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They updated FL Studio from 24 to 25! The loop starter feature is kinda meh tho, I feel like that's gonna get abused a lot. Everything else is good though!

These recent book bans and careless training and destruction of books for AI training might've reignited reading as a serious hobby for me again. At least this time I don't have to stop every few pages to do an assignment just for a grade can't believe school killed it for me so many years ago.

Can one of you listing watchers buy this thing off me already??? it's been a few months that it's been listed and I already lowered the listing price quite a bit... way under market value now and it should be better value with the additional goodies. Whatev Also I think this is a great addition to the forums ->

Those are great picks! Monrroe and Hybrid Minds were some of the artists that got me back into DnB. It's a shame that liquid got the "sleepy" reputation over the years. It can be very energetic too! at one point you could safely mix a liquid track with techstep and neurofunk, but it's super jarring nowadays, oh well. Anyways... I saw a distributor list this one, new old stock apparently. They listed a few so I might be able to grab a copy + they aren't so expensive. State of Play - Stranger Days (Marcus Intalex & ST Files Remix)

Welcome! That's a very nice pfp you have

I should probably try to move on from Windows 10. It seems like Native Instruments and Arturia would be the biggest pain to get working though (for me). Including their app managers. Arturia would suck the most if it doesn't work because I really like their stuff! I'm gonna place this here for myself later or if anyone else wants it: https://linuxdaw.org

A new release by Calibre! I was kinda right with it being liquid dnb. The other side is actually more like some mellow UK Garage/Breaks. Calibre & Chelou - No Man Is An Island

I'm glad nobody saw me try to drink from the handle of a spoon

I kinda forgot to post about this one! Music label showcase: Soul:R / Revolve:r Soul:R (pronounced like "solar" and also written as Soulr) was a drum and bass label founded and ran by Marcus Intalex & ST Files since 2001, primarily releasing a variety of liquid funk and techstep. It also ran alongside sister label Revolve:r as well as hosting Soul:ution club nights. Revolve:r in particular started releasing drum and bass, but quickly shifted to releasing some dubstep and techno by the end of it's lifespan. It's considered as one of the best drum and bass labels of all time but unfortunately shut down operations in 2017/2018 after the sudden death of Marcus Intalex. (Cause of death is publicly unknown; I believe the label Metalheadz handles business for them now, they just don't release anything new on Soul:R out of respect other than remasters and new vinyl record prints of older releases.) It's tough to separate Soul:R from Marcus Intalex. His first love was actually with techno, but he got dragged into what was jungle at the time and began releasing music (as a collab with Mark XTC and L Double) under the name Da Intalex (What Ya Gonna Do - 1994) before his legendary collabs with ST Files (How You Make Me Feel - 1999; Just A Vision (Remix) - 2000; Universe - 2001, just to name a few). How You Make Me Feel is actually considered as one of the first "liquid funk" tracks to be released, right before the 2000's hit. It was much different than what many other artists were releasing at the time which made it stand out a lot. Actually, the B side to it is Neptune, which is a lot more representative of what was dominating drum and bass. They also released Taking Over Me during this time on Hospital Records. Also, they made the song Smart Systems for the game Wipeout Pulse, which I've heard is one of the best songs ever made for the franchise. What's funny is that he and ST Files didn't get along at first. Afaik, they worked at a record shop together for a while and their rave music tastes didn't fit together mostly. Marcus Intalex preferred darker sounding stuff while ST Files liked brighter cheesier stuff, but eventually they got along. Later on, Marcus Intalex would make a turn towards more techno-related works under the alias Trevino and ran the label Birdie. And unexpectedly he passed away in 2017. A book was written about him called How You Make Me Feel, which I still need to grab and read for myself. The Marcus Intalex Music Foundation was set up afterwards, also ST Files started a label called Br:nk with two releases: Grow and Astral Plane, both done with Calibre. There have also been some postmortem releases, the most recent being an older collab with Mako called Keep Your Cool which was released quite recently. But anyways, back to Soul:R. The name itself didn't have much thought put into it. Afaik it's literally just the word soul stylized with a colon and an R at the end of it because it was the 2000's, everything needed to look cool like that. Alongside the M.I.S.T duo, they featured artists like Calibre, D.Kay & DJ Lee, DJ Marky & XRS, High Contrast, Sonic & Silver, Martyn, Phil Tangent, and LSB, to name a few. It's got one of the most powerful lineups ever as well as being one of the least controversial lineups, relatively speaking. I personally don't feel a single bit grimy with buying from any of these artists and the label as a whole. A lot of other labels have some sort of controversy or some issue that an artist gets involved in (ranging from the label not paying their artists properly, to some artists becoming insufferable pricks), but that isn't the case here. Well, maybe other than Commix... who scammed some people and has a drug addiction apparently (that's probably why he scammed people). But it used to be a trio, then a duo, then a solo project when the 2010's passed by. They also ran an online radio show called Soul:ution Radio. I don't know when it ended but it definitely started in the early 2000's. Pretty much playing and promoting music from inside the studio, quite standard. But yeah, here's the playlist, combining both Soul:R and Revolve:R. Enjoy! This Ain't Love is one of my favorites now btw, I love it a lot!

I'm sure we've all listened to some music before and thought it sounded like it was specifically made for a video game when it actually wasn't. If you've ever experienced this feel free to share below! Right now I'm giving the Total Science duo a proper listen through and ran across this one from them. Originally released in 2000 on their Advance album, this track has that weird video game OST quirkyness to it especially of that time period. But it was never made or featured in a video game afaik! Total Science - Jinx

This is exactly how ridiculous it sounds. I'm still getting people responding to a comment I made a while ago telling me it will "never happen" despite the admittedly obscure information about this one specific scenario because, especially modern day, it doesn't fail. The actual technical experts that I've been referencing have said it's designed to not fail, but they also say that there's a possibility it could fail. It's just a very rare situation to be in that it's the last thing to be worried about. I'm wondering if people think when I used the word "concern" they think it means I take it with higher priority. That wasn't how I was using the word. It's the only situation that makes me concerned because it usually means there's a larger mess to clean up, which I would actually take with higher priority. The other situations are just an easy and inexpensive fix which doesn't concern me.

Just because it never happened to you (in your "over 20 years" of experience) doesn't mean it never happens at all.

@Ice Princess Silky <3 How do the we do the voting for the funny faces?

My bank's email verification system couldn't be ANY SLOWER could it? Waiting 30 minutes already for a verification code.

I was scrolling through old, forgotten websites, it's crazy how much of a wild west it was.

This video about a game I was waiting for being canceled! Hypnospace Outlaw is a fun game and I was waiting for this sequel to be released

I'm an INFP. So that would make me an easygoing dreamer here. Never looked too deeply into it before but now looking into it, I feel a bit called out. :v The MBTI result i mean.

I would say something about this but when I was a lot younger, I used to hang out with this one kid from school and he got me to throw rocks at people's backdoor patios. This was in an apartment complex, so there were floors to aim for. And yeah we hit the glass doors a few times. Funny enough was we didn't get in trouble for that. There's actually quite a bit of stuff we did that somehow we didn't get in trouble for. It was hanging out in the public rec room without someone who was at least 16 that got us. We were like 10 or 11 when this happened. You can tell he wasn't the best influence on me right?