Freeform

i know this is probably a stupid topic to start    considering i find it hard to find people into both dnb and freeform... but are there any AM'ers into freeform here? i just want to talk about how excellent it is  no but really i do

Freeform? as in Freeform Jazz? I have not idea what freeform is if that's not it...

goto ra

 

imagine the total opposite of that



it is basically a sub genre of hardcore techno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform_hardcore

i must say - i'm fucking digging the whole Techno vibe atm, Schranz, Hardcore & general hard NRG around 150bpm+

there's a fucking awesome set by a dude called eRRe, basically Technoid Dnb + Hardcore, well worth a listen

http://www.basslineabuse.com/mp3/elbarrio.mp3

01 eRRe - Apotoma
02 Dr Chekill - Row
03 eRRe - Untitled 777
04 Kalashnikov - Antonio Machine
05 Dub Elements - Hell Rave
06 Dr Chekill - Get Smart
07 eRRe + DR Chekill - Dale Con La Talega Alex!
08 eRRe - Jonathan
09 Cooh + Venganze - Pussy Debra
10 eRRe - El Pintalabios Del Leon Marino
11 Venganze - Lo Parto To (Y No Pago Ná!)
12 Kalashnikov - Fucking (Dub elements RMX)
13 DR Chekill - Back To Front
14 Malsun + eRRe - Cocota De Ketamina (Unfinished)
15 eRRe + Potito - Historias De La Carlota
16 eRRe - Belfos De Mi Leon
17 DR Chekill - Drink Today, Shit Tomorrow
18 Dub Elements - Vandals
19 eRRe - Untitled POYATOR
20 The Prodigy - Poison (eRRe Bootleg)
21 DR Chekill + eRRe - Dale Canoa Manué!
22 DR Chekill - Todo El Mal Que Pueda
23 Digital Soul & Dub Elements - Protoberans
24 Dub Elements - Paralisis
25 eRRe - Play With Us
26 eRRe + Dub elements - Hair Sandwich
27 DR Chekill - FinkBrau
28 Potito - Oh My Homy

 

Could this be the worst thread ever on here?

The whole reason AM exists is so we have a place where things like Freeform don't exist. Freeform is at the bottom of the hard dance food chain which says a lot really, especially considering how far down the music food chain hard dance in general is.

lol @ u wasting time to come in here & post then, sux to be u

its as fair to have a discussion bout it as it is to discuss movies, games, books etc. its not something everybody likes, but if a portion of the massive wanna chat bout it - no dramas. Don't wanna chat? don't click, look, click, type reply, click post. Lot of wasted effort to say u don't like it.
fair enough if it came up as a pop up everytime u refreshed "FREEFORM IS SICK OMG LETS GLOWSTICK & THRASH"... well yeah, fair call to complain

i like hardcore. not so much techno or freeform. sorry. trance either come to think of it.

It's a discussion about Freeform is it not? And my views on freeform are that it is far and away the worst electronic music genre ever. Which says a lot as there have been some shockers.

I ventured in to the dubstep thread to say I think dubstep is poo, but freeform is the poo that 2girls1cup did the following day.

Also, if we continue to let threads such dubstep and freeform in, the how are we different from RA?

the people who post here tend to have a passion for drum and bass above and over everything else, but that doesnt mean that is the only thing they listen to. AM is still predominanty dnb, regardless of a couple of threads about dubstep and freeform. oh and the hip hop thread. and funk/soul/disco thread. and all the other threads in the lounge section that have sweet f/a to do with music, let alone dnb.

all good. just dont want undesirables sneaking in through a back door is all.

i'll sneak in ur backdoor anyday

denied.

not much could sneak back there anyway, it'd be more of a kamikaze affair i'd say.

Says Mr Tinrib Noddy.

 

i used to be into hardcore but grew out of it like almost everyone does. still kinda annoyed that i sold all my nasenbluten. dont mind a bit of techno, but ive never ever found nrg or freeform to be that appealing.

each to their own tho...

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!! OMG! funniest shit I've read all day!

whatever happened to having an open mind when it comes to music. and by this i dont necessarily mean liking everything you hear. i just mean at least realise other people might be into it. i dont go into any thread saying i dislike what is represented thats a waste of energy.. i prefer talking about shit i do like. and as much as i love my drum and bass i have to say at this juncture alot of it is disposable pap. and im not really sure what freeform is? is it hardhouse? if so not my cup of tea if but each to their own methinks. 

touche


you gonna compare freeform to dubstep clownstep boy? 

hey, what the fuck is freeform anyway? i grew out of hardhouse, trance, lab 4 etc about 10 years ago, so i truly dont know. ill give anything a listen at least once.

I have no problems admitting to have loved certain music styles (hardcore, happy hard, nrg etc). Fortunately I lost interest when those styles stopped progressing and being interesting.

Freeform on the other hand has just never offered anything interesting to me. I've always found it to be mindless, disposable music for kids off their nuts. Obviously there have been a few standout tunes in the genre, but on a whole these come along very rarely and more often than not are just freeform versions of classic tunes from other genres.

sharkey should be strung up and publicly flogged for his crimes against humanity!

I'll check this out just out of interest, but I highly doubt that I will enjoy it.

*Edit*: Oh and could someone please explain just what freeform actually is? The almighty Wikipedia knows nothing.

there is a fair bit of info + links here on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeform_hardcore

hmmm Wikipedia didn't come up with this when I typed in Freeform. Closest thing was Free Jazz.

