| Archive for Children of teh Atom BURN EM!! |
| wraeth |
Instruments, equipment, experience etcWhich musical instruments do you play - and how well?I play: Guitar - competent when in practice (rarely). Never got any good at picking though. Flute - learnt for a few years but haven't played in ages. Recorder - ditto, I used to be alright at that. Also the penny whistle! Voice - used to sing with lessons and all but don't have those anymore. Erm ... I can generally play a choon on most woodwinds including sax. That's the one I'd like to learn properly but I live in a flat so it would be a bit antisocial. Used to dabble with harmonica. Can only pick out a few choons on the piano - would like to be able to play keyboards well. I learnt the violin for a while but there was an incident involving my accidental destruction of about 10 violins at school when I went to take mine out and the rest all fell off the shelf concertina fashion   That's when they suggested I take up the flute instead 
My family are all quite musical and we can normally pick up anything and get reasonably competent quite quickly, but none of us are good/advanced atm (although bro is best) I can read basic/simple music s.l.o.w.l.y. again - can't be bothered to practice. No self discipline. You? |
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| The Doctor |
I'm a pro on the triangle 
And I can play 'smoke on the water' on Guitar. That's about it though. 
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| strung out |
ok, here goes... *takes a deep breath*
I play the oboe, the double bass, piano, flute, sax, most types of percussion. I'm ok at guitar and bass as well. Pretty good singer, but not too confident about doing it in public. |
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| wraeth |
 I'm hoping misskitty posts about hers too. Another musical family strung out - or is it just you and sis?
Do you put much practice in? |
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| strung out |
not much 
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| wraeth |
Me neither
I s'pose if it's a passion you just play all the time in spare moments etc. If it's just something that like and that you're able to do it's less compelling? (Tis for me anyway) |
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| hiccup |
I can play a few chords and scales on the guitar. That's about it though. | ||||
| Ninjadmin |
i can play the guitar a little bit (not very good tho....)
can get the woowowowooowwo sound out of a didgeridoo
can play the drums badly and am pretty decent with synths |
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| wraeth |
Yay the digeridoo, never tried one of those.
How are folk on equipment such as amps, mixer desks, equalisers etc? |
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| hiccup |
Yeah I sort of know my way around Cubase and Reason and midi and sampling and shit like that. Forgotten lots of it though. | ||||
| hiccup |
Well I've used all that stuff. Not much of an expert though. |
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| Ninjadmin |
i've forgotten more about mixers than you could learn if you lived to 300
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| hiccup |
I can do a bit of basic scratching on the wheels of steel
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| wraeth |
Anyone done any recording in a studio - with the big fekk off equipment? | ||||
| sparky lightbourne |
i can play bass to a good standard, although i'm not as good as i used to be, due to lack of practice - but i especially enjoy doing ska, dub, funk soul and hip hop stuff
i can play most percussion from a standard drum kit through to xylaphone and gamalan i can play keyboards though not to a professional standard (especially not any more) i am fully versed in programming sequencers, drum machines and all well known music software, i can use a 16 track mixing desk and set up a decent sound rig with my eyes shut i used to be a dab hand at beatmixing and sratching on the decks but i havent even touched any vinyl for a few years i love mixing and producing in a recording studio - i actually think it's more fun than playing in a band - if i won the lottery i would set up my own recording studio i can't read music but i can play by ear and pick things up pretty easy |
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| The Doctor |
Hiccup is teh coolest
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| hiccup |
You and me both
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| wraeth |
That's really impressive rednblack - I had no idea. Are you self taught? |
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| sparky lightbourne |
yes, my band loosefix recorded a demo EP at a professional studio, also i helped produce and mix the first album by a band called eastern reign who were an british asian/white rock/reggae band who were briefly signed to a proffesional deal i also used to work at image2000 studios in immingham near grimsby part time, we produced some russian and latvian metal bands |
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| hiccup |
You got something in mind? I've been to lots of recording studios, cos my Dad was a musician, but never recorded anything in one. Did a couple of evening classes in midi and sampling and shizzle like that a few years ago, at Thames Valley University. All their (audio) studios are in Ealing Film Studios, which is pretty cool. |
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| hiccup |
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| sparky lightbourne |
i used to have bass lessons and my brother had guitar lessons but then we decided it would be cheaper to learn together so we learnt by jamming together and recruited a drummer that became our first band - dynamo scunthorpe
all the technical stuff is pretty much self taught, i had the keys to image2000 and after i finished work at the fishdocks on the late shift at 2am i used to drive over there with a mate and we used to play with the millions of pounds worth of equipment until six or seven in the morning trial and error it's the only way
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| wraeth |
I find recording studios & production fascinating - I used to tag along to mates' band practices that were held at a studio in Sidcup. I wish I knew more about it. So, you're getting back into it now? How do your skillz transfer over to stuff (potentially) like our radio shows etc? |
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| sparky lightbourne |
i'm getting back into the idea unfortunately i don't have the time or money to do anything other than practice my bass and muck around with my QY70 as for radio, i have trained in a proper radio studio and i used to present and produce shows on max FM a now defunct cable station in southampton, i learnt at southampton hospital radio (don't laugh) it's actually got three top of the range broadcast studios - the equipment in radio obviously has some similairites with music recording but it's pretty different tbh but yeah i can do radio (and some TV stuff for that matter) *stops boasting for a bit*
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| wraeth |
It don't sound like boasting to me  Have you seen the thread about how we're going to try and streamline the downloading of our radio shows etc? You might have some ideas there?
