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I went back to the drawing board because i still wasn't very satisfied with the techno stuff i have already put out. This time i put lots of effort into making the kick as good as possible. Ableton Live's workflow is really good for techno stuff imo. It's very easy to set up parallel processing with individual volume controls and place effects on the entire chain afterwards. This makes the kick processing that much easier and faster i feel. Previously in FL i had to route the mixer channels manually just to have do parallel processing (i might be doing it an inefficient way, but in Live i could set up the same processing in like a click and 2 buttons). I also tried to regulate my use of reverb because i think i tend to wash out things like FX and pads in too much reverb, which gives makes things lose a bit of focus i feel. 

Paid special attention to how elements groove together, like the shakers and the hats with the kick. In terms of tonal balance, i studied a bunch of tracks that i like and i found that they generally have the kick much louder than the hats and stuff. Shakers and 16th note hihats tend to sit a little further back, while the off-beat accented closed hihat hits louder and pops up above them. I applied some tiny bit of humanisation by playing with velocities for individual hits, as well adjusting the timings such that they are not bang-on quantised on the grid. Also had some fun with swung delays on the hats. The results were satisfying enough for now, because there is a sense of 'rolling' and groove that pushes the track forward. Still much to learn, i think. Better to just wrap up this track and move on to another one, rather than dwell endlessly on individual elements. 

I tried to keep things interesting by changing at least 2 elements of the track every 8 bars or so, and i think it works somewhat. It's what i love about this sort of techno: the continual repetition of a couple of motifs, kept interesting by subtle changes to the elements in the fore- and background. But it's funny because like 95% of my audience will probably still find it boring and unengaging lol

Twilight Sparkle voice generated by 15.ai

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Musician specializing in battery-powered electronic instruments.


Main instruments owned:
Artiphon Orba2
Boss SP-202
Casio VL-1(Circuit Bending)
Casio XW-PD1
Korg Kaossilator2
Korg mini Kaoss pad2
Playtime Engineering Blipblox After Dark
Roland MC-101
Roland PMA-5
Teenage Engineering PO-133
Teenage Engineering PO-14
Yamaha QY-70
Yamaha TNR-W

Aspiring horse music producer, amateur SFM pone animator.

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Holger Sinn is an electronic dance music producer from Germany. Born in Pforzheim. His music career started in the eighties as a part of the speed metal band called Destroyer where he was also founder and songwriter.
Not only interessted in heavy metal stuff, he also loved to discover popular componists like Stockhausen, Mozart, Bach, Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten and the “Neue Deutsche Welle”. Back in the end of the 80′ies he find out early elecotronical stuff like KLF, Front 242, Vangelis, Faltermeyer and loved it. More and more influenced from that music and parties in Omen, Dorian Gray, Kiwi, Gummibär, Nexus, Trance, Berlins Tresor and of course the parades in Zürich and Berlin he started to play that music too. He played his acid records not only in clubs in Baden Würrtemberg, also in radio shows like Radio Störfunk.

I ♥ ♫Mus♪c♫! My genre of choice is UK Hardcore.

I've produced some songs under the @twisty_tunes label.
You might also find my name on some edit and timestretch work.

I have a radio show:
Core Control Live airs every Saturday at 0200 UTC on PonyvilleFM.

I also have a monthly mix series:
Core Control premieres the first Saturday of each month at 200 UTC on PonyvilleFM instead of the live show.
Previous releases in this series also air on HappyHardcore.com radio, so you might hear it on rotation over there as well.

Have a listen and enjoy! ☺

Check my likes for some cool tracks I've crated.

Just for the corepones, I have created a snag list. Fresh Hardcore goodness; Get it while it's hot! If it's in there I have it too.

"DJ Horse" Tune Twister character art by WitchTaunter. http://fav.me/dbgbts7

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PSFMer