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david.michael
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Dayton, OH, USA
Is it sad that the hardest part of producing a track for me is...

coming up with a title?

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Mr.Mystery
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa

No, not really. Me & Mart have always struggled with that. We can knock up tunes easily but the titles... oh, the titles
It just doesn't feel right to have something generic and clichéd as the title. It needs to be special... and that IS hard.

I mean we have about a half of an album worth of tracks done and none of the tracks have titles. Nor does the album have a name. And I don't think we're even quite sure of the project name we're gonna release it under


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Aquarian
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Registered: May 2005
Location: Laval, Quebec

Same here. I sometimes rename tracks 3 times before I finish them.

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KilldaDJ
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: tranceaddict wants to know your location

nah, just some random bollocks is fine


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Final Call
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Louisiana USA

i wanna make a album that is all
Bryant P - Track 1
Bryant P - Track 2

so forth and so forth..xP


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Floorfiller
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Illegal Pete's

i agree that random stupid names are kinda dumb. so i guess the question then is what inspires you to make music?

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StanVoid
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Registered: Apr 2005
Location: NYC, New York

i've found that my best tracks have been the ones that were easiest to name. Usually if a track is strong, it evokes a very specific emotion in you, and you can usually pinpoint that emotion with one or few words - thus giving the track its title. But if you're just listening to the track and thinking "well i dunno it kinda sounds like this but it also reminds me of that and bla bla bla", it probably isn't a strong of a track as you could've made it.

or maybe i'm just talking out of my ass


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Pjotr G
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Netherlands

what's in a name

but that's just me, i might just as well call them the current date, it's about the music.


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TOR
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Bruges, Belgium

I love figuring out titles and project names.. The key is to describe the feelings or the images you get from listening to the track, as Stan Void pointed out, but without resorting to clichés. A track title needs to be strong, powerful, personal.

I particularly like titles that have no more than one word, like Kindred Spirits - Warp or my latest track Cosmic Tracer - Fuse, terms that evoke strong images.


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thoughtlessjex
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

I generally try to go with track names that evoke images of what I see, hear, feel, smell, maybe even taste when I listen to them, like The Starlight Was Overwhelming, Drops of Water and Warm Spell. Other times I find that it's more about my mentality at the time, like Regret or Alive. Yet other times I just like to give the songs silly little names like Xifan (The Mandarin for rice porridge) or The Acid Monsters Are Eating Me, that still have some relation to the situation or method in which they were produced.

By and large, though, I agree with StanVoid that my best (or at least favorite) tracks tend to name themselves. These also tend to fill that first tier of tracks.


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david.michael
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Dayton, OH, USA

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
but the titles... oh, the titles
It just doesn't feel right to have something generic and clichéd as the title. It needs to be special... and that IS hard.


That pretty much sums up my struggle right there.

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david.michael
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Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:
Originally posted by TOR
The key is to describe the feelings or the images you get from listening to the track, as Stan Void pointed out, but without resorting to clichés.


It's hard to do one without the other!

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