It's well interesting all this
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| sparky lightbourne |
i'll have a look, tbh i havent quite got to grips with all this internet radio stuff yet but i'm interested in it - a mate of mine has set up a libertarian pirate radio station in southampton and wants to put it online | ||||
| wraeth |
I didn't have anything particular in mind - I was just interested in what folks have done/able to do and stories etc. I s'pose in the back of my mind I was thinking that some people might be able/want to do stuff together in the future ... edit: you've done some cool stuff there too hiccup I didn't realise that your Dad was a musician, you must have been soaking all that up from being a kiddie
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| hiccup |
The TCTE Supergroup Allstarz
We could headline Glastonbury next year. |
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| sparky lightbourne |
thecoolestbandever
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| wraeth |
It's all a bit of a mystery to me tbh. I'm just getting to grips with downloading etc Strung out's show was a hospital radio station I believe. He was saying that he did that about 3 years ago. The thread's quite interesting - how he managed to get that uploaded for here.
Perhaps your mate could have a look around here, what's been done etc? Might be a useful resource for asking questions, providing info all round? |
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| wraeth |
Airtime on thecoolestradiostationever
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| Ninjadmin |
that woiuld be way cool if we made a supergroup
freddy makes music as well..... |
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| misskitty |
Lies, all lies! No really, he is lying. I'm the only properly musical person in the family, although most have had a bash at some point. In fact, Strung Out is the only one who hasn't! Our great aunt was a professional pianist, and my grandmother played too so when she died I inherited her piano, when I was around 10. I'd always been fascinated by it when we used to go round her house, so I was chuffed. My aunt began by teaching me to play chopsticks, "the entertainer" (otherwise known as the tune of the felix advert) and "oh christmas tree" - just simply monodic melodies. My aunt is also fairly musical, she dabbles on the piano and I believe she used to play violin. When we got the piano, she offered both me and strung out and our sister a fiver if we could learn to play "three gymnopodies" by Satie, using the sheet music. I had only played the recorder (as surely everyone did) at primary school, so trying to work out the notes of the bass clef was a proper challenge. I succeeded, and the money was mine, as well as a growing passion for practical musicianship. I started piano lessons when I got to secondary school, even though I wanted to start the flute, but we couldn't afford to get the instrument, so piano it was. A year later I got a scholarship to learn the 'cello, so I started that. My teacher was a bit mental though, so after I got to grade 4 I stopped. I'd always loved singing, and had always known I was fairly good, so I started lessons when I was 15. By then I was obsessed with jazz, soul and blues after hearing Eva Cassidy, and would sing anything I got my hands on! By the time I left school I'd got grade 7 on piano, grade 8 on voice, and after taking up cello again, grade 5 on that aswell. I sang with a band for a while after I left school, doing Jazz, Soul and blues - but after a disasterous gig when the PA broke down, and I got hideously pissed, falling off the stage and broke up with the lead guitarist, I stopped. These days, doing a music degree, I do a lot of classical singing, which I get paid for, and rarely have time to work on piano or cello. Hopefully though I'm getting a Clavinova this september so I can play at home, and I'm saving up for some really good computer programs, some I need for my course and some just for my own work. Me and my mate are playing with the idea of starting a funk/soul band, but its getting the musicians who are willing to commit. I'm considering going to Brighton after my degree aswell and doing the whole music tech/songwriting malarkey. Haven't decided yet. Bugger, that looks like my life story! Sorry, prolly not really that interesting... |
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| wraeth |
I was really hoping you'd post misskitty because you've mentioned the piano/keyboards and voice but not in lots of detail. I like hearing about it, especially how people got into music in the first place. My nan had a piano and the three of us used to spend hours trying to play it when we were kids in the school holidays. Never had any lessons or chance to pursue it though. We've still got some records that my mum recorded when she was young, but she had operatic training.
