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Early productions and their influence on you today
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| Fatboy |
So, a bit more than a week ago I saw this remix competition for deadmau5's label mau5trap. I spent a few hours coming up with a bassline but then left it for a few days. On Wednesday I picked it up again, and thought I'd give it a go as a challenge. I had to create the rest of the track, mix and master it in 24 hours.
The bassline was sounding like electro house, so I tried to do it in that genre for a change.
Now I haven't done a full on trance track for a very long time, but what happened on this one, and what's been following me for ages is that I still tend to do a lot of things that would be typical for trance. That would be things like sound design, arrangement etc. The short amount of time I had available on this probably meant I didn't have time to deliberate on every single decision (like I usually do!) and just went for whatever felt natural at the time. This accelerated process really confirmed that trance stuff/elements seem to be what I first try out a lot of the time.
Probably it's down to trance being the first genre I produced and I'm not saying that it's a bad thing that this is happening. Here's the remix if people were wondering, but more importantly I was wondering if it's me being weird or if you guys have the same thing happening to you with whatever early genre/style you started off producing continually sneaking into current productions? I guess this question only applies to people that has significantly changed the genre they work in since starting out, which is definitely the case for me. |
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| owien |
i first started out on music 2000 on the playsatation lol and was making trance.
As time goes on with new skills in-hand you'll find yourself applying these talnts to new areas of edm ect this is how we learn.
some of the best house productions were made by trance producers! |
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| chick |
| I'd say that's quite a normal thing. But can't really happen to me because I do not listen to/produce only one specific genre (it's boring) |
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| EddieZilker |
I did a remix for the Snoop Dogg competition, recently, and while I changed a lot of the instrumentation and FX I found myself retreating into a dance builder configuration, where the basic pattern repeats once it establishes itself and then becomes more elaborate as the tune progresses. It ends like the original, and I use a lot of the original music to build around but, for better or worse, old habits die hard. :)
http://soundcloud.com/deepeddiezilk...soul-search-mix
BTW - This is a really cool mix I'm hearing from you. Love everything going on and all of the beeps. Good luck on that. |
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| Fatboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by chick
I'd say that's quite a normal thing. But can't really happen to me because I do not listen to/produce only one specific genre (it's boring) |
I do the same. I try not to get too occupied about which genre a song is "supposed" to be in, but as I posted above, trance more than anything else seems to always be a big factor. I haven't listened to it much for quite a while and I was just a bit surprised that it has been such a constant.
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
for better or worse, old habits die hard. :) |
Do you know what, I think that pretty much summed up my long winded post in one sentence:) I was never too good with words.. Glad you liked the mix Eddie:)
Haven't heard the original Snoop track before, but like the fact that you did the mix in a slower tempo and kept it hip hop:) |
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| msz |
| same with me (usually) there is a bit of trance element in my productions, even If i try to make deep house for example, still has some trance/prog elements. |
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| Rodri Santos |
| i am in the making of a club house track and so far it's progressive and i still miss strings so i'd probably add them and any house ressemblance will dissappear :) |
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| msz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Rodri Santos
i am in the making of a club house track and so far it's progressive and i still miss strings so i'd probably add them and any house ressemblance will dissappear :) |
do post in the music promo section when ur done, i love hearing progressive house. just put up a prog house tune up there myself. |
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| Pagan-za |
I'm finally getting into the habit of keeping to "a style" when I'm making a song. Before all my songs had the same type of elements to them, nowadays though, I'm getting much better at sticking to what I envisioned the song to be like.
@ msz : I listened to that track. I rather enjoyed it :) I love anything progressive. |
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