Colin OOOD

Reason's great but seriously guys, when it comes to mixing your tracks do it via Rewire inside SX or Logic or something... you'll be amazed by the difference in quality (at least, with the version of 2.5 that I have). The Reason mixer is the weak link... it really clouds up the sound. One of the tracks on Free Range was written totally in Reason and I mixed it in SX; it really brought the track to life.

I'm talking to the organiser right now - finding the best way for you to get a ticket since you're outside the UK. MSN me - O_O_O_D@yahoo.com Ticket sales are good but "there still loads left no probs .." [EDIT] I can recommend "Build Your Own Reactor" and Tron's album. Also Traveller, if you're interested, Voice of Cod are playing at a party in Reading the following night. If you want to come, a place on the guest list is yours.

...and all the acts on Twisted are from the UK

I just had a dodgy 5 minutes panicking, going "Where's my fucking Twisted ticket?" but it's ok now. Thought for a minute I was actually going to have to pay to get in! Can't wait... [EDIT] Anyone who recognises me from here, please grab me and say hello...

It's standard practise for acts to charge less for performances inside their home countries.

I agree with most of your post but this bit is a gross generalisation and is untrue for at least one act I know of.

Divide by 3 and you'll be in the right ballpark.

No.

I have a computer. Is that ok?

Can't promise you an old-school album, I'm afraid. Definitely can't promise you a full-on album either though! OOOD has different members than it did back then, and the technology is totally different so of course it won't sound the same. Try not to expect anything, and you're unlikely to be disappointed

And in the 4 days they spend travelling, recovering from jetlag, performing, then travelling home and recovering from jetlag again, they're unable to do any other 'normal' work to earn money.

But it can buy a roof over one's head, and some food and clothing. Or should I just smile at the bailiff when he comes to confiscate my computer for non-payment of rent?

No. You're wrong (and I don't normally make categorical statements like that). All you can say is "... and it usually turns out to be something I don't like". PS. Some of the opinions you have put forth in your posts have made me quite pissed off. I haven't got the time to reply properly right now because I've got to pack and leave for a gig very soon. I might just leave you to fester in your own 'idealism' (I bet you don't pay for all the music you download, either, am I right?)... being creative might not be a 'job' for most people who try and express themselves with music, but making stuff that's worth listening to takes TIME - far more time in some cases than most of you imagine. I worked it out on Isra once, and for what we (and most people) get paid for a track (if we get paid at all), the equivalent hourly rate works out at literally a few cents an hour. "What about gigs?" I hear you cry... sure, they can sometimes pay ok but for 95% of people who make trance getting a decent gig AND getting paid for it is nigh-on impossible as promoter's artist budgets are normally gobbled up by the fees demanded by headliners. I'm fed up to the back teeth of being skint; of not knowing whether I'll be able to keep my car on the road; of surviving on ramen noodles for the last week of every month. But I tell you now, if money was the motivation I could be earning £50k as a computer programmer right now... but if I did that I'd be too tired in my time off to make music. People like you make me sick; you don't have any appreciation of how much artists give of ourselves, just to give you a 10MB download.

Looks like a pestle and mortar to me.

The Voice of Cod album goes a step further, and gives you to-scale pictures of the audio waveform of each tune (with a scale calibrated in minutes across the top) so DJs can see how each track flows... as far as I know, Liquid Ross and I came up with the idea of putting track keys on the artwork independantly; however the waveform idea is all mine

There is no practical difference between AMD and Intel chips. I've used both and recommend AMD, if only because they're cheaper for a given processing power. And Macs are no way the 'best' for making music. Until the new Mac laptop came out (which uses Intel chips, by the way) even Apple themselves admitted that PC laptops were more powerful. Plus there's nothing inherent in OSX that means it's automatically better than Windows; Apple and Microsoft have been stealing UI ideas off each other for many years now.

You should get the XL version, with deep folly joyloading and static flange injector.

If someone has Placebo in MP3, could they send it to me please? I haven't heard it in about 7 years and it's still running around my head.

Yeah, I thought it was, I've just heard too many scare stories about virii etc to want to let it anywhere near any of the machines I use to make music, which is all of them. Are there any stats available to show how many times it's been downloaded? Garn... give an old man a smile and tell him it's really popular...

I don't have any P2P here but just for you, OD, I've spent the last half an hour searching trackers I can find for Voice of Cod and been unsuccesful. Perhaps you'd like to be the first? Download it on DC++ and seed it to the Pirate Bay or something. If you really can't find it on P2P (or like the music enough to want to help support us while we make more), you can buy MP3s of the album from the Organic Records Digishop - €8.99 for the whole album or €1.09 per track. Then just make an .nfo out of the promo information from the Organic website and you're away! PS. I'm serious.

If you're after melodic trance I'd like to recommend search for OOOD and Voice of Cod... may I? Great, thanks.

Grant has recently started making music again, having spent the last few years getting a house together and building himself a studio from the ground up. Literally, from the ground up. Darshan tracks will be along at some point (as will various collaborations ), but he's always been into other styles of music too ... Proggy psychedelic breakbeat, anyone?

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