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cx
from Norway on 2008-08-25 14:11 [#02231703]
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so like ive been going on with music making almost everyday for 4 years.. however, as of late its been really dry.
its not so much that i dunno how to make stuff, its more that i feel ive done most of what i want to do.. i dont really know what else i could make or what i want to improve in what ive already made..
that doesnt mean my already made music is perfect, it just means i dont find much inspiration in that type of music anymore.
i made a lot of ambient you know and, right now i cant really listen to a drone or pad and feel much.
i dont have the need to create any orchestral stuff either, nor idm as it were..
when i apply a reverb to some crazy swoosha thing, it feels overused, when i try to make slow piano stuff - well, dont even get me started.
same with everything else..
i do get enjoyment out of my already favorite tracks like uviol and such, but i REALLY dont want to feel like i cant find inspiration to create more..
thing is also.. i dont like about 99% of the music i hear released professionally.. and very few tracks in general really make me go OMFG you know.. you cant just have this and that to create an effect anymore on me, it needs to be something amazing..
are my standards too high already for music i listen to?
i have not really made a proper track in 4 weeks or so.. i have made a lot of stuff inbetween but nothing i would consider myself extremely proud of.
i was also afraid to type this out in case of jinxing myself, but right now, i really feel i might be losing whatever i had that made me going for so long.. if you want to leave a challenge for me to do, please do so.. that way i can be more focused.
god bless music.
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vlari
from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2008-08-25 14:20 [#02231706]
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looks like you've bled it dry, sorry mate, you're fucked
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midgetbridget
from Bouvet Island on 2008-08-25 14:25 [#02231707]
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Hooooraaay!
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cx
from Norway on 2008-08-25 14:26 [#02231708]
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haha thanks for the uplifting comment
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 14:27 [#02231710]
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go on the biggest bender of your life
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midgetbridget
from Bouvet Island on 2008-08-25 14:28 [#02231711]
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"if you want to leave a challenge for me to do, please do so.. that way i can be more focused"
I will NOT do that
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cx
from Norway on 2008-08-25 14:30 [#02231712]
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dewit
i might razor :D
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 14:35 [#02231714]
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if this gives you inspiration, your track 'hive mind' for example is not just a music track, it's a beautifully mastered representation of an abstractly probing philosophical idea that overcame me with something beyond that which most tracks manage to achieve. it's immersing and cosmic, an inspiration in itself. i would be deeply saddened if you cut short your exploration into this area of art
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IndigoIris
from New York (United States) on 2008-08-25 14:36 [#02231716]
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yes the benders always help. try travelling somewhere new and then going on a bender. change of scenery may help.
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2008-08-25 14:41 [#02231717]
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i'd rather give a break to my ears and be happy whatever it brings
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 14:44 [#02231718]
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I know exactly what you mean. Only it's like this with everything as well as music. I'm too young for this. I was thinking just before looking pon dis thread that i can't actually enjoy an image the way i used to. Show me a picture, go on. I bet i wont care.
The cause of this problem is simple enough: over exposure to modern luxuries ect. But how do you undo this...do i really have to go on a soul searching journey across africa or something like that....boring....crap.
I'm going to read! Yes read!!! But there's so many things i need to get on with and they are forever intertwined with head wrecking things like the internet. I blame the webs for my recent slump in visual and musical enjoyment. You have to hack through a jungle of uninteresting data and navigate through an endless maze of useless links, only to bump into another IDM that could be appreciated if i wasn't so impatient. F U C K. Music is.....dead?
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 14:47 [#02231721]
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Erm...i just heard blips and flips (i think it was hivemind). Sorry cx. This is what i mean. I Imagine hearing your stuff before sound was constantly piped down my throat like cheeseburger slurry, i'd love the blips then.
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 14:51 [#02231722]
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oh ampi, what has happened to you my dear?
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 14:57 [#02231726]
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ARRRRRGH. punch wall till knukle is right fuct.
I'm probably fine
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 14:58 [#02231727]
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stop it. you're doing a me
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cx
from Norway on 2008-08-25 14:59 [#02231729]
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wow well.. thats awesome to hear.. i do still have a lot of ideas regarding those abstract soundscapes.. i think im going to try to focus more on one specific idea rather than getting all confused on what idea to do first..
ampi: HOLD ON I GOT THE IDEA
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 14:59 [#02231730]
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here, listen to this, i made it a few years ago for a moment just like this
:)
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SlipDrinkMats
from Thanks (Bhutan) on 2008-08-25 15:02 [#02231732]
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ETA to next cx spam: Only a matter of time.
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 15:06 [#02231734]
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right now i can feel belb shouting nastiness at me
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:09 [#02231737]
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I suggest you really stop. Think hard on what you are or what you were before you made yourself this awful thing. You don't make music the way a human should, none of us do. I feel like that's why pulseclock threw a wobbly (coupled with other things). We are falling apart. See i was going to stop making music a few months back, you remeber when i got all silly a lil while ago, but i didn't. I've made some truly lovely music that feels closer to the stuff i want to make, but it's happening again. I make music too quickly and it ISN'T REALLY FUCKING ME. So you have to stop and take time to really consider the beginning and end of your life and define what that life will add up to. Then your music will be really you. So yeah like blah blah blah n stuff. PULSECLOCK IS DYING AND WE SHARE THE SAME HEART I KNOW IT!
