its okay for messing around or "jamming" but Ill listen to whatever i saved the next day and think "God thats some awful e altogether" lol
One area it can be useful is listening to a mixdown and maybe making some slight adjustments, everything is easier to hear
Syntonic
Just downloaded this. Really awesome material you came up with. Listened to the first few songs and they are putting me in deep space. What equipment were you using?:tongue2
KilldaDJ
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Originally posted by aNYthing
then by all means - step right in, sir!!!!
72 minutes. "highly" :crazy: recommended and intended for your more "open minded" moments
Direct recording last night, an LP that can be described by the title.
When you're ready - just sit back and enjoy the
journey from start to finish. It gets really REALLY interesting at times, and I have no idea how I ended up in that space... :)
but I was glad to have visited... It's very experimental and meant to be enjoyed for what it is - don't try to find structure, meaning, sense.
Oh and clicks/pops are un-intentional but whatever..
Style: Ambient/Chill/ScareFx/Psychedelica/WTF
:tongue3
p.s. my first "publicly-released" track/album :) (maybe it's a good thing)
this is nice bro. wtf were YOU smoking? i need some of that.
aNYthing
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Originally posted by Syntonic
Just downloaded this. Really awesome material you came up with. Listened to the first few songs and they are putting me in deep space. What equipment were you using?:tongue2
Nothing but Virus TI 2. Just some multi patches... Which is why I was lamenting earlier about lack of recall - it was a 1 track recording, so I can't do anything on the mixdown, other than perhaps EQ/Limit/FX it.
Thanks for your comments ppl. I actually like some parts too. Towards the end, the high is wearing off and it shows.
I don't want to turn this into another pothead alliance but I have to say - my most creative side jumps out when I'm a bit lit.
For some reason, when I'm blazed - I'm not as scared to go off the beaten path, whereas when I'm sober - I rarely have such an experimental mind set.
aNYthing
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Originally posted by evo8
its okay for messing around or "jamming" but Ill listen to whatever i saved the next day and think "God thats some awful e altogether" lol
One area it can be useful is listening to a mixdown and maybe making some slight adjustments, everything is easier to hear
Ha, I got tons of tracks like that! :)
DJ Robby Rox
Pot has an "anti-ADD" effect on me where it will make me focus intensly on one thing and make it very hard for me to become distracted (which is odd because I hear pot distracts people). But I will get in the zone and what I notice is I wind up taking things far too much to extremes.
Kinda like kysora said though its good if I'm trying to write melodies (which is rare lol) but when it comes to producing if I'm high I just can't get anything done. I focus on one thing so intensely untill it becomes this ultra cool bit of nothingness, and then everything else is just left incomplete.
Back when I was doing opiates though they killed my creativity more than anything. Opiates numb you up from feelings so much and just flatten everything out imo. Speed is a totally different story though lol. Its like pot how you take things to the extreme but "extreme" isn't even really the word to describe it. I've done more drugs than I should though in my lifetime and now I try to keep my body clean except for the weekly toke or so.
aNYthing
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Originally posted by rulzz
recorded ambient EP with a friend in one hour in one take (ep length 45 minutes) other 15 minutes were spent on mixing/mastering and naming it. all of it while tripping balls on significant amount of shrooms if anyone cares to hear it: 04. Black Lightning Project - Everything Is Nice by Black Lightning Project
Weed seems to always give me additional insight and resolves some creative barries if used sporadically but is however absolutely terrible for mixing/mastering or if used daily.
as always moderation is the key
that was ... out there
:crazy: :happy2:
Evolve140
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
Pot has an "anti-ADD" effect on me where it will make me focus intensly on one thing and make it very hard for me to become distracted (which is odd because I hear pot distracts people). But I will get in the zone and what I notice is I wind up taking things far too much to extremes.
Kinda like kysora said though its good if I'm trying to write melodies (which is rare lol) but when it comes to producing if I'm high I just can't get anything done. I focus on one thing so intensely untill it becomes this ultra cool bit of nothingness, and then everything else is just left incomplete.
