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 […]
Get Loose - House
I sat on this for a few days because I wan't so sure about it - something just seemed off so it was ready for the music graveyard. Gave it another listen this morning, and decided it's just about good enough to keep, so here it is. The vocal sample chop comes from Raze - […]
Emerging - Tech House
Last one for the time being using the East End Dubs sample pack ... sounds a bit like SCL007 - B2 (no shame as it's one of the best releases on Social, in my opinion) with some classic vocals chops from Shelter Me. The arrangement looks very simple, but there is a lot of automation […]
Obscure UK Old Skool Hardcore – The Final List
NOTE - This is a very old blog post I resurrected from a backup I found. This list was originally compiled around 2010. Hetzer on discogs suggested, “Computing a *relative* Score = Wanted By/Owned By, i.e. the higher this score is the more obscure is the release.” might throw up a nice list of obscure […]
Not On Label - The 100 Most Wanted
NOTE - This is a very old blog post I resurrected from a backup I found. This list was originally compiled around 2010. spa5tik0lonz on the UK Oldskool Hardcore discogs forum suggested it might be nice to see some really obscure wants. I’m always up for a suggestion. So, below are the 100 most wanted releases that […]
Top 10’S … Old Skool Formats Analysed
NOTE - This is a very old blog post I resurrected from a backup I found. This list was originally compiled around 2009. Welcome to the next in my series of postings about the most wanted UK old skool hardcore releases. Here are the top 10’s for the other more obscure formats (who buys their […]
The Most Wanted Records On discogs.com
A couple of months ago in amongst a bundle of mixed old skool, I picked up a copy of #1 by Format on ESP Records from 1991. I looked it up on discogs and 99 members wanted that tune. Which got me thinking … what is the most wanted slice of dance vinyl (according to discogs)? Once […]