Really looking forward to that!

…I can’t believe it happened again.

I was playing with Rusher two “Barcode vs. Renegade Hardware” shows in the Czech Republic on October 13th&14th.

After the second show at 6.oo am, twenty minutes before our check-in for flight back home, we were given only the half of the fee we were asking for, pretending that they weren’t recieving the mail and that there weren’t enough people for giving us the fee (…which is the promoter’s risk btw).

The Parties were promoted by Basstillbeat for their bass.complex party series in Ostrava & Brno.

I truly can’t recommend those Promoters. I hate myself for not having used a contract.

Too sad, that still people are successful with ripping artists off.

30th of October / EDIT:

some other guy,  DJ MKS from prague was attacking me on myspace in a very bad way. for those who understand german…unbelievable.

”
.. also …

deutsch verstehe ich gut also kein problem ..

das problem ist .. ich hab mit jungs von brno gesprochen … und hab die wahrheit gehort … also war RUSHER auf schuld … …

aber eine sache kapiere ich nicht … warum hast du die scheise auf eure seite geschrieben wenn das alles rushers schuld war ??,

…

also .. ich hab jetz keine interese mit leute wie du und rusher etwas machen … und ich denke das diese sache geht nich einfach schlafen … und ihre tur nach tchechien sin jetz ZU …

und es ist nur dein problem wen du sich mit idioten unterhaltest ,… und dann schreibs du so ne scheisen auf deine seite …

SORRY aber so funktioniert es nicht ..

weil tchechien kleine land ist ..und drumandbass ist hier so ga meinstream … kennen wir uns alle .. aber wie ich es sage ALLE … !!! also wenn jemand uber meine freunde schreibt das die kinderbooking machen …

muss bei mir auch enden ..

TCHAO … :))

laso bezahl ich lieber dizplay dopelt zo viel wie dir als dich zu booken …

oder hast tu ne moglichkeit sich zu enschuldigen auf deine seite neurocode.de

weil das alles RUSHERS SCHULD WAR !!!!

bye noch einmal .

dann wen die jungs die wahrheit in die diskusion geschrieben haben .. hast du die lieber gestopt !!!

das finde ich extra ekelhaft mein junge !!!

das machen die leute di erst 15 jahre alt sind … !!!

”

this website got some extra pack of spam for two weeks now…that’s why we had to insert a spamfilter as you can see on the bottom… -> have a think… unbelievable.

I’m a very structured person. To be honest, I’m probably way too structured, resulting in too much effort to prepare things than finally used. Over the last couple of years I had incrementally built a huge sample archive, consisting of a fine-grained folder hierarchy, which allowed me to find samples in an instant. As you can imagine, this took some time.
It’s pretty straighforward to organize single samples once you create them, but gets catchy when you receive dozens of gigabytes from a befriended producer. The simple way in that case would be to create a new subfolder “samples from xy” and move the entire stuff in there. The perfect solution of course requires you to scan the complete heap and move the stuff files by file or maybe subfolder by subfolder. Some inner voice always urged me to be of the latter type.

That voice, however, died a couple of weeks ago, when my sample harddrive stopped working from one day to another. I had kept backups for all my arrangement projects and stored audio file copies in the respective project folder whenever possible, but still there were lots of crosslinks from the project folders to the sample drive, mainly through Kontakt and/or Battery kits which I hadn’t explicitely saved.
At that point I felt, I’d lost it all. Really.

Obviously, insight no.1 is to take backups of your samples, too.

Though I was able to restore some part of the original sample pile, some was lost, and with it the seemingly perfect folder structure. While gathering new samples from various sources in huge packages, I decided to use a different approach this time. Why that?

• Firstly, I had not been able to fully use the effort I had put into my first approach (kind of speaking of the ROI).

• Secondly, in times like these when you have about 1 GB just of snares, was is the point in keeping a structure which allows for scanning all 453749 of them? In reality, when you’re working on a tune, you just want a certain type of snare. And honestly, I don’t need 100 snares of the same base type in various degrees of quality.

Instead, I now try to be honest with myself: When I find I’m spontanously not using a certain folder’s elements, I get rid of them. Chances are that in the future I will get even better samples than those, so if I don’t use them now, I never will. But to keep a certain level of structure, I now use working folders, where I put in samples I currently use, kind of I an on-the-fly manner. This allows me to find the ones I’m feeling at the moment very quickly. Once in a while I open up a new folder. This method is like a shortcut-type mapping of my current sample folder in the audio-storage of my brain to the harddrive.

