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Quoth awthomp86:
Praise the Lord!!! Its nice to have a rap lover in here.

I sense a bit of sarcasm.

What's RPM?

you hit the nail on the head zach

Yes. But thats club hop... like 50 cent.

Hi guys..

Through random convergence, chaos theory and total chance I ended up in this group! Just on a break from work so thought I would check out this forum &/ say hello. Saw this thread and thought it was the most appropriate place..

I'm a computer science graduate and right now I'm doing some postgraduate studies on a 2nd degree. Quite why is beyond me however. Somewhat contradictive to the flow of social vibes I'm afraid I'm an online privacy nut of the highest degree and have also been accused of being a conspiracy nut. The end result of this is a long time personal rule of mine is to minimise the amount of personal information that I leak in to the public domain of the Internet. See, I really am quite, quite mad.

What I will say is I hate computers more than you would ever know; I'm in to snowboarding, downhill & slalom mountain biking, scuba diving and relaxing. Right now I'm working on some research in to high performance indexing compression algorithms but we dont need to go in to that.

Anyway we're here for the music right? I like a pretty damn wide range of things really. When I'm working I usually listen to nu-jazz, breakbeat, chillout & atmospheric stuff. I also listen to classic hiphop triphop and rap, drum & bass, punk/metal/rock, bigbeat, brokenbeat, electronica, tribal and funky house. The only things I don't dig is sh!t like britney spears pop, manufacturered and financially-motivated engineered music/groups, insanely unlistenable things like happy hardcore/hard style. While I'm on a roll, cant say I like garage either.

Whilst I don't really have any favourite artists per sé, at the moment I'm digging: Hexstatic, Hybrid, Bob Marley, Jazzanova, Kinobe and DJ Vadim.

I also spin the wheels of steel once in a while. Recently I have started running an online 'radio' stream, doing some funky house or drum and bass live mixes via my website, though this project is still quite embryonic.

So there you have it. God willing I bring to the charts a mild mannered, sharp collection of funky beats and tasty treats.

GTG, pizza is burning.

Yeah. I'm Andrew, I also go to Clemson University, but now reside in my home of Chattanooga Tennesee (and have time to post...word). I'm an environmental engineering major who wishes he was majoring in music, but its all good. I can't sing, but i can break guitar picks like nobody else.
My absolute favorite band doesn't exist. I guess right now its Of Montreal, but it switches every few months or so, other recent ones being Belle and Sebastian, The New Pornographers, Radiohead, The Decemberists, Interpol, and Modest Mouse.

Those are all in the same vein, but I'm up for pretty much anything. I generally dislike rap and country, but there are exceptions to everything I suppose. woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Communication Studies with an emphasis on Sports Communication and a minor in Philosophy for me. I started off as a Computer Engineering major but a combination of hatred for it and shitty grades turned me away from that, albeit 3 semesters into the program. So I'm a little behind now, but whatever, I'll be on Sportscenter soon enough anyway.

dont ever do postgraduate studies. :@

Tyler is also working on a minor in map reading - how not to get pulled over by Police officers for entering "well known drug holes."

Ironically, it was the Jesus saves sign then lead us astray.


(and for those who have no idea what i'm talking about... i'll let Tyler do the honors).

It was scary.

Good Afternoon folks,

I've decided it might be an idea to introduce myself now that i'm a member of the group.

My name is Nick and i'm writing to you all from across in the UK. East-Central Scotland to be more precise. At the moment i'm 20 years old and in the final year of an HND in Music and Audio Technology.

I think that must be similar in some ways to what zfarrow mentioned a few posts up, as like him i tend to just play about with audio equipment and music in almost every class.. although, at this stage of the year we're all working in groups to complete our end-of-year project. This involves getting a band into the studio, recording some songs and then mixing and producing them to what can be deemed as commercial quality. We had our first proper mixing session this afternoon, and to be honest i'm now feeling quite optimistic about the final outcome!

I'll be sure to post up a link to the band's myspace page when these mixes finally find thier way onto it.. should only be another month and a bit i think.

Anyhow, in terms of musical interest i can't really pin-point any specific genre of music i prefer. The ones I listen to most would be pop/indie rock, hip-hop/instrumental hip-hop, electro (especially the glitchy kind) and the genre which i'm absolutely, scarily hooked on at the moment FUNK AND SOUL!.

oh my, whether it be old school funky-soul stuff from back in the 60's/70's or contemporary funk/soul artists i just can't help but smile from ear to ear the moment i hear them - i think it's a love that's been fueled by the endless mining of old funk beats by my favourite hip-hop producers.. but whatever it is, i'm not going to complain!!

At this precise moment i'm drawing near the end of Step It Up by a band called The Bamboos.. if any of you like good funky music, check it out... it's marvelous!!

anyhow, that's enough! tara!

BOSE? asin the audio equipment manufacturer?

i keep seeing adverts for thier radio/cd player that supposedly features advanced wave technology or such-like, it looks tiny but apparently can fill a room with incredibly hi-fidelity sound.. been rather tempted quite a few times to get the free 30-day home trial offer.. but then again, i'd have to post it back to them and that would cost me a fortune i'm guessing.

You any idea if the claims they make have any strength? Not sure if anything in your course would involve that side of things or not..

One of my good friends is studying (or was until last year) Electrical Engineering and i must say that when i had a glance at some of his coursework it went right over my head.. luckily my studies are more based on the sonic side of things and although we all need to know how things are affecting the sound, we can simply trust our ears to quite a large degree.

I have been quite lucky i'd say with the course i'm doing, as last year the college was given millions to build a brand new state of the art studio for the creative industries students - the only thing is, it's means i've probabaly been spoilt. When i get out into the real world of studio work (fingers crossed that is) i'll walk in and be like, what the hell is all this? analogue? i've forgotten all about analogue! ;)

With regard to your comment about having different musical tastes in the group i'd agree, gets a bit boring discussing music with people who only listen to the things you do - you never really get a differing opinion, and that's what a discussion's all about!

The thing that swayed me to apply was the moment i spotted Sly and The Family Stone in the artists connections.. thier song "If It Were Left Up To Me" will always put a smile on my face!

I knew that would make Tyler happy.

And as for the Bose soundsystems, they are every bit as good, if not better, than what they advertise. Personally, Bang and Olufsen is better, but then again, compare the price. At least Bose is somewhat... and that term is used VERY loosely, reasonable in price. When i was browsing the B&O website, I saw they sold a keychain... yes, a keychain, for 80 dollars.

Here is a picture:


Anyways, I haven't actually taken an EE course yet, but that is to come next year. Currently, i'm working on the restoration of an electric organ so I do know a bit about circuits and their application. Plus, I have always found it interesting!

On a final note, don't get the 30 day trial, nick, unless you're prepared to keep it.

Seriously.


Very

Very

Seriously