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Interesting to stumble across this thread, since I've been tossing around some thoughts about it lately.
I started mixing long before I started producing, becuase I was 14 or 15 at the time and I was collecting mp3 tunes anyways, so I would make mixes in Mix Meister and Traktor and shit just for fun. That quickly went way beyond just messing around however, and today I use real equipment take it very seriously as an artform.
At the time that I was really getting into electronic music, I was about 12 or 13, and I guess I had some sort of notion that making it was just ridiculously complicated and difficult, so I sort of wrote it off as being beyond my capabilities. My dad had some Korgs when I was growing up and I loved playing around with them, but to my little mind they seemed entirely too complex to actually make music with (I never had any sort of formal musical training, and as I would learn later in life, once you start to grap a few basic concepts--key, namely--it's actually not that hard).
I played around with Reason as a teenager and learned the very basics of it, but again I never really persued it because it seemed so ridiculously complicated.
It wasn't until I was 21 (last summer, actually) that I finally started to produce, and I admit it was because I was so enthralled with DJing that I had it in my mind to try and take it to a higher level, and I knew that producing tracks was a way to do it. To my own credit, I think I still had a genuine desire to produce good music then, and never really had any intention of releasing crap tunes on Beatport like some have (I knew that wouldn't really get me any recognition anyways).
I stuck with it and got over those initial hurdles, and I also started taking music theory courses in school. And I have to say: now that I've realized that I can actually do it, I suddenly have a huge creative desire to. A year ago, if I heard an amazing track, I would have just said to myself "man, that's a great track." Today, I say to myself "I want to CREATE a track like that."
But anyways... there are some tunes up on my myspace if anyone wants to look... maybe you all can tell me if they sound cheap and generic, or actually interesting.
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