I guess going a week without dance music would mean not producing any as well.

I'd work on some ambient during that week.

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Originally posted by Skov Oh my fucking god. All who listens to EDM are doomed .

i managed a few weeks straight in the army but thats 7 years ago now, the adiction wasnt probably that deep plus that I was weak and absorbed all kinds of influences. Even then i remember it was hard and I bought 1210s emidiately after army to compensate. im still one year behind everything in edm beacuse of this. think im gonna try 1 week tho. and i wont be putting on other genres instead, im gonna just turn off all music. maybe my eyes will be better?

Actually, I haven't played any music at all today and I'm not really feeling any ill-effects, although I have a nagging urge to put some Blue Amazon on...

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Going without all music for a while is a pretty weird experience. I did that once for a week years ago just to see what it would be like, and the first hours when I got back to listening again felt really strange.

If you're a big music listener you really feel the absence, since so much music plays with your emotions and stimulates your brain in ways that nothing else can, and when you give it up you no longer have that stuff.

That's really interesting to think about.

I basically have music playing all the time when I can. I also get multiple urges daily to listen to certain tracks, whether they're edm or something else. Kinda strange now that I actually think about it.

Nothing surpasses the beauty of silence, imo.

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Originally posted by Skov Nothing surpasses the beauty of silence, imo.

Silence is actually really hard to find.

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"Going into the anechoic chamber at Harvard University, I expected to hear no sound at all, because it was a room made as silent as possible. But in that room I heard two sounds. And I was so surprised that I went to the engineer in charge … and said, There’s something wrong, there’re two sounds in that room, and he said describe them, and I did, one was high and one was low, and he said, the high one was my nervous system … and the low one was my blood circulating. So I realized that … I was making music unintentionally continuously." - John Cage

But I do find that when I go without music, I end up paying a lot more attention to the random ambient sounds that I naturally hear each day: cars going by, the fan overhead, my computer running, people talking out in the streets, etc.

I sometimes take a portable recorder out in public, to a mall or around the neighborhood or to a restaurant, and just record whatever sounds happen to occur. Then I load the recordings on to my computer and listen back to them. I often find it oddly calming, just to listen closely to all the random, unplanned noises that the world makes.

I used to be hooked to this stuff too back in the day. I'd spend a few hours a day listening to some acid, tech house and stuff like that. Once I started listening to other stuff regularly I found that I listened to less and less EDM, and nowadays I barely ever do. I think it just has to do with getting your ears used to different sounds.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles But I do find that when I go without music, I end up paying a lot more attention to the random ambient sounds that I naturally hear each day: cars going by, the fan overhead, my computer running, people talking out in the streets, etc.

Interrestingly I became like that when I started listening to music less often. I used to constantly have headphones on wherever I was, but I don't do that anymore. Now I just listen to ambient sounds that were previousely just noise to me, and sometimes they sound almost musical.

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I listen to it everywhere all the time. Being a DJ especially, I always have new material I want to become more familiar with, so I usually carry my newer tracks in my ipod along with some non-edm stuffs and any random older classics or resurrections I feel like throwing in the mix.

I wonder if I will eventually burn out on it like Petran has, I'm only 22. Each time I have felt like this was happening though, I just switch to more non-edm listening or take a short break and it passes.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Silence is actually really hard to find.

I guess it's impossible, but you know what I mean .

This comes pretty damn close though.