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Money in music (pg. 6)
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| -MCLAIN- |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_kane
its dyk! jesus he's not a lesbian.
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Lol dj_kane, I have seen it misspelled so many times now (even on online record stores) and its pickled my head. Like Scott (Scot) Project. My bad. |
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| zodiac9 |
Substorm, thanks for detailing your experiences. I suppose I should start at least thinking about sending some demos out. I think I want a little more producing experience under my belt first. I'm on a digital label right now, it's a start. Every once in a while they submit tracks to Armin and he listens to them, so there's at least one avenue open to me.
I'm starting to wonder if I should switch styles, my next project is going to be leaning heavily toward progressive trance. That's still Trance though, of course. I like some of the progressive house and deep house, and I'm sure I could produce those styles, but my heart just wouldn't be into it. Plus, I don't listen to enough of it to really understand those styles. I get bored of it all pretty quickly. I don't like Techno at all, so that's out of the question.
I've started a little side project, composing and producing music for media productions, mainly Indie films. It's something I've always wanted to do, and I think there's more money in that than Trance. |
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| dj_kane |
| quote: | Originally posted by zodiac9
I'm starting to wonder if I should switch styles, my next project is going to be leaning heavily toward progressive trance. That's still Trance though, of course. I like some of the progressive house and deep house, and I'm sure I could produce those styles, but my heart just wouldn't be into it. Plus, I don't listen to enough of it to really understand those styles. I get bored of it all pretty quickly. I don't like Techno at all, so that's out of the question.
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i was the same i started making a prog house track and even though it was going well half way through it i said to myself i dont want to do this. i only feel satisfaction when i produce uplifting trance. techno like you i hate. if theres no money to be made in uplifting trance then so be it at least ill have the satisifaction in myself that i produced for me and not the money. |
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| -MCLAIN- |
| quote: | Originally posted by zodiac9
I'm starting to wonder if I should switch styles, my next project is going to be leaning heavily toward progressive trance. That's still Trance though, of course. I like some of the progressive house and deep house, and I'm sure I could produce those styles, but my heart just wouldn't be into it. Plus, I don't listen to enough of it to really understand those styles. I get bored of it all pretty quickly. I don't like Techno at all, so that's out of the question.
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Im on exactly the same boat as you. I want to be able to enjoy house, saying as its so popular and especially would like to be able to produce house on an on-going basis but I dont really know the style all that well and whats expected as I just dont listen to it really.
Im scared that in order to produce house and make it sound professional I will have to go back to basics nearly, forgetting all the traditional styles of engineering trance to sound good and go on a whole new learning curve of listening to and understanding how good house sounds and being able to make a creation of my own.
No doubt would I have to start listening to tonnes of current house tracks and start appreciating them and listening to the 'style' before I could really get into the producing side of it. |
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| -MCLAIN- |
DJ_Kane, I also find no real satisfaction in producing trance unless at least I find its Uplifting/Epic on the end result with incredible buildups/breakdowns, sweeping pads and killer leads etc.
Would it be possible to listen to any of your work?
Cheers |
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| dj_kane |
| in my footer theres a link to my new track and my myspace page where you can listen to other tracks. |
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| djillicit |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_kane
i was the same i started making a prog house track and even though it was going well half way through it i said to myself i dont want to do this... |
yeah, i did that once too... then i got bored. "in a, this is too slow!" sometimes i do slip into a prog house mood though... |
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| -MCLAIN- |
So what are your weapons of mass distraction then? (Tools in this case :D ) I know VEC is one because i know that distorted vocal sample you used in Mystify a mile away, used it myself in a project. That and a couple other samples :toocool:
What sampler you running? Any Hardware?
Your musics good by the way |
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| dj_kane |
| quote: | Originally posted by djillicit
yeah, i did that once too... then i got bored. "in a, this is too slow!" sometimes i do slip into a prog house mood though... |
if it isnt something that im going to dance to while im mixing and i no i wont get a crowd reaction to it then i cant make it. i find prog much easier to produce but to hear a powerful uplifting track and seeing people dance to it is much more enjoyable to me. |
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| -MCLAIN- |
| Kane, Volo Dimitto sounds powerful but sounds extremely distorted is that just the MySpace player? I could definately appreciate this track like if it wasnt for the myspace distortion. |
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| dj_kane |
| quote: | Originally posted by -MCLAIN-
So what are your weapons of mass distraction then? (Tools in this case :D ) I know VEC is one because i know that distorted vocal sample you used in Mystify a mile away, used it myself in a project. That and a couple other samples :toocool:
What sampler you running? Any Hardware?
Your musics good by the way |
cubase sx, reason 3.0, jp8000 synth, vsts - albino, v station, z3ta, vanguard, synth1, fm7 and a few others. for fx i use the vec samples plus i make my own with the jp8000. |
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| dj_kane |
| quote: | Originally posted by -MCLAIN-
Kane, Volo Dimitto sounds powerful but sounds extremely distorted is that just the MySpace player? I could definately appreciate this track like if it wasnt for the myspace distortion. |
the myspace player makes everything sound like because i upload 128 kbps versions then myspace compress them again. theres a couple of djs playing volo dimitto (no one big though) and it was on a dublin trance radio. might try and fix it up and send it to labels. |
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