Why Do You Produce?

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:58 pm

FSTZ if you dont mind me asking, how old are you?

steppo · Post by **steppo** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:03 pm

something fun to do when im bored heh

you can see how seriously i take it

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:08 pm

I had this Orbital cd I listened to obsessively all through high-school .. just like, "how the fuck did they make this?" - I guess I knew about samplers and stuff vaguely but I never heard something so musical, you know.

Went away to college in 99, and my roomie had this nice fast computer - so when he was at class I downloaded Hammerhead - then Fruityloops, cuz I wanted to emulate that bassline from the tune 'Time Flies' - got that running on the comp and just was going mental in the dorm room.. and then I realized that freeware step sequencers were far superior to playing video games. I used to get really excited about just making drum loops.

Took me a mad long time to realize that making beats on a computer was even something to take seriously - and that other people were making legitimate shit with computers.. i think maybe after seeing pics of roni size's bedroom studio.. I thought DAWs were just like video games up until that point!

I guess I produce because its something I did a long time ago for personal enjoyment, total fuckery, and then I realized I could save and bounce my tracks to mp3 and it occured to me that I could compose more or less whatever I wanted to..

I guess its just something I do. Make beats. I'm 27 now.

For a long time I was really all about getting people to listen to my shit online but nowadays I'm more locally oriented and just produce shit I know I can play out at parties in my hometown.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:10 pm

Jolly Wailer wrote:I had this Orbital cd I listened to obsessively all through high-school .. just like, "how the fuck did they make this?" - I guess I knew about samplers and stuff vaguely but I never heard something so musical, you know.

Went away to college in 99, and my roomie had this nice fast computer - so when he was at class I downloaded Hammerhead - then Fruityloops, cuz I wanted to emulate that bassline from the tune 'Time Flies' - got that running on the comp and just was going mental in the dorm room.. and then I realized that freeware step sequencers were far superior to playing video games. I used to get really excited about just making drum loops.

Took me a mad long time to realize that making beats on a computer was even something to take seriously - and that other people were making legitimate shit with computers.. i think maybe after seeing pics of roni size's bedroom studio.. I thought DAWs were just like video games up until that point!

I guess I produce because its something I did a long time ago for personal enjoyment, total fuckery, and then I realized I could save and bounce my tracks to mp3 and it occured to me that I could compose more or less whatever I wanted to..

I guess its just something I do. Make beats. I'm 27 now.

For a long time I was really all about getting people to listen to my shit online but nowadays I'm more locally oriented and just produce shit I know I can play out at parties in my hometown.

heh almost the same story for me, what orbital cd btw? then i'd say alec empire was one of my biggest influences to learn how to produce

black lotus · Post by **black lotus** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:21 pm

As far as influential producers goes, the first guy to ever blow my mind was Photek.

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:22 pm

Insides

I had the one with the original 'times fly ep' bonus cd.. I really loved that disc. It had

"Times Fly (Slow)"
"Sad But New"
"Times Fly (Fast)"
"Tranquilizer"
"The Box" (Extended Play, full version) (This tune was 30 minutes long!!! Blew my mind back then.. serious journey music!)

I am very much a product of the MTV Amp generation lol. Really loved the electronic stuff before I even discovered "mind enhancement".

ecliptic · Post by **ecliptic** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:28 pm

black lotus wrote:As far as influential producers goes, the first guy to ever blow my mind was Photek.

For me it was the rawness of )EIB(

Book of the bad + inside the Machine = BADNESS

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:28 pm

black lotus wrote:As far as influential producers goes, the first guy to ever blow my mind was Photek.

that explains your tune

somehow i bought modus operandi on a fluke and that is still my favorite dnb album to this day

and jolly insides was an ill album, snivilization a close second

anyone who hasn't peeped alec empie check his albums the destroyer, generation star wars, and low on ice for a good introduction to his non atari teenage riot stuff

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:30 pm

Ecliptic wrote:
black lotus wrote:As far as influential producers goes, the first guy to ever blow my mind was Photek.
For me it was the rawness of )EIB(

Book of the bad + inside the Machine = BADNESS

yea i think 4 days moving fusion rmx was the first real techy dnb i heard period
i miss old college radio

spencertron · Post by **spencertron** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:32 pm

i've just turned 59 years young

yes i like to, how you say, brok out)...planning on early retirement so i can just concentrate on the beats

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:34 pm

spencerTron wrote:i've just turned 59 years young yes i like to, how you say, brok out)...planning on early retirement so i can just concentrate on the beats

no way? if true mad respect goes out to you. most people in that age group don't know current pop music let alone dance music

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:35 pm

The_Dza88 wrote:FSTZ if you dont mind me asking, how old are you?

I am mid-30's in chronological age, mentally I am 22 (my girl will tell you I am 15)

got my first set of 1200's in the spring of 1989

spencertron · Post by **spencertron** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:37 pm

Deadly Habit wrote:
spencerTron wrote:i've just turned 59 years young yes i like to, how you say, brok out)...planning on early retirement so i can just concentrate on the beats
no way? if true mad respect goes out to you. most people in that age group don't know current pop music let alone dance music

oh jeesus...i should stop this joke now...i'm not 59

my real age is less than half that (27)

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:40 pm

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:40 pm

i would have been like 4 months old, didnt realize how many different age groups where still make music, pritty naive of me really, hopefull ill still be making beats in 15 years time

rendr · Post by **rendr** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:40 pm

2nd question : 18yo. producing for a yeat. 5% dubstep 50% dnb.

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:41 pm

Rendr wrote:2nd question : 18yo. producing for a yeat. 5% dubstep 50% dnb.

whats the other 45% doing or was it a typo

rendr · Post by **rendr** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:44 pm

The_Dza88 wrote:
Rendr wrote:2nd question : 18yo. producing for a yeat. 5% dubstep 50% dnb.
whats the other 45% doing or was it a typo

lol yeah *50 dnb. typing with one hand while eating a 2ft tuna bagget.

serox · Post by **serox** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:48 pm

People like Kraftwerk, Human League, Depeche Mode, Gary Newman got me into music.

FSTZ1 · Post by **FSTZ1** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 4:03 pm

Serox wrote:People like Kraftwerk, Human League, Depeche Mode, Gary Newman got me into music.

hell yeah

Art of Noise too!!

the innovators

but I was really into Afrikka Bambatta, Herbie Hancock & as a result, Bill Laswell became my production idol

he's been there behind the scenes in HipHop, Jazz, DNB, and Dubstep

he's produced everything from ambient techno to speed metal to funk

he's dubbed old bob marley multitrack sessions, and played bass on Herbie Hancock's Rockit (in fact, he had to convince herbie to put grandmixer DXT's cuts on there thus giving birth to turntablism) and helped mick harris with scorn

the dude is so legendary, yet mostly unknown

that's who I wanna be

Bill Laswell for President

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