Yeah i don't get it either, i am going off on one sorry.
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:10 [#02231739]
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What? Don't listen to me i've been dizzy all day from some mad headache.
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:11 [#02231741]
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AAAAAlalalalalalala.
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 15:13 [#02231742]
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this is life. it's ups and downs
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:18 [#02231745]
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It's v nice and sparkly. But i'm not cured. I'm going to finish my last musics then torture myself with everything i've ever run away from. Until then i'm destined to go fucking madddd. Blahrrr <----mad ampi sound.
Halloween is my last self distructive adventure. Then i'm going TO GET ON IT!!!
I wish i hadn't seen this thread...:( It really is very nice and sparkly btw :)
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:18 [#02231746]
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cups and clowns
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 15:20 [#02231747]
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'Then i'm going TO GET ON IT!!!'
oh no, not heroin mate
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:22 [#02231748]
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I GET HIGH ON LIFE. i don't.
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2008-08-25 15:25 [#02231749]
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ok i'm going to have to go now cos the sleeping tablets are kicking in
have sweet dreams
hopefully better than the most horrible nightmare of my life that i had last night which has been tormenting me all day!
it's never nice watching one your loved ones die right in front of you whilst looking into their eyes and believing it as real. sure as hell makes you appreciate the fact they're still alive though!
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2008-08-25 15:28 [#02231750]
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also try to stick to music that is truly essential for you, no matter if it's old, music that still make you feel something like 'i wanna dance' or 'i wanted to do that too'
these days i too find quite difficult to hear something that blows me away.
this was not the case LAZY_TITLE
crazyness -> just don't care
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:28 [#02231751]
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...K Sleep well and think of things that aren't dead.
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Indeksical
from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2008-08-25 15:31 [#02231754]
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You sound like a bunch of emotional cry baby teenagers. Kill yourself or get over it, as Black Box Recorder once said.
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:33 [#02231755]
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I feel like such a thread killer. I hope you took the best of my mad rant CX. Life will be good for us all, we just need to get away from our satan machines (computers) and rebuild. Maybe i should speak for myself instead of for both of us...i...just wanted to....share my pain
*tears and howling*
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futureimage
from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-08-25 15:33 [#02231756]
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Coax: I'm not even kidding with this one. Go out and buy a guitar.
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:35 [#02231757]
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exactly. Shut up you self pitying bedroom wank man < say this to me i so deserve it.
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staz
on 2008-08-25 15:35 [#02231758]
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what the hell do you want with posting a thread like this?
this is shit and you know it very well.
this is "give me a pat on the back" bullshit posting.
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:36 [#02231759]
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NO NO NO. Get an accordion
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2008-08-25 15:39 [#02231762]
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STAZ IS RIGHT this is one massive wank fest of wank.
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staz
on 2008-08-25 15:40 [#02231764]
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IDM GIMMICKS IN THE HOUSE
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glasse
from Harrisburg (United States) on 2008-08-25 16:18 [#02231768]
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everyone gets writers block or whatever and needs a break. get caught up on some movies you want to see, play some video games, go to the park, etc. you will have fresh ideas when you come back to it.
also switching up your method might help. do a mix instead of an original or do something completely on hardware.
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DeLtoiD
from Ontario on 2008-08-25 16:25 [#02231769]
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instead of MAking musIC, i would rather Just Listen TO IT.
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DeLtoiD
from Ontario on 2008-08-25 16:25 [#02231770]
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only cuz :P
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cygnus
from nowhere and everyplace on 2008-08-25 16:26 [#02231771]
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smoke weed
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recycle
from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2008-08-25 16:36 [#02231779]
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i dont care
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horsefactory
from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2008-08-25 17:01 [#02231781]
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fuck bitches
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cx
from Norway on 2008-08-26 00:36 [#02231864]
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i decided to
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cx
from Norway on 2008-08-26 00:37 [#02231865]
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UR MEEAN
anyway, i will.. get.. a.. new synth :D
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Co-existence
from Bergen (Norway) on 2008-08-26 01:28 [#02231875]
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This is easy:
TAKE A BREAK!
Felling burnt out is normal in any creative field. Stop doing what you do until you really feel like you want to do it again and you'll be fine! Honestly!
(disclaimer: I read none of the posts in this thread, just a few lines of the first one, but I do think I got the general idea. However, I searched this page for the word break and didn't find it.).
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futureimage
from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-08-26 01:50 [#02231876]
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Go modular. :P
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cuntychuck
from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2008-08-26 02:17 [#02231884]
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i cant believe nobody suggested this yet;
drugs and psytrance, after a month you'll have perspective for the next 10 years.
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DirtyPriest
from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2008-08-26 03:45 [#02231895]
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Pick up the banjo!
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