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when making music. i mean i make music now for about a year, and i realised that always when i hear a song someone says: "yeah that sounds like aphex" or "that's autechre style". i hate that. so i thought, hey why not make my own style, not just trying to copy everything... but i can't help it i'm stuck... what helped you, discover your own style. experimenting? making music non-stop? mantra? |
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Making what I like the sound of, not what I think other people will like the sound of. :P |
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Mostly people say that my music sounds like shit, but I haven't heard any of his/their music. Could anyone recommend me some tracks I could download to compare? |
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hm.. but what if you realise that it's someone others style |
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i think still today my music sounds like the stuff that inspired me, autechre, the prodigy, orbital, aphex not literally sounds like them (god im not that good) but the influence is still apparent |
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The worst thing you can do is alter what you like either towards or away from another style because then you are not letting your style develop. Often artist start by sounding like someone else, but then if they follow what they like their own personality will begin to take their music in a different direction. |
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exactly what i mean |
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gotta agree, another thing i think that ruins peoples music is changing the method they use to make tunes, i HATE working JUST on computer! gimme some keyboards and an atari any day, my music's crap now i use a pc :( |
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ive enjoyed try every style from c & W to idm and that helped to find what i like make i now stick loosly with drony guitar songs and idm |
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It is very easy for people to constrain themselves, or get frustrated with the complexity of some of the computer based tool out there (god knows I have) and that can also stop a persons development. I just try to stay as open as I can and keep plugging away. I mean I only started making music 4 months ago and I think I have came quite a way since then :D |
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i know what you mean, it's frustrating that, the more you know the less you know. i been messing around with noise and synths for 3 or 4 years and i realise now that i've only scratched the surface really, i made the jump to PC's and it's like starting from scratch, but i'll get my head round it dammit!!! :) |
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I'm struggling to invent my own style, even when I imagine how I want my music to sound in my head, it always ends up sounding like either Amon Tobin...DJ Shadow... (feeding my interest in ambient breakbeat styles) or sounding like Autechre which is obviously down to my interest in IDM. |
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well nowadays it's hard to not sound like someone, i try not to care, alot of stuff i make now sounds akin to team doyobi or new autechre which i dont see as a bad thing, cos there still my tracks |
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yeah i have the sam problem |
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Why worry about whether you sound like someone...if Chris Clark did he would never have got a contract with Warp. At the end of the day if you make good tunes you will get the respect you deserve. |
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i recommend listening to a wide variety of music, and experiment with mixing and matching the idioms. for example, bring in sounds and rhythms from widely disparate styles, but react to them within your electronic approach. also, try limiting your choice of tools, and explore creative ways to overcome the limitations. the most important goal when making music, i think, is to make something that you enjoy. people complain about lack of individuality and originality, but to me a good track is a good track. don't let fashion and other people's expectations get in your way. most everyone starts by imitating, more or less; it can take years to see your clear, unique voice emerge. keep your ears open for new sources of inspiration; be patient; experiment and persevere. |
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thanks mate... that was useful ! |
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but u see the things a bit other... i mean, i think the thing that has the most influence on my music is... ...fruity loops ! i'm not so experienced in making music yet, so i just can make much of my ideas that i have. here comes the music program into play. example: today i wanted to make a song similar to v-proc, specially the ending. of course i couldn't do this, but i added a few granulizers and stuff. what if i would make it on another program? it would sound completely different. so i think that the software you use influences your music very much. |
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lol you are saying you can't make a track in your own style and then you said you were trying to make something that sounded like V-PROC :D Make your mind up mate :P |
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nothing i'm still searrching |
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My approach to making music and painting are much the same, just to channel direct from my subconcious. OK, that might sound a touch pretentious, but it's basically what Jackson Pollock was doing at the height of his career, cutting out external influences completely. |
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mickey mouse told me that it doesn't matter what the tempo is, tempo is just something that amateurs think matter... best advice i've gotten so far about music from then on, i started making MUCH better tunes (of course the bit of education w/ guitar, keyboards, chords/scales helped much too) |
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yeah, i am wierd.... |
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i will tell ya how it is : if you are listening lot of sounds of others your works will be permanently similar to those , even on 0.0000000001% , but it will be.. ...i personally dont give a shit what anybody saya about my music , except those who really want to tell me what are they feel when they are listening to it.. ...just stop looking your own style - it's like loking for love not from desire or passion , but from "i must " or "he told that i must " if you will be loking for it too hard - may happen that will never come.... your own style is not a thing to come from looking for it.. .....you just have it , but you dont know about it...yet, and someday you will understand it , i think. .meanwhile - just make what you want and what you feel - noyt what you think you should do-cause it is blinb street for ya but that's only my opinion |
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