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Your personal idea of perfection in a track

I'm sure anyone who produces even the slightest bit aspires to have a certain sound. You know, maybe there's that song that you can't help but think "I wish I sounded like that!" whenever you listen to it. Maybe you feel more like a certain track is the pinnacle of your genre, and you can only hope that someday you can produce something that is similar.

Basically, post a track that inspires you to keep producing in the hopes that someday you can sound as great as it. Maybe you've already reached that level with your music. I was just thinking about this earlier today and I figured it might make an interesting topic.

For me, it has to be Astral Projection - Kabalah. I don't produce much psy because it takes a lot of fucking work to do it right, and I'm just not inspired right now. Even so, I plan to continue producing it when I can. Kabalah is, to me, the pinnacle of goa trance. It is everything that makes me love the genre. It sounds so futuristic, yet retains an organic feel. It is entrancing, driving. It sounds like something from the far reaches of the universe where technology is advanced beyond our imagining, yet it has an utterly shamanistic aura about it, something deeply tribal. It is visions in a cave after eating a strange mushroom at the same time that it is the music at a bar on some alien planet.



So anyway, post some tracks that equal greatness to you. Something you strive to achieve every time you open your DAW.

repost (search reference tracks) but ill go: members of mayday - we are different. its like 18 years old lol.

and yeah when ur on astral projection; dancing galaxy still rocks my world, it has some of the most awesome synthlines of all time.

other tracks would be many from prodigy music for the jilted generation, like speedway and no good. so fucking good percussion.

most of my referencetracks are pretty old unfortunately, i wish i found something new that had good enough production, but it all sounds too clean and compressed today - no dynamics, no hidden sounds, no depth. some rock/punk tracks work though

This is currently what I've been fapping to. If I was to make dubstep it would be like this. Hearing this on a big system was pure ecstasy. (wasn't on drugseither)



In terms of trance, this one never fails to disappoint. Pure, euphoric eargasm every time. For me, this is the epitome of what trance should be.

It NEVER gets old.

EDIT: Also, this:

House - Joan Reyes - Shakedown (Bass Kleph Remix)


Tech House - Pleasurekraft - Tarantula


Electro House - Unleash the Fucking Dada - Dada Life


Progressive House - Deadmau5 - Arguru, or Pryda - Niton


Dubstep - Freestylers - Cracks (Flux Pavillion Remix)


Techno - Joey Beltram - The Scorpion



When I played Unleash the Fucking Dada I had to let it play so I played it in iTunes. That track is MINDBLOWING.

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Originally posted by theterran This is currently what I've been fapping to. If I was to make dubstep it would be like this. Hearing this on a big system was pure ecstasy. (wasn't on drugseither)

THIS. I heard of Skrillex for the first time 3 weeks ago. Ordered his album within 30 mins . First time I've liked dubstep. His house music is quite dirty too. Very well executed.

Apart from that, yes again, just about any Chris Reece track.

Perfection

Some ambient stuff that always inspires me:

Brian Eno - "A Clearing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvWpD5m9AiI

Biosphere - "Sphere of No-form": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZfVPtxFtqw

Cliff Martinez - "Helicopter": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogDj3uXLP7w

Benn Jordan - "These Solemn Stars": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gi0EISEm6I

Wow, hearing a lot of different things here, from "flat" "no dimension" ASOT / Anjuna style overcompressed crap to minimal electro type grooves in "not so good" mix quality.

I would have assumed a lot more high quality productions, engineering wise, but most seem to prever bombastic over quality.

Which in itself is interesting and explains the current music culture. I would probably settle more toward Brian Eno, or in EDM Wippenberg, or Jorn van Duynhoven.

Also, for downtempo:

Future Sound Of London - "Dead Skin Cells": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csOw3lKXMSw

And pretty much anything from LSG - Into Deep. Even though I don't really do the "driving" downtempo thing in my own productions, the sounds and overall atmosphere of the whole album are amazing. Nothing else quite like it IMO.

for sheer sound quality i really like the Buddha Bar albums, or basically everything from George V label http://www.buddha-bar.com/

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Originally posted by Raphie Wow, hearing a lot of different things here, from "flat" "no dimension" ASOT / Anjuna style overcompressed crap to minimal electro type grooves in "not so good" mix quality. I would have assumed a lot more high quality productions, engineering wise, but most seem to prever bombastic over quality.

