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Originally posted by LoveHate yeah thats another thing...ever since production has tooken a hold of me..i have lost interest in the entertainment that most people enjoy..such as movies..i havnt watched a mainstream film in a year or two..never seen the movie avatar..and only ones that i can sit myself thru are obscure independant films..or movies that ive already seen from a few years back, and as far as music goes..i only enjoy listening to stuff made from "hip" electronic acts from europe...if i turn on the radio ill go insane.. anyways what im trying to say ive lost interest in what most people my age "19" should be doing....i had alot of friends in high school, but i dont share the same interest as none of them anymore...and have since slowly drifted away.

This sounds likes the beginning of a depression medication commercial.

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Originally posted by JEO get a girlfriend if there's any chance at all. Think of her as a pet who takes your time.

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Originally posted by LoveHate yeah thats another thing...ever since production has tooken a hold of me..i have lost interest in the entertainment that most people enjoy..such as movies..i havnt watched a mainstream film in a year or two..never seen the movie avatar..and only ones that i can sit myself thru are obscure independant films..or movies that ive already seen from a few years back, and as far as music goes..i only enjoy listening to stuff made from "hip" electronic acts from europe...if i turn on the radio ill go insane.. anyways what im trying to say ive lost interest in what most people my age "19" should be doing....i had alot of friends in high school, but i dont share the same interest as none of them anymore...and have since slowly drifted away.

But are you content with the this way of life?

Or do you feel that you occupy yourself with production more and more to avoid doing other things, seeing friends or meeting girls?

If you are a complete geek who enjoys spending all his time on production then good for you. But if not, then you need to take a big break and re-intergrate yourself into society.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Sounds like you need a new girlfriend.

She's not that bad and I guess she's the biggest fan of my music Girlfriends and music are a tough balance at times I'm sure we can all agree on that. It's inspiring to be loved...

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Originally posted by Coyke Just leave it for a while and get a xbox.

I really think that it would be better for him to engage in a more physical activity. Being stuck in front of yet another screen isn't going to solve his problems.

Do you enjoy sports? I don't know what I'd do without football. Perhaps you could go for walks and take trips to new places. I'm lucky to have a forest relatively close by, which I love to spend a lot of time in. If you do go for walks, why not go devoid of anything music related? Abandon your ipod/mp3, and just enjoy the sounds around you. You'd perhaps be defeating the purpose in your case if you spent time away from your DAW listening to music.

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Originally posted by Owsey2008 I really think that it would be better for him to engage in a more physical activity. Being stuck in front of yet another screen isn't going to solve his problems. Do you enjoy sports? I don't know what I'd do without football. Perhaps you could go for walks and take trips to new places. I'm lucky to have a forest relatively close by, which I love to spend a lot of time in. If you do go for walks, why not go devoid of anything music related? Abandon your ipod/mp3, and just enjoy the sounds around you. You'd perhaps be defeating the purpose in your case if you spent time away from your DAW listening to music.

As someone with both a girlfriend and an X-Box: I would do without neither. Okay - well the X-Box will be the first to go.

yeah i can relate to the op issue dont become a loner man you'll end up not enjoying making tunes and you dont want that.

Bro sitting in front of ANY screen for hours and hours a day can cause depression.
Its nothing new or groundbreaking. Research has shown higher rates of depression in people who spend too much time on the computer in general.

But I don't think a girl is magically going to fix a thing, in fact, it can make your life worse sometimes. How often I see guys get in a relationship and they start blowing off social events, guy activities, sports, football, just to be with their girl... its just as depressing as what you're going through now.

I truely believe EVERYONE takes up a hobby they like cause it helps them cope with life.
Had a bad day at work?

Go make music.
Getting sick of routine? Go make music.
Bored? go make music.

But you do see the problem with that? You ONLY HAVE 1 coping mechanism. The reason you don't see other people in here complaining is because they have all sorts of random shit going on in their life. NOT that its any better than music, but its just DIFFERENT.

If every single time I was bored I went to the gym, I'd prob be dead by now. I have to break up that boredom in different ways, or I'm eligible to lose my mind.. just like you.

Strive to find other things/goals in life to work towards that motivate you. Getting into nutrition/exercise is GREAT. Because too many people now and days DON'T do it. We are becoming MORE AND MORE sedentary a species, more and more reliant on computers... we are in a way becoming machines ourself.

I guarantee something as simple as a 20min run everyday would do wonders for your mood.
You need to stimulate those endorphins in a different way. Strive for more of a balance in life. And try to find friends who share the same dorky interests you do (we all have dorky interests). Even if they are obsessed with music, like me and my friend are obsessed with the gym, that does NOT mean all we do is go to the gym everytime we hang out.
We go to other stuff, but having a common interest makes us talk and get along WHILE we do those other activities. So don't think a friend with the same interests would just make the habit more compulsive, thats only really true with heroin.

