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Your production interests over the years

Just a few questions to get an idea of what sort of people visit the production forum these days:

1. How long have you been writing music?
2. What kind of music did you start out producing?
3. What kind of music do you produce today?
4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

My answers:
1. Started producing about six and a half years ago.
2. I began mainly with trance and progressive house but dabbled in other stuff.
3. These days I work mainly on ambient things and more chilled beats, plus the occasional abrasive "weird" noise thing.
4. My production interests followed my listening interests. I got a bit tired of listening to so much trance and dance music a couple years after I started producing, and devoted myself to slower, more relaxed stuff, while keeping an interest in some austere beat-based music like Autechre and some techno. I still pull out my trance favorites to listen to, but trance production doesn't really interest me anymore, so I stopped pursuing it.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Just a few questions to get an idea of what sort of people visit the production forum these days: 1. How long have you been writing music? 2. What kind of music did you start out producing? 3. What kind of music do you produce today? 4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

1 - Been messing with DAWs and reason since 2003 but only the last 2 years have I been really working at making music.

2 - Started trying to do trancey type stuff it only came out as CHEESE

3 - Now I'd consider my sound melodic progressive type stuff, could go be maybe deep trance I'm still very amateur I feel

4 - My taste in music is matured I no longer listen to full on trance music, just good quality progressive house

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1. Since 2000, 2004 using a computer.
2. Trance, Progressive Trance
3. Trance, Progressive Trance/House and occasionally some Breakbeat and Psy trance influenced stuff.

I wanna do prog breaks sooo bad....I've never made the attempt at laying down a breaks track

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles 1. How long have you been writing music?

20 years.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles 2. What kind of music did you start out producing?

Trance, but the trance of the 90's.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles 3. What kind of music do you produce today?

Progressive House

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles 4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

The Trance of the 90's became the Progressive House of today. My tastes really haven't changed, but the classifications of genre have changed over the years.

1. around 8 years total including my beginnings.

2. trance / uplifting

3. I do not limit myself to genres, but i mainly produce progressive house now.

how i got to 3? I started off listening to trance when i first got into EDM. years and years of experience and listening to music; my tastes evolved in dynamics, rhythm, minimalism(in a sense) and the whole projected picture/vision. my journey has been epic and is no where near finished, i hope to reflect in 10 years time from now again!

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1. How long have you been writing music?

About 30 years.

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2. What kind of music did you start out producing?

Depends on your definition of producing. Back in the 80s/90s, my bands were "producing" original demos of synth-pop/alt-rock tunes on 4-track recorders. Under the more common definition of music production today (i.e., home studio/computer-based electronica), it's been about 9 years, I think.

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3. What kind of music do you produce today?

Electronic dance music (house/trance), chillout, trip-hop, pop, mostly produced for female vocalists.

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4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

After getting a degree in Music Theory/Composition back in the 80s, I worked/lived as a professional musician (bass, keys, vocals), got burned out on it after playing for 15 years to put myself through 2 other degrees on my way to my current profession (aquatic biologist/toxicologist), at which point I made production one of my main hobbies. Personally, I'm much happier and less stressed out having music as a hobby (and money sink), rather than a primary means of (not much) income. The music I produce now pretty much followed a natural evolution from the new wave/synth-pop bands I grew up listening to decades ago.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Just a few questions to get an idea of what sort of people visit the production forum these days: 1. How long have you been writing music? 2. What kind of music did you start out producing? 3. What kind of music do you produce today? 4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

1. I started last April
2. trancey
3. prog house, wanna move into electro house tho
4. Changed styles cause I was tired of trance

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1. How long have you been writing music?

I started making music in August 2007 but those were either incomplete loops or compositions where I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.. I used a lot of premade loops too. I've only really been doing anything I can consider "writing" music for less than 2 years, but I suppose I've been producing for 3.

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2. What kind of music did you start out producing?

Mostly 100-130 BPM chill-out tracks, they followed the typical form of trance but musically it was much more freeform

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3. What kind of music do you produce today?

Uplifting trance

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4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

For a good year I just made music to make it, eventually I focused on what I wanted my music to sound like, and now that's what I'm doing. I'm pretty happy it worked out as well as it did.

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1. How long have you been writing music?

About ten years since I first got my hand on a sequencer.

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2. What kind of music did you start out producing?

Trance.

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3. What kind of music do you produce today?

Progressive breaks.

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4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

I've always been a fan of prog breaks, it's always been my favourite genre. But I did love trance when I started producing, so I started with that, the structures were fairly simple and I believed the genre was great place to start. As my skills improved, I started to experiment into more interesting (and my preferred) genres and well, here I am. Difficult to explain, it just kind of evolved.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Just a few questions to get an idea of what sort of people visit the production forum these days: 1. How long have you been writing music? 2. What kind of music did you start out producing? 3. What kind of music do you produce today? 4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

1. 5 or 6 years on and off.
2. Machine gun trance and buzzy progressive trance
3. Techno, progressive, breaks, electro, all types of stuff, but i have an emphasis on techno and progressive. I'll be studying up on nu-disco and electroclash soon.
4. I don't feel that my ears want to listen to any trance anymore. Plus I find that trance is a very busy genre when you look at the mixing aspects, and it's a resource intensive genre. I also like a whole bunch of sub-genres in electronic dance music.

