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i was wondering how you guyz do things in da process - working with samples, drum machines, and software synths? (all mouse) - experimenting with soundz to distant lands, and composing note by note on a midi synth? - analogue machines? - making your own robots, machines, and softwares to work with you? how do you blokes proceed? ohhh... didnt mean to forget the ladies. |
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i have not preferencies |
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yeah!!! it's a fucking shitty thread!!! damn me!!! : D oy obi.... i know i gotta chiLL!!! :) peace |
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I start with one thing, then I do the next, and so forth and so forth in that manner until I stop doing things to the music. |
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I use anything at hand to make these massive, lush soundscapes, and then I whittle them down and down and down until they just sound like scratchy demos made by a very irritable man as quickly as possible on cheap software whilst waiting to go to the pub. |
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is the stuff you make what is normally referred to as electro? I'm just curious, 'cause I just figured out I don't know what the term electro refers to... |
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electro is every music that's not made with instruments working with electricity |
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eh..? isn't that "electronic music"? surely electro is something else..? |
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yeah you've gotta point... hmmm. :) |
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Electro is a term that's been battered into meaningless, now just signifying Electronic Music. But, for me, Electro is early 80s Hip Hop but with a robotic, kratwerk influenced thing. Afrika Bambaataa Planet Rock. Cybotron, Kid Frost, all the old Electro compilations. |
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i just dunno, i do most of the things you listed, it's not that conscious, it's quite spontaneous, i take sounds recorded with my mic [like myself beatboxing or i tap mic onto my desk lamp = which produces metallic sounds which i use as drum sounds] or i take the cheese from under my toe nails and throw it inside the acoustic guitar and check if it sounds different or i try i out a vst-i or come up with an idea for a track and try to find sounds to "paint" the idea or i come up with a fancy title for a track like "underwater bus to miami" and try to make a track that would sound like a shit long bus trip on the ocean bottom and fx, lots of fx, different configurations experiment is the key word. experiment |
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i do it like this.... the rest is just being bored of tv and noodling around with a synth or MPC on my lap. |
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.....just in case you're interested....oh, you're offline. |
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yeah, bambaataa is what I mainly associated with it.. and ultramagnetic (ooooo, I really need to put that on right the fuck now (critical beatdown)), but someone said ultramagnetic wasn't electro... and I also had this notion it could be like the stuff you make... |
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Well, if I recall correctly Ultramagnetic MCs appeared on Streetsounds' Electro 16 compilation. There's a tracklisting for all of them . There's a bit of crossover, I guess, in those early days, of rap and Electro and whatever, I'm not an expert, at all. I guess all you could say were some tracks were more Electro than others. What I make's filed either under "Rubbish" or "Pig Sty Techno" (depending on if it's someone else or me filing it). |
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Hanal's your one stop shop for Electro info, really. |
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yes, I know, but he needs to be online more... itunes doesn't have the genre "rubbish" :( |
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i usually start with drums, and then layer stuff on top of that but more recently i've been starting out with melodies, and it has brought fruitful things to the table |
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I generally start with a simple beat. Then I write some sounds to go with it. I don't like wailing leads, I am pretty much all about arps and drones. I love really deep resonating sounds, and really plucky analog-ish basslines. Generally, I start out with something that is basic hiphop, and expand from there, adding a bunch of things and then stripping them down, and then adding more things and stripping them down. I am trying to make things sound more organic right now. I really like quiet music sometimes, and then sometimes I like metal. It really depends on how good my week has been. It really depends tho, because the times that I have had a good week, I like to make broody music, and the times I have had a bad week, I will make happy music. |
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i just do whatever's on my mind at the time |
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im pretty frequently noodling on the microKORG, and when i find a clever melody, i usually think of complimen tary rhythms, but i dont always have my laptop around so i hold the melod y until i can get into fl studio 5 & work something out & then finalise th' track. |
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what blocks me right now is mixing in the good shit i get out of the computer and the good shit i get out of my hardware,i have good gear and i am retarded, i have no way of recording them into my computer . my audio interface is fucked up, my biggest block is like, "ok,i want to do this loop. it will require this, this, this, and this", . like, "the mp3 cd scratcher will be putting my noises into this channel, with these plugins, and these knobs on the uc-33 will be on those plugins, and this real nasty beat will be on this channel, and ill have that reverb snare, with the knob controlling the reverb, but i want it to be gated," and i sort of draw out this whole fuckin map of what i want to do but can never just sitdown and do it without using meth which i am currently out of |
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no rules right ? |
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Wrong. You should do what makes you productive. No rules or restrictions generally makes for unfocused flabby sounding music. |
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