• CAN’T BE BOUGHT • BASEMENT RECORDS PROFILE by THE WARLOCK It began in the basement of a Dentists practice, bass for your tooth ache they said, but now 4 years on the Record Basement shops plan to expand their operation from 2 to 5 outlets in 1993. And the proof of their success? One […]
A Look Back At Epee Fencing in 2023
As 2023 comes to an end, I thought it would be interesting to looks at some of the key stats from the last 12 months. Although entries are still down on pre-covid times, there was a significant increase in competition participation when compared with 2022. Domestic competition activity for 2023 rose from 1619 fencers in […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi (Part 5 – Sai Lika)
Making Tech House sound like Michael Bibi – Ableton 10 Free Template It’s a video from another small channel with just 348 subscribers and 21 videos, but this particular tutorial has had 3,223 views since it was published on the 21st May 2020. Fair play to Sai Lika here as he’s given away his template for […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi (Part 4 – CAPONNE)
Ableton Tutorial 2 : Como fazer um drop estilo Michael Bibi & Pawsa do zero It’s a small channel with just 3 videos and 110 subscribers, but this particular video has had 3,333 views since its release in March 2020 so it’s worth looking it. CAPONNE offers up 16 bars of his take on how […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi (Part 3 – Julien Earle)
Making A FULL Tech House Track Like Michael Bibi & PAWSA From Start To Finish [+Samples] Julien around this time tended to put out short videos with just 8 bar loops, but this one promises a full tech house track. In reality it’s not quite that as it’s just 48 bars and is basically an […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi (Part 2 – Djbods)
How To Make Tech House Like Michael Bibi & Pawsa: Part 1 Despite me wanting to avoid Hanging Tree, in this video Djbods uses it as his reference track and attempts to combine it with elements from the Michael Bibi Remix of Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation. Personally I’ve never really liked guitars in […]
How To Make Music Like – Michael Bibi
I started thinking about the usefulness of the ‘how to’ music production videos on youtube after, somewhat ironically, watching something on youtube that wasn’t particularly complimentary about this style of content. Essentially the premise was that most, but not all, of these videos exist solely to sell a sample pack or a patreon subscription, which […]
Finishing Tracks Is Its Own Practice
Late last night I was catching up on my youtube subscriptions and this vid appeared on my feed from Bthelick. Now, I make a lot of music and I also publish a lot of it on Soundcloud, but I also sit on a lot and probably 1 in every 5 tracks I start, I don’t […]
Sussex County Youth Championships 2023
A competition I’ve not been involved with before, so it’ll be interesting to see how it goes and if we can build this up to be comparable to the Surrey Youth Championships. Two weapons only, foil and epee, as there are no acutal sabre clubs in Sussex. 17th December at Longhill Sports Centre just on […]
South East Youth Fencing Championships 2024
I don’t remember what year exactly it was that I became involved in running this event – possibly 2020 or maybe earlier. In that time though it had changed significantly (for the better). The venue is now settled at the excellent Triangle Leisure Centre in Burgess Hill after we lost Whitgift School due to a […]