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| Mr.Mystery |
Okay, so it's not exactly on the technical side of things but I feel it's a vital part of production anyway.
How do you guys name your tracks? Is it just some random stuff you come up with or do your titles actually mean something?
To me, a track title is about as important as the track itself. I often have the name picked out before I even start producing and then the track takes its shape based on the title, not the other way around. Random and generic track titles annoy me greatly, especially seeing how most EDM is instrumental - a track title can affect the whole "experience" greatly. |
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| azndragon0613 |
| Like you, I usually visualize the concept or theme in my head before I start producing. I guess the best way to name songs is to consider the types of elements it includes and the way the song feels. I'm sure you've got it though. "Mellow" sounded ... mellow ... but then again you said Mart wrote that. But, I know what you mean, those random titles... |
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| B_man |
I usually name my track according to how it makes me feel, or the images that it conjures up in my head. THen I start playing an association game with the words that this outputs, and then in a bubble sort like system start conjuring up a fashionable name that suits the track partially.
I don't think that the track title is just as important as the track. However, I do believe that it can be misleading. Music is subjective, yes... but if a hardstyle track was named "For an Angel" instead of "Kill the DJ", it would only take a moment for me to realize that the track name was written by a retardacon. |
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| G-Con |
I tend to name a track by what it represented to me in my production journey. For instance, my last track I called Expectations because the track before was the first track I got signed so I felt that there was a lot of high expectations of how good the next one should be.
The one I'm currently working on is called "It can be done" because i feel that this track has reached a new level of quality for me and makes me feel that I'm finally gettin to the stage I never thought I'd get to. |
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| agentdansmith |
| quote: | Originally posted by G-Con
I tend to name a track by what it represented to me in my production journey. |
POOF :D |
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| G-Con |
| quote: | Originally posted by agentdansmith
POOF :D |
No, you are |
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| thecYrus |
| my newest tracks are just some random letters which build cool words but doesn't reflect a real world in any language. it's just much more catchy than to have a track named like hundred other tracks. and as a sideeffect it's more easy to track it down in google or so :P |
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| Chronosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by B_man
I usually name my track according to how it makes me feel, or the images that it conjures up in my head. |
This way. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by azndragon0613
"Mellow" sounded ... mellow ... but then again you said Mart wrote that. But, I know what you mean, those random titles... |
Mellow is an exception to my rule - that was just a working title that got stuck. I didn't feel it was my right to name it as it wasn't really my tune as such. |
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| phantom limb |
| quote: | Originally posted by B_man
I usually name my track according to how it makes me feel, or the images that it conjures up in my head. THen I start playing an association game with the words that this outputs, and then in a bubble sort like system start conjuring up a fashionable name that suits the track partially.
I don't think that the track title is just as important as the track. However, I do believe that it can be misleading. Music is subjective, yes... but if a hardstyle track was named "For an Angel" instead of "Kill the DJ", it would only take a moment for me to realize that the track name was written by a retardacon. |
Yea so true man. You got a point. Sometimes I go on a little tangent and try to make it sound suave, but you gotta remember that you need to make the track live up to its name. No point putting a ton of time into the name if nobody's gonna respect it. |
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| Zombie0729 |
this is by far the biggest area i lack. not only do i name projects HORRIBLY(to the point where i try to bring something up and it says cool-bassline-started-5-2-07.als uhhhh) but i also feel cheesey adjectives are just overdone.
i need to just have random pages of a dictionary open on my desk |
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| Falck |
As we always have vocals on our tracks (I'm a part of a duo producing) the track title is usually some phrase from the text. However, when working on tracks before the words are written, the tracks have really stupid working names, usually relating to something that happened that perticular day the project begun :)
Cheers |
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