I need to vent!

[SkyWarp91]

Well there's your problem Hursticon, you still listen to Triple-J! That station's been hijacked by hipsters and indie scene kids since the 2000's!

[1AZRAEL1]

Well there's your problem Hursticon, you still listen to Triple-J! That station's been hijacked by hipsters and indie scene kids since the 2000's!

Only good part of JJJ for me is the Racket, but thats late at nite, so I listen to it on the net the next day

[Hursticon]

Well there's your problem Hursticon, you still listen to Triple-J! That station's been hijacked by hipsters and indie scene kids since the 2000's!

No-no, I don't still listen - I gave up on Radio when I was introduced to Rammstein during a Year 8 German class.
Triple J was just a channel I knew that didn't play the typical 'Mainstream Top 10 Pop crap', but they have since seemingly adopted an 'Emo-come-Hippie Top 10 Never Heard Of 'Em crap' approach to their weekly playlists.

It just happened to be the station of choice that some co-workers listened to last week.

Only good part of JJJ for me is the Racket, but thats late at nite, so I listen to it on the net the next day

Am I the only person who sees Metal being only played for 3 hours a week at near Mid-Night times by any public broadcaster an absolute Crock of S***!?!

[1AZRAEL1]

Am I the only person who sees Metal being only played for 3 hours a week at near Mid-Night times by any public broadcaster an absolute Crock of S***!?!

You are not alone on that. Rage is even crap for this, probably only a couple of new videos played after 3am on a Friday nite, and pretty much most guest specials on a Saturday night are full of crap.

I remember when The Racket was 3 Hours Of Power mid evening on a Friday (this is going back to 2000 or so when Cooper's Brutal Planet was coming out)

I remember getting a phone call from Haug one afternoon so I could read out some gigs

I harldy get the chance to watch Underground Sounds on TVS either coz of the stupid hours it's put on. They play some good stuff for about an hour, though one of the hosts bugs the hell outta me lol.

[Doubledealer]

LOL, you don't want to hear what I think of the Pop industry then.
So a lot of Metal Heads like it do they? - Wow... I truly cannot understand why.

Well I've given it a listen dude and I've got to tell you that I'll stick with my 3 favourite Drum Machines :

• Raymond Herrera
• Joey Jordison
• Gene Hoglan

I just don't get it, it's been played to death on Triple J of all stations (Oh how that station has plummeted since I last listened to radio... in '99) and much like Scott Pilgrim - It seems like this type of music is catered for today's ADHD generation.

Fair enough mate, it's not for everyone but in saying that, one of the great things about dubstep is the sheer variety on offer (something I don't think a lot of people realise).

Some artists focus on a very sub heavy sound, whereas others prefer the mid-frequency insanity like Skrillex, and then you'll get artists like Burial who create highly atmospheric works positively drenched in reverb. As a whole, the dubstep genre is all about experimentation and really makes its mark with otherwordly sounds generated by layering multiple bass lines, drum hits and then heavy use of effects such as delays, reverb, distortion, eq and so on. Not since IDM has a genre been so open for interepretation, and I absolutely love it.

I'm loving the chilled out dubstep tracks of Soundcloud artist Sphinxes at the moment, take a listen to this track - I bet you wouldn't imagine it was dubstep eh?
http://soundcloud.com/sphinxes/sphinxes-wont-be-long

[KillinSpoon]

<puts_old-man_hat_on>
LOL - fair point!
Here's a link to the jerkoffs so-called 'talent'.

Disco was fine, Dance was it's logical progression and Techno is probably it's furthest extreme... But this Dubstep crap is nothing more than elicit substance promotion.
</takes_old-man_hat_off>

SKRILLEX! I love Skrillex!
Ah well, we had a good friendship. Russian roulette to see which one of us can continue on living :P

This music does sound like something that people who live on failblog/4chan/etc or play games hardcore would listen to

lulz, I feel sad now
From my experience, all the 'hardcore' gamers I know listen to heavy metal.
That being said, a few of them do like dubstep. I can't stand house, but luckily all the clubs I go to now mix dubstep... So it's alllll gewddd

EDIT: Figure is alright... but the music doesn't contain the same jumpiness that I like about Skrillex :/

[Doubledealer]

SKRILLEX! I love Skrillex!
Ah well, we had a good friendship. Russian roulette to see which one of us can continue on living :P



lulz, I feel sad now
From my experience, all the 'hardcore' gamers I know listen to heavy metal.
That being said, a few of them do like dubstep. I can't stand house, but luckily all the clubs I go to now mix dubstep... So it's alllll gewddd

EDIT: Figure is alright... but the music doesn't contain the same jumpiness that I like about Skrillex :/

If you like Skrillex's sound check out Zomboy, very similar sound and he's absolutely killing it atm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOeuGksCJfk. Organ Donor is a personal favourite of mine.