Back when I was doing opiates though they killed my creativity more than anything. Opiates numb you up from feelings so much and just flatten everything out imo. Speed is a totally different story though lol. Its like pot how you take things to the extreme but "extreme" isn't even really the word to describe it. I've done more drugs than I should though in my lifetime and now I try to keep my body clean except for the weekly toke or so.
Well, all my friends who smoke say that if they are involved in a task, it helps the focus. I can say, playing videos games and smoking weed or reading, I love to be high for that. I rarely even play videogames unless I'm stoned. :) I work on all my music 85% of the time stoned. It's like an instinct, if I smoke, the first thing I do is open my DAW. I can keep working until I get burned out, or run out of weed, or my ears start to fatigue. Writing melodies is an art form for me, and it especially enhances my ability to write a beautiful chord progessions and melodies. I suppose it is a bit of a crutch, but I'm very happy at my pace of improvement and technical grasp of production so I'm not very worried about it.
Chronic + music = win
DJ RANN
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Originally posted by sicc
I actually couldnt produce while I was using drugs. I've been clean for about 9 months and I've been able to make some decent stuff. It was probably because when I was using it was DXM, speed, mushrooms and extacy most of the time....cant write music when you are obliterated on DXM. glad I got clean.
DXM?
You mean cough mixture?
Jesus, Americans really know how make drug taking lame.
I've never understood the prescription thing here in the USA. I get it, if you're 14 and raiding mummy's medicine cabinet for the first time due to curiosity, it happens, but people getting hooked on prescription drugs for recreational use? Seriously?
Don't get me wrong - some prescription drugs are ing terrible and I know several people who got hooked on pain killers (that really be banned) for post accident care - but taking prescription drugs for recreation just seems so infantile.
DJ Robby Rox
Why? Theres no real difference between some prescription drugs and street drugs. Like oxycodone is basically legal heroin when people are filtering the pills and shooting the .
The pharm problem in US makes more sense than anything actually. These meds can be ordered extremely fast and cheap from a variety of websites on the internet. Certain drugs can even be ordered legally from within the US and they write you a script right at the website no questions asked.
So getting them into the country is easy. One site in particular half-price meds ships fvckn heroin into the US along with benzos, ketamine and anything else you need. Set up a proxy, get a bum to open you a POBOX and you're good to import lbs of this a day. I know various people who have made a killing doing this too. I'm not into selling drugs anymore cause I'm too afraid of getting busted but at one point I was selling steroids I was getting off the internet and making in the thousands every week. Theres a TON of profit involved if you consider the prices some of these meds are manufactured at.
And how is it "infantile"? Unless you mean the people taking DXM then yeh I understand that. People "robotripping" and what not thats definitely for the young kids to do. I hate the way robotussin makes me feel even when I have a cold so I couldn't imagine what trippn on it feels like. Its apparently like a k-hole but I'd rather just to ketamine instead.
As far as getting addicted I wouldn't be too judgemental. I've been addicted to prescription meds myself and it is surely not an easy habit to just stop. The physical wds are one thing, but the mental wds are ing hell on earth to deal with. And all you have to do is just pop a pill everyday for a few months for them to develop. Stop taking them and the cold/hot flashes start, sweating, shaking, diahrea, horrific anxiety, gooseflesh, headaches, stomach aches, nausea, vomiting, depression, anhendonia (in ability to feel joy), that was the hardest addiction for me to beat personally.
Coming off a speed habit will leave your mind spinning, but you eventually resent the drug and its easy not to go back. With opiates its a different ball game. And benzos too. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. So anytime I see someone struggling with an addiction the last thing I think about doing is getting all judgemental about it. There are far worst things to be in this world than a drug addict imo. Like would you rather be a sober your entire life or a polite drug addict? I find the sober a worse choice.
Idk man but this is one main reason I want to work with people that have substance abuse problems and emotional disorders. We are living in a very stressful world these days and more people are hooked on opiates than ever before. Thats a fact. Opiate use keeps getting worse and worse as years go by. People use them to relieve stress and they work, some people stay on them their entire lives. And only a very small percent are the type to actually rob and steal or use compulsively till the OD. Most of them are normal productive citizens like you and me. I know an owner of a huge construction company who's been addicted to oxy for the last 20 years. Guy gets up and does his job everyday, hes a man of integrity and has manners... but he happens to be addicted to opiates. I definitely do not judge people like that.
