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.
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Jan-11-2011 18:33
Zak McKracken
Trance
Registered: Jun 2003
Location:
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
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Jan-11-2011 20:39
theterran
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Texass
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.
Jan-11-2011 21:13
Scrittah
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2010
Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
Originally posted by meriter
Your primary focus should be making good music. That's all. No one gives a shit how you do it. And the people that do are fags.
Jan-12-2011 05:27
Andy28
Sandancer
Registered: Jul 2010
Location:
Jan-12-2011 07:24
Storyteller
Supreme tracneaddict
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: The Netherlands
quote:
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.
Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Lelystad, Netherlands
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.
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. First time I've liked dubstep. His house music is quite dirty too. Very well executed.
