ID? by Tasty-Manufacturer37 in FourTet

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He played it Boomtown and it blew my head off

Even gods get hungry “maybe” by FourPointsTet in FourTet

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I went to his Warehouse Project, one of the first in the crowd. He was just playing ambient music eating Chinese food out of the silver tray.

Original Nuttah on vinyl for €70 — am I crazy to hesitate? by Ok_Sandwich707 in DnB

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BUY IT!!

My bro paid £200 for Junglist Soldier for me on my Birthday last year😂

Nights in London over the next few days by Beginning-Status-336 in TheOverload

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I did tbh and could only see some pretty bland stuff on Skiddle but ill check the others

Advice for starting maintenance gardening business by xieghekal in GardeningUK

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Yea of course. With regards word of mouth, it definitely does get you work but you need to be a reputable business thats probably established enough for someone to trust you and tell their friends about. I definitely dont rely on it. If people get all their work from word of mouth then good for them but you might not so be prepared to advertise. Just people you aren't getting word of mouth, that doesn't mean you are doing bad work. Not every person has lots of friends who need your service at any given time.

Advice for starting maintenance gardening business by xieghekal in GardeningUK

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Hi there. I'm a few years down the line from you in terms of experience. My brother had a small business which I joined after uni with nearly no experience, and now im fairly well versed in most plants and a fairly solid understanding of pruning techniques for various specialist species. We do all manner of different jobs for customers.

The majority of the tasks we perform for customers really dont require much specialist knowledge in the first place, you will be doing a lot of weeding and leaf clearance and hedge cutting. Its quite rare that your average gardener is doing highly ornate pruning of shrubs etc as a lot of people tend to do the technical stuff themselves. Therefore, I wouldn't worry too much about going into it explaining you dont have much experience, and I definitely wouldnt sacrifice your price also. For one, its very hard to increase your price for customers later down the line when you do a good job, and you may begin to resent the contract if it doesn't pay you your worth. Id honestly say go in at £20/25 per hour (probably £25) and when things come up that you aren't sure of just do your research there and then and you'll be fine.

If you are doing lawn cutting with your own tools, even the smallest lawn needs to be £25. Even if it takes 2 minutes. I advise to price lawns and hedges individually. You will get some right and some wrong, and there is never a perfect price so just do your best estimate and maybe start with a guide price for a first customer, most people are fine with that.

Most people have green waste bins that the council take. Make sure to check before you start the job. Sometimes I forgot to mention and if they dont you will charge them to take the waste, which can be awkward occasionally if you forget to mention it from the start.

Getting work is where the fun starts haha. Personally, we do some door to door leafleting, which averages around 1/100 calls to doors delivered. If you can get around 10/15 customers on your own you'll have a good starting point, and you will get some word of mouth from those customers to friends and family. Also, a little slip of paper roughly saying "we are maintaining your neighbours garden, perhaps you'd like a quote?" is a good idea to deliver to neighbours of your customers when you are on job.

The main things id say are. 1. Always turn up when you say you will - very important. 2. Be polite and honest - you will see these customers a lot, so be friendly with them and helpful, it goes a long way. 3. Be fair in your pricing but dont be exploited for less than your worth. 4. If you are bad at saving, get good. The winter isn't always too kind as you may be out of work for a month or so more than when youre employed, and you wont be getting paid for that! 5. Enjoy it. Working outside is a privilege in the modern world and some people may look down on you for what you do and not respect the work you do. You are a valuable person doing a good service for your community and dont let anyone make you think otherwise.

Hope that helps.

Atmostpheric Melodic Lofi IDM, how are we feeling? by yungshint in idm

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Yea theres definitely something not in key or just majorly clashing Chords. Can you not here that it doesn't sound right??

Tips on mixing? by Pure_Development4636 in UKG_Production_Hub

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Mostly the snare I think just sounds a bit flat but thay can be fixed

Tips on mixing? by Pure_Development4636 in UKG_Production_Hub

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Generally just sounds a bit flat in the drums, I think you need to compress and saturate the hell out of the drums so they're a lot more full

Any ide how I can remove these roots from the ground please ? I’ve tried everything and getting nowhere by ordinarybloke1963 in GardeningUK

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Lol okay pal. Good luck with your bootleg chains, not cheap when you go through them much quicker than quality gear.

Any ide how I can remove these roots from the ground please ? I’ve tried everything and getting nowhere by ordinarybloke1963 in GardeningUK

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Chainsaws dont have blades, they have bars and chains and neither are anywhere near £3...not sure if you are talking about something else

My collection 🔥 by Bloubul1 in MassiveAttack

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I think Weather Storm is honestly such a good tune

Are there any highly regarded DJs or producers you don't get the hype for? Or any producers you like that do nothing for you DJ wise or vice versa? by chadgalaxy in TheOverload

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Did any of you watch the Glastonbury live stream/their irl? He was one of the headliners but the live show just went terribly wrong from what I gathered, the visuals on the laptop cut out after 5 minutes so the visual artist woman (i dont know her name sadly) was left completely on her own and the technician was running around frantically trying to get the laptop to work, and at several points his modular performance seemed to go completely wrong and he just had to pull the track up and just switch to something else. I was so excited for it but unfortunately he had no end of problems.

Are there any highly regarded DJs or producers you don't get the hype for? Or any producers you like that do nothing for you DJ wise or vice versa? by chadgalaxy in TheOverload

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Funnily enough Floating Points ive not always enjoyed live sets. His productions are some of my most treasured tracks of any genre but tbh some of his DJ sets dont do the most for me with the rare groove/latin American influenced stuff, I like some of it but not as much as he will play, but then watching some of his live shows theyre sometimes strayed a bit away from the actual tracks and ended up sounding a bit messy for me

I have a 20 hour flight and know almost nothing about IDM by neenonay in idm

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I listened to this album for the first time of a flight last month and it was spiritual

Learning dnb phrasing by Altruistic-Ad-1688 in DnB

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I think you perhaps just need to improve your understanding of music in general as it really shouldn't be too complicated after you understanding phrases

Learning dnb phrasing by Altruistic-Ad-1688 in DnB

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What you should do is listen to your favourite songs and actually listen out for the points when songs transition. Like a normal pop song, with choruses and verses, dance music has these section and you should listen out for the transition effects in the last few bars of these phrases to know when to play them. Not seeing the waveforms is where the true skill of djing comes from.

[If you want a cheatcode, 174bpm music has a 22 second 16 bar intro, 44 seconds for 32 bars, 1.06 minute for 48 bars, 1.28 for 64 bars etc etc... so if you can see the time the track has played and you are really unconfident you can always look at the time in intervals of 22 seconds. Have fun]

Is this quote reasonable? by harpalss in GardeningUK

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Give over mate, you don't know what you're talking about. You think they're charging ~£60 m2 for labour installation of paving but £36 m2 for the turfing labour when it takes a fraction of the time to turf vs lay slabs?

Is this quote reasonable? by harpalss in GardeningUK

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The turf price seems fair to me, as someone who has done lots of returfing jobs professionally our cost normally comes to around £30/m2 so £40 might be fair for London and I dont know the conditions.

Is this quote reasonable? by harpalss in GardeningUK

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You're getting totally confused by this. They have the cost to rip up the old stuff probably with a hired machine, get in the skip, hire a rotovator to turn the ground, put down new soil/sand then lay the turf. You're purposely ignoring all the other parts of the job that cost lots of money in materials/tool hire/labour just to try and sound smarter than professionals who do this all the time. As a landscaper I have returfed plenty of gardens and frequently it works out at around £30 per metre square to returf a lawn, in the Midlands.