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deadly habit wrote:people recognize my sound somehow.

Only in dubstep... I like your sound though...

Your dnb n hiphop n shit youve sent all sounds all over the place...

Basic A wrote:

deadly habit wrote:people recognize my sound somehow.

Only in dubstep... I like your sound though...

Your dnb n hiphop n shit youve sent all sounds all over the place...

yea cause it was older and trying to emulate to find my own sound
my ambient and house def sticks out imo

In Finland I am known as the Jellyfish whisperer. My music is a sonic recreation of the beauty I have witnessed in the jellyfish I talk to...

EDIT: More seriously I don't know where I fit in. I just call it melodic dub step, or liquid dub step, since I'm not really familiar enough with the varying sub-genres of Dubstep to figure out where I sit. That and I don't really think my stuff is good enough to be classified as anything other than 'amateur at best'.

my music is like me... all over the fukn place! always liked the black keys, so most sounds are quite dark. it just depends which personality is in charge when i make a track. always find that another me takes over on some sessions, so i end up with like 3 different tracks with the same initial foundation & then it just gets screwed up hard!chea

I think it's also worth mentioning that, since dubstep is at 140bpm, there's just a whole ton of cross-genre blending you can do and a nearly endless amount of paths you can take with your tune that make it original...I used to do primarily drum & bass, and when you're working at 165-170 (yea I'm slow), pretty much anything you do is still gonna be dnb. At 130-140, there's so many options to explore your sound...I just did a weird offbeat hip hop remix of a dance-rock band, I'm doing a Detroit electro/techno thing right now that'll still fit in with my dubstep sets, and I've got a few projects underway that range from 80's synthpop to tribal Brazilian stuff, but it all fits in that tempo range. Basically, your style will emerge as long as you do what you want, whether that's one style or cross-genre experimentation.

But, at the end of the day, I make music for fun...and as long as I'm having fun, I'm happy. I know this isn't entirely relevant to the original post, but I feel like saying it anyway. Enjoy yourself. Make yourself happy. That's why I make music, anyway.

I tend to make alot of chilled stuff, i personally think it all sounds like shit but that's what the comments say lol. The one in my sig is more emotion driven which i also like to make, and it's pretty much the only track of mine i think i like atm due to what inspired me to make it.

Neurotik wrote:I tend to make alot of chilled stuff, i personally think it all sounds like shit but that's what the comments say lol. The one in my sig is more emotion driven which i also like to make, and it's pretty much the only track of mine i think i like atm due to what inspired me to make it.

I like your stuff, I follow you on sound cloud

i think photek said about drum n bass (but it definitely can apply to dubstep or any genre u might want to produce) "your style is whatever you're listenin to apart from drum n bass"

my style's been described to me as being in a dark room with a sweet scent in the air, and your legs are stuck deep in disgusting muck. as you start to trudge through this thick syrupy grimy substance, you start to lose balance and fall, and you're freaking out because you're about to fall into something all sticky and thick and gross.. but when you sink into it you realize it's a huge POOL of HONEY! and the sweetness enters your mouth and brightens your soul..

so i dunno... do i have a style? i guess. i can't put my finger on the specific sound, honestly i've loved and listened to all kindsa stuff all my life, from RnB to funk, pop rock, country, gangsta rap, metal, soul, drum and bass, and back again.. and when i sit down w/ ableton those things just come out. your style is what happens when you don't try, just stare into your soul and see what's there.

I'm really feeling the ambient and chilled, I thought I was in the minority but seems a lot of people are?

narcissus wrote:my style's been described to me as being in a dark room with a sweet scent in the air, and your legs are stuck deep in disgusting muck. as you start to trudge through this thick syrupy grimy substance, you start to lose balance and fall, and you're freaking out because you're about to fall into something all sticky and thick and gross.. but when you sink into it you realize it's a huge POOL of HONEY! and the sweetness enters your mouth and brightens your soul..

so i dunno... do i have a style? i guess. i can't put my finger on the specific sound,

I believe that genre is called 'honey pot soul funk' - it's sexy.

yeah -- it is kinda sexy!

i think i'm gonna go make a song or a mix or something called "honey pot soul funk"

Cheers...

