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.

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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.