Tribute to Wearing Headphones without Listening to Anything

i couldn't be bothered to vote, but that theme is A+

Yeah, A+ troll theme. I'mma do a tribute xhamster style, aiming for the headphones without listening..

  On 12/10/2016 at 7:58 AM, Djeroek said:

Yeah, A+ troll theme. I'mma do a tribute xhamster style, aiming for the headphones without listening..

Dude! Merry X-mas dude :)

One of my fav things about the Xmas season, for YEARS, was getting the chance to make an Xmas tune for the WATMMsmas comps. That and hearing Djeroek's hilarious Junglesmas tracks. Good times.

Also, Root you gotta update ur sig!

  On 12/10/2016 at 10:04 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

One of my fav things about the Xmas season, for YEARS, was getting the chance to make an Xmas tune for the WATMMsmas comps. That and hearing Djeroek's hilarious Junglesmas tracks. Good times.

Also, Root you gotta update ur sig!

Someday I'll do another xmas comp, because I still want to do a 303 cover of Santa Baby.

Also: I just updated my sig in honour of your attention to detail :)

  On 12/10/2016 at 9:46 AM, Root5 said:

 

  On 12/10/2016 at 7:58 AM, Djeroek said:

Yeah, A+ troll theme. I'mma do a tribute xhamster style, aiming for the headphones without listening..

 

 

Dude! Merry X-mas dude :)

 

Dude! Merry X-mas to you too dude 

  On 12/10/2016 at 10:04 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

One of my fav things about the Xmas season, for YEARS, was getting the chance to make an Xmas tune for the WATMMsmas comps. That and hearing Djeroek's hilarious Junglesmas tracks. Good times.

 & +1 on making a new Christmas track, I got the sleigh bell sounds ready to roll. 

  On 12/8/2016 at 7:07 PM, Joyrex said:

Artwork! Let's see artwork!

isn't it obvious we need "manga girl wearing headphones" artwork?

duh

Seeing the artwork would really help provide direction. It's like providing the artwork after people have created tracks would seemed disjointed, almost random when mixed together. Having a visual reference might also help inspire musical ideas. How does the artwork actually fit in with the theme for instance? 

Might do something for this, iunno what tho

  On 12/11/2016 at 10:57 AM, Paul said:

Seeing the artwork would really help provide direction. It's like providing the artwork after people have created tracks would seemed disjointed, almost random when mixed together. Having a visual reference might also help inspire musical ideas. How does the artwork actually fit in with the theme for instance? 

I can see the point here, and if people overwhelmingly want this then I'll post the artwork.

My two concerns are this:

1. When the album goes live, seeing the artwork for the first time really contributes to the momentum of the album. If you submit a track to the album, then you want your listeners to be excited to hear the music, and approach it with a positive attitude, right? The the look and feel of the album is old news, then I think people will approach the album with less excitement, which will affect how the hear the music.

2. One of the things I like about these compilations is that everyone interprets the theme in their own way. The album art is brilliant, and a really good interpretation, but I don't want to enforce that interpretation on everyone else. What does the theme mean for you? Put that down in your track, and the authenticity will make the music better.

But again, if everyone thinks my concerns are less important, and providing guidance and excitement at this stage is more important, then by all means I'll post the art.

I prefer root5's idea, we might end up with a very mixed bag of things, which is not necessarily a bad thing

  On 12/9/2016 at 8:32 AM, clarktrent said:

It'd be really IDM if you tried to make the nextest next level track possible without headphones/monitors even plugged in and only listening to it after submitting it

IDM as fuck.

  On 12/10/2016 at 1:29 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

Very much looking forward to the Peace 7 submission as he was the most passionate campaigner for the theme! As for me, yeah this is a tough one... Gonna have to live in this concept for a while (wear headphones everywhere) and draw some sort of inspiration.

Power to the people, yo.  I did what needed to be done.  But now that the people have won, it is the choice of the people to do what they will with such glorious victory.  Life (and making awesome tracks) is never 100% easy, but the effort is always worth it.

Somebody sample BoC's Magic Window and Gescom's Around Absolute Zero!

Today's a good day to take the plunge into absurdity, and write music about silence.

lol

Perfect cover

this theme to me has literally no musical ideas i can think of, atall. so im just gonna submit a track im happy with and see if its accepted. i mean i literally cannot think of any theme apart from distant musique concrete, but thats boring as fuck. 

  On 12/18/2016 at 2:22 AM, messiaen said:

this theme to me has literally no musical ideas i can think of, atall. so im just gonna submit a track im happy with and see if its accepted. i mean i literally cannot think of any theme apart from distant musique concrete, but thats boring as fuck. 

I feel like picking this theme is also a tribute to the rush, the adaptation, and the general backwardsness of the act.

  On 12/19/2016 at 6:00 AM, Root5 said:

 

  On 12/18/2016 at 2:22 AM, messiaen said:

this theme to me has literally no musical ideas i can think of, atall. so im just gonna submit a track im happy with and see if its accepted. i mean i literally cannot think of any theme apart from distant musique concrete, but thats boring as fuck.

 

I feel like picking this theme is also a tribute to the rush, the adaptation, and the general backwardsness of the act.

for the rush

Maybe we should try to produce a track on speakers while wearing headphons on our heads...a cloused ones would be nice.

This sounds wicked. Why not try and go through the motions of making a track as you would but not actually hearing it? That's what I would do. You know instinctively where to place hits on the sequencer so you could easily get some janky beats going rather than taking the easy way out and doing an ambient scape.

  On 12/19/2016 at 3:34 PM, Chesney said:

This sounds wicked. Why not try and go through the motions of making a track as you would but not actually hearing it? That's what I would do. You know instinctively where to place hits on the sequencer so you could easily get some janky beats going rather than taking the easy way out and doing an ambient scape.

but what if it sounds utter shit

It might be prudent to get all the experiments with monitor-free production out of your systems early, so you have time to sample those experiments and make something better.