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mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:22 pm

more b-more sounds like much fun. Everyone at the ottobar was very cool.

Maybe another 'eclectic electric' night like last time for the next time around, and then after that introduce the idea of different 'genre nights'.

The advantage to focusing on a genre is that people get to hear what they are most keen on and people in that style can build an audience, the disadvantage is the risk of splitting the attendance a little too thin.

DJ RAY · Post by **DJ RAY** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:55 pm

Baltimore 2 themed night sounds like a good idea. I'm down!

slopes · Post by **slopes** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:19 pm

more like late afternoon - but i'm always up for a homecoming....

sign me up!

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:03 pm

Will, what saturday were you aiming for?

for the next ottobar, so far that's:

Pulsoc
302acid
Slopes
Phatso Brown
Utenzil

kimozified · Post by **kimozified** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:34 am

If its a Saturday, i am definitely down...

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Fri May 05, 2006 3:19 am

update, for the next ottobar, the list of interested so far:

Pulsoc
302acid
Slopes
Phatso Brown
Utenzil
Kimozified
The Last of Us

icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Fri May 05, 2006 3:52 pm

I'd be into the next ottobar. Guess the date is not confirmed yet, but I'll most likely be able to make it.

Cedric

pulsoc · Post by **pulsoc** » Fri May 05, 2006 5:13 pm

Sorry sorry for the big delay, I have been busy procrastinating.

BUT

I am trying to get the next date now. I am shooting for Sat May 20 or sometime after I get back from vacation after June 9. These performances will be 6-10 pm in the upstairs area.

We need to think about how to approach this. One of the guys I was talking with (from "the scene") suggested getting a core group of guys that work together and giving it a name, sort of like the Tax-lo (Taxidermy Lodge) collective do it. The core should be stylistically similar in order to build a following.

Granted, this is not the "Ableton users" vision that initiated the idea, but that idea MAY not work inBmore the way it did in DC.

Maybe the thing to do is a mess of us the first time around, then start worrying about splitting up into stylistic groups?

Or maybe I am thinking too much.

I will keep you up to speed on dates, input is great.

D K · Post by **D K** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:43 pm

pulsoc, how about this....i volunteer to handle bass sounds for a drum n' bass/dub/breaks themed night.
get someone on atmospherics, and 2-3 on beats/mixing....
what do you think?

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:10 pm

ah, that could be cool-- laptop ensemble.

pulsoc · Post by **pulsoc** » Sat May 06, 2006 3:05 am

D K wrote:pulsoc, how about this....i volunteer to handle bass sounds for a drum n' bass/dub/breaks themed night.
get someone on atmospherics, and 2-3 on beats/mixing....
what do you think?

I think that's freakin crazy.

But cool.

How would we sync?

Fuck it, let's do it. I would submit we rehearse first.

)

Still waiting to hear from my guy.

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:17 pm

pulsoc wrote:I would submit we rehearse first. )

Still waiting to hear from my guy.

ooh, If this is going to be a jam, I would like to bring my guitar and my laptop. For sync, does everyone interested have a midi interface?

rehearsal... well, I'd have to say if we make it a requirement this is unlikely to ever happen due to logistics... *but* the idea is that we have some shared understanding of 'known material', or it sounds like doodie, right?

So, how about someone put together a framework liveset-- it includes some beats, or some something you like. D K does kind of what he intends for bass on it and whatever else, pass it to me I do some guitar on it and whatever else, someone else does some something else-- two tracks apiece. When we perform it, we can embellish that version.

D K · Post by **D K** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:02 pm

gentlemen, we have ableton and a cool feature called bpm

no midi necessary, just decent latency on yer soundcard....
p.s. i've decided to do alot more vj work, i'm down for that too

doug

corygilbert · Post by **corygilbert** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:28 pm

I third that thought, I've done lots of work with another and even two other laptops running live, and unless you have a wretched reaction time, or clock problems, it should be fine, and more musical to trigger by beatmaching.
This sounds like fun.
P,S. great freakin show the other night guys, this has really been inspiring.

Cory

corygilbert · Post by **corygilbert** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:37 pm

oh and here is also some of my stuff.

myspace

http://www.myspace.com/thelastofus

download.com

http://music.download.com/thelastofus/3 ... ong_artist