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want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfection

Post by ForbiddenFruitRecord » Thu May 19, 2011 11:27 am

Guys,

latest post on the Lost in Musik blog looking at how to manage your perfection streak and still make excellent music... in reasonable time

http://bit.ly/kEURXj
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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by wub » Thu May 19, 2011 11:30 am

Interesting read, but didn't agree with this;
It is defining a quality benchmark that will help prevent you procrastinating about the imperfections of the track you are making, and deciding if it is good enough or not. To summarise you can avoid the music production procrastination cycle by following three key steps:

* Define your target for the music – i.e. Toolroom Records / Saved Records / Hessle Audio,
* Define your motif – something that sets you apart from everything else out there
* Reference your music production to the benchmark until you meet it, and be brutally honest with yourself.
Why should you have to target your music for someone? Whatever happened to just making music because you enjoyed it, not because it ticked the boxes on someone's submission criteria?

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by Sparxy » Thu May 19, 2011 12:14 pm

Yeah, just make what you feel. Raw emotion is the most powerful musical ingredient of all

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Post by kaiori breathe » Thu May 19, 2011 1:43 pm

It’s great to strive towards the perfection that the voice in your head tells you about, but the reality is you will never get there. Never.
Pussy talk.

I recommend not reading this article, and instead, looking at this