Re: UKSF Stats (August 2006)

In article <9oMKg.200819$9d4.24697@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Cypher" <cypher@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Been meaning to ask you something. That bloaty mp3 I downloaded, was
that something you grabbed from somewhere else or did you put that
together yourself.

Nicely put, given you'd already asked me once and I neglected to answer at
the time.

Excellent, that means I can expect to discover the answer any second
now.

Anyway, you remember ages ago I sent you a mix I had recorded whilst faffing
about monged on teh decks at someone's party, and how you liked it but I
said it was messy and drugmonged andthat I'd send you a better, tighter
version when I eventually got round to it? Well, I eventually got round to
it, and another mix I'd been meaning to do for a while, and I send the other
one to Osbourne because I thought he'd like it and he brought it up on the
froup and we chatted about these two mixes and then I thought it would be
cunty to chat about something on the froup and not make it available to
download because that's all froup-exclusive'n'*** and only teh Nunn should
be excluded from most things and so I asked Kully to host them and he did
but he called the album 'what's rox one?' and displayed that old Picasso
picture of me with the giant left eyebrow and I'd just got back from my
annual Hebridean holiday and had a picture Mrs Joe took of me trying to
re-enact the cover of Houses of the Holy on the Isle of Staffa and sent that
to Kully and told him it was Houses of Teh Ghey and he changed the picture
and the album title on the web*** and that's what I posted on the froup.

Oh dear. I was free of mental illness before I began reading the above
passage. And passage is the right word to use, that was like a journey
around Cape Horn in a leaky skiff, a never-ending struggle against the
odds.

I was twiddling around listening to a couple of
essential mixes last night and toying with the idea of having a go at
mixing my own one. I got sidetracked by adding mp3s to some of my
pornclips but the thought still remains.

I've never tried constructing a mix on a sequencer, which I think is what
you mean. Those two mixes were done raw on a pair of decks with adjustable
speeds and a mixer with a cross-fader, it's a simple process involving
nothing but vinyl and good taste.

A sequencer? Ah, you are miles ahead of me then, I was thinking along
the lines of using Soundforge to cut and paste a bunch of tracks
together, trying to make them fit seamlessly, giving the crapshoot a
catchy name and releasing it to a stunned public. I'm always having
little ideas that I think would look cool and clever n'*** but to pull
them off would involve a shitload of work at technical levels I'm not
schooled in. Kullyphobic was fun to do and I'd like to do something like
it again, though with better production values. I'm thinking along the
lines of creating videos for some of my favourite music. I have a couple
of clips some dude did of two Tool songs, they are very well done, the
guy has obviously used his own artistic abilities to create the source
material. I couldn't do that, so I'd need to use existing art and mess
around with it.

However, I'm coming to the conclusion my real strengths lie in the realm
of contemplation, quickly moving onto other ideas before I do anything
that involves graft or sweat. See, I have my digital camera and I've
thought of going around my region to snap appropriate shots and write
about them then make it available for cunts to peruse. I've actually
started taking the photos but I got sidetracked by autumn and winter.
The days are growing more amenable to faffing about outside but I'm
currently stymied by the task of removing my digital camera
rechargeables from the walkman they are currently in, recharging them
and replacing them in the camera. If I cleared my diary of all other
chores I could achieve a satisfactory solution in no time at all, I can
see both gizmos from where I'm sitting right now. Hell, they'd be within
arms reach if I could find the time to lean forward. Sometimes you just
have to put things on the backburner, you know.


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Cypher
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