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    Time for a upgrade on the wheels of steel..what would you get ?

    I think you'd adapt to that, to be honest. I used to have belt drive DLP1s and then I had my Stanton STR8's - and whilst the latter was a decent torque I think I mixed better on the belt drives which had less. I'd never used Technics until I bought a pair and I found the torque on those a...
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    Time for a upgrade on the wheels of steel..what would you get ?

    The difference between the analogue and the digital pitch is that the analogue is a traditional potentiometer, which is basically an electrical contact track that is infinitely adjustable with what is probably every micron or so of movement as the current, so to speak, provides that extra or...
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    Time for a upgrade on the wheels of steel..what would you get ?

    I don't know a thing about the Reloops, but from the pics and the general spec about them on the website they're an attractive set of turntables that actually look right and sensible, professional and not too gimmicky or plasticeyl, like some others have got over the last decade or two. My only...
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    Italian tune id please! Thanks!

    Finally twigged what the second one was - and it was a bit obvious except for the sample being pitched up like crazy on the decks. It was Pianoman related (although I don't think he was actually on the pianos on these releases, but I could be mistaken). PCP volume 2:
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    Italian tune id please! Thanks!

    Tune 1 I believe is G&VJ Gonna Get the Boy - the Zone remix The second one is going to bug me as I think I do have it on vinyl....but its getting late and I ain't scanning through a few thousand vinyl to try and find it now, sorry! . It's some kind of Pianoman tune (PCP, Clipper, or one of...
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    Piano tune played at OSA doo.

    I wasn't there, but maybe it was Love Revolution.....but lots of tunes had that sample, including the excellent Thirst - Enemy Within.
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    New forms of oldskool

    Thought I'd expand on this post with my most recent addition to my vinyl collection: New, but definitely old-vibes and a hint of acid mid way. I think it's funky as foook, but maybe that's just me!
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    Time for a upgrade on the wheels of steel..what would you get ?

    I'm a bit out of touch with turntables, but one thing I believe you need to bear in mind is that many of the new turntables and brands are pretty much the exact same thing under the hood and are even a mish-mash of the same parts (tone arm, motor, cables, pitch control) as they are made in the...
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    It's been a while...

    Yeah, things have gone a bit bonkers with capabilities. The ironic thing about Reason and having to link it to Cubase with ReWire in the past, is that Reason now lets you add VST's into the Reason rack, which is awesome. No fannying about, its just, booosh, in there. When I got my controller...
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    It's been a while...

    Hi. It's good to see you're still alive and making some tunes. We actually used to chat a little bit on facebook back in the day as well, but I think I probably cheesed you off and you kind of vanished - no doubt because I was probably doing too much social commentary back then....but that's a...
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    New forms of oldskool

    I've been getting a bit of this going on for several years now. Some things I used to find annoying or boring are now brilliant. My musical taste was generally sound in about 1991/1992....then it went a bit cheesy and dodgy in 1993/1994/early 1995...... and now, at times when I am pulling out...
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    New forms of oldskool

    I was just wondering what people make of the new music that's coming out which is based on the retro/oldschool sound of the 1991/1992 era and even the 93/94 eras of progressive, breaks and trance. After about, I dunno, 2014 or so, I stopped buying records all that often. I'd been buying them...
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    Should I Upgrade My Decks? What Turntables do you use? And Do You Recommend Them?

    My advice, don't get new decks if they are the digital pitch controls. They are virtually all the same now, with 90% or so of the parts made by the same manufacturer, just styled and badged differently. Each one boasts torque and accuracy etc but its mostly a sham I'm afraid. There's no point...
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    If You Bought Records From Here Then You Are Officially Oldskool

    I bought a lot of zone tapes from there and yeah, I suppose, quite a stack of tunes - but they were not the mega money ones. More like PCP, Trix's Cheeze N' Biscuits, Bit Machine (before it got hammered) and whatever I could find for less than a tenner lol. It was notoriously pricey. Phil always...
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    Is 'Affleck's Palace' Still Going In Manc-Land?

    I haven't been there for years, but used to go regularly "back in the day". If I recall correctly, I used to go to "Giraffe" to by mix-tapes, like Carl Cox. Kenny Ken, Ratty, Ellis Dee and so on. These were the days when you could also find T-Shirts with "PG TRIPS" logo's, "Kik-Kit" and other...
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    Analysis - Euphoria Live At Carlton Inn Club - Morecambe august 1991

    For me, this is one of the tunes that defines the era. Massive piano lead, wailing vocals, a hardcore bleep-like element, people going mad for it, wicked bass, tinkly top line taking it to an even more euphoric masterpiece. I'm willing to bet the barn that it wasn't actually played on stage...
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    Mixcloud & Graeme Park

    A certain somebody is apparently on a mission at the moment over whether folks have rights to this and that. To what degree and over exactly what, I don't know at the moment, so this is a bit of speculation and rumour, not factual. I can understand not wanting people blatantly ripping off your...
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    Ripping Software, Adobe Audtion, Audacity & others....

    I suppose it depends on what you get used to. Back in what seems another life, Goldwave was the thing....... but then Cool Edit came along and I found that better. As you say, this morphed into Adobe Audition and it sadly lost some of the key things I used to use Cool Edit for, unless I...
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    Calling all OSA orig crew!

    It's probably a bit tricky at the moment to be doing much. There's also still a lot of people who have gone AWOL from "back in't day". Ps, James, I have to get this off my chest as it's been queitly nagging at me for years.....you probably won't have a clue what I'm on about, but still, sorry...
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    Cheesetastic Gurners

    I'm sure everybody here will have their own fairly-cheese-tastic favourites which also could be categorised as being, simultaneously, well-worthy piano/rave tune gurners of the highest order. These may be tunes which, looking back, capture a time, a place, a year, have some slamming kick about...