That was a bit confusing. Maybe I'll check back when I'm not so tired.

Listened to that mix you posted Skinny. Got kind of bored pretty fast....

I think you must have posted the wrong link dude because that set you have put up is fucking horrible.

If anybody needs proof that certain styles should never be combined, it's right here.

  sorry - my bad - i thought i was posting the mix in a thread where people might have an interest in techno/hardcore style of dnb - instead it seems i posted it in the thread that's been hi-jacked by flaming & blanket opinion bashing nazis.
why would u come into a thread u hate and have made your opinions about this quite clear, d/l the mix & then proceed to say its rubbish, thats like me going onto a metal forum, signing up - posting "this stuff is shite... but i'll just download some stuff that i think is shite first.... then say its shite a bit more" - we get the point, its not your cuppa.

i can't even believe i'm on a music forum defending a discussion bout some people chattin bout some differnt tunes. its fucking deplorable really. I feel sorry for all u negative nancys with sand in your vaginas - go comment something positively for once.   


btw, the style i was highlighting around 7, 13 & 37mins in the mix - bangin

Welcome to the AM we all know and love.

Nazi and proud!

@ least u know it.... now, where'd i put my glowsticks

After posting that mix I know where you deserve to have em put!

  - me right now 

on-topic, i've started to like a bit shranz too, anything with a nice heavy industrial sound i think - so many styles of hard dance makes it a bastard to find

this'll be the first and last time i come in this thread


Freeform is fkn horrible


the end

i don't actually know what freeform is lol or if i like it.... not a fan of anything over 180bpm tho in case it falls into that category, needs to be bounce worthy so to speak

freeform is hard to explain. some of it is like hard trance but faster, but some uses influences and synths  and loops from electro, dnb, breakbeat, house, techno etc etc...

a majority of it is between 170-175 bpm

i don't know heaps of freeform myself, but i dont mind listening to it every now and then

im open to giving each style of music a chance

Do you have some kind of example?

Picture a elephant riding on a tiny bike, entering a big top tent. Now the music that goes a long with that, speed it up to 180bpm

Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to see Kevin NRG or Sharkey the set before Pendulum at Enchanted 2006 - well that's freeform.

You pretty much take bits of happy hardcore, nrg, trance & chipmunks then play the resulting mess in fast forward.

  - just the picture of an elephant riding a tiny bike is lol - heehee

ok... i think i need to hear this - can someone get a link?

Ledz you got one? You seem to be the only person here who really knows much about it.

If you're willing to waste the bandwidth, there are more than a few here: http://www.raveadelaide.com.au/forum/index.php?showforum=26

so u d/l them all and then told everyone how shite they are?

is DJ Proteus freeform? www.myspace.com/proteusfin

actually doesn't sound too bad - but this might not be freeform, its got that ravey feel, but track i'm listening to atm has a surging guitar synth thing, i dunno - for small dose of doof doof could be a lot worse

Proteus? The following picture should be all that's needed to be said about him...

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shit music but a fantastic dj. Really nice dude too

is that a combo of john b and dylan?

he looks like a lesbian

the sex would be good

   that is funny shit.


I actually like freeform, a mate had about 15 records and i used to love mixing them.  Saying that it was well over 5 years ago and i dont know what it may have warped into by now.  It used to be about 170 to 180 bpm, so it can be (technically) mixed with dnb.   

I used to love Freeform

Then it all started to sound a lot like happy hardcore. Stupid high pitched voices. I blame Kevin Energy and his homo mc for that. Wankers.

All I know is my three fav mixes from those days were Freeformation 1,2,3 by E-Nrg very dark stuff.

Havent listened to it for ages so maybe my memory of it is different to how it really was, but check out those 3 if you're remotely interested in the stuff.

I just had a thought. What the fuck is he actually doing in this photo? This photo makes no sense! 

That guy scares me!

I'll admit that I used to be into some of the bonkers type stuff for a while. Then I grew out of it and found it to be boring and as you said, every standout track was something I had heard before with a faster beat and more cheesy trancey sounds. Can listen to it for all of 5 minutes these days. Possibly the most unoriginal sub-genre of music ever.

I describe it as trance on a shyteload of gear.

so, it beats regular trance by a country mile then?

I guess, I stopped listening to trance when I was like 16. Can't say I'm a fan of either genre anymore.

DJ Proteus does his bit for Jump rope for Heart.

Got a couple examples for ya:

*  STORMTROOPER - Addictz (Thin & Crispy) http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF190968-01-02-01.mp3

*  http://www.lostsoulproductions.net/audio/come_and_get_it.mp3

*  http://www.lostsoulproductions.net/audio/adversary_insaneversion.mp3

*  http://www.lostsoulproductions.net/audio/sacrifice.mp3

*  http://www.hardbeatstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=6718

ive been told lost soul, arkitech and stormtrooper r the best

ps... Proteus is Hard NRG

who ends his sets with freeform

its all way to close for my ear to differentiate, good beats tho nonetheless

I can only really handle it when its infused into dnb, so maybe instead of bassline, have the hardcore kick, but same dnb breakbeat,amen etc... i 'm diggin it

 

so whos going to system6 this friday at earth? 

i don't mind a bit of freeform, its good to do gym to etc
Alek Szahala is def my fav producer/DJ, a very talented young boy

http://www.raveadelaide.com.au/forum/index.php?showtopic=13830&st=0

yeah i like alek szahala.. i have one of his records... definately talented 

at least not everyone is a "freeform hater" on here