What do you prefer the most and why?

I see why people don't want the jump up, crazy, production line music I do, but I want to go out to dance to fun music, not concentrate on intricate little bits of percussion.

So as long as it sounds like its coming through a sock your happy eh? ;) Just joking... but it bugs me when people claim that mellower music is better produced than higher energy stuff. I've got some fidget and grimey dubstep that if it wasn't perfectly trimmed in every channel of EQ and mastered expertly then it would just sound like barrage of noise. the best high energy music, like all good music is really well produced. Whether its in your face or not.


Is that not the version of bunters mix CD (as in it'll have the previous and following tracks mixed into the intro and outtro on the mp3?)

I'm not sure, will have another look for you.

Cheers dude, thanks for your help:)

I agree with this to an extent, when I go out to a club night I want to dance. Now if the night is programmed well, I'll know that if I turn up at 1am I can do exactly that!
If I go out to a bar then I don't mind if the music is more chilled & deeper, as I'm more likely there to talk with mates or listen to the finer aspects of the music.

I think most DJs get to this "nerd-like stage" after being involved with a genre for a while.

But being a raver & DJ of House / Techno & formerly DnB, I can see the effects of when a genre becomes isolated from others that is shares some similarities with (such as BPM). Recently I think the DnB scene would have benefited from keeping stronger ties with Hardcore or Breaks in the way the House & Techno scene do.

Trouble is a lot of well produced music doesn't sound well produced when it's played on a poor soundsystem. 3 weekends ago i spent 20 hours in Fabric over the course of the weekend and Fabric has arguably the best soundsystem in the world. Then the following weekend we went up to The Q Club in Brum and the soundsystem was loud, but not clear. Made such a difference to my enjoyment of the night. The main room in the Q Club is so big and they were only filling it with 2 main speaker stacks at the front so when you was on the dancefloor all you heard was bass and no top end definition. Spoilt the night for me. The best it sounded was when we was hanging out in the gallery bit

Agreed!!! DnB has some of the most creative & technically proficient producers I've ever heard. The form I listen to might sound crazy to some. But to create something on that level which in essence is actually simple is a real art.

That's fair enough. I'm sure you've tried your hand at production, so you'd know that different genres are made up of a different number of layers & frequencies. Most of the faster genres have a bit more layering going on. Hence on poor sound systems it will not be represented very well. Also most of these genres (especially) DnB rely on heavy stretched bass elements.

I see what you mean now, can only seem to find it on compilation cd's (don't know if they are mixed or not), will keep looking for you though.

Its such a good track, its exactly what I want from rave breaks; a big old hardcore riff but a really thick, well produced ( *winks at XI* ) grimey bassline. trouble with so much of the hardcore scene is that so many tunes seem to be a complete nightmare to get hold of... thats why the same 20 or thirty people have been at the top of the scene for years and its so hard for new DJs to come through.

i like all music and into a lot of genres but for me the best produced music is some of the deep house records being produced at the minute. liking the work of trus'me a lot . some of his stuff sounds amazing on a good sound system

True.

Techno shpuld start minimal and build an build till its fucking banging nasty filth. Then the after party should be nice an minimal again.