If you're still into the singing music you mentioned I've got some CDs that I can burn for you that you might like (Australian artists so you can't easily get them over here). |
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| misskitty |
Cheers Dezzers, I would love some! Some of my favourite artists have come from people saying "I think you'd really like..." etc. | ||||
| wraeth |
Cool - if you PM me your address I'll stick a couple in the post to you
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| misskitty |
Done
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| wraeth |
Cool
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| strung out |
i can play the kazoo | ||||
| wraeth |
No-one's gonna believe yooooooooooo
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| Ruth Bird's Wombscrapings |
Well, let me see . . .
I learned the trombone for about 8 or so years at school, playing in the various orchestras/ensembles and got fairly good - I only did grade 7 but could have rinsed 8 if I'd bothered to do *any* pratice (a problem that still scourges me to this day). Sacked it off when I went to uni. My main concern is singing though - according to my dear mother (bless) I was singing before I was talking, though that sounds like bollocks to me. Anyway, I started singing in a church choir when I was 6, and joined an (as professional as you can get with kids) central london outfit when I was 8/9 until my voice broke. I carried on throughout my time at secondary school (singing lessons and crap, got grade 8 distinction but then again so can any fucker who sings). I've gradually come round to the idea of trying to earn a substantial proportion of my income from singing, but I haven't got a music degree (or any other degree for that matter) and very little solo experience - I'm primarily a choral singer, and quite a good one at that. I'm currently getting lessons from a proper boss teacher, but I'm a lazy cunt so I'm not really going anywhere fast. Eventually I'd like to do some kind of postgrad qualification at a decent music college and be a regular in one of the good London choirs, but I am but young. The voice part I chose to sing is, fortuitously, quite an uncommon one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countertenor and I'm but too bad at it either. I've just recorded a CD (like, a proper one being released on a record label and shit) with the choir I sing in and I got to do a solo on it, though I haven't listened to it so it'll probably sound a bit gay 
Um, phew, that was a bit of a mission. Did you know I liked singing?
I hate that smiley. |
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| wraeth |
ooh ooh I know David James of the Hilliard Ensemble. He's a countertenor too. But their stuff is chamber medieval/renaissance - perhaps not your preferred timeframe?
Are you allowed to let us hear your CD? I'd really like to *beseeching eyes* Tell us more about what type/era of choral, I might have some stuff you'd like
Heh - and our first bit of brass
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| misskitty |
Wow, "Womby" (as I suppose I'll have to call you), you're a countertenor?? I sing Alto so I have a love/hate relationship with you guys. You're all so bloody good at sightreading, but generally I have yet to meet one who didn't make me piss myself laughing in the middle of a really hardcore practice/service.
I'm choral trained too, which I neglected to mention in case I looked a bit geeky I started in my local church when I was 9, and went on to sing at Bristol Cathedral for three years, and now St Barnabas Cathedral in Nottingham. You should get some lay clerking work, the pay and the hours are awesome, my mate gets paid 12 grand a year for singing for an hour six times a week. I also sing on and off with the Rodolfus choir, which is shit hot if I do say so myself.
