This weekend: "Info workshop day"

[i!!ustrious]

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Well said Lilsensa and Shiva.

Everything is possible. It's so easy to get discouraged when first starting out, I'm at that point right now and it blows.. but it is like anything in life, if we strive and pave the way with the blood of our heart, dedicated hard work, and a shitload of practice, we will eventually develop the skill and triumph. I think all true artists, quality driven djs, cultural provocateurs etc. etc. should be some of the most highest paid people in the world, for sublime reasons forsures.

Furthermore, despite all the bullshit goin on in the world, EDM etc. has united all nationalties and people --in a kindly, subtle and integrated fashion, I assert that fact. But we all know that.

terminating blah plug now.

[lilsensa]

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Yes, true to some extent. Technical skills are important, but then comes the "feelings" part, the heart and passion that the artist puts into the track. Thats why @ SUDAM things are seen differently.

Word.

[DIDI]

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I just keep getting bigger hard drives

[Steve Graham]

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^^^ tiger direct has a 1TB HD for $169.00 USD

[Shiva]

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I just keep getting bigger hard drives

^

[Refrochia]

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Gotta say - feel where your comin from. Started trying to organise all my files about 4 months ago. Got off to a good start but then just sacked it off. Only thing is, I copied everything onto a friends external HD that he lent me whilst I re-installed my PC then never actually got round to sorting it out. Turns out ive had his HD for about 6 months now - thats 4 months more than he's had it! Feel a bit tight about the fact ive had his hard drive twice as long as him n he owns it!!

By the sounds of things though - I dont have anywhere near as much as you Shiva.

I guess the biggest part of it is coming up with some sort of system for organising / filing things so that you can find whatever youre looking for once its all archived.

[Refrochia]

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Only thing about bigger Hard Drives is its a case of all your eggs in 1 basket!

[chuckc]

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, but then comes the "feelings" part, the heart and passion that the artist puts into the track. Thats why @ SUDAM things are seen differently.

so so true. that is why i love what you all are doing...really has been a pleasure to listen to.

[FM]

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screw that. I'm on a mission to have one of the biggest personal collections ever...

1.87TB total space

150GB free





and that 1TB drive is next

[DIDI]

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I have been going through the promos folder all day long...so much of everything, from nintendo tracks to nice techno, but very few nice dark proggy tracks (with FEELINGS).

It is definetly becoming easier to produce music nowadays, that is more than clear. However, music remains a UNIVERSE.
It seems to me the easier the music is becoming to produce, the least feelings you get out of tracks (in general).

Again, it gets down to quantity vs quality.

If you want to weave some of the others genres into your playing but keep the "feelings" Just have a listen to this! http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/...ad.php?t=59560

The master

[Shiva]

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^^^^ there in lies another problem, i start organising and coming across old or new stuff i havent heard in a while or ever before and start compiling tracks for a new mix or my next gig.. ADD anyone? lol

Yes, I am going through lots of interesting tracks from others genres, I could easily make few sets or even play an entire gig out of these tracks. But what would be the price to pay for that, being known as a dark proggy dj? How would that be perceived by the listeners or by the label (sudam)? It is very tempting...but..there is a but in here, and a big one. lol

[FM]

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one-time only offer

Hey I got a d'n'b friend who now spins some house and a house/techno DJ who tries his hand at d'n'b a bit...

It's a new and interesting challenge...

[Steve Graham]

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yeah, I dont think showing versatility as a dj is a bad thing
if is it is a one off here and there

[Refrochia]

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Cant you just come up with a new alias for the different style?

[Shiva]

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one-time only offer

Hey I got a d'n'b friend who now spins some house and a house/techno DJ who tries his hand at d'n'b a bit...

It's a new and interesting challenge...

yeah, I dont think showing versatility as a dj is a bad thing
if is it is a one off here and there

Cant you just come up with a new alias for the different style?

I agree, would make more challenging and even be more interesting maybe to explore other genres. I would add that it would be even easier for me to do that since quality dark proggy is much harder to find than the techno or other genres as we all know proggy has almost died (almost ).

The thing is that it was pretty hard for me to stick to proggy only and build this image of "dark proggy queen", or "mistress of darkness" and stuff like that. Frankly I like it a lot and it has somehow become my public musical (or dj/prod) identity.

lol, that reminds me, once I was sitting with Kintar and we preparing our back2back set and I chose few tracks to play with his selection. There was like a track or two I selected that were a tiny bit minimalistic. And Kintar freaked out and posted on his msn: "The queen has gone minimalistic"
And suddenly like 5 or 6 windows pop up on his msn (djs/producers) and were like "woot??!! What happened to the queen??!!! Are you serious?" . I think that the same reaction would happen with most of my fan-base: Being different has its magic, and i definetly dont want to loose that.

But more importantly, my musical experience is too much based on "real" music with FEELINGS: The piano experience, playing classical music like Bach or Beethoven etc, or the singing experience singing jazz or soul, made me too picky on generally being involved with music with "feelings".
Then with years and evolution of music, my ears turned towards "electronic" music with groups like Depeche Mode (the early), then with rock with groups like Kiss, then Nirvana, Metallica, U2 and mostly PINK FLOYD... Then with the development of EDM came the early trance, at the period where they were quality "trance with feelings", then with the progressive-house.
Since then I didnt manage to shift to other genres as electronic music is becoming more computerized and less sentimental: I simply can't play it if I don't feel it.
What might make my sets different than many artists is that I try to transmit feelings to the listeners, the same feelings I get from the tracks I select for the "stories" of my sets.
Techno, minimals and other genres simply don't talk to me...

This is also the way we see things at Sudam, thats why I am so happy to be part of Sudam as our musical taste and views match to perfection.