Would like to see Telefon Tel Aviv and Arovane have a go..

Check the Bullion Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' remould with 'Dilla beats, genius!

Also worth a mention is Fat Jon, Dert Floyd and Dela.

Steve Gurley is THE don!

Nice swing! (it's a trombone though, not sax)

S'right, a few well chosen pieces of gear that you can get to know inside out, is better than a room full of gear that ain't gonna do you fook all but accumulate dust.

It's all about experimenting, cheap old microphones from car boots or jumble sales have way more character that a two grand Neauman ...

You can get stuff fairly cheaply on E Bay these days, an E Mu sampler secondhand can cost you as little as sixty quid, and they have blinding filters on them.
Aka samplers about eighty notes for an S3000, if you're lucky you can get a fully expanded one for around a ton. Both makes are really useful ...

Thank you!!

Cheers lads, thanks for the advice.

Ordered the WD 800 firewire HD, and an extra 2GB memory chip for the IMac, just to make sure there's enough capacity.

Incidentally if anyone wants cheap IMac/Mac memory, Crucial.com do a very reasonable deal on memory, my 2GB IMac compatible chip cost £18.00 ...

'Phonelines VIP' is really catchy, fantastic tune, so different.

Sound.

Cheers Battle, i appreciate the tips, and you takin' time out to answer.

Everyone else, Cheers too!

Now do i go for the cheaper Western Digital 500GB firewire drive or the more pricey Formac one...

Ive been put off the Iomega Drives as i heard they come supplied with 2 pin plugs??

Cheers, all useful points, and it's kinda pre empted the obvious.

Which hard drive to get, firewire probably, but what's the best make?.

probably looking at 500GB should be enough....

It's all down to whatever floats your boat.
Personally, i used to have a smoke years ago when trying to make music, i remember being hypnotised by a loop and listening to things for ages thinking that they were the greatest sounds i'd ever heard.
Didn't do anything for my objectivity.

Thank you for all of the suggestions. I like the approach of recording one or two hardware items at a time straight into Logic, at least this keeps things simple, then any further editing can be done inside the software.
I was aware that the Apogee has no MIDI functionality, and as has been pointed ...

Hello, i'm new to this forum but have been reading the topics on this board for a while now.
Firstly, just wanted to say thanks to all of you for some informative and generally really bloody useful information about modern electronic music and it's creation in general.

Secondly, and apologies if ...

Hello, firstly i'm a new'un to the forum, so thanks for the chance to contribute to such an excellent and informed community, and the subject matter of developments in new forms of electronic music in general.

right, i have a question that you ladies and gents may possibly be able to help me with ...