NIN-hop is weird. It's very interesting; but it seems to drift too much into pop-/(too common hip-hop/rnb)-melodies in some parts.

needs a few more listens :o 

Bogdan Raczynski's got a new album coming out on the 19th.
It used to be called Yeeeeehhhaaaaawww but now it's called Alright!

Bogdan said
This one will be funny, I promise. No more of that accordion magic and 'woe is my' mystyness.

The new album is all about joy. It is the music I would play if the universe only had ~45 minutes left. Or if I were to pass, I would be content, knowing that I had unleashed a bit of happy energy onto the planet.

Think 1992 megamixes, trance, math beats, my favorite basil-based kitchen recipes, four to the floor, giggles and an explosive happy energy.

You can download the entire thing as a preview for free in 16kbps mp3.
http://www.bogdanraczynski.com/show/brog/37/0/alright_album_preview.html
I think the embedded player on his site has a bit better quality. 

Talvikuningas

Well, it may be a King Crimson and other seventies proge ripoff in ways but nevertheless they had the ambition and balls and did it. It has some nice rhythms and unorthodox stuff but some of the absolute numbness of that era progressive stuff as well.
The whole album tells a real epic story as well.
I didn't like the music or story at first that much but it's slowly growing on me.

You can look up "punainen komentaja" on youtube to see a video that is a short summary of the story at the same time. WH40K inspired scifi, planets, battles, cyborgs...
Oh and everything in Finnish. So requires some openness of mind. 

sux, typical mtv "angry-young-men-and-they-are rly-serious-omg" stuff.

I�d recommend Brutal Truth or Pig Destroyer, at least their stuff is fun. 

"Converge formed in the winter of 1990."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converge_(band)

how's that angry-young-men-and-they-are rly-serious-omg? 

hey guys i made a mix you might like:

http://www.medusiform.net/mix/dub%20session%20one.mp3

dubstep, techno, ambient 

http://www.jahtari.org
Dub, Reggae etc.
I am just listening to http://www.jahtari.org/music/ID_023.htm
Wow. 

one of my ex-flatmates loved Pig Destroyer, we used to play the drinking game where you take a shot every time a new song starts.... I forget the name of the album but the songs were all like 20 seconds long, it was horrible. Not really my style of music but pretty fucking hardcore, I'll say that. 

ok, just replace "young" with "middle-aged" then (as you might have guessed I�m not a big fan of hardcore)

@starbuck: sounds like a nice way to get wasted pronto heheh 

hehe, well, then the music just isn't for you, i guess. 

I will post a couple of tracks what me and my mate Steevo layed down on my 8-track. All this talk of people making music reminded me (dont have the mp3's at work with me at the mo).

Who likes thrash/NWAHM type stuff?

Also is anyone any good at sequencing beats?

I know this is heresay at the mo. Im gonna post them on the Shub-Hub, for not being arsed to post them anywhere else. Might do it later actually... 

Here they are:

http://shub-hub.com/files/misc/Dialemma.MP3
http://shub-hub.com/files/misc/Pow.MP3

All original stuff guys

You heard it here first!

I Just thought it might go quite well with Quake, except there are no drums or bass. If anyone recons they might be able to stick some cool sequenced drums over them then feel free.

Both recorded in my living room on my Gibson LP Studio through either a JTM45 Re-issue or a MG30DFX (a really good amp or a REALLY shit one!)

I wrote Pow! and Steeve wrote Dialemma, then we both accompanied eachothers ideas. 

I'm listening it right now, Dialemma it is.. Great stuff!
Has the melody richness of more than probably the whole year of these dull noise and ambient repetition listening mappers, summed into one song...
A small bit of cleaning up required. But definitely nice ideas and style there! 

I will tell steve that somebody likes it!

I know about the recording quality! Each song has just two guitars, each part recorded in one take through a couple of vocal microphones in my livingroom.

Apparently theres this thing called 'dig-it-al mod-el-ling'!!?

;-) 

I think Pow is by far the better of the 2, and not only in sound quality. The first one sounds like crap to my ears. How are you recording, via a mic'd amp, or direct into the recording system?

Much better than that hip hop, bop 'till you drop, aint never gonna stop, rap crap, scratchy scratch, chicka chicka, duff duff, yo momma, wazzup, yo bro, who's the ho, synthesized, homogenized, pasteurized, hardcore, softcore, applecore, Club, House, get down, get back up again . . . ,

if the guitars ain't slayin', it aint worth playin' . . . , you know what I'm sayin'

Oh, get a real guitar, LP Custom or SG ;)

Play it loud and Play it proud!! 

