Canada knocked out by Slovakia at men's hockey worlds

eraserad · 7 days

Well, there hasn't been a Canadian team in the playoffs since the first round. So it gives Canadians a team to follow.

ladysixstring · 13 days

Hmm, underground deep house.. that's what I like to play, I'll hafta check that out sometime.

ladysixstring · 13 days

Awesome DJ there on Wednesdays ;)

InformedIgnorance · 17 days

Recession...?

TheMorningDeuce · 1 month

If you can't eat, drink water.

Jrnmlnmrtnz · 1 month

2nd last episode of season 1, she is topless in one scene.

DukeDaLuke · 1 month

This is an awesome story! Congrats, man.

A_RedditUsername · 2 months

I have a vci-300 and I like Itch, it is the program that it was designed for..

madreus · 2 months

I'm going to disagree with Kylearn a little bit. When you graduate all that will be on your resume is the year you graduated, so there won't appear to be a gap in your resume. Additionally, what's the point of putting a half completed degree on your resume, you didn't get a degree you just took some classes. Its similar to removing jobs that are not applicable to your career. I would personally not have it on there.

biggerthancheeses · 2 months

It would be awesome if he did something like this in Toronto, so I could go!

MajorTunage · 2 months

I know my last post is still near the top of /r/Guelph but thought more people would see this if I created a new post, feedback welcome.

king-rat · 2 months

So you're saying that people download music they've never heard? I wasn't aware that went on at all so I bow to your knowledge there.

Yep, many labels release promo-packs of artists on their labels, as an example. It usually isn't high quality and is often watermarked to mitigate piracy but I've found countless artists this way (and yes I do buy their stuff).

Take Beatport for example... You can only listen to a small portion of the song, how am I supposed to know what the rest of the song sounds like? Is the preview an accurate depiction of the song? I'll download stuff so I can listen to the whole song, and purchase the good tracks that I'll be playing in my sets. Somebody might say, "Hey you downloaded my track but you didn't purchase it" and I'll say: "Yeah I downloaded it, listened to it, and I just didn't like it (or it didn't fit in my set)." It might seen like an odd way of finding music but I want to preview the entire track, something which is generally not available.

A downloaded file =/= a lost sale (which is what many people seem to think).

Remember, we're not talking about regular music buyers here. DJ's are supposed to be music lovers, supposed to care about music and the artists who make the music they play? No?

I agree with you there, if you are a DJ who is getting paid to play music you better be fucking buying that shit. But that is just the way it is, labels need to branch out to survive.

Perhaps I'm just a sentimental old fool.

Perhaps, but it is sad to see independent labels go because of unfortunate circumstances.

king-rat · 2 months

No, I'm saying somebody would download the tune, and like it enough to purchase it, if they didn't download it for free they might have never heard it in the first place. I'm saying a tiny proportion would pay for it because they were exposed to a the pirated track. Only a tiny proportion of people who download pirated tracks would pay for it, yes that's exactly what I said in my post.

I never said I had a solution, but people need to focus on what can bring in money... touring/merch etc. Piracy is a fact of life and it ain't going anywhere soon, so labels need to find other avenues of making money if piracy is such a concern.

CptSpaulding · 2 months

Get to know the promoters/bar owners. Go talk to them, see if they would be willing to have you for a demo night where you come and play for free but hopefully attract (or bring) a good group of people, if the night goes well they will likely invite you back. Also, put together some promo mixes to give out.

CptSpaulding · 2 months

I would imagine most bars/clubs would have their own systems.

king-rat · 2 months

No, I'm just saying you can't solely blame piracy. I mean, if 5000 people downloaded a song, how many of them would have been willing to purchase it in the first place? a small fraction I imagine. They are downloading something because it is readily available that they might have never purchased in the first place... On the other side downloading a track for free might give well needed exposure and result in somebody actually purchasing the track.

I just find that piracy is too easily the scapegoat when some sort of new business plan is actually required.

And I'm not arguing against your point that piracy will result in some lost sales.

king-rat · 2 months

Well, they're (the label owner) blaming piracy which does not mean it was solely piracy... Its easy to blame something on piracy and not your own shortcomings. Without doing more research I couldn't say much else but blaming piracy as the only reason the label failed just doesn't cut it.

username303 · 2 months

Going either way has it's merits. I personally started DJing because I found it fun and a lot easier than producing... Once you have heard tons of tracks and mixed them together you get a better idea of how to create a song and such. That's just my 2 cents.

king-rat · 2 months

Oh yeah? What labels have ceased to exist solely due to pirating? Do tell.

fried_chilli · 2 months

Try /r/AskAcademia

You will likely get better answers there.

austinyb · 2 months

You shouldn't be thinking like this... more like.. Which one of these controllers will allow me to be more creative?

The average party-goer will not even see/look-at what you are using and the only people that might judge you are old school snobs.

rabbitinhat · 2 months

I did P90x without changing my diet and didn't lose weight... I did it with the 17-day diet and lost over 15lbs...

Weight loss is 10% exercise, 90% diet (non-scientific gneralization of course).

username303 · 2 months

Get him a cheap beginner (DJ) control surface for virtual DJ... You can find one (especially used) with that $200...

Otherwise get him Ableton Live (cracked obv. with your budget) and tell him to save up for the legit version (If he sticks with it)... You could probably get him a control surface for that too like a Novation launchpad. But somebody who is a beginner with production doesen't need a control surface at all, all you need is a mouse and a keyboard. Control surfaces will streamline production once he's learned the basics.

Best option: get him some tutorials for Ableton Live along with the actual program, Tom Cosm is what I would reccommend ($50 for all his tuts) and if you have enough leftover get him a cheap hercules or behringer controller for DJing.

I would recommend he focuses on DJing or production.

tr1st4n · 2 months

Especially if you have lost weight (and are still losing) thrift stores are great for that transition time. I'm a little thrift-whore, I love going and getting outfits for a fraction of the price.

I've probably spent $250 thrifting in 2012 alone...I've found Levi 501's and 516's that look unworn and lots of good shirts etc... Only thing I never find is shoes b/c I'm a size 12 :(

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