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    be spontaneous

    yesterday night i recorded a track with two befriended mcees. i went to their crib, they were recording, i wrote on a current track and after they were finished we had some conversation, a few beers, listened to some beats, picked one and just started rhyming. we picked the beat at midnight...
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    Glide Effect?

    or play two bars,export wave and insert first note of the second bar as a sample aight :)
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    need help with akai mpd 32

    exactly edit: you need 2 kinds of software on your pc (as relic and fury mentioned) 1. sequncer software (fl, reason, cubase, acid etc.) 2. software sampler (battery, guru fxpansion etc)
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    need help with akai mpd 32

    its quite easy. just do not mix up a midi-device with a sampler. a midi device (like MPD32) controlls other stuff. it does not "sample". you sample with your computer and controll it with the mpd32. you have software installed (like this one http://www.modernbeats.com/images/battery_main.jpg) on...
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    mpc 2000 vs midi keyboard

    you cant use a midikeyboard without a computer or other midi complient hardware. midi is a control signal that triggers controls or sounds of another device. f.e. you press a key on it and it makes your mpc or your software sampler play a certain sound. what you can have is a sampler with...
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    Wanna see something "Spooky"?

    spooky i cannot access from outside the US
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    compressor

    any1 experience with a compressor useful for phattening up sounds/beats AND recording vocals?
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    Call me Old I dont care, but WTF is backpack music?

    i dont think the label came from backpackers themselves. when i was a teenager we used to take our eastpacks everywhere, since they carried blackbooks, markers, papers, cigs, beer etc. very substantial equipment. there always were people who did not care that much about the elements. we hated...
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    Political thread be smart or dont comment, Russia Georgia NWO.

    dont panic, nothing will happen, BECAUSE there is nuclear threat on both sides. if nuclear weapons hadnt been invented, ww3 would have allready happened. sad but true. russia is a sovereign totalitarian democracy, with still the same people pulling the strips as during communism. thats how it...
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    tracks that realy left your jaw hanging wide open

    those JB tracks were the SHIT! guys converted me to a hardcore hiphophead back in 97. i had liked bone thugs and snoop before, but their concert and a krs gig a month earlier sealed my fate. 2 more canadian tracks i bumped heavily rascalz - dreaded fist i copped the bootleg 12" in toronto...
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    whats your life like??

    haha, go to switzerland merc. they have good job opportunities, pay fantastic money, talk all languages, good working healthcare, a motivated hiphop scene and its only a stonesthrow to france, italy, spain, germany and even the uk is only about an hour away by plane, which is cheap in europe...
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    eat what you like

    no problem jay! im always open to discussion and keen to learn, even if it means im not right. surely any such information has to be handled with care, and saying salt is not unhealthy does not mean you should eat every meal with a pound of it. as well as my post was not ment as a cart blanche...
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    Free things for NYers

    id love to see that peterson show. be sure to check him out, gilles rocks!
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    eat what you like

    unfortunately its available only in german, no english translation yet. but theres a little english review on the amazon site and you can see the cover :)...
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    eat what you like

    got my hands on a book about misconceptions in nutrition sciences recently. the message is pretty stunning, ill just summarize a few of the more interesting points for you; - salt is not unhealthy, in fact it is needed by the kidneys to process and excrete water. there is no clinical study to...
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    I saw this and it cracked me up, Bush's best interview.

    "i wanna shit in bushes breakfast cereal and watch him eat it" eheheh
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    The Montauk Monster

    the back definitely looks like some tasty chicken. the front is weird plus its showing 2 fuck you's with its front feet. dont ask questions, make soup, throw the ugly part away.
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    I have been offered an MPC 2000 XL for $900 Australian.

    how much is that in euro? do not get the mpc1000, my flatmate had one for 2 years and the pads are a pain in the ass. they break every now and then and you have to send it to akai. repair takes about a month. plus the feeling of the pads is not comparable to that of other mpcs. they even offer...
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    homestudio question

    thanks! i think ill go with the booth, since i got the best results recording at my friends one. not returning home until mid august, but i will let you know what i did and document the process.
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    tracks that realy left your jaw hanging wide open

    nice posts! i have 2 more (rather recent) french bangers to contribute. dont sleep on france, esp. you canadians :) first one is youssoupha, "babylon zoo". maaaaad sample... i had that track on repeat for 2 weeks next one; 113 feat. mafiak1 "voix du mali" hot shit!!! love that african...
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