Hobbies - Do You Have Any?

[ocinteeni]

My biggest hobby is electronic dance music, listening to it, researching it, talking about it, dancing to it, mixing it, and on occasion making a remix or my own track. NO I DONT LIKE GLOWSTICKS AND PACIFIERS AND I DONT HAVE TO TAKE ECSTASY TO ENJOY IT.

I love house, tech-minimal grooves. Percussive patterns in place of melody, and low down and dirty basslines. I like the stuff that is true to the genre so when i say techno dont think of that alvin and the chipmunk stuff that sings about love and eternal happiness through ecstasy and is 1000 beats per minute, no the stuff i listen to is very moody, think about a lethargic, repetitive groove, around 120-130 beats per minute, alot of chopped up vocals, ambient sounds, deep engulfing synths, and quick snappy synth stabs.

I have been mixing with computer software for about 2 years now and i just recently bought 2 sl 1200 technics so i am going to be learning on vinyl which i am very excited about. If anyone is interested in the style of music that I'm talking about check out these myspace pages of artists and record labels which i like.

The person who has changed my life because of his outlandish passion for the music, who takes the music seriously enough to realize it is all about having a wild silly dance is Sven VAth

please dear lord watch this video, it is what inspires me
Sven vath love parade 2000 pt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ4oCA2jQKA
Sven vath love parade pt 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGwv35_qaU

two of my personal favorites at the time are lemos and kreon, they are form greece, i guess i am just proud to have some greeks represent the international sound, they do a damn good job of it too

http://www.myspace.com/kreonmusic
http://www.myspace.com/llemmosss

Here are some great labels

MINUS- headed by Richie Hawtin, this label has been the freaking pioneering sound http://www.myspace.com/min2max

Soma - http://www.myspace.com/somarecords

YA and I have made a couple of tracks from scratch on a beat mapping program, I sampled music from some songs, none of the samples are easily recognizable they are just percussive sounds and ambient sounds from obscure tracks. But check out the tracks i have made, the mixsets are currently down i cant find a site that can host the files while also providing a streaming player.

http://www.myspace.com/music4meyou

Ya anybody else down?