What a great idea

I love techno, but i have little interest in djing, I'd rather produce. As a consequence, I am restricted to the material I can get on CD. It would be bloody fantastic if Crucial or wherever had some setup where by you could copy shit on vinyl onto CD(for a fee of course). It's probably heinously illegal, but it would mean we lesser, non-vinyl buying technophiles could have access to a wider range of music, as techno CDs are pretty thin on the ground, and fuck trying to find shit on the internet for a laugh

id go through my crate and do that for you.....But there would be fees involved of course.

how does this sound il load all my records.unmixed of cousre, onto my pc..then they can be burnt to cd.
But for every tune you want il charge $5 now being that icould fit proberly 12or more tunes on a cd that would cost you $60-80...sound like a good deal

with a 12" sometimes having for tunes of i just dived the original cost of $22x4 to give me that $5 each figure.

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now you would think thats fuckin expensive and is a rip off...
But you just have a little think about what the record companys might say.
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In my opinion not the best thought of the day!

why not just download the trax of the net. i download heaps and most befor they reach our record stores..

Well its not for lack of trying. I get a bit of stuff of Kazaa but my connection is so fuckin slow it can be more trouble than its worth. Guess I should update to broadband eh. What site do you download from?

Force5, I would gladly pay that kind of money if it meant I could have the tracks I wanted. Or i could just stop being a lazy fucker and start buyin vinyl

well dude id gladley take your money off ya...

give me a email and il list every thing in my box for ya

dj force5@hotmail.com

Look at www.epitonic.com for free, legal, diverse downloads. Dependable connection too.

download and install Soul Seek. its a bit like kazaa except maby more specialized. i have been astounded at the amount of music available. nearly everything i search for is there somewhere, sometimes though you will have to que up.
its well worth it because you can dload anything in small stages and it will remember where each item is up to without losing it when you log out.
ww.slsk.org

Cheers sander, soulseek is all good! Apart from the bloody queing that is. I'm so impatient....

Get dsl and soulseek...
Then leave your computer on all the time downloading

Can someone post up a good link to a tutorial on how to do a live recording from the mixer into your PC...

I only have a pant onboard sound card, do you reakon that would do the trick?

i guess any soundcard will do to some extent. ive got an average one and i record external audio with soundforge. there are heaps of audio editing software that will do the same. its just a matter of setting the levels. i usualy set the volume on the mixer/sterio etc first then adjust the input level on the pc in the volume controls, left click the speaker icon on the left of the task bar or open it from the control panel. the default output levels will show so click on options and go to properties. change the setting from playback to recording and make sure the corect input option is checked. just play around with it and match the input plug with the corect level option, if its wrong i.e. pluged into mic and adjusting the line in level then youll get some sound but it will overload. can be a bit miss leading sometimes but it wont take long to sus out, there are only a few options to go with... some wave/audio editors might have built in levels also, soundforge doesnt and its quite straight forward. i think the older but still usefull versions are free to download and they will also have help files with them that will cover most of the process. i think windows xp has tutorials also about how to do this although it may fall short on detail.
ive always found it best to record quite a bit below peak volume and then edited the wave file afterwards.

Not to sound like a partycrasher but if you stop to think a little bit, the techno scene here is so small, that the more everyone pirates material the less companies like crucial records, etc. can import. It got to a point so bad last year that one purchased CD would end up in the hands of several people (ahem, no names) why should we make such a huge risk for everyone out there? If you are all into the scene and the music as much as you all say, then purchase the material from either a store, label direct, or artist direct. If they put their music online, then go hard and spread the gosple, but don't record to CD unless it's a demo for promotional purposes (ie. don't tracklist, this is dangerous and devalues pro-mixes).

Anyhow, if you all stopped pirating and breaking the law, there'd be plenty of tech mixcds floating about.

If anyone wanted to get some material onto CD we'd be more than happy to make enquiries about what you want and do this for free as long as permission was granted. We understand the CD buyers plight, but since so few people support the local techno CD scene, it's pointless for us to truely direct valuable resources in this direction.

And many many thanks for the support of the local techno buying public, you're what keeps things ticking along

md

OKOK, forget it, such an enterprise would obviously be too legally tenuous, as well as being detrimental to the scene. I was merely voicing my frustrations as a CD buying techno fan-there are loads of mix and artist CDs ou there, yet i am reduced to buying what I can when i see it. It may not necessarily be a CD I'm all that interested in, but deprived of any choice, i will buy it simply because it is a techno CD. That said, i haven't scoped the Crucial selection lately. What have you guys got in there at the mo?