Thank you elektronauts

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Thanks, Elektronauts, after two years.

Honestly, I don’t even know what to say here — all of you are doing incredible things with your instruments and have a level of know-how that makes me shake my head wondering how any of it even works.

But because of all your information and answers, I’ve achieved so much for myself.

I’m just a simple self-taught bass player — after watching the film Control five times, I ordered a bass set from Thomann, and four hours later I was playing “Transmission.” Yeah!

I played in regular cover bands, but after a while covering songs became boring.

For bigger projects I wasn’t good enough.

Still, I love music.

Then I started listening to my Kruder & Dorfmeister, Massive Attack, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), and all that stuff again — and that’s when things started happening.

I bought a Digitakt just to see what would happen.

I read the forum day and night and had so much fun.

Then at a festival I met an acquaintance who’s a keyboard player, and suddenly we’re talking about wanting to try something different.

He knew !!!, Kruder, Aphex Twin, etc.

Pretty well-known names — but: he’s 62 and I’m 55 :joy:

Haha.

Now we rehearse once or twice a week with all the MIDI cables, keyboards, drum machine, bass guitar, Ableton, and so on.

Without your posts, it wouldn’t have been possible for old-school musicians like us to get started in the world of electronic music.

But anyway —

I just had to share this.

Have a nice evening

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My journey is more solo than yours, but I feel the same gratitude.

And “Transmission” is possibly the best single of all time. Unless one counts B-sides, in which case it’s “Atmosphere / Dead Souls”.

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Yeah
I coverd some Joy Division Songs on my digitakt and that was so fun

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Beautiful sentiment. Very well said.

I, also, am very grateful to have this community and it’s abundant resources and it’s always great to hear when others feel similarly sentimental towards it.

We were not young for as long as we liked, but we learned what we liked from being young. Now is the time to enjoy those things as much as we can because we do only have this time once.

55 is the new 33 from what I hear so let’s not think too much about age and just make sure we take this time while we have it.

Thank you for your post!

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This is such a lovely read! We truly never know the path our lives will take, and what actions of ours will spur important or meaningful changes in someone else’s life.

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Thanks for sharing that :slight_smile: Such pieces of life are really valuable!

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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

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Hear! Hear!

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Thanks for sharing! Elektronauts are the best! :nyan:

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This community has been a fount of knowledge and inspiration for me since I started on my electronic music journey as well.

Gratitude is the most joyful emotion!

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Never trust anyone who just presses buttons and proudly declares, “I’m playing music!”

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Well spoken. This is pretty much the only site I interact with or even visit anymore on the web, and for good reason. Nauts inspires me, excites me, humbles me, frustrates me (rarely, but I still get something out of that, I suppose), teaches me, calms me, informs me…I’m grateful to be a part of this community in so many ways.

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I saw K&D in September. I don’t think they had played in my city since the 90s, if ever. I ran into friends from the old party days that I had not seen in 15+ years. It was a nice night of nostalgia.

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