EKT Confessions

I paid for and installed Renoise with high expectations, it was going to revolutionize they way I make music.

After a couple of hours of mucking around with it I went back to Reason. I don't think it was Renoise's fault, I just didn't have the patience to learn.

  hahathhat said:

  LUDD said:

ugh yeah *shudders*

 

what are we talking here... freestylers, bentley rhythm ace, fatboy, chemical bros, bombfunk mcs ????

 

i remember a certain glastonbury freezing and tripping round a random fire and the only music was this litl stereo with a some dude's mixtape of all those people

 

that was a bad time

 

hey, did i say i'm still really into it? no, what i said was it was the first proper electronic music i'd heard aside from a few esoteric bits and bobs in soundtracks or whatever.

 

i didn't start listening to music properly until i was 14. in fact, i didn't much at all, until that point. growing up, my mom played an "oldies" station in the car -- beatles, elvis, motown, james brown, you know. my dad likes folk music, classic rock, and a lot of other very bizzare stuff. he'd play his old LPs sometimes. social lemminghood at school (hey, it was 5th grade) instructed me to get a green day album, which i thought was actually pretty good. i had a small CD/tape collection that was essentially favorites culled from the categories i just mentioned. favorite bands: beatles, beach boys, clannad.

 

i was never much of a radio listener, still am not. when i was 14, however, i suddenly started listening to it every night for a period of a few weeks. i heard fatboy slim's "rockefella skank" and was blown away. i hadn't really heard music like that before. this was before p2p, but when you could get mp3s off of FTP sites and IRC if you knew where to look. i was good with tech shit -- it's what i did with my time, almost all day every day, before i got into music -- so i went and download the album.

 

that was essentially it. after one album came another, and many more. at 16 i started writing stuff myself.

 

to answer your question: fatboy slim, chemical brothers, crystal method, propellerheads, prodigy, meat beat manifesto... in fact, i found out about MBM being the root of all this when another person went all indie lip curl on me like you fuckheads. i don't think fatboy slim's music is really the problem -- the problem here is akin to what happens when led zeppelin licenses "rock and roll" to cadillac for a commercial. instead of people saying, "yeah, led zeppelin!!" when it comes on the radio, they say, "oh shit, it's the song from that cadillac commercial, change it!!"

 

i never saw your "mates" in this "glastonbury". when i found fatboy slim and the like, i found aphex's remixes. soundtracks with his tracks. that one fatboy slim song on the radio essentially set me on a new path that i'm still going down a decade later. i don't feel right letting people talk about music that had that sort of effect on me like that.

ive read my post and your post twice now and i still dont have a clue how you got the impression i was personally insulting you

i just really hate all the artists i named and the whole stupid "big beat" explosion cause at the time (and now) it semed to my like a bunch of boring, funkless, LCD shit

the led zeppelin cadillac thing i dont understand..... did fatboy slim do a cadillac advert over there or something???

i also hated beats international and freakpower and all the other crap "dance" music norman cook made years before his fatboy slim alias

my love for elecronic musics goes back to being a kid in 1982 so i would've been about 25 when all these "big beat" acts were around

and i hated the music ... is that not reasonable enough

where exactly did i do a "indie lip curl" (i have no fucking clue what that even means btw so no offence taken)

"you fuckheads" however...

also: the last paragraph of your post is incomprehensible

  LUDD said:

the led zeppelin cadillac thing i dont understand..... did fatboy slim do a cadillac advert over there or something???

have you ever thought about posting on ricedoutyugo.com

never

more EKT confessions please

i cant finish shit because i dont like it enough.

My biggest problem is conceptualizing a piece before I start. If I do not I will waste too much time trying out every combination I can think of without having any idea of where I am going.

whereas (or because?) making tracks used to take me days and days a couple of years ago, they now take me about twice as long as their durations. this doesn't matter, they still sound shitty:)

I don't know much about producing music but I still give plenty of advice.

  Wall Bird said:

My biggest problem is conceptualizing a piece before I start. If I do not I will waste too much time trying out every combination I can think of without having any idea of where I am going.

I can relate to that. I gave both of those radiohead remixes a shot and ran into that problem. First I couldn't figure out what tempo to use for "Nude." Then when I figure it out I had no idea what drum pattern sounded better, whether to keep the guitars, etc. Recently I got close finishing a remix for "Reckoner," it's basically a dubstep track that I have all the loops for but haven't mixed. I blame my full-time job for that one.

As for my own stuff, I have a lot of started projects and no focus on what to finish first. I think I'm also too obsessed with getting it right the first time instead simply producing a "demo" and going from there.

I believe my philosophies and ideas about music are the most revolutionary and appealing ones there are, but my tracks come out half assed and unfinished

(1:20:09 AM) hahathhat: i have a confession

(1:20:18 AM) hahathhat: i don't really know anything about music

(1:20:24 AM) hahathhat: i just play with cubase and synths and stuff.

:-O

I do everything by ear. I still don't "know" what half the knobs do technically. I just know what they sound like, and how to achieve the desired sound in my head. If you asked me what the knobs literally do I couldn't tell you.

It's kind cool this way, though.

I don't know if this is a bad thing but I spend like 10 times the amount of time I spend making music listening to music.

it's getting hard for me to do either lately. mental healthz not look so hotz.

I wish i had a time machine to go back to 1993 when the music I make would've been considered interesting or enjoyable by anyone

I used to give myself a 20 minute time limit to make a track and those were the ones that other people liked the most.

  autopilot said:

I do everything by ear. I still don't "know" what half the knobs do technically. I just know what they sound like, and how to achieve the desired sound in my head. If you asked me what the knobs literally do I couldn't tell you.

 

It's kind cool this way, though.

"It goes from whmmmm.. to bzzzz.. that's how a filter works!"

lol

essentially

I only play on the white keys and have forgotten all the music theory I once knew.

i don't want to make anything remotely experimental anymore

if i could get internets on an mpc i'd sell my computer

i thought 311 was amazing when i was 16.

and they weren't the most embarrassing thing i listened to.

the most successful band i've ever been a part of was by far the worst.