Elektron-Users

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So what gear you got? MD, Virus, OT.....

darenager wrote:
So how long you been doing music Ross?

Duncan?

I came to it from djing in plymouth, not that I was a great dj or anything, early licensing hours = many parties = many dj's. Left Plymouth and became a hermit in Suffolk, was surrounded by loads of Hiphop heads in Suffolk, loads of breakers and scratch dj's, acid jazz drummers and skaters - odd for a predominantly agricultural area, but a great melting pot of goodness - this is mid nineties.

Whilst i liked the general vibe, i didn't dig the hiphop so much, so I would end up in my room playing around with cracked ACID(software) on the pc and just dicking around trying to be FSOL. Wasn't till I came to London (2000) and was earning decent money that I splashed out on ableton, bought a keyboard and started to learn about sequencing and synthesis.
Bored myself with ableton built a x0x, bought a 101 and an ER1 and had a ball.
Sold the ER1 and 101 and got and MNM.
Put myself into debt with the MDUW

I think its a latent childhood, or a mid life crisis (but a really good one)

Doing music? maybe someday I wil complete something or do something worthy, until then its more being like my dad in a shed speaking to a bloke in Belgium on his shortwave radio transciever, a lonesome hobby.

Cool, so what sort of stuff was you playing when you were DJing?

House, pretty much, was never into hardcore, had an excellent club there called Cultural Vibes - it was just about the music, and it was house. We are talking '92 so the quality can be a bit varied we are talking Cowboy Records, UMM, Roberts Records, Eastern Bloc that stuff.

You?

I grew up with techno in the southeast of the US. Started going out to strange acid house nights that were all mixed up with goth culture in 1989. I've held residencies as a DJ on and off since 1992.

I don't get out much these days, but I am still tuning in when I can.

Heh, I never managed to get DJing, I used to buy tons of records though, starting around 87/88 with all the early acid stuff - armando, bam bam, phuture etc then a bit later the early detroit stuff, bit of house, never got into Jungle or DnB when that hit.

Of course way before in like 82/83 I was into the electro, especially stuff like Newcleus, Man Parrish, etc. I think that stuff was a prelude to the rave scene for most people

A dude actually uploaded a video from the 1st birthday bash there '93 i think, I'm in there somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAniN3fBNZQ

darenager wrote:
.. all the early acid stuff - armando, bam bam, phuture etc then a bit later the early detroit stuff, bit of house...

all the timeless stuff

Hah, cool video, there's tons of the old rave videos on youtube, I love watching them

coldfuture wrote:
darenager wrote:
.. all the early acid stuff - armando, bam bam, phuture etc then a bit later the early detroit stuff, bit of house...

all the timeless stuff

Yeah! I love those early years, I kind of lost interest a bit around 94 when it became all MCs and a bit tired.