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plus vagina

Ha ha, you dont need trance for that, you just need the ability to know what women need sexually, lots of patience, technique,stamina and be capable of a decent conversation at the end of it! You'll have all the vagina you can handle, and more than one at the same time if you prefer it that way

As for trance im with EricR,on this one. Emotion is the primary goal, how im touched and can others through sounds that somehow express the bitter-sweet life we have. Positive and negative euphoria

I produce because nothing beats knowing you contributed something to "Music". It stays after you leave this world and no one can take that away from you.

Cliche I know.. but "Music is My Morphine".

The same way a junkie needs his next fix, I go through withdrawls anytime my pc breaks, or my keyboard etc.

Last time it happened I went for 2 weeks and I was snapping at EVERYONE, a total and complete ass for those 2 weeks.
Than I got it fixed and I was happy again. =]

I do it for the pursuit of having a desk that looks like a control panel for the starship enterprise. That and the vag.

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Originally posted by davemolina I produce because nothing beats knowing you contributed something to "Music". It stays after you leave this world and no one can take that away from you.

In all seriousness though, this.

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I do it because i make the music that i want to hear. And because i love riding in my car listening to something that i know no one else in the world has ever heard.

omg i didnt know before now but i think nintendo has alot to do with it! how could i forget ? also street rod 1 and 2 had a huge impact on me

for me personally, at the minute, I just want to hear my stuff being played, making people dance, and with certain records fucking with their minds whilst I do it.
I've been pretty fortunate lately to hear a lot of my stuff out, and I think I'm hitting a happy medium as far as thats concerned....

I produce because I love music.

Who knows your ear better than you do?

I don't really produce too much but i'd be in it for expressions and wealth...mostly wealth

I honestly haven't got any reason for producing other than for my own relaxation and to let that urge of creating something out of my system. If anyone else gets some enjoyment out it I couldn't be happier, but I would lie if I told you I don't want others to hear what I produce.

MG

Re: So...WHY do you produce?

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Why do you produce?

Because I enjoy it.

The Art of creation i think.

It just feels so weird after filling a projectfile/sequencer with bars and instruments and knowing people might like this.

hard to explain.

express emotions through sound

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Originally posted by Minhaj express emotions through sound

Pretty much, and thats the reason why I can't stick to one genre. I raaaarely sit down thinkin 'I wanna make a fucking banging trance song', but rather sit down with my mind relatively blank and just start putting pieces together to reflect how I'm feeling then and there.

bottom line is i love to make exactly (well or close to) what i want to hear.

at one piont i tried to covince myself that i was done with producing so i could just focus on other things in life, but like a fiend i just couldn't stay away. i think i truely need it just to be regular...as odd as that may sound but i think other producers can feel what i'm saying.

so for me it's really the love of creating what i want to hear when i can't find it else were (self expression)...which is actually kinda tough considering the level some of the top/ or upcoming producers. they seem to almost have done what i was looking to do myself, but with out my own person touch of melodies and chord progresions. which i actually think might have all been done in trance and well ever other genre at this point?? anyone else agree with that? the fact that alomst ever melody or chord progression has been done ??

There are probably hundreds of millions of possible melodies and chord progressions using the twelve basic notes of Western music.

A much smaller fraction of those will actually sound good.

If you find a good-sounding melody, chances are that somebody has already done something rather similar to it, since there have been billions of musicians before you who were also searching for melodies that sounded good to them, and most of them were probably also trying to be original, use melodies and progressions that no one else had used.

But there's not much chance that you've actually heard it before, since we only get to hear a tiny fraction of all the music that people have ever made, even if we listen to music for hours each day for all our lives. So it's new to you, and probably new to lots of other people as well.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles There are probably hundreds of millions of possible melodies and chord progressions using the twelve basic notes of Western music. A much smaller fraction of those will actually sound good. If you find a good-sounding melody, chances are that somebody has already done something rather similar to it, since there have been billions of musicians before you who were also searching for melodies that sounded good to them, and most of them were probably also trying to be original, use melodies and progressions that no one else had used. But there's not much chance that you've actually heard it before, since we only get to hear a tiny fraction of all the music that people have ever made, even if we listen to music for hours each day for all our lives. So it's new to you, and probably new to lots of other people as well.

i agree with you to a certain extent. yes for sure almost all good melodies/ chord progresions have been use before, in some type of music style no doubt. so when you say "use melodies and progressions that no one else had used." that is tougher then it sounds when just about everything has been done, wheater it's in trance or what ever type of genere.

so at least theres this i haven't heard any trance that uses jazz progressions, i'm not to sure how that would work with so many synths but it's always a new avenue to explore.

but mainly what i always find when trying to make hooks is i will keep trying to get the exact feel of what i want but i always stumble onto another prog that has already been done before, which is usually the best way to play it, and any other veriation of it just isn't as good, so trying to find great hooks and melodies is pretty tough i think, but on the other hand i think alot of songs kinda have simliar progressions to one another but the synths you use and the way you arrange it can still give and change it to an original feel.

a few reasons i think


i have an incredible urge for self expression in many fields

even though my background is more in the visual arts, music always is the art which has grabbed me by the balls and transformed my life

i have a lot of preposterous mystical/philosophical/musicological ideas that i can only test and make real by making a track or a series of tracks

the process of creation for me is like discovering a previously hidden part of myself.

it's free music for deejaying

i like to share my ideas with others

listening to my successful tracks is very comforting to me

fuck the money i want the Fame!

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i just like doing what i do. lol

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Originally posted by Owsey2008 expressions and wealth...mostly wealth

Well, There's gotta be some way to get this music out of my head. :/

Interesting to stumble across this thread, since I've been tossing around some thoughts about it lately.

I started mixing long before I started producing, becuase I was 14 or 15 at the time and I was collecting mp3 tunes anyways, so I would make mixes in Mix Meister and Traktor and shit just for fun. That quickly went way beyond just messing around however, and today I use real equipment take it very seriously as an artform.

At the time that I was really getting into electronic music, I was about 12 or 13, and I guess I had some sort of notion that making it was just ridiculously complicated and difficult, so I sort of wrote it off as being beyond my capabilities. My dad had some Korgs when I was growing up and I loved playing around with them, but to my little mind they seemed entirely too complex to actually make music with (I never had any sort of formal musical training, and as I would learn later in life, once you start to grap a few basic concepts--key, namely--it's actually not that hard).

I played around with Reason as a teenager and learned the very basics of it, but again I never really persued it because it seemed so ridiculously complicated.

It wasn't until I was 21 (last summer, actually) that I finally started to produce, and I admit it was because I was so enthralled with DJing that I had it in my mind to try and take it to a higher level, and I knew that producing tracks was a way to do it. To my own credit, I think I still had a genuine desire to produce good music then, and never really had any intention of releasing crap tunes on Beatport like some have (I knew that wouldn't really get me any recognition anyways).

I stuck with it and got over those initial hurdles, and I also started taking music theory courses in school. And I have to say: now that I've realized that I can actually do it, I suddenly have a huge creative desire to. A year ago, if I heard an amazing track, I would have just said to myself "man, that's a great track." Today, I say to myself "I want to CREATE a track like that."

But anyways... there are some tunes up on my myspace if anyone wants to look... maybe you all can tell me if they sound cheap and generic, or actually interesting.

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