Although I don't mind singing in choirs because its easy money if you're a whizz at sight reading (get me!), I'm getting so bored with it. I'm still doing it for the money and because I can, but I'm going to give it up after uni. My first love was soul, jazz and blues, thats what I reckon I'm best at, and thats what I want to make a go of really. So difficult to get into, but its worth a go. |
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| Ruth Bird's Wombscrapings |
Get in, some replies
Derian - The stuff I'm most used to singing in what's normally called the English choral tradition I suppose - choral music that's written for liturgucal use in church services. This could be anything from plainsong, which is very old in terms of western musical history, to a piece written a few months ago. A fair part of the stuff I get to sing is the early polyphonic choral music of the renaissance - my two favourie composers of that era being Byrd and Tallis - I also get off on Purcell, Dowland, Tomkins, Shepherd, and various other obscure blokes. All eras have got something for me though - I like Mozart, Bach, Handel, Pergolesi, Brahms, Schubert, Wesley, Faure, Poulenc, Vierne, Langlais, Howells, Britten, etc etc etc. It's just that unaccompanied, textured stuff is the most satisfying stuff to sing (as long as I can stay in tune). David James is a sick countertenor btw :smt004 mk - I am actually a layclerk, except at my cathedral (Sheffield) we're called songmen. And we don't get paid very much - I mean £12,000 is more than York, which is quite something. We've got a fairly good 12-18 girl's choir atm, who are on that CD we did. I'm am also a shit hot sightreader, but I am equally good at making myself look/sound like an absolute prannet - takes years of training y'know. If you're in Rodolfus (do you know a countertenor called Danny?) I presume you went on an Eton - without being too much of a bigheaded cunt I'm around that standard, but have never 'put myself about' and joined loads of choirs - too much effort basically - I'll get round to it one day. I've yet to get bored of it though - I see it as being part of my very being so I plan on doing it til I snuff it (or get throat cancer). phew, missions 
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| misskitty |
There are loads of advantages about choral singing. A ready made group to go on the piss with - as inevitably you end up doing - and so much networking, so there's always opportunities to make an easy buck. You can sing at a wedding and do a five minute solo, and get paid £80 for it. I'm going to Malaysia and Borneo next year with St Bs. I get paid a grand a year for singing roughly twice a week. And don't get me wrong, I do enjoy it, but I guess I'm not getting the opportunity to stretch myself at the moment. Back home I did so much exciting stuff: Loads of Britten, Vaughn-Williams (my two favourites), and as you say, Langlais, Pergolesi, Howells, Parry, Harris... I love all that. And this year I did the Stravinsky mass with double wind quintet, which was excellent. I love Stravinsky. We did a wicked performance of Trois Chansons by Ravel aswell, that was mental. These days, although I love Tallis and Palestrina to sing, all we do is Victoria, Byrd, Tallis and Palestrina masses, and plainchant. I miss singing proper psalms, and responses. They were the bizzle. | ||||
| misskitty |
Danny who by the way? I haven't sung with them for a while and it tends to be a different lot each time. Eton Choral was the best summer hols I ever had when I was at school - I wouldn't be as good a choral singer as I am now without them. I had a wicked teacher there too - Margaret Humphrey Clerk? She teaches at Guildhall I think. | ||||
| Ruth Bird's Wombscrapings |
Well that's what comes of abandoning the wonderful CofE for the Papists I can't say responses and chanting are my favourite pastime but I would undoubtedly miss then if I stopped singing them - do you want to swap cathedrals for a term? I know what you mean about the fiscal advantages and the tours and connections and shit but I suppse it's all a bit intimidating, an I'm not entirely sure that I fit into the choral 'mould', going off the young singers I've met in the past - I mean I'm sure you're lovely tho with such quality siblings but my god there are a lot of utter gimps out there.
Re Eton - that lad's name is Danny Keating Roberts - filthy laugh, bit of a letch - I went on two courses, one @ Liverpool and one @ Eton - had Mrs HC for one of them, she knows her shit for sure. My singing teacher is a bit like her actually. ps - messe solonelle? faire is the heaven? ceremony? let all the world? You knows it . . .
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| misskitty |
heh - done them all.
Yeah I know what you mean - I don't think I fit the choral mould either, I seem to spend a lot of my time avoiding all the gimps, who think its just "faabulous" and think that singing madrigals in the pub is the height of hilarity. Thats why I chose the choral scolarship with the biggest pay off and the least commitment. And the best people
I don't think I would be able to sing all the music I really love though without a choral training - its given me so much confidence. I've been a soloist in the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, and the Ceremony with the harp. Things I really wanted to be able to do when I was a kid, and my voice use to shake so badly when I sang in front of people. I guess I just feel I've gained everything I wanted to from it. I've got some godawful tracks on my comp actually of me singing, but I ain't posting them up! Just listened to some, you can hear me doing a big fuck up in the middle
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| sparky lightbourne |
:gun: |
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| misskitty |
quite. | ||||
| strung out |
misskitty thinks that everyone's going to think that she is a geek of the highest order and that she will get the piss relentlessly ripped out of her for having such geeky hobbys and stuff. I would never do that though... oh no | ||||
| Ruth Bird's Wombscrapings |
<twat mode>
it's not a hobby, it's a vocation </twat mode> |
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| strung out |
no wonder she's on holiday all the time | ||||
| Ruth Bird's Wombscrapings |
paaaarp!! |
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| Ninjadmin |
hey singers, if you send me mp3s of you singing i can put them on my tunes innit | ||||
| Iam |
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| wraeth |
ooo Iam - guitars
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| Iam |
Yep, I'm one of the multitude.