[Hursticon]

You are not alone on that. Rage is even crap for this, probably only a couple of new videos played after 3am on a Friday nite, and pretty much most guest specials on a Saturday night are full of crap.

I remember when The Racket was 3 Hours Of Power mid evening on a Friday (this is going back to 2000 or so when Cooper's Brutal Planet was coming out)

I remember getting a phone call from Haug one afternoon so I could read out some gigs

I harldy get the chance to watch Underground Sounds on TVS either coz of the stupid hours it's put on. They play some good stuff for about an hour, though one of the hosts bugs the hell outta me lol.

I hear you man, the early 00s is where everything seemed to peak and then pitter out.
Rage has thoroughly lost all of my respect, it used to be the last bastion of Heavy Music vids after Channel V dropped all Metal video clips - I hate you Australian Mainstream Broadcasters!

Thank F*** for Internet Radio, Youtube and Torrents!

Fair enough mate, it's not for everyone but in saying that, one of the great things about dubstep is the sheer variety on offer (something I don't think a lot of people realise).

Some artists focus on a very sub heavy sound, whereas others prefer the mid-frequency insanity like Skrillex, and then you'll get artists like Burial who create highly atmospheric works positively drenched in reverb. As a whole, the dubstep genre is all about experimentation and really makes its mark with otherwordly sounds generated by layering multiple bass lines, drum hits and then heavy use of effects such as delays, reverb, distortion, eq and so on. Not since IDM has a genre been so open for interepretation, and I absolutely love it.

I'm loving the chilled out dubstep tracks of Soundcloud artist Sphinxes at the moment, take a listen to this track - I bet you wouldn't imagine it was dubstep eh?
http://soundcloud.com/sphinxes/sphinxes-wont-be-long

Well if you like it man that's cool, I don't dislike the people who listen to the style just the style itself.
(Anubis knows that there are plenty of people who don't like Metal, as wrong as those people are )

Well I certainly approve of their name - Sphinxes , love the Chipmunk voice work and I can see what you mean on the Atmospheric argument, they don't seem to go over the top with the bass-lines either.
(A much more stomach-able experience )

SKRILLEX! I love Skrillex!
Ah well, we had a good friendship. Russian roulette to see which one of us can continue on living :P

LOL - Russian Roulette?, nah man bugger that; Energon blades over the top of the Smelting Pools of Darkmount!
(It's got to be a suitably Epic fight and location )

As like I've said to DD, I've got nothing against those who like the style really, just the style itself.

lulz, I feel sad now
From my experience, all the 'hardcore' gamers I know listen to heavy metal.
That being said, a few of them do like dubstep. I can't stand house, but luckily all the clubs I go to now mix dubstep... So it's alllll gewddd

Oh man, don't get me started on quote: 'Hardcore Gamerz' and Metal - If I ever see another COD video on Youtube with Drowning Pool's - Bodies as the backing track I'm seriously gonna have to take some Quad-Damage to something.

[bowspearer]

One thing that pisses me off to no end, and as time goes on, the more it grates, is the use of slurs like "retard", "retarded", "spastic", etc and how big a pack of Nazis they come across as being.

No I don't mean that in the Godwin's law kind of "Soup Nazi" kind of way; I mean in the kind of literal "the disabled are useless, worthless and I really don't have a problem with sterilising them, experimenting on them and committing genocide on them" kind of way, which is exactly what lies at the heart of that kind of slur.

You'd think that the world would have learned from the Holocaust just where those kinds of attitudes lead. Clearly they haven't.

[bowspearer]

EXTREMELY pissed off with Jamie from the Parramatta fair atm.

At the end of the November Parramatta Fair, I'df arranged to pick up a TF train set which was supposedly in good condition and complete for $200 which I was happy to pay.

When I picked it up at the Hornsby Fair in April (I hadn't been able to make the Feb Para fair), I discovered that the post to the turret on the gondola had snapped off at the turret post and one of the wings on the caboose was snapped off.

I showed Jamie then and there at the fair as soon as I discovered it, only to have him swear blind "I'll sort it out".

A few weeks passed and nothing. Got worried, especially after a friend of a friend mentioned his own bad experience with Jamie. Jamie's phone kept getting errors or going to missed calls and I never heard back from him. Azrael, who has been an amazing friend through this, managed to get hold of him, at which point Jamie at first told him he was sure he had them and then he was told he'd found a spare coal car (gondola) and was still looking for the other one. Now it turns out that was a total load of crap and he "can't find" either of them.

Admittedly Azrael is now buying it off me for what I paid for it, so the money isn't an issue, but that's not what pisses me off with this.

In all this time I was waiting, there was a glut of tf train set auctions which have since been and gone, which I could have gotten which could have sorted out the problem, only I held off because I trusted Jamie. Big mistake it seems.

I was warned by a friend of a friend that this is what "I'll sort it out" can mean based on his own experiences with Jamie. As much as I hoped he was wrong, it seems like he was right......