1. Started writing rock and roll in my teens.
2. Started producing EDM in 2000 nut stopped in 2004 , mostly hardtrance but also some house and hardstyle
3. Don't really produce like I did for EDM. Usually it is a traditional score and then overdubbed electronic or percussion elements.
4. I kinda found myself limited as an EDM producer and wanted to challenge myself, went to school for music technology but transferred programs to pursue classical composition and got a masters in that. Kinda stopped doing what most would consider "production" and really learned the craft of composition the old school way. Basically wanted to challenge myself. Alot of it isn't production but the skills required to do classical can easily be applied to production. Orchestrating is basically mixing with notational signals. Learning how elements work together. I'm quite happy I made the decision I did. I do eventually want to combine both crafts into a very cool classical and electronic hybrid. Not in the way that many movie composers do it but really use them as equals.I find that as soon as I stop learning, I tend to jump ship. I get bored of things very quick and always love learning new things.

Re: Your production interests over the years

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Just a few questions to get an idea of what sort of people visit the production forum these days: 1. How long have you been writing music? 2. What kind of music did you start out producing? 3. What kind of music do you produce today? 4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

1. 1988
2. Ambient'ish things, i have always had a deep passion for pads and choirs.
3. Anything from filmscores to ambient and electronic music for what its worth
4. i dont know who i've gone from one genre to another, it just falls naturally throughout the years as you go through things in your real life and express it onto notes.

Re: Your production interests over the years

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Just a few questions to get an idea of what sort of people visit the production forum these days: 1. How long have you been writing music? 2. What kind of music did you start out producing? 3. What kind of music do you produce today? 4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

1. Roughly 1 year and 8 months, I'm quite new to the whole thing.
2. Trance
3. Whatever it is that I feel at the moment.
4. I started producing because I heard this music and like many others, I thought "OMG I have to do this!!!" I did, and it was fun for a bit but it got stale. Then I tried goa trance, and I loved it, but it's very exhausting because of the complexity of the music, and mine wasn't even that complex! Later on, I started playing with the idea of remixes. I liked this idea because when I heard songs, I usually had an idea of the way I wanted it to sound. So being able to produce gave me the ability to hear something, get an idea, and make that idea happen. So I've done hip-hop, happy hardcore, modern "hardcore" club music, jungle, etc. So I basically produce whatever it is I feel like producing at the time. At the moment, I'm working on acid.

Re: Your production interests over the years

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Just a few questions to get an idea of what sort of people visit the production forum these days: 1. How long have you been writing music? 2. What kind of music did you start out producing? 3. What kind of music do you produce today? 4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

1) About 5 years but the first two was minor dabbling without having any clue what i was doing.

2) Prog trance/prog-house

3) Not sure. I don't produce often enough to have developed my own style. My last track was d&b with a twist. One before that was some deep dubby house thing. Before that a slow 115bpm chilled melodic house track.

4) Partly through my listening tastes changing. I listen to very little trance these days. I also became quickly tired with the predictable structure of a trance track. The boring percussion, the rigid mechanical bass lines etc.

If I really spent more time producing, I think I could really find "my sound" and develop it. As it is though I only spend a limited amount of time every few weeks so end up doing whatever comes out at the time, finishing a track once every 3-5 months as an average.

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1. How long have you been writing music?

Writing music...maybe 27 years, when I first started taking acoustic guitar lessons? In terms of the first "writing" that got recorded and put out on CD, around 12 years ago.

2. What kind of music did you start out producing?

After being in a metal band for 5 years, I started producing (melodic trance)

3. What kind of music do you produce today?

Still melodic trance.

4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

In terms of music production, they're the same. But as for going from metal to trance, the bassist in my band went to raves and invited us along. Both metal and trance are energetic forms of music, both of them will leave you covered in sweat after a good night!

1. 6/7 years ago I started

2. I started out trying to produce Trance as I was really into it at the time.

3. I now produce Techno & Tech House.

4. My tastes in music matured and wasnt really getting on with trance anymore as it just seemed to stale and wasnt really going anyway. Techno really excites at the moment as theres so many different forms of Techno around.

1. 2004
2. EDM
3. EDM
4. ill never change

1. How long have you been writing music?

Since 1998

2. What kind of music did you start out producing?

Goa Trance
3. What kind of music do you produce today?

Progressive Psy Trance/Chilled/Downbeat


4. If (2) and (3) are different, describe how you got from one to the other.

Just a natural progression. As i got older i became more chilled out i think ??? so i naturally moved to chilled but funkier stuff.

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