There's a new acoustic been added since that photo was taken, too. |
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| wraeth |
Mmmmmmm
What makes and models are they? |
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| Iam |
L-R
Fender Strat ('87 Jap), Takamine EN-20C, Framus Jazzmaster ('73, rare as) and not pictured, Washburn D-10.
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| wraeth |
are you in a band Iam?
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| Iam |
Sort of. We're not very good at getting together, though. Doesn't help that the drummer and other guitarist both have other bands that they take more seriously.
I play sometimes with a few lads round here, too... but I'm not really fond of the music they play (they want to be the next The Feeling), so I'm trying to avoid more than odd involvement. Any Rockabilly/Punk bands out there need a 3 chord guitarist??
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| wraeth |
We need you to record some stuff then put it on a radio show fo shizzle
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| Iam |
Hmmm. I thought you were trying to encourage people to listen...
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| wraeth |
Don't hide yer light under a bushel etc :-o
We want to hear it !!!!!!1 |
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| bristle-krs |
i motor away did an ace podcast recently on country-related music like rockabilly, gothabilly & gothic country
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| Iam |
Cool.
There's some assorted Psychobilly stuff here, too.
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| misskitty |
Can anyone recommend a good pair of headphones? Not top of the range DJ ones, just good ones for making me radioshows and doing my uni composition work
Budget: probably over £20, under £50 if poss |
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| bristle-krs |
i have to say i'm rather happy with my budget-priced canyon cn-hs1 headphone/mic - bought for £14.95 @ maplin, but available cheaper online (eg http://www.fonejuice.co.uk/products/productDetail.asp?productcode=CHSM )
quite a rich sound, very comfortable padded headset, woven nylon(?) coated cable, pretty decent for volume... the microphone folds out of the way and has a flexible boom - and whilst it's not the greatest mic (still picks up a lot of computer noise), it's an improvement on the in-built mic i was using. as headphones they are a definite improvement on the old skool philips ones i was using. |
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| hiccup |
I've always liked Sennheiser headphones. These ones are £20, and I'm sure would do the job:
http://www.decks.co.uk/products/headphones/sennheiser/hd433 There's loads of choice between £20-£50 though. I paid £100 for my headphones
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| Ninjadmin |
i use panasonic dj100
they are pretty good value for money, probly 20 or 25 pound and they fold up really small which is way cool
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| misskitty |
cheers everyone, I'll have a scout round
Its cos some look well professional, but I'd rather have ones people can actually say are good! But I still wanna look like a super cool deeeeeeejaaaaaaaay |
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| Moggy |
Only just noticed this thread...
Suppose i have a certain degree of experience with various things. Started learning the violin and piano from about 5 or 6 until i was 9 when i moved to london and was (i suppose) pretty acceptable, although it was mostly self teaching and i never took grades or anything. Pretty much packed it in after that since i didn't have access to a piano and practicing violin in a tiny flat full of people doesn't go down well
Didn't really do anything musical apart from obligatory music lessons at secondary school, which mainly involved playing about with some early version of Cubase. Didn't really learn much out of that. After getting into clubbing/raving/etc from about 14 i started DJing from about 15 and still do (less often now, but can still put a good mix together if i could be bothered, which is a bit shit), although a bit out of practice since i got more obsessed with production and live stuff using computers and hardware. Been helping set up rigs and getting into the more techy side of things from about 15/16 and finally got into production properly not long after. Have built up a (considerably) more than capable studio at home over the last 3+ years that's mainly been designed around software production, and have been studying music tech at college since - so i've got to learn how to properly record several local bands with a proper arsenal of kit as well as learn the more sciency side of it all rather than just knowing what to do. Ummm got several tracks coming out on a charity CD to raise money for two local charities in the next couple of months and have written/produced plenty of others (covering techno and dnb to more experimental stuff). Have been in the process of starting up two record labels over the last 9 months although i've been a lazy tit about it, so it's all going rather slowly. Am determined to have debut 4-track EPs out on both before i turn 20 in may though
Am also currently thinking about starting to get back into learning/playing actual instruments - want to improve my keys skills a bit more, and learn how to play the harmonica and the theremin (or the ethermin as i like to call it ).
