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On Mar 21, 9:25am, you proclaimed: } 2-in light of the recent slagging off of djax latest cd comp } i think i need to add this. . .or should i say, bag this ;) } DJ Duo had this thing slung over his shoulder. . . . } ACID JUNKIES Paranoid Experience (djax-up-beats 192) } Killer two pack of megaphat (ph) acid which comes in a djax bag } with a fat yellow smiley face on it. . .the corker track on here } is a *whole side* track titled. . . } 303 VS. 101 (BATTLE AT HIGH SPEED ON THE INTERGALACTIC HIGHWAY) I was supremely unimpressed by this - I mean, I can really get into just-909-and-303 if it's done well, but the composition really sounded exactly like the sounds my one and only instrument, the 303, makes when I randomly press buttons on it (only, I sometimes erase patterns that don't turn out sounding good). I've heard good acid junkies stuff, but this definitely wasn't part of it. Oh damn, I just realized I violated my own rule, which was never post a negative review to IDM since they are a lot less helpful then positive reviews. Okay, um... The Orbital Peel Sessions truely are astounding. Get them, even though the tracks will come out on Diversions in a while. I had the stereo at Wired cranked with this, and now the editor wants to do a story on them :) } 3-Finally. . .There's a bloke from America that I've dubbed } the Richard James of House. . . Todd Terry. . .not only does } this kid pound out the releases. . .they are full of excellent } production and way out groundbreaking ideas. . . } his style of house is very *old school* (he made the damn school!) } packed with POP and 808's. . .but deep and house nonetheless } his shit is really fun, tons of breakdowns and wickedness. . I wish I could find his "Acid Crash" on CD somewhere, that song is mindblowing. Too bad only his wailing diva-esque stuff ever got popular. Brian

Dans la Matrice, Brian Behlendorf a dit:

quoted 4 lines } 303 VS. 101 (BATTLE AT HIGH SPEED ON THE INTERGALACTIC HIGHWAY)

> > } 303 VS. 101 (BATTLE AT HIGH SPEED ON THE INTERGALACTIC HIGHWAY) > but the composition really sounded > exactly like the sounds my one and only instrument, the 303, makes

A note to those who want something that can make 303 style bass but cant afford these now overpriced machines, there are now 303 clones. The Control Synthesis Deep Bass 9 is a 303 clone + midi + a few more controls and Synthology Clone 3 which is a 303 clone + midi + ?. The march 94 issue of Future Musician reviews the Deep Bass 9 on their CD. Also, related to IDM is an article on Thomas Dolby who speaks of Richard James and give his toughts on the phenomenon. Another alternative to the modules i referred to is the FatMan as featured in the march 94 issue of Electronic Musician. It is a DIY article to build an analog bass synth. It has 18 real time controls (like the 6 controls on the 303) and is midi or cv gate controlable. Plus it has 2 oscillators (1 on the 303) with a control for the mix ratio. I am currently building it and will follow up on my results. (and i'll put my board design on techno.stanford.edu cause i dont like their design). Price? 149$ for the kit from PAiA, or well under 100$ if you program the EPROM yourself. Ciao, -- Francois Dion ' IdMEDIA \ Managing: \ Publishing: \ Specialising: CP 312 \ Equation de Base \ Cybernaute \ Multimedia & Telecom St-Lambert, QC \ Francois Dion \ IDM Software \ design, publishing & Canada, J4P 3P8 \ Fuzzy Logic \ Raving Up North \ testing(hard/software)

quoted 11 lines Another alternative to the modules i referred to is the FatMan as

> > Another alternative to the modules i referred to is the FatMan as > featured in the march 94 issue of Electronic Musician. It is a DIY > article to build an analog bass synth. It has 18 real time controls > (like the 6 controls on the 303) and is midi or cv gate controlable. > Plus it has 2 oscillators (1 on the 303) with a control for the mix ratio. > I am currently building it and will follow up on my results. (and i'll > put my board design on techno.stanford.edu cause i dont like their design). > Price? 149$ for the kit from PAiA, or well under 100$ if you program the > EPROM yourself. >

This sounds well cool. I hope that I can pick up that magazine in the UK. I have already built some analogue synth stuff myself, ages ago. It was published in the early 80s in an english mag called ETI. Synth was called the 'Digisound 80'. It is a modular design and so very flexible. The trouble is that the dedicated controller (6502 based) is outdated, unreliable, and difficult to use. When i get round to it, I shall change the inbuilt DACs from parallel -> cv to midi -> cv. Personally, I reckon that this synth would be much more useful than a straight 303. There are so many differnt ways that you can patch it toghether. I can see the appeal of 303s though, they seem to instantly produce headfuck acid mayhem and they're portable. Is the article you mention basically intended as a 303 substitute. I guess it must be; it seemms odd to produce an analogue design now otherwise. Shall try to get mag, and let you know what I think. By the way, tjhe digisound synth used Curtis Electromusic chips throughout. These are marvellous little beasts. .... but I don't know if they still make them. (they were used in the Sequential Circuits designs.) Are these in that design? Cheers, Chris