
NOT ideal for people who know everything
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Python... No Bite :B (flezaffe), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
It is cool that Detroit In Effect gets some love on this comp.
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Chicago is four hours west down I-94 and the Wax Trax influence on Detroit techno is the huge elephant in the living room that nobody wants to talk about.
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
The other thing often not pointed out is detroit techno artists didn't have nearly as much success in detroit as they did by travelling to chicago on weekends.
― PappaWheelie demands you to ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
There is the obvious stuff like the early m500 singles, but my picks would be Alleys Of Your Mind, Starlight, Infoworld, Jazz Is The Teacher, I Wanna Be There(The short edit from Deep Space not the 18 minute version from Sonic Sunset), Milky Way, and the the A side to that first New Religion record he did a few years back. If you dig through his back catalogue it is stuffed with gems. Derrick May used to be my favorite 1st wave guy, but Juan totally out produced him.
I lived on I-94 Michigan until late 83/early 84. The biggest influence on the stretch was Zapp and early early Prince, honestly. But yeah, it was one hell of a stew back then.
I will not argue with that at all, you are OTM. But there is/was a huge industrial influence in Detroit dance music by the _late_ 1980's. Look at Final Cut, what Blake Baxter used to play at Majestic, Hawtin cutting his teeth on industrial, Alan Oldham's Fast Forward radio show on WDET ect...The genre lines were a hell of a lot more blurry back then.
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
deej, I'm so confused here...
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Derrick May used to be my favorite 1st wave guy, but Juan totally out produced him.
think so too, but would you say May is the better DJ?
i just fucking love Drexciya's 'Running Out Of Space' at the mo (along with most of 'Neptune's Lair')
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
thanks for the clarification though.
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
may is by far the better dj.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't know if it was only going to be those few initial 12"s or not.
― dance dance counter-revolution (fandango), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not denying the role of other influences or whatever but doesn't this remind you of reading rappers saying how their music is shit and Coldplay is amazing or something. Stop hating yourselves dance producers!
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
to be closer to me as I invent the next zeitgeist.
or answer b:
he left the Zeitgeist to be close to Morgan Geist
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
x post
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
allow these songs
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
x-post otm dig up some classics CC and Laurent....these comps are ultra crossover, it should be the quintessential Detroit techno mix by two uber-canonical legends, not this modest comp of nods....
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
where is KONTAKTE
where is DELIA D
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
"STARSHIP"!!
(didn't sun ra invent techno???)
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
oh shit...
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Was The Kings of Disco supposed to be titled The Kings of Danceable Funk and Soul Made Before, During, and Just a Little Bit After the Bee Gees Went Disco (Along With Some Straight-Up Disco)?
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
i believe i asked 'where are the mc5 and sun ra' upthread.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
sorry andy, but this is more like asking for samosas and getting a burrito
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/label/Incognito+Records
this one too:
http://www.discogs.com/label/Retroactive
and y'all forgot about this guy:
http://www.discogs.com/release/65140
And it just occured to me that I really want Just Another Chance by Reece on this comp.
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
they DO repress retroactive stuff, don't they? or are those bootlegs? you see the vinyl on the internet once in a while, usually around the same time as when the buzz stuff gets repressed ... bootlegs, right?
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
My guess is that those Retroactive records are bootlegs because you never see any of those records coming through submerge. I wasn't even aware that those records were getting the bootleg treatment.
Also, this is another one of those old Detroit comps that doesn't get enough love:
http://www.discogs.com/release/44984
I love how Discogs.com is like the new allmusic.com for dance dorks.
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
agree about incognito - some great records including two of my favourite ever reese releases.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
"club scam ii", "iconoclastic diaries" and "mood music for the moody" were incredible, though.
(is "russell" arthur russell??)
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link
There's a simpler solution: MPTrim works entirely in the MP3 data realm so there isn't additional sound degradation from encoding/decoding. Its useful for trimming down silent or excessive intros/outros for tidy CDRs.
That said, you'll need Audacity or the likes to do proper crossfades.
― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
From an email:NOTE: PROMO YOU HAVE [see tracklist above] IS NOT THE FINISHED CD
― Andy_K (Andy_K)
LOL
― the late great, Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
i've warmed to this comp quite a bit ... "track selection and mission of a comp called kings of techno?" questions aside, they do a real nice job with the mixing and the track selection is tight
― the late great, Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
like i would not consider selling it
― the late great, Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
This comp introduced me to D.I.E - "Get Up" which is amazing. I used to spin it regularly (slowed down a bit).
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 12 May 2012 07:06 (eleven years ago) link