Just mix life up more, you can't keep coping with life soley by producing. You WILL eventually be triggered into a depression.

start drinking. it solves everything (short term).

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox Bro sitting in front of ANY screen for hours and hours a day can cause depression. Its nothing new or groundbreaking. Research has shown higher rates of depression in people who spend too much time on the computer in general. But I don't think a girl is magically going to fix a thing, in fact, it can make your life worse sometimes. How often I see guys get in a relationship and they start blowing off social events, guy activities, sports, football, just to be with their girl... its just as depressing as what you're going through now. I truely believe EVERYONE takes up a hobby they like cause it helps them cope with life. Had a bad day at work? Go make music. Getting sick of routine? Go make music. Bored? go make music. But you do see the problem with that? You ONLY HAVE 1 coping mechanism. The reason you don't see other people in here complaining is because they have all sorts of random shit going on in their life. NOT that its any better than music, but its just DIFFERENT. If every single time I was bored I went to the gym, I'd prob be dead by now. I have to break up that boredom in different ways, or I'm eligible to lose my mind.. just like you. Strive to find other things/goals in life to work towards that motivate you. Getting into nutrition/exercise is GREAT. Because too many people now and days DON'T do it. We are becoming MORE AND MORE sedentary a species, more and more reliant on computers... we are in a way becoming machines ourself. I guarantee something as simple as a 20min run everyday would do wonders for your mood. You need to stimulate those endorphins in a different way. Strive for more of a balance in life. And try to find friends who share the same dorky interests you do (we all have dorky interests). Even if they are obsessed with music, like me and my friend are obsessed with the gym, that does NOT mean all we do is go to the gym everytime we hang out. We go to other stuff, but having a common interest makes us talk and get along WHILE we do those other activities. So don't think a friend with the same interests would just make the habit more compulsive, thats only really true with heroin. Just mix life up more, you can't keep coping with life soley by producing. You WILL eventually be triggered into a depression.

yeah good post here but i think the op is young and new to producing i rember when i got my first pair of decks i never left the house and when i got my new pc i was high on fl and the interwebs. lol

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Originally posted by kevin shawn I have a girlfriend who makes me want to do nothing but stay away from her and make music.

Hahaha

Producing is definitely the number one thing about which I think everyday.

skimming through this thread...i am also wondering why you would want to take your mind of something as awesome as trance music.

How I get my mind off of production, is that I play chess.
I love the game and can play 100 games in a week at the chess club or on the Internet!
(ICC Internet chess club, And The chess club in my city)

And I love to cook. (bbq I love)

Also I would hate to have a GF Because I will have to spend lots of time with her I rather be in the Studio, but I would love to be C.Soto BF / boy toy!

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Originally posted by JEO And atxbigballer1 comes hear, that's the main thing buddy bud.

Using that smiley as often as you do is rather gay I think.
So things with that trance singer girl didn't work out? And now you suddenly would hate to have a gf.

I know you had your hopes.

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Adding to the pile: I only had three days off of my girl this week, she is back again. And I have to thank the lord I work office hours, but when I go home today, I know I will not open my pc and start messing around with the daw.

Get a girlfriend if there really is any chance. If she starts taking too much of your time, pull out the "I need time"-card. Dumber girls will think you don't want to spend time with them, where the smarter girls will more likely think it's adorable you need your own time to do your own things, since they need it too.

THUS giving you a chance to work on both, whenever you want. If the DAW doesn't feel appealing to you one day, call your girl and have a cuddly evening with her and as the opposite, whenever there are problems between you and your girl (or she doesn't feel appealing to you), go home and make music.

Re: how do i get my mind off of production?

I woo girls by bringing my laptop around with me. There is nothing sexier than a man with a laptop. Guys in a band with guitars aren't as cool or edgy. They just look like nerds compared to us. Women don't like luddites! They also like the music that people in this very forum like to make and listen too. This is especially true if you live in North America where there is dance music in every corner. People here look at guitar players and say "all he's doing is twiddling strings! Anyone can do that!"

Life is good if you make dance music. I'm surprised girls aren't throwing their panties at you as if you were Tom Jones, I show them my complicated automation patterns and my latest plug-ins and they're asking me to marry them.

Computer music is universal and sounds almost exactly the same all over the world. With a few striking exceptions, I hear pieces and think, "Oh... I see... that's sort of quite interesting in theory" and never have the impulse to listen again. I ought to be more excited about it, since, after all, I probably played some part in preparing the ground for it, but it sounds to me increasingly like diligent and careful secretarial work which happens to have taken place in front of a music sequencing program rather than, say, a spreadsheet program. The sound of mice and typewriters.... I don't think that it's a lack of passion that disturbs me.... I never felt strongly pro-passion anyway. It's more the sense that the person making the music was not actually fully engaged - fully there - that big parts of their being were never invited to the party.