I think theres far worse problems you can have in this world. But I still genuinely feel bad for people struggling with addictions. Its not a moral failing at all imo if they had any idea what that was going to do to their brains I doubt the majority of addicts would have ever used in the first place. All it takes is a bit of naivety and ignorance, then bam you're hooked for a long time. And coming off some of those drugs will make you want to die everyday you are alive and sober for months and even years afterwards. Its really a horrible thing for anyone to deal with imo, and the problem is definitely real and out of control right now.
DJ RANN
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
Why? Theres no real difference between some prescription drugs and street drugs. Like oxycodone is basically legal heroin when people are filtering the pills and shooting the .
There is - Oxy is actually worse for you than clean heroin (not that it's good for you either). A lot of the synthetic equivalents are much worse than the "real" version. For instance, with a clean supply of heroin you can be an addict for 25/30 years and not die - Taking the same amount of Oxy, even filtered, for half that time will kill you due to the side effects and problems they cause to your kidneys and nervous system.
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
The pharm problem in US makes more sense than anything actually. These meds can be ordered extremely fast and cheap from a variety of websites on the internet. Certain drugs can even be ordered legally from within the US and they write you a script right at the website no questions asked.
^^Herein lies the problem^^
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
So getting them into the country is easy. One site in particular half-price meds ships fvckn heroin into the US along with benzos, ketamine and anything else you need. Set up a proxy, get a bum to open you a POBOX and you're good to import lbs of this a day. I know various people who have made a killing doing this too. I'm not into selling drugs anymore cause I'm too afraid of getting busted but at one point I was selling steroids I was getting off the internet and making in the thousands every week. Theres a TON of profit involved if you consider the prices some of these meds are manufactured at.
Yes, and that's because drug companies (and their lobbying power) are truly quite evil and know exactly what they're doing (more on this later).
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
And how is it "infantile"? Unless you mean the people taking DXM then yeh I understand that. People "robotripping" and what not thats definitely for the young kids to do. I hate the way robotussin makes me feel even when I have a cold so I couldn't imagine what trippn on it feels like. Its apparently like a k-hole but I'd rather just to ketamine instead.
It's infantile because in most cases it involves taking things that were not meant to be taken in those quantities to get a rather crap high. You have to factor what else is in the prescription/compound that you're taking along with the active ingredient that gets you high. I mean christ, it's really not that difficult to get weed or otherwise just about anywhere else in the world. Chugging pints of cough mixture to get high? Yes, infantile.
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
As far as getting addicted I wouldn't be too judgemental. I've been addicted to prescription meds myself and it is surely not an easy habit to just stop. The physical wds are one thing, but the mental wds are ing hell on earth to deal with. And all you have to do is just pop a pill everyday for a few months for them to develop. Stop taking them and the cold/hot flashes start, sweating, shaking, diahrea, horrific anxiety, gooseflesh, headaches, stomach aches, nausea, vomiting, depression, anhendonia (in ability to feel joy), that was the hardest addiction for me to beat personally.
I hear you and I'm not being judgemental - As I said getting addicted through being prescribed (something that IMO, should not be legal (maybe with exception to battlefield triage) is not funny and I have seen so many friends get hooked by dumbass doctors who wrote scripts like they were going out of fashion. That's a whole other problem, also closely related to the lobbying which i won't go in to here (for instance, doctors who prescribe certain drugs get perks in the form of drug company corporate hospitality and even bonuses for reaching certain targets).
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
Coming off a speed habit will leave your mind spinning, but you eventually resent the drug and its easy not to go back. With opiates its a different ball game. And benzos too. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. So anytime I see someone struggling with an addiction the last thing I think about doing is getting all judgemental about it. There are far worst things to be in this world than a drug addict imo. Like would you rather be a sober your entire life or a polite drug addict? I find the sober a worse choice.
I hear you and you're preaching to the converted, I've lost so many friends to addiction it's not funny, and drugs are the lowest rung on the criminal ladder (if even at all on the ladder in the first place with things like weed) but that's what I hate about the prescription market. It masquerades under the pretense of medical licensure, but is
actually horrific in terms of the physical and mental outcomes of what they push, not to mention how they push it.
