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08 May 2004

60.6% making music at home

inthemix.com.au currently has a poll running under the question "Have you experimented with making your own dance music at home?". after 340 votes, 60.6% have answered yes, and 39.4% have said no.

this is quite a high percentage of people saying that they have experimented with making dance music at home, and i would suggest that this result is probably skewed due to the fact that most of the people who have voted are probably regular users of inthemix.com.au. to be a regular user, they also would probably have regular access to a PC, if not a PC of their own. i think that posession of a PC is fairly essential to making dance music, and obviously those with a PC are probably more likely to experiment with producing music.

however, it is possible that some people are using decks and other equipment and experimenting by mixing tracks together to create their own sound, which wouldnt require a PC but also wouldnt really be 'producing' music unless it was being recorded as well...

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