...I want to feel the music is too big to fit on a little old CD, that there is more to it than that, that it has a separate life from my hi-fi - a life I can imagine and add to my aural experience of the music. That's what I hear in some great gospel, jazz and R&B recordings...What I want to hear is music that exists for some other reason than that the artist wanted to make a bit more CD earfood. Even the suspicion that someone might have felt something at some point in the process would do.

...What you sense in these musics is a complete absence of people walking back into the control room and saying, "Can you stick a bit more reverb on the snare?", a complete absence of producers dicking around with the sound, of engineers getting people to hammer kick drums all morning, of blokes in faded black T-shirts sitting in front of computers and making loops.... what you hear, in fact, is the complete absence of the workaday process of 'making a record'. These people are not 'making a record', they are making music because it creates for them a world they want to inhabit, makes them feel alive, and that life floods out over the edges of the recording and into you, the listener.

-- Brian Eno

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For us, the technological aspect of our music goes as far as the studio recording techniques we use, but we don't let the technology dictate the purpose of our art to us. Too many electronic bands get carried away with the influences of computers and the internet and other technology, and they end up using that as their sole inspiration because at the end of the day that's all they do. So they let their song-titles and themes be direct references to current technological buzzwords or fashions, and to us that's a total lack of imagination. They're geeks obsessed with equipment and computers and ultimately it's become fucking predictable and boring. They should go out and live. Or travel around or something, get some real ideas, and real emotions.

-- Boards of Canada

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Originally posted by JEO Using that smiley as often as you do is rather gay I think. So things with that trance singer girl didn't work out? And now you suddenly would hate to have a gf. I know you had your hopes.

I am still working on it.
What do y'all guys want, a home made porn with me and her?

I would Like to have her as a GF because I know she would understand if I want to DJ or work on a DAW.

And as for the smiley, I know its Gay, but want can I say I am all ways in a happy mood!

I am to the point now where I just don't give a F what every one on the forum /net thinks of me!

I am going to be ME, and I can do it better then all of you!

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Originally posted by atxbigballer1 I am to the point now where I just don't give a F what every one on the forum /net thinks of me!

That's a good place to be. Stay there!

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LoveHate have you found any solutions yet?

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Originally posted by owien yeah i can relate to the op issue dont become a loner man you'll end up not enjoying making tunes and you dont want that.

Exactly. Been there, done that. Ended up plummeting into depression and have only recently started to feel better.

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox Bro sitting in front of ANY screen for hours and hours a day can cause depression. Its nothing new or groundbreaking. Research has shown higher rates of depression in people who spend too much time on the computer in general. But I don't think a girl is magically going to fix a thing, in fact, it can make your life worse sometimes. How often I see guys get in a relationship and they start blowing off social events, guy activities, sports, football, just to be with their girl... its just as depressing as what you're going through now. I truely believe EVERYONE takes up a hobby they like cause it helps them cope with life. Had a bad day at work? Go make music. Getting sick of routine? Go make music. Bored? go make music. But you do see the problem with that? You ONLY HAVE 1 coping mechanism. The reason you don't see other people in here complaining is because they have all sorts of random shit going on in their life. NOT that its any better than music, but its just DIFFERENT. If every single time I was bored I went to the gym, I'd prob be dead by now. I have to break up that boredom in different ways, or I'm eligible to lose my mind.. just like you. Strive to find other things/goals in life to work towards that motivate you. Getting into nutrition/exercise is GREAT. Because too many people now and days DON'T do it. We are becoming MORE AND MORE sedentary a species, more and more reliant on computers... we are in a way becoming machines ourself. I guarantee something as simple as a 20min run everyday would do wonders for your mood. You need to stimulate those endorphins in a different way. Strive for more of a balance in life. And try to find friends who share the same dorky interests you do (we all have dorky interests). Even if they are obsessed with music, like me and my friend are obsessed with the gym, that does NOT mean all we do is go to the gym everytime we hang out. We go to other stuff, but having a common interest makes us talk and get along WHILE we do those other activities. So don't think a friend with the same interests would just make the habit more compulsive, thats only really true with heroin. Just mix life up more, you can't keep coping with life soley by producing. You WILL eventually be triggered into a depression.

Grade A Post Right Here,

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Originally posted by JEO ... LoveHate have you found any solutions yet?

not exactly, i guess since i have started working more, and i have started working out it has made it better though. i guess i jus sorta felt like a lost cause at one point..i was an extreme loner..only stayed up at night time..i guess the best solution is to balancing everything out in life..

For me its the following:

Women
Drinking
Fishing
Climbing
Scuba Diving
Women
Women
and more women

read some good books. Have some good conversations. Play some chess and get lots of exercise. Honestly tho, if you are having a surge in creativity, you might want to use it while it is there. Perhaps your friends are just boring.

xbox. playstation.
oh and burn notice, weeds, house.

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