I recently got an e-mail from boyinaband.com reader Brandon saying:

i love music and dibble in it i make hip hop music and i love reason, the problem i have is i love to sample but i really want to create my own sounds, my question to you is where did you learn about synths? i watch you and i try to take notes on what does what and why your doing it but i still get a little lost so im just wondering where did you learn about these things there are alot of good synths in hip hop now (i.e The Dream she rocking that thing  , jamie foxx blame it on the) but what are you listening  for when you remake them?

And my response was…

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I figured it was about time to join in; you can now tweet biab’s posts to help spread the word and follow me @boyinaband.

Now I guess I should get a phone that’s not 7 years old so I can be one of those twitter/facebook addicts!

I’ll miss my polyphonic ringtone though…

After making my Top 10 unintentionally hilarious rappers list, it got quite a lot of traffic, so looking into doing another top 10 rappers-y thing, I realised there were actually a crapload of them already dotting the interweb.   So I figured I should compile them!

Here is the Top 10 list of Top 10 lists involving rappers!   (Don’t worry, I haven’t put this list in since I’m pretty sure that’d break the internet.)

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After the awesome Dubstep Tutorial Masterclass with Rusko I found on youtube the other day, I’ve discovered yet another awesome pro dubstep dj sharing his skillz with the world!

Check it out…

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With my absolute obsession over Propellerhead’s Record software growing, I found this page on their site with 6 video micro-tutorials for using Record.

There’s one for using audio, effects, the mixer, guitar, reason integration and the basics in what I’ve just realised is reverse order.

The guy who does them is cool and quirky as well, so good one, random American disembodied voice!

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Reason 5 was supposed to be announced recently.   Instead, look what we have been given by Sweedish software giants Propellerhead.

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