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| wraeth |
Bumpizzle
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| the button |
My dad loves music, and we had an old upright piano in the front room, which I was allowed to play from a very young age, as long as I didn't just piss about. I'm not a pianist by any stretch of the imagination, but the piano was the first instrument I played on, and I still find a keyboard handy for working out melodies/chords by ear.
I started playing the guitar when I was 8 (in a primary school lunchtime "guitar club"), so that was my first "proper" instrument. I've had various guitars, but the only one I have at the moment is a black Fender acoustic. I used to have loads of pedals for my electric guitar, including an original Vox Cry Baby, which I was daft to get rid of. The first kind of music I got really really into was English traditional music, and I was fortunate enough to meet this lot, who come from near where I was born. I'm not a good singer by any means, but I do love singing with other people, especially in that style. I later started playing the mandolin (aged 13/14) and the melodeon (around the same age, maybe a little earlier) -- a melodeon being a squeezebox with buttons at both ends. I got OK on both of those, although I don't have them with me in London at mo. I keep meaning to bring them back down with me when I visit my parents. Most recently I got myself an alto saxophone, when my gran died about 10 years ago and left me a few hundred quid. I wanted to get myself a big "something" with that money, so I had something to show for it. It was only at this point that I really learned to read music, because I found it hard to work things out "by ear" on the sax. I hardly play it nowadays (so fucking loud!), but I get it out every now & then when the neighbours have loud music on. That'll learn 'em. 
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| wraeth |
Let's have a pic of a melodeon then 
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| the button |
With a melodeon, each row of buttons is in a different key. I've got one of these, which is in A, D & G:-
I started "sitting in" with a ceilidh band about six months after I got it (the best way to learn the tunes without sheetmusic), and A, D & G are the most common keys for that kind of thing. And after a while (i.e. when I stopped being such a liability ) they started paying me, which was nice.
Later on, I got one of these: - 
which is a 1-row in the key of C. The little things at the top are "stops" (like on an organ), which bring in different sets of reeds (like a mouth organ). Obviously, you're a lot more restricted in terms of the keys you can play in (C, and a "blues" scale in G), but the sound is far nicer as a solo instrument. |
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| wraeth |
You've got to bring it down to London and do some shizzle on a radio show
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| the button |
This is all part of a sinister alliance you've formed with my mam, to make me visit my parents, isn't it? 
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| wraeth |
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| hiccup |
I once learnt how to play When The Saints Go Marching In in the harmonica | ||||
| hiccup |
I can play Heart and Soul on the piano | ||||
| hiccup |
I can play two scales and about six chords on the guitar | ||||
| hiccup |
I once played teh drums in a band called The Ornamental Bats.
I was shit. |
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| wraeth |
I can play 'London's Burning' in a round on the recorder
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| not-I |
Err... hi again.
Keys: Taught myself to play keyboard when i was about 13, payed for proper piano lessons later. i'm no virtuoso, but it's my main axe for composition. Guitar: Learned some chords from my dad, then pretty much self-taught, could pass as a sub-George Harrison guitarist.
Bass: Prob. most proficient at this, since i studied double bass in Germany (with and w/o bow) and played in my school's jazz band back in the States. Later took up electric bass (both fretted and fretless) and played in a number of rock bands. i'm a bit out of practice (used to be able to play a number of Primus licks) but i sometimes add an additional bass track to my mash-ups. Drums & Percussion: self-taught with tips from real drummers and percussionists - passable sub-Ringo timekeeper and funky percussionist e.g. on Arab tabla. Vocals: sing and rap. took vocal lessons in school but preferred singing in my own band. have sung and rapped in numerous bands. Turntables: i'm still a vinyl head. Can beatmix and even scratch a bit if pressed. Machines: use 'em to make mash-ups and am finally starting to use them to make original tracks again.
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