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In the dark ambient realm you can't go wrong with gruntsplatter and Scott's other project, the Corvidae Cabal:
https://crionicmind.bandcamp.com/

I love tapes but I suspect a lot of that is due to nostalgia as the first music I ever owned was on cassettes. I avoid vinyl purely because my cat broke my turntable many years ago and I never got around to replacing it, and if I do I'll become addicted to buying vinyl and I really don't have the sp...

Welp, I've hit yet another creative roadblock. I wanted to try to record a track, but I think I'm overthinking how I want to place microphones. I might also just be getting too bogged-down subconsciously trying to sound like early Whitehouse... I dunno. I've always had problems of not finishing my ...

adopted a relative's two cats when she left to live abroad like, 7 years ago? anyway they're my babies now. they don't like noise though, so i do most of my listening with headphones. o've heard them described as "the least cat-like cats they've ever seen" by more than a few friends. I ha...

I pretty much just use my DAW as I would a 4 track back in the day. I layer tracks, adjust levels and eq. That's all.

I've done some dungeon synth using VSTs but to be honest find the process underwhelming.

A lot of power electronics use samples, particularly vocals. How do people circumvent the legal issues surrounding that?

I assume most people don't get permission so is it just a case of not getting caught?

And with that I have somehow managed to find a more readable version here: https://selfishfew.blogspot.com/2018/01 ... pedic.html

That interview is available via the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/DescentV199 ... 5/mode/2up

Nice! Thanks

Genocide Organ are a fairly new discovery to me. I knew the name but only just started paying attention.

I can't find much information about them. Apparently they only did one interview in Descent magazine which of course isn't online anywhere.

This En Nihil set is great

https://youtu.be/Fli-7XY-JFA

Also, the new 404 seems better suited to dealing with this problems, with an actual screen and better editing capabilities overall. Many other improvements as well. I was watching some videos on this today. It definitely has some significant improvements. I've considered it but I don't use the one ...

Coming back to the SP-404, does anyone else have problems with it clicking when playing loops? If so do you have any tips on how to get around it?

I know the MS-20 is kind of a standard in this scene. I thought it would be cool to talk about how we use it, what we use it for etc. I have the MS-20 mini and am still getting to grips with it but am having a lot of fun. Right now I'm dialling in sounds from the manual guide and adjusting them to s...

I swear by the Sony WH-1000XM4. The best headphones I've ever had.

Sometimes I'll play some dark ambient through my monitors whilst working but I much prefer giving all of my attention to an album.

Not sure if it's really unrelated but I haven't seen much talk around Anenzephalia. Ephemeral Dawn is so good.

I've been trying to get into Reaper for editing (moving on from Audacity) so this will be helpful. Thank you! There's a DAW called Waveform (previously Tracktion) that I used for years, and I'm coming back to now that it's available on Linux, and the nice thing is when they roll out a new version, ...

Matt's a really nice guy and has given me loads of great advice over the past year. Everything he's put out so far is killer too.

I try to take some time every day to sit down with headphones on and play a whole album at least. Sometimes it's the same album for a few days running.

I'd love to hear how people are creating their music. Like, do you record live performances or layer tracks for example? Personally I do about equal amounts of both.

I got a lot of my early gear advice from Matt (MiseryEngine) and have spent a lot of time working with the Novation Bass Station II and Roland SP-404A over the past year. More recently I've been using a Korg MS-20 mini and literally, as in a couple of hours ago, just got a Korg SQ-1 to go with it.

Hi, I'm Steve. I'm currently working on some death industrial/power electronics stuff which will hopefully see the light of day later this year.