What made you want to produce/make music?

[wormcode]

It's just something I've always done in some way. Been into electronic music since I was very young, around 7/8 thanks to family like one aunt who would give me mixtapes and stuff. Started making my own mixtapes and mashup style bootlegs with cassette recorders a few years later, then started playing guitar and such when I was about 13 or 14, making crazy industrial music by micing my amp up. Snowballed from there until I eventually got some very early software like HammerHead, various trackers, Rebirth and other stuff that came out later. Started buying hardware drum machines and synths when I was about 17, and the addiction to gear has plagued me ever since. Be careful, kids.

[outdropt]

For me, i can bring it back to 1 moment that stemmed the idea.

It was a year 1/2 ago around February and i went with a couple of my friends to guitar center, just to fuck around. I didn't do anything related to music ever in my life beside mandatory chorus in grade school. At the time i was working for a DJ company that did pretty high end parties on Long Island.... Krompiare Entertainment (now Party life Productions). That might have motivated me a bit to

. I practice a little bit of DJing with serato, but never for a crowd.. I was mostly just roady/camera man. But anyways...

It was just something my friend mentioned when i was "trying" to DJ on the equipment in Guitar Center. It was something along the lines of " DJ evan, oh shit"...... Kinda gay but it got me thinking about how it would feel to have control over a crowd, the way Excision or Flux Pavilion do.

From there I tried out ableton... and a year and 1/2 later + 20 hours a week producing, here I am.

[ehbes]

Where the hell do find 20 hours in the week to produce...

[outdropt]

Where the hell do find 20 hours in the week to produce...

I try to get 2 hours in at least everyday after work Mon-Fri, its hard tho working 40 hours and finding the time, then on the weekend ill spend my morning producing. It was 20 hours a week now its 15-20 ...

Recently its become more of an obsession, ill sit at my desk at work trolling DSF/youtube/sound on sound/ ect. So by the time 530 hits i am excited to get home and.... sit at my desk for another 1-3 hours... I work out so i dont turn into a a fat ass..

Kinda killing my social life tho, still find time to chill with friends and if anything ill have em come over but i feel like im progressing a lot in the past few weeks so i still look forward to going home everyday to make some tunes. Thing that sucks is that I am putting so much time and effort into this, and its causing me to put my friends on the back burner.

[Divane]

I wanted to sound like Angerfist and make some hardcore music. My future goals would be to make some hardcore music.

[bassinine]

better question:

who here has actually NOT got laid from making music?

[outdropt]

better question:

who here has actually NOT got laid from making music?

No bitch has ever said to me, i like your wobbles let me slob on your knob...

If anything music takes our attention away from the bitches, which in fact = no pussy. I have to dedicate time to her in order to get it in =[


Of coarse i have yet to play out at a show.

If i could find a girl that just sits in my room, listens to me make music, and fucks..... I think i would marry her.

[ehbes]

Girls suck on my wobbles on the reg

[Skrew]

My girlfriend doesn't even like the music I make. I produce usually from the time I wake up til the time she gets home.

[outdropt]

Bitches be jealous of my MPK, all day.

[ehbes]

My girlfriend doesn't even like the music I make. I produce usually from the time I wake up til the time she gets home.

Doesn't fl have a love filter

[Skrew]

True fact: I get sex everyday because she doesn't like it when I cum too much.

[outdropt]

True fact: I get sex everyday because she doesn't like it when I cum too much.

Skrew, little TMI

=P

[Skrew]

Should get back on topic people.

[Skrew]

My girlfriend doesn't even like the music I make. I produce usually from the time I wake up til the time she gets home.

Doesn't fl have a love filter

I use it on my sexy acoustic guitar playing.

I actually only have a kids acoustic so it's not that sexy.

[crunkedxup]

My girlfriend doesn't even like the music I make. I produce usually from the time I wake up til the time she gets home.

my ex-girlfriend was the same. she'd hear tunes like Obey City - Luv U and be like "why don't you make stuff like this!?!?!?!?!!!"

like she got the short straw in a "Date a producer" contest.

which is kind of on-topic actually, i'm glad the reasons i started making music are to do with the genre and how i relate to it as opposed to just making the flavour of the month.

i think origins have a lot to do with how long someone will be making music.

