I think everyone at least knows one house of pain or Cypress Hill track. Which if I’m not mistaken Cypress Hill discovered House of Pain. Can’t say I know a lot or was a really big fan outside of those two I’m afraid. By that part of the '90s I was deep in it with industrial, acid house / jazz, psytrance, Goa, gabba , or just about anything related to the Detroit scene. Lords of acid, praga kahn, early Moby, ken ishii, Juno reactor, Charlie era Prodigy and all that came immediately after
As a mid-20 something with disposable income I spent more than I care to admit importing or special ordering CDs LOL
Right now the name is not ringing a bell. So I can’t say for sure. But discovery back in the late 90s early 2000s wasn’t what it is today. I still go back listening to a lot of that stuff though. It is just pure 2000s to me. Really speaks to where I was at least. Sometimes when the atmosphere was just right we would get AM radio station that bounces from up in Detroit and Chicago late at night
After a really quick Google it seems I’m not. I will have to address that when I get home later.
Jeff Mills is basically a master musician who has perfected his craft over a lifetime, just as a violinist or pianist would. It just so happens that his musical instrument is turntables.
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When I go I go hard. All perfectly tagged and replaygained ready to go. So far I definitely prefer the older stuff. Newer is a bit more minimal and atmospheric. But I can definitely hear detroit in the older stuff.
Foobar is great. Used it for a decade at least possibly two. It and the discogs tagging plugin was my go-to for organizing my library of ripped or downloaded files. So much so that I even went to the trouble initially of getting it to run under Linux with wine.
The player however is a fork of Clementine called strawberry. It is available for Windows as well as Mac and Linux. It has plugins and configurability. But not quite on the scale of what Foobar 2000 can do. But if you are looking for a cross-platform software for Library management. It’s right up there with foobar. It comes with the music brains tagger built in. Though I still use their separate application picard. Because it exposes options a bit easier Etc. And best of all it can handle my whole library even over NFS.
At the moment I have let my OCD get the better of me and decided that I would prefer to have everything in largely one, more modern format and fix some of the old tagging and file naming. So I am re-ripping CDs into opus at 160 kbps. Which is well above what’s generally considered transparent. And converting flacs Etc.
Technically there was no soul seeking lol. Just a little nicotine+. Which is a python backed front end to slsk.
I use MusicBee for my files. I got tired of Foobar 2000 because I was always futzing with the settings and updating skins. Furthermore, I will give Strawberry a try. Out of curiosity, Why use nicotine+ over slsk?
I think everyone at least knows one house of pain or Cypress Hill track. Which if I’m not mistaken Cypress Hill discovered House of Pain. Can’t say I know a lot or was a really big fan outside of those two I’m afraid. By that part of the '90s I was deep in it with industrial, acid house / jazz, psytrance, Goa, gabba , or just about anything related to the Detroit scene. Lords of acid, praga kahn, early Moby, ken ishii, Juno reactor, Charlie era Prodigy and all that came immediately after
As a mid-20 something with disposable income I spent more than I care to admit importing or special ordering CDs LOL
You are the only person I know that knows who Praga Khan is. Are you a Jeff Mills fan?
Right now the name is not ringing a bell. So I can’t say for sure. But discovery back in the late 90s early 2000s wasn’t what it is today. I still go back listening to a lot of that stuff though. It is just pure 2000s to me. Really speaks to where I was at least. Sometimes when the atmosphere was just right we would get AM radio station that bounces from up in Detroit and Chicago late at night
After a really quick Google it seems I’m not. I will have to address that when I get home later.
Mills is a genius, he’s also from the Detroit scene. Aparantly he is known as the Wizard.
Jeff Mills is basically a master musician who has perfected his craft over a lifetime, just as a violinist or pianist would. It just so happens that his musical instrument is turntables.
exhibitionist mix. 3 turntables and a mixer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtw2-kL32YM
comin up in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapn-mknXVU
@Eldritch@lemmy.world this is a good couple of links to start; the first showcases his technical virtuosity, and his second shows his roots.
pic When I go I go hard. All perfectly tagged and replaygained ready to go. So far I definitely prefer the older stuff. Newer is a bit more minimal and atmospheric. But I can definitely hear detroit in the older stuff.
Which player is that? I want to say Foobar 2000, but I don’t think so.
Did you seek your soul?
Foobar is great. Used it for a decade at least possibly two. It and the discogs tagging plugin was my go-to for organizing my library of ripped or downloaded files. So much so that I even went to the trouble initially of getting it to run under Linux with wine.
The player however is a fork of Clementine called strawberry. It is available for Windows as well as Mac and Linux. It has plugins and configurability. But not quite on the scale of what Foobar 2000 can do. But if you are looking for a cross-platform software for Library management. It’s right up there with foobar. It comes with the music brains tagger built in. Though I still use their separate application picard. Because it exposes options a bit easier Etc. And best of all it can handle my whole library even over NFS.
At the moment I have let my OCD get the better of me and decided that I would prefer to have everything in largely one, more modern format and fix some of the old tagging and file naming. So I am re-ripping CDs into opus at 160 kbps. Which is well above what’s generally considered transparent. And converting flacs Etc.
Technically there was no soul seeking lol. Just a little nicotine+. Which is a python backed front end to slsk.
I use MusicBee for my files. I got tired of Foobar 2000 because I was always futzing with the settings and updating skins. Furthermore, I will give Strawberry a try. Out of curiosity, Why use nicotine+ over slsk?
woah! getting serious there! check out that video of him mixing them together tho, that’s the final outcome.