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Sharmaji wrote:the interwebs are nice, but they're not real. Get out there and DJ yr tunes against others. do it in front of people. meet other folks in real life.

This is a great supporting network, but it's no replacement for the real thing. EDM is, nearly by definition (that pesky word "dance"), a social activity.

deadly habit wrote:siding with nowayj
a true musician will never blame his tools, there is always a workaround or creative way to make shit work

Bledbox wrote:

deadly habit wrote:siding with nowayj
a true musician will never blame his tools, there is always a workaround or creative way to make shit work

yeh I know and thats why I didnt want to say it, but I know that I'm the only one who can anything about it. My workaround is gonna be using hardware until I get a new computer, gonna bust out the synths and get on the electribe and make some riddims

deadly habit wrote: just wanna say having a shit comp etc or old soft does not limit a true musician

tripaddict wrote:please title your thread properly.

tavravlavish wrote:

tripaddict wrote:please title your thread properly.

haha that was the only reason I looked at this thread, cause I remembered someone making another thread about bad thread titles and I thought, hey there is a bad thread title.

nowaysj wrote:To OP:

When making art, you have to make choices, hundreds, thousands, millions of choices, those choices all together, in sum, make the piece. Your maturity as an artist determines how well you make those choices. If your choices are born of self doubt or insecurity the choices are likely to be bad or at least uninteresting. I really believe you have to try as hard as you can to remove yourself from the decision.

Don't make the outcome of the decision determine your self worth.

Once you begin to remove yourself from the decision making process, you can actually hear what is happening in the track, rather than hearing your own desires in the track. You can tell if a bass line is good. You've heard 10,000 good bass lines in your life, you can access those and compare the one you just made with them. You can tell if it's good. You don't need other people to tell you if it is good or bad or has value.

I listened to your sig track, it is pretty cool. It's competent. It's got some good flavor in there. Honestly though, in 5 minutes I will have a hard time distinguishing it from 1000's of other very similar tracks I've heard. Not trying to be negative, I'm trying to be positive. That kind of sound cloud commenting "killer drop dude" stuff is negative, in that it doesn't produce anything, doesn't create anything.

If you write good tracks, people will come to you, you won't have to go around spreading your name, essentially paying (in one currency or another) people to listen to your tracks. Did Skream have to comment on twenty tracks to get one comment back. Did anyone know who the fuck Burial was?

It's all about the quality of the music.

Other people can help you raise the quality of your work. A group of people who make at least similar music or who like some of the similar artists can help bring some objectivity to the analysis of your work. But you need a level of involvement far exceeding 20:1 strokeoffs. Hopefully you can meet some people here that match this criteria. There are a lot of knowledgeable people here, with a bunch of different tastes. Develop some real relationships, and I am sure the positivity will flow.

As to whether you should stop making music. Yes you should. Would that mean anything? There is no reward for making music.

If you like to make music, you will make music.


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To put all that in perspective, almost every night I go to bed happy with some beat I'm working on, and wake up in dismay at what I hear. I relentlessly get trapped by ego. I haven't made a song in a long time. But I love making music, I can't help but do it. I will continue, whether anyone hears what I make or not. It is totally irrelevant.

I will do what I do because I am what I am.

JFK wrote:Big up Noways. Good to see some people are not afraid to think outside the box.

kaiori breathe wrote:I whore out like fuck, for lack of a better phrase.

I add every single person I see on soundcloud.

kaiori breathe wrote:'Kaiori Breathe' is written on nearly every wall in Belfast now because of my graffiti/vandal (depending on how you see them) friends.