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"Boom Digga Boom Digga" Basslines. Who's Over It?
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Invizible Kid
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 18:09
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There are certainly conventions in any genre of music which people follow, and some are indeed nescesary for the music to fit into a genre. The most basic example, of course, is that you're not going to hesitate to put 'four to the floor' with a kick drum hit on every beat if you want to make a traditional dancefloor stomper.
What's with the 'boom digga boom digga' basslines though? (The 'digga' being two 16th bass notes on the backbeat and the 'boom being the kick.) Does anyone else find this really boring and unimaginative? The typical EQ'ed '303 full-on basslines' have become a psytrance convention, and I do think that they work really well when they have a bit of funk in their trousers, but DAMN! ENOUGH WITH THE BOOM-DIGGA-BOOM-DIGGA! |
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e-motion
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 19:52
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is that beat box? |
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Invizible Kid
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 20:12
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heh, yeah, I guess so. It's beat box like 'boom wah boom wah' is a kick on the beat and a bass note on the backbeat.
Don't get me started on 'boomwah-boomwah' :) |
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Meta
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Posted : Mar 19, 2006 06:46
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sideFXed
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Posted : Mar 19, 2006 15:09
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I don't know how it is in other countries but as soon we hear kbkbkbkbkb sound I call it progressive (psy) trance... kbbbkbbbkbbbkbbb is psy trance... 
Swiss parties mostly write psy trance party on the flyer and you can almost be 100% sure you don't get kbkbkbkbkb sound.
LMAO
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diskOtek
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Posted : Mar 19, 2006 16:28
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On 2006-03-19 15:09, sideFXed wrote:
I don't know how it is in other countries but as soon we hear kbkbkbkbkb sound I call it progressive (psy) trance... kbbbkbbbkbbbkbbb is psy trance...
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this is very general sideFXed and dont think it suits many cases!
i ve heard prog tracks with kbbbk combo and psy going kbkbkb!
actually there are about a million other combinations! 
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FluoSamsara (Oxygen)
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Posted : Mar 20, 2006 00:17
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On 2006-03-19 15:09, sideFXed wrote:
I don't know how it is in other countries but as soon we hear kbkbkbkbkb sound I call it progressive (psy) trance... kbbbkbbbkbbbkbbb is psy trance...
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if im not mistaken (just an example) 1200mics-mescaline is kbkbkbkbkbkbkbkbkbk and its definetelly not progressive!! |
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Psymatika
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Posted : Mar 20, 2006 00:18
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I agree with you Invizible Kid - you got any new ideas kickin in the sequencer? PM me we make new better style psytrance 
(and leave all these childish idiots making stupid sssjjjwwbbsjj sjsiiwbs sounds to themselves ha)
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tribalizer
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Posted : Mar 20, 2006 01:19
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the thing with the boomdiggaboomdiggaboom is that the trancers need these VIBRATING PULSATIONS to shake their trance out! Its produce endorphins and other stuff...
its not a "genre", its a *fonction*
thats why psytrance is like that. To dance your Saturday Night youre better off with house or drumnbass, or electro imo
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Freeflow
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Posted : Mar 20, 2006 02:19
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NikC
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Posted : Mar 20, 2006 03:58
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I like K bbK bbK bbK bb
Like the beginning of Tube - Dinosaur (although not big fan of later guitars)
or Commercial Hippies - Not Human
+ loads of stuff...
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Elad
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br0d
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Posted : Mar 20, 2006 08:54
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On 2006-03-18 18:09, Invizible Kid wrote:
There are certainly conventions in any genre of music which people follow, and some are indeed nescesary for the music to fit into a genre. The most basic example, of course, is that you're not going to hesitate to put 'four to the floor' with a kick drum hit on every beat if you want to make a traditional dancefloor stomper.
What's with the 'boom digga boom digga' basslines though? (The 'digga' being two 16th bass notes on the backbeat and the 'boom being the kick.) Does anyone else find this really boring and unimaginative? The typical EQ'ed '303 full-on basslines' have become a psytrance convention, and I do think that they work really well when they have a bit of funk in their trousers, but DAMN! ENOUGH WITH THE BOOM-DIGGA-BOOM-DIGGA!
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If you don't like it you should recommend an alternative and/or listen to something else, because variations on a pulse is what psytrance is about. The psychoacoustics of dance music and brainwave entrainment are what have brought us to this point. These anti-bassline threads are redundant, there are other genres and offshoots for people who don't like heavy basslines. Inability to locate them is no reason to complain about psytrance. I mean it's as dumb as saying "I wish these metal bands would quit fricking palm muting!" |
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Invizible Kid
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Posted : Mar 20, 2006 15:04
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On 2006-03-20 08:54, br0d wrote:
If you don't like it you should recommend an alternative and/or listen to something else, because variations on a pulse is what psytrance is about. The psychoacoustics of dance music and brainwave entrainment are what have brought us to this point. These anti-bassline threads are redundant, there are other genres and offshoots for people who don't like heavy basslines. Inability to locate them is no reason to complain about psytrance. I mean it's as dumb as saying "I wish these metal bands would quit fricking palm muting!"
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I fucking love hard hitting basslines and I understand that it's what the dancefloor is all about. I listen to plenty of genres aside from 'psytrance', and like I already said, I understand that there are conventions involved. None of that should stop anyone from trying to be imaginative.
I guess it's just the single note 'boomdigga' patterns that I find the most annoying. People can and do write stomping psytrance basslines without resorting to single-note 'boomdigga' and 'boomwah'. |
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Reece
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Posted : Mar 21, 2006 10:52
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i hear what ur saying invizible kid, i find it more to do with the actual *note length* than note rhythm tho....
varying the note lengths, even within conventional 16th or quarter note basslines, opens up whole new worlds of funk and groove.... not to mention velocity / volume
sub 6 is a group that springs to mind who i think understand this concept well.
i find tracks that rely on 'dugga-dugga' basslines for their power get real boring, real quick.
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