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How do you name your tracks

I get a dictionary
2
6%
I have a general idea while building the track
10
29%
I never get past the WIP stage
4
12%
I am obsessive
2
6%
I think up a name and then produce depending on the mood
0
No votes
I use an online band / song name generator
0
No votes
I ask satan / god / chuck norris
1
3%
I base my track on a time or experience and call it 'In McDonalds'
6
18%
'What about Ploppy balls?'... Fuck it, Ploppy Balls it is
9
26%
 
Total votes: 34

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Re: Naming tunes

Post by kaiori breathe » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:06 am

ketamine wrote: I’m interested in your true naming process… jokes aside.
Most of the time I just name it after whatever I feel like. Sometimes a metaphor for how I feel, or after something I've read that's particularly poignant to the circumstances I find myself in. Simple really, just tell it as it is.

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Re: Naming tunes

Post by Rubik » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:33 am

I kinda grew up listening to (and trying to write) idm, where the track names are often pretty fucking ridiculous and I kinda retained that after moving into breaks/whatever the fuck genre i'm supposed to be doing now so I have a lot of really stupid track titles like I'm Still Fucking Alive and Falls Out Of Tree On Bike, Winter Won't Leave Without You, Eating Scribble etc

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Re: Naming tunes

Post by kaiori breathe » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:52 am

Rubik wrote:I kinda grew up listening to (and trying to write) idm, where the track names are often pretty fucking ridiculous and I kinda retained that after moving into breaks/whatever the fuck genre i'm supposed to be doing now so I have a lot of really stupid track titles like I'm Still Fucking Alive and Falls Out Of Tree On Bike, Winter Won't Leave Without You, Eating Scribble etc
I grew up writing post-hardcore tunes and have an equal amount of ridiculous song titles, here were some of my more favored:

I Wish Henry Rollins Was My Dad
Find Bees; Eat Them
Troll's Remorse
Christmas Came Early... But Only Because That Coma I Lapsed Into Lasted 7 Months
What Would Leonard Nimoy Say?
Yesterday I Fought A Bear
I Want To Ride A Shark To School
I Like Your Face... Can I Have It?
Not Today Starfox...

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Re: Naming tunes

Post by ketamine » Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:15 am

^ last one is golden. :lol:

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Re: Naming tunes

Post by 5qu1dfacekilla » Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:02 am

@Ketamine i love the sentence naming jawns as well. Def try to name my tunes like that since it's the most descriptive and interesting. Though, my tunes usually turn out to be named "Untitled65", "Untitled 74" etc. etc.

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Re: Naming tunes

Post by REAP3RMusic » Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:44 am

Whatever noun that song makes you think of usually fits. I made a track once that reminded me of a busy city at night. Cars whizzing past with headlights and shit. So i named it city lights. Its that simple.When you make a track, you have to be able to feel it and relate it to something. If you cant, its probably not going to get listened to that much.
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hasezwei wrote:
Ldizzy wrote: skrillex does very fast-foodish synthesis... so i dont even doubt it...
fastfoodish? i work at burger king and have no idea wtf you mean by that :lol:

maybe thats why you work at burger king :6:

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Re: Naming tunes

Post by Thierry_D » Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:48 am

i put feelings into my tunes then name it what am going through
lol alot of the time i make beatz when am kind of feeling down so
always end's up kind of dark.
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Re: Naming tunes

Post by REAP3RMusic » Sat Apr 16, 2011 6:05 am

Thierry D wrote:i put feelings into my tunes then name it what am going through
lol alot of the time i make beatz when am kind of feeling down so
always end's up kind of dark.
Yeah your beat should reflect your thoughts/feeling whilst making that beat. Most people would disagree but thats what i would say separates 'A few sounds composed in a DAW' and art.
collective wrote:
hasezwei wrote:
Ldizzy wrote: skrillex does very fast-foodish synthesis... so i dont even doubt it...
fastfoodish? i work at burger king and have no idea wtf you mean by that :lol:

maybe thats why you work at burger king :6:

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Naming your tracks

Post by ComfiStile » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:17 am

How much thought do you put into naming your track?
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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by BevOh » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:29 am

I never get past the WIP stage but i still name things. Usually based on a part of the track that stands out like a vocal or something.
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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by ComfiStile » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:32 am

Btw man, can I just say that that track you made from sounds when you were stoned which you posted in the 'producing stoned' tread was sweet.

Also, I dislike commas.
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Soundcloud
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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by BevOh » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:18 am

ComfiStile wrote:Btw man, can I just say that that track you made from sounds when you were stoned which you posted in the 'producing stoned' tread was sweet.

Also, I dislike commas.
Oh why thankyou :) Haha my head was so beyond fucked last night when i was making it, all the sounds ended up just blending together so i had to stop lol.
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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by oprs » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:29 am

i just put a gaggle of words when i type the name in to save it. and thats what it stays lol
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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by ComfiStile » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:31 am

oprs wrote:i just put a gaggle of words when i type the name in to save it. and thats what it stays lol

I do that sometimes, though other time I can't. sdfsdf.flp donesn't really have a great ring to it ^^
Experimentaler stuff:
Soundcloud
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Electro House:
Soundcloud

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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by BevOh » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:46 am

Most of my files are saved as dkbnsajk;sdgklndfasgn.flp
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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by hifi » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:37 am

at first i just name the project "project 1" depends how many projects I have named that which are plenty then at the end i look into a dictionary on a random page and find something that sounds cool like "plasma, dismantle, obliterate" or somethin then name it that. or if I used a sample i would name it of the sample i have used.

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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by Sine69 » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:49 am

I just leave all my tunes named as a WIP, even though I'm finished with them. I never have to name tunes :corndance:

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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by Moody Strings » Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:16 am

Random things I'm thinking of at that very monkey sock.

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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by paravrais » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:23 pm

Image

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Re: Naming your tracks

Post by wub » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:32 pm

I'll write the tune, then either name it based on how I've felt/experience I've had whilst making it, or else how it makes me feel on the finalised playback.

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