I've been thinking a lot about that lately... I often feel the need to put in a lot of nastysounding wobbles in my music, just to make it sound more dubstepish, but somehow it allways turns out to be a little bit more chilled than I had planned. And I probably should relax with that and not put in stuff just because it "has to be nasty to be dubstep...".

I dont know about wich style or subgenre I tend to fall in, but my sound is quite minimalistic (but not to the extreme though), semiambient, and... i dont know. Its just the music that I do.
If someone took a listen to the tune below I'd love to get a comment on what it sounds like stylewise...

I agree with the comments like, "if ti feels right, just go ahead and do it..." Music is art and expression of the ehrr... composer. If I feel angry, I write in that way, if I feel depressed something different will come out and so on, I mean, a friend of mine was hitting on a girl I fancied, and I wrote a dark tune in wich I told him to go f*ck himself, another friend of mine was having problems and I wrote a tune about her to wake up and dont lose her "mojo"...

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kaiori breathe wrote:

Neurotik wrote:I tend to make alot of chilled stuff, i personally think it all sounds like shit but that's what the comments say lol. The one in my sig is more emotion driven which i also like to make, and it's pretty much the only track of mine i think i like atm due to what inspired me to make it.

I like your stuff, I follow you on sound cloud

Thanks , i know it may sound like i'm looking for compliments when i say it but i honestly like something i make enough to share it for about 24 hours before i feel embarrassed for making it.

Neurotik wrote:

kaiori breathe wrote:

Neurotik wrote:I tend to make alot of chilled stuff, i personally think it all sounds like shit but that's what the comments say lol. The one in my sig is more emotion driven which i also like to make, and it's pretty much the only track of mine i think i like atm due to what inspired me to make it.

I like your stuff, I follow you on sound cloud

Thanks , i know it may sound like i'm looking for compliments when i say it but i honestly like something i make enough to share it for about 24 hours before i feel embarrassed for making it.

I get the same thing man. I just sent off a demo of some 8-bit chip tunes to a small net label and even though I've been told numerous times by numerous objective people that the stuff is good I'm now shitting myself and regretting sending it. I feel very vulnerable and embarrassed when people hear my music. I think most people get it. I don't know if it's something that ever goes away. You're always putting your abilities on display with music so I guess it's natural.

...all i can be is Mad EP.


Seriously - I rock everything from hiphop to ambient to jazz to breaks to hardcore to house to electro to noise to whatever-core.


I thought about dividing up the styles into various 'pseudonyms'.. but fuck it. It is all me anyway.

Mad EP wrote:...all i can be is Mad EP.


Seriously - I rock everything from hiphop to ambient to jazz to breaks to hardcore to house to electro to noise to whatever-core.


I thought about dividing up the styles into various 'pseudonyms'.. but fuck it. It is all me anyway.

that's what i do... I have midnight mass for teh emotionz and guitar based crap, and fixxa for my wobbles. I alternate between the 2.

anyway since you're here, i love the instrumental you did for brimbstone bangerz!

MidnightMassDubstep wrote:i love the instrumental you did for brimbstone bangerz!

Thanks!

Mad EP wrote:.. but fuck it. It is all me anyway.

Yeah this is pretty much it for me. I just make tracks that sound good to me, I don't set out to make a particular 'style' or anything... My tracks are often subby, with important percussion. And I like eerie sounds... but I don't set out to do this, I just end up doing it, haha

cloak and dagger wrote: ...when you're working at 165-170 (yea I'm slow), pretty much anything you do is still gonna be dnb.

I thought this was an interesting comment. When I really got into production it was mainly making dnb tracks. Then I came to dubstep and it was really liberating, having much more flexibility. Recently I have been revisiting those faster bpms, and finding it really fun making tracks that are not dnb in the classical sense ( so being liberated at the faster bpms). They are still drums and bass, but different. For instance I wouldn't really classify the track in my sig as dnb? Quick percussion (someone called it micro percussion which I thought was cool ), but I wouldn't really describe that to someone as dnb.

i try and use my own set of instrument patches and kits to keep my work sounding like there is a theme running through it, but i drift across the various styles of the dubstep. i am working on a mixtape of all original music,and using different style tracks to take the mix on its journey. its a bit of a task though and its taking its sweet time