I'd say a combination of several factors would make a quality production. A bit less engineering imo can still be made up by having a track that's messes you up in so many good ways (making you move, smile, cry, goosebumps, etc).

Engineering has a far too important role in music anyways. Yours and my music both are examples of just that. Focusing on engineering and hardly any interesting/intricate musical content.

Anything from David West, never heard anything as well produced as his stuff.

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Originally posted by Raphie Wow, hearing a lot of different things here, from "flat" "no dimension" ASOT / Anjuna style overcompressed crap to minimal electro type grooves in "not so good" mix quality. I would have assumed a lot more high quality productions, engineering wise, but most seem to prever bombastic over quality.

Well you know what they say about assumption..?

These are high quality productions to us all for what ever reason, they sound good and we love them.

Storytellers first sentence in response to your comments pretty much sums it up.

One of the best vocal EDM, imo.

lol awesome vid.

Not sure what's wrong with people...oh yeah, jealousy.

Didn't imagine skrillex to look quite like that either lol. (Heard another DJ play his stuff)

Oh...and judging music quality off of youtube and soundcloud is the best way to do it amirite? amirite? :rolls eyes:

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Also, for downtempo: Future Sound Of London - "Dead Skin Cells": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csOw3lKXMSw And pretty much anything from LSG - Into Deep. Even though I don't really do the "driving" downtempo thing in my own productions, the sounds and overall atmosphere of the whole album are amazing. Nothing else quite like it IMO.

Forgot about this album, one of my all time favourites. Did you get the 'unreleased album'. It was one unmixed mp3 file released by Oliver on the net due to label issues. It was meant to be the follow up to 'Into the deep'. Very good.

FSOL, scary geniuses. The level of detail, both the sheer number of samples and the weird synths still astounds me

i dont have a personal idea..i like tracks that catch me by a suprise..theres no formula to my taste..

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Originally posted by LoveHate i dont have a personal idea..i like tracks that catch me by a suprise..theres no formula to my taste..

So post the track that perfectly fulfilled this desire of aural buttsechs by suprise?

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Originally posted by Scrittah

Fucking Choon. I love what Pryda did over the last year and this was one of his finest ever.

In terms of a production aesthetic, he is about as close to perfection as I possibly think of. So simple, yet so damn good.

Props to floyd for astral projection but the one that gets me more from that style is...



Takes me right back to Danny Rampling old sets.

That skrillex shit is pretty damn tight but dubstep is still crap. And that fucking club. Christ, is that what the kids do these days? Need a damn good wash and some proper clothes. Where's my smoking jacket?

Oh, and anything by that cvnt Chris Reece, especially his Dinka monika is flawless.

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Originally posted by Eric J Actually one of the few tracks from him that REALLY did something for me. I really love what he did with it, but the only thing that bugs me is the kick is so weak (as it is in a lot of his stuff). I always find myself having to reinforce it with a loop when I play it. Now THIS. Yeah, THIS was when things were really good in the trance world. I used to play a remix of this, it wasn't the original, but it was the inside track on the word side I think. (See that what was awesome about vinyl, you knew what track it was with subtle clues like that. "It's the inside track on the word side of the record with the black label with red lettering that has this picture of a strange insect on the cover." You just can't reproduce that with a digital file. I really miss that.) Takes me back to the days of Lost Tribe & Red jerry and when Hooj Choons ruled the world of trance. Yeah, i kind of thought the same things when i saw that video. I was like "man, I'm too old for that kind of party! Shit has changed." Man, for my money, this guy can do no wrong. I can't think of a single Dinka release that I haven't bought. It's gotten to the point where I trust it so implicitly that I listen to it for about 2 seconds on Beatport and just hit Buy. Oh and really, he needs to just drop the whole "Dinka is a different artist" facade. I think everyone has figured out that Dinka IS Chris Reece and not the chick in the photos. The Dinka fan page on Facebook posted a message earlier today saying "Hey, I'm working on a new album of beach house tunes." I wanted to reply and go "No, CHRIS is working on a new album of beach house tunes." But I thought better of it.

Chris Reece kicks are always top notch

Haha Rann, next time I'll be in UK I'll be sure to hit you up . I think we could exchange tunes all day long without ever getting bored hahaha.

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