you wake up in the morning with the sun burning nightmares out of your eyesand the voice on your alarm clock radio says it's later than you may realizeyou stagger into the bathroom to purge yourself and find a way back to lifebut there's nothing in the medicine cabinet to take away the pain and the strifethe kitchen poisons your body and the television tries to make up your mindand you're trying n
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Posts by deusdiabolus
An anthem for the emotionally exhausted
Is anyone else having Mog-O-Matic crash right after startup?
Sorry to ask this out of forum, but I asked this question about a month or so ago and so far, no one has offered any advice.For about a month or so now, whenever I load MOM, it starts to scan for files on my drive, and then about 30 seconds to a minute in, it just dies. I mouse over the icon in the system tray and it vanishes. No explanation. If I leave its window open, sometimes it will tell m
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Does hypnotherapy work?
After several variations of tone generation and effect processing, we have found suitable results in our latest application of trance-inducing note progressions and randomized variation in certain machine settings. We also note that this procedure is best employed in conjunction with a percussive undercurrent. Finally, a low frequency sound is used to solidify the individual workings into a c...
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Atkins, May, and Saunderson
This one's for you. Resonant, soulful, deep, evolving Detroit-style techno.
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Ever get your own song stuck in your head?
Usually when I write some music, I will work on it until I encounter mental resistance and then go to a different work in progress and see what I can do there. This particular piece has the distinction of wandering into my head when I was doing something entirely different and pretty much demanding that I come back and fool with it some more. I blame those damn chords. I like to think of it ...
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"Here's a lit-tle song I wrote..."
I was going to describe my "sound", but I always feel pretentious when I do that, so I will just say this: most of my work remains "in progress". This particular track is more on the groove-oriented side, and I am particularly happy with how the drums came out (and that is NOT a loop, those are sequenced samples, thank you.)Let me know what you think.
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The story of the search for a record
So after I became a DJ, I inevitably started to spend a lot of time around other DJs. We learned things from one another - how to take care of your equipment, tricks to use to excite the crowd, and most importantly, records that really, really kicked ass. The first time I heard this record, a buddy of mine had excitedly told me that he had this killer new track and that I should watch the floor
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by request
Sorry it took so long to get back to you...missjunk asked if I could suggest a good techno playlist. I submit the following candidates:Secret Cinema - "Kartonclip" (sometimes also listed as "Cartoon Clip")Planet of Drums - 04-A (the tracks in this series of records are mostly untitled)David Alvarado - "Klugh"Baby Ford - "Fetish" (yup, Baby Ford again)Derrick May (as Rhythim is Rhythim) - "Strings
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Just for the record
I love techno. I really, really love it. Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Jeff Mills, Underground Resistance, Frankie Bones, Carl Cox, Baby Ford, Carl Craig, Orbital, Praga Khan, Oliver Adams, Secret Cinema, Hardcell, Johan Bacto, Tim Taylor and Dan Zamani, Marco Bailey, Surgeon, D.H.S....I just love it.That's all for now.
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