Didn't read the part about a couple of vocal microphones in my livingroom So I know the answer to my question How are you recording . . .

Apparently theres this thing called 'dig-it-al mod-el-ling

Nay, blasphemer, there is no better way to capture the sound of a slightly bent guitar, then through a mic'd amp, of course it does depend on the quality of the amp, and the mic, but you can get a good sound with an SM58, which is a Vocal mic, better still a SM57 though. If you haven't got a good sound from the amp, or you can't pump it loud enough, then I guess you could use digital stuff (ooh, I feel unclean)

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A better sound on the first one would have done wonders, Pow could use better sound to, but also you need to get more separation, plus some drums and bass of course would be good.

Grab yourself a copy of BFD and Trilogy, and away you go :) 

I was using an SM57 (I know its not technically a vocal mic, but if you want to go into detail....) and a 'Stagg - �30-ish cheapo-mic', next to a highly modified dual 12" celestion cab.

And yeah, recording stuff is educational. Its all abiout getting the recording levels just right, the microphones just the right distance away from the speakers, the living room with the best acoustics etc etc...

I think there was too much gain on Pow (and also it lacked 'separation' like you say, partially as a result of a tad too much gain, partially cause I was using a crappy Fostex 8-Track, with a shit mixing capabilities), and Dialemma has a slightly too muddy tone...

And I have never touched a modeller in my life, just for the record, but I know a lot of people use that kinda stuff, 'specially young folks these days, they dont know how good a real tube amp sounds!

BTW - Whats BFD and Trilogy? (cant be arsed to google it right now, would be easier if you just tell me ;P) 

BFD is an acoustic drum module, the name I think is a bit of a take on the BFG, 'cause they answer the question,
'What does BFD stand for?' with, 'Whatever you want it to :) - but it's certainly big and it's certainly drums'

It's very nice, very realistic sounds, the whole set (plus expansions)comes on 21 DVD's take up about 130GB space, it Rocks.

Trilogy is a base module, it too is awesome, very real sounding.

You should get yourself some form of multi track recording program for the PC, you will find it much, much better than the Fostex, easier to use, once you learn it, far more flexible, and the options are endless. You can get good cheap ones, even free ones, but once you try, you'll never go back. 

http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php?area=1

http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/trilogy.html 

base = bass 

But I would have to spend money. Stevo has got an actual Ktama kit, we could just go and hire a village hall somewhere and lay down some drums and bass....

He's a bit of a double bass pedal monster as it goes :)

Also dont knock my guitar. Ive been (unsucessfully) paying for it for the last 11 months, and there aint nothing wrong with a studio! I mean with classics, standards and customs you paying extra money just for cosmetics (the outer bindings are gonna cost �300 without doing anything else), you might get a 'better' pickup too, but its not worth paying and extra �1000 for. For a metal tone, I'd be better off with an American Jackson with some EMGs or an Ibanez or something, but I wanted something versatile and affordable.

Besides, its black, ebony fretboard with NO INLAYS , 50's neck and a copper top!! I need the rhythm pickup checked actually, I knocked it during a gig - we were doing a cover of 'A State of Love and Trust' by Pearl Jam, and I think I bashed it on the floor a little bit too hard during a part of the song where I needed some feedback! (oops) The other pickup works mmmm-good tho... 

Also dont knock my guitar

Oh, get a real guitar, LP Custom or SG ;)

Notice the ;)

Studio is good, but it also comes down to quality of wood etc, there is a lot in it. LP custom are very versatile, SG on the other hand are made to rock, I have one of the original Tony Iommi signature models, it only has one thing on its mind :) Ibanez are good, although I did start to get a bit tired of them, the feel, had a few RG 750's, 760's, S520, but I keep my old JS1000 (satriani signature model) it feels so nice.

Besides, its black
Yes black looks very nice, all mine are black. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5OvbOr0LTE

Not very Quake, but awesome! 

I hate to sound protective of my guitar, Plant, but theres not much in it really BTW.

The only difference your gonna get is something like 1mm (yes - 1mm) of cherry in the body of the higher end gibsons, ply wood binding, nickel hardware as opposed to chrome/gold and, er, 'different' (slighty) pickups. Alnico V instead of IV I think. Not worth �1000 

I have a roughly 400� Ibanez RG. :)
Proceed with bashing.