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EgosXII
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Registered: Apr 2007
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Re: Re: To listen and follow the advice of the popular producers, or not?

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Originally posted by zodiac9
I think you got the right idea with your DJing. I'm doing that with producing these days, I don't listen to any EDM at all. OK, that's taking if way further than can be expected. It's mostly because I'm totally burned out on listening to EDM.

I haven't watched one producer video. Instructional videos bore me, I just don't have time for that. Would it hurt me to watch one? Probably not, I tend to do my own thing, regardless. I can it see it holding some producers back, if all they do is mimic other producers techniques. If you want to innovate, or develop your own sound, you need to eventually get away from other influences. Tinker and experiment on your own. You'll learn and grow more that way.

haha i'm exactly the same man... since getting more serious about production i never listen to edm anymore, except my own tunes. still listen heaps to music, just not DANCE

i guess i find a lot of edm extremely uninspiring anyway these days... so much of it is so boring and repetitive.. pretty much every major label releases exactly the same song with a slightly different breakdown... i''m not speaking for the whole scene of course, but i find a lot of the time looking for new tunes, on beatport or wherever has become tedious instead of exciting... new imogen heap album on the other hand?? shit yeah!!

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Zak McKracken
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id only listen to people i think make good music. popular or not. if i do what they say is unlikely though as i have my own my on everything.

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Richard Butler
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Registered: Apr 2009
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Re: To listen and follow the advice of the popular producers, or not?

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Originally posted by DjStephenWiley

I think we can all agree that music is beyond stagnant, and one of the reasons is because everybody wants to do what everybody is doing.

Is it stagnant or just the case that certain traites in music, appeal to a wide audience?

I have a lot of sympathy for the argument you possit, and I myself pretty much avoid listening to the billion or so remixes as they in the main don't bring enough newness and innovation - baking a cake twice just does'nt get me going now, with the odd exception here and there. Can you imagine a fashion designer every time he launched something, there was 5 rehashes by other designers?

I also think you can become mentally saturated by the wall of sound heading your way - I can't keep up with it all, so hugely narrow down what I 'listen' to.

On the other hand........ I do check out new releases by quality artists like Akesson as it's important I think not to get too much trapped in your own little world - loads of wanna be xfactor contestants think they have the xfactor, largely because they dont objectively compare thier ability.

So I'm not completely cut off, but I do limit my exposure. Howz that for fence sitting!