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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
Idk man but this is one main reason I want to work with people that have substance abuse problems and emotional disorders. We are living in a very stressful world these days and more people are hooked on opiates than ever before. Thats a fact. Opiate use keeps getting worse and worse as years go by. People use them to relieve stress and they work, some people stay on them their entire lives. And only a very small percent are the type to actually rob and steal or use compulsively till the OD. Most of them are normal productive citizens like you and me. I know an owner of a huge construction company who's been addicted to oxy for the last 20 years. Guy gets up and does his job everyday, hes a man of integrity and has manners... but he happens to be addicted to opiates. I definitely do not judge people like that.
I think theres far worse problems you can have in this world. But I still genuinely feel bad for people struggling with addictions. Its not a moral failing at all imo if they had any idea what that was going to do to their brains I doubt the majority of addicts would have ever used in the first place. All it takes is a bit of naivety and ignorance, then bam you're hooked for a long time. And coming off some of those drugs will make you want to die everyday you are alive and sober for months and even years afterwards. Its really a horrible thing for anyone to deal with imo, and the problem is definitely real and out of control right now.
I too feel bad for people struggling with addiction, but my feelings are if you want to help someone or many people, figure out how to stop or at least contain the actions of the major drug companies. Start lobbying against them - I swear to god the amount of their product that gets consumed, and MOST IMPORTANTLY knowingly, for misuse is shameful.
I've met doctors who I've gone to see for say a genuine medical issue and they "so what can I give you?" pen in hand hovering above prescription pad.
One guy I know has been to rehab three times, and his doctor knows this, but every time he goes the doctor is willing to give him whatever he wants as long as the bill is paid.
The really ed up thing here though is drug companie advertsing on TV. "ask you doctor about XXXXX today!"
That just does not happen in the UK. In fact it's banned, becuase you don't ask your doctor for stuff, they decide based on your medical condition.
At the same time, you can't lay it all on the doctors and drug companies as hopefully it's not all like this everywhere - some responsibility has to be taken my the user and addict. With some of the people I know who got hooked, it was a way out so they didn't have to deal with the pressure of finding a job or getting on with life. that needs mental health care, not rehab IMO.
DJ Robby Rox
I was laughing as I was reading a lot of your points you bring up some great .
I have no idea what the UK is like and just that one comment you made about advertisements in the US sickens me. You are absolutely right about drs sitting there with pen above paper ready to write out whatever you ask them for. And EVEN WHEN they know their dealing with a patient with addiction problems a good share do the same exact thing.
I've even had it happen to me. Just to think, I would actually go into the office and ASK my doctor, (just like to commerical says) and he would literally right down whatever I needed no questions asked.
Sometimes he'd just give me a breif warning about the meds like "take the same dose everyday and do not stop taking it unless you call me first". I mean so many of drs are in fact pill pushers. Although I was never sure about the perks they get for doing it. I actually had no idea they got perks for writing prescriptions thats extremely disturbing to think about (I mean EXTREMELY lol). It does make perfect sense though. And I hear this everyday in one way or another it seems.
A girl was just telling me the other day she went to see her dr cause she was having problems sleeping, he tried writing her 3 fvckn prescriptions for it in the same day, one for depression, one for anxiety (a benzo), and then he gave her ambien for sleep finally. He told her the antidepressant would naturally help her stablize her sleep cycle lol. Wtf! I know that some of those anti-ds actually cause insomnia too, like lexapro. The US really is in for it man eventually our greed is going to get the best of us.
I don't really know anything about the politics going on behind this it just isn't right whats going on. I think the statistic now too is that 1 out of every 4 americans is on a pharmaceutical of some sort. I mean if you drive to Brooklyn I hear its the worst with this . But supposively in Brooklyn within like a few miles radius theres over 40 drs and a lot of them are known to be loose as . I hear about people driving all the way from south jersey up to Brooklyn just cause the drs are known to prescribe w/e you ask for.
I have no idea how we're ever going to fix this problem but I really don't think we ever may.