Still after having lost all the data I could not fully reproduce certain projects aka tracks. On the other hand, this allows me to re-think those tracks. Feels a bit like a bush fire which allows for new life to make its way.

The downside, you may say, is to concentrate on few samples. Yes, but it’s more like you are into a certain type of sound anyway for a limited period of time. Moreover, I’m always free to add elements from the huge sample ocean in the background to my tiny pool.
The positive side is that I work faster and avoid those annoying sample re-scanning/archiving sessions. Also, I now more strongly distinguish between using samples I know and just picking some spontanously, which allows me to decide when to focus and when to experiment.
Thinking more on-the-fly instead of the be-prepared-for-every-situation approach.

To summarize, I moved from structure in work objects to structure in my working processes. Hard, but valuable lesson for myself.

Oh my gosh, gigs in Switzerland are something really special! It kills me everytime.

This time, when playing in Aarau, we met Hungarian boys Jade & Matt-U – really nice guys. Remember, it’s all bout the Schlong, haha! Check the pictures we’ve taken there. Big big up the PossessedBy crew!

Enjoy the show on Cologne-based Campus Radio.

Samstag, 09.09.2006 20:00 Uhr, Plattensport

Playlist:

nphect & dizplay – white russian / basswerk
noisia – brainstitch (break rmx) / shogun audio
misanthrop – stop criterion / subtitles
rawtekk – to be a boy / -
nphect & dizplay – campaign / syndrome
vicious circle & ebk – cruise control / dsci4
noisia – end game / virus
ebk – soma / renegade hardware
mayhem & generic & subtone – untitled
bse & noisia – hideous / bse
noisia – omissions / vision
nphect & dizplay – my velvet morning / basswerk
catacomb & dementia – lost boys / citrus
misanthrop – centrifuge / subtitles
nphect – enjoy the madness / basswerk
dizplay – don´t you see / basswerk
phace – open your eyes / subtitles
nphect & dizplay – inside the hive VIP / basswerk
interview (cut out)
tgm – damn wire (n&d rmx) / basswerk
misanthrop – viper fish / subtitles
nphect & dizplay – tsunami 2006 vip / basswerk
noisia & mayhem – choke / vision
rawtekk – open borders / citrus
nphect & dizplay – motor / basswerk
john b – take me home / beta
nphect & dizplay + generic + subtone – outpace / syndrome
upbeats & bulletproof – the universe / red light
nphect – slith / renegade hardware
cause 4 concern – sarin / c4c
pacific – release me / dsci4

Update: Sorry, my traffic limit has been exceeded. Please use the following mirror provided by drumandbass.de

Thanks a lot for the mirror, Biene!

Citrus Presents..
JUICEBLENDER LP:

CITRUS 025: Juiceblender Sampler OUT NOW!
A Jade – Bitch
B Catacomb & Dementia – Lost Boys
Audio

CITRUSLP001: Juiceblender LP
A Rawtekk – Open Borders
B Matt-U, Mindscape & TRG – Ring of Fire
C Munk – Spearhead
D Mathematics – Future Past
E Spinor – t.b.a.
F Dis – Pagan
G Dizplay – Claws
H Rusher – Prophecy
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n.phect & dizplay – Campaign
n.phect & dizplay vs. genetic & subtone – Outpace

Genetic & Subtone are two producers from Montreal we’ve met on the North America tour. Back then we started that tune in the coldest of winter right after we got up at 10pm after the gig & aftershow. Crazy day, but really good people! Big up to Canada!

Promo text:

Syndrome Audio, Hollands’s freshest funk imprint brings its second release. A true future funk bomb. On the A side Gemany’s upfront neuro producers Nphect & Dizplay deliver a dark, rollin neuro monster. Tight crisp beats, deep subs and futuristic midrange action are the words for this bit of musical art. On the flip Nphect & Dizplay teamed up with Subtone & Generic and created piece of splendid futuristic funk that is “Outpace”. A grooving production full of mysterious atmospheres, pulsating effects, funk fuelled midranges and a driving bassline. Once again Syndrome Audio proves to be a label showcasing quality and variety in today’s neurofunk.

PROMO RELEASED OCTOBER 9th

EXPECTED RELEASE DATE: EARLY NOVEMBER

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