[mthrfnk]

True fact: I get sex everyday because she doesn't like it when I cum too much.

[Skrew]

My girlfriend doesn't even like the music I make. I produce usually from the time I wake up til the time she gets home.

my ex-girlfriend was the same. she'd hear tunes like Obey City - Luv U and be like "why don't you make stuff like this!?!?!?!?!!!"

like she got the short straw in a "Date a producer" contest.

which is kind of on-topic actually, i'm glad the reasons i started making music are to do with the genre and how i relate to it as opposed to just making the flavour of the month.

i think origins have a lot to do with how long someone will be making music.

Mine wants me to do computer stuff because nerds are sexy. Why do girls all of sudden like nerds now? And who in 2012 still uses the term nerd? My god. She's a Medical Student and wants to be some physiatrist but I'd rather her be a doctor. Make all the money so I get to stay home and make music.

[Skrew]

True fact: I get sex everyday because she doesn't like it when I cum too much.

Watch out, we got a 9faggot over here.

[aeser]

started playing guitar when i was 10 in 1987, was into metal. then got into punk around 1989-1990. always was into early hip hop, watched yo mtv raps.

started becoming aware of electronic music/rave culture when i moved to south florida at the age of 14 in 1991. often had cheapo keyboards and stuff and used to imagine being a dj/producer back then. just mainly played guitar and sang in punk bands then.

around 1993-1994 started going to my first raves in ft. lauderdale and miami and getting more into electronic music. i didn't hear people calling it house music at the time but that's most of what i was hearing, got mixtapes from local dj's and such and then heard jungle/drum n bass for the first time and it blew my mind but i didn't know what it was actually called until moving back to the boston area in 1995 and hearing it on a college radio station where they mentioned what genre it was that they were playing. i ran out and bought a bunch of jungle/dnb compilation cd's and such and got really into it.

around 1996-ish my punk band started morphing into a fast hardcore/powerviolence band then a grindcore/death metal band. met a couple people around here who like me were into both grindcore and drum n bass, and also produced. they explained to me what was needed to produce at the time (sequencer [usually a DAW app], sampler [hardware sampler at the time, we all had emu ultra's], mixing desk, monitors, audio interface) and explained what did what and i saved up and got my first real DAW studio (digital performer 2.7, emu e4xt ultra sampler, allen&health mix wizard 16:dx, tannoy reveal monitors) and started messing around with it. came up with 1 kind of ok first beginner track but it was so cludgey to make it (working with the emu is the opposite of the intuitive software we all have today) that i mainly concentrated on the grindcore and indie rock bands i was in as i was used to that and it is much easier to me than electronic production.

this went on like that till about 2007, finally stopped being in a band, wanted to concentrate on electronic production. still couldn't figure a lot of important things out that would smooth out my workflow and allow me to make electronic music i was as happy with as i was with my guitar based material. then in february i got logic, and i had gotten komplete a few months before and logic is clicking a lot more for me and i'm finally starting to figure out stuff i've been trying (half assed admittedly) to figure out for 10+ years now and i'm pretty psyched on it.

over the years being a solo electronic producer has become so much more appealing to me than being in a band. it's actually not as expensive for software and a computer as most of the band gear i had owned, and you can do so much more with it it's ridiculous. plus much as i still do love guitar music, it's beating a dead horse at this point, recycling the same riffs over and over and over, same guitar tones (hence old guitars are usually the most sought after for one specific sound you've been hearing since the 50's-60's-70's, etc.) whereas electronic music changes so much over a comparitively miniscule timeline. like i listen to squarepusher from like 10 years ago compared to what everybody sounds like now and the difference is insane (i still love his music but the difference in production quality is nuts). it's the only kind of music that i really see completely untapped potential with. there are still so many places to go with it that no ones thought of yet, meanwhile almost every other genre of music is just rehashing the same old shit forever. it's the only kind of music that makes me excited for the future, for what is still going to be done.