Nice! The song took a bit to kick in, I almost bailed on it. Glad I stuck around. Melodic Drum & Bass?

Could be... depends on which link you clicked. Madeon's original seems to be filed under Electro House, but I first heard it as the Netsky remix on DI.fm's Liquid Drum'n'Bass channel. Either way, they both seem to flirt with some Dubstep elements (like the original's heavy kick-snare-kick-snare drum pattern).

What I've explored of Madeon's stuff is pretty good too... Pop Culture and The City I can certainly recommend. I'd be buying the album... if there was an album. Seems all Amazon has for Madeon are downloadable singles.

(goes deaf and scrambles for the volume) Ye cats and little fishies, that was loud. :P But is nifty once it doesn't hurt. :D Is you?

Unrelatedly: Professor Elemental, Chap-Hop, 'A Cup of Brown Joy'. Tea never rocked so hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

And my favorite dubstep, Klaypex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zuAOomfiCc

Is not me. In my wildest dreams I write stuff this mind-blowing. In reality, well... I suppose it's not bad, but still nowhere near this level. I hold out this hope that really what I have is fundamentally good, but if I had a good engineer with a rack of equipment to master it, it would really shine. Or maybe at least sparkle a little bit.

Been doing that a lot lately... hearing things and realizing I'm never going to create anything on that level. I guess that's really the curse of the jack-of-all-trades: you truly are a master of none. If I had focused on music when I was 6, sure I'd be knocking out stuff like that effortlessly. If I'd focused on racing when I was 10 (and my parents had some money to throw around) I might have started karting or club racing and worked my way up through the ranks. If I'd focused like a laser on a single career, sure I'd be raking in $120,000 a year before I was 30.

Instead I'm well rounded: Friendly, non-threatening but without any useful edges to actually do anything.

Ah well, life is what you make it, right?

Professor Elemental? That's fantastic. When I say "Ooo" you say "Long"? I'm kinda proud that I actually get that joke, let alone used to drink it. Klaypex sounds good too, must investigate further...

I hear you about the curse of the jack-of-all-trades. I am squarely entrenched in that mode as well. I can reach 75% mastery of nearly everything I try/have tried (and fairly quickly too). But its like pushing a car uphill on an icy slope; the extra effort to reach even that 80% threshold seems to require 10x more effort. I'm sure the JOAT is one reason why we have clicked on so many aspects (hobbies, interests, music).
I'm really hoping that this latest endeavor will provide me a path to succeed. I only have *1* more class until I'm done, even though I get to participate in the graduation in January.

(patpats) Always someone better at things than you / I are/am. If you worry about only being the best, you won't ever do anything. Be the best you can be and improve where you can.

Klaypex's album Loose Dirt is downloadable for free from one of the links on that video, and all the songs are up on youtube as well. I like Professor Elemental a lot... Animal Magic is one of my favorites, and Fighting Trousers is a good diss-track re Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer. (He does mainly parodies, so I don't think he's as good. Plus, he plays a banjolele, so there's that.)

My dear, that is truly groovy.

Bah...this makes me want to get off my lazy rump and find some good, free software to start poking at mixing my own music. Nothing fancy, just simple instruments and such.

One of the great things about living in this day and age is that almost all the barriers to entry on anything have crumbled into dust. It used to be you needed racks of equipment costing thousands of dollars to create electronic music. Now, throw down a few hundred bucks for the latest copy of Reason and you are well on your way. And I'm sure there are plenty of free and/or open-source alternatives. They may not have the spit-polish of Reason, but the price is definitely right.

Hell, if you just want to poke around, go retro and grab a tracker. I'd totally recommend Schism Tracker, a re-working of the amazing Impulse Tracker so it plays well with Windows. It does take some getting used to and maybe a while to wrap your brain around how they work, but it's a fantastic no-cost way to bust out high-quality sample-driven music.

On second thought, Schism may be a little too un-graphical for this day and age. I'm sure a search for Tracker software could net you something a little more user-friendly. But still, the format as a whole is quite viable.

Yeah, the real problem is I'm lazy...well, that and the free softward I have found so far doesn't come with any sort of instruments in it, so it makes it hard to do any mixing.

You are so good at finding those tracks that are not only pleasing to the ear, but you can't help but tap your foot at the same time. DnB is not always my cup of tea, but the melodic DnB bridges that gap into more familiar territory for me.
Thanks for sharing!

Just another one I stumbled over while cooking dinner and listening to DI.fm's Liquid D'n'B channel. It's a friggin' monster anthem, isn't it? I could walk around all day just singing out the chorus (the sort of indefinite 'whoa-a-whooaawhooaa'ing).

On the subject of monster anthems, I shared The Plan That Cannot Fail with you, right? Completely epic... made me love myself and hate myself all at the same time. Like anything I ever wanted to do was possible and yet I would never achieve anything meaningful in my life.

Then again, what do you expect from the same group that brought us Out of This World? Not only could I sing that song all day long, it always makes me dance. And you know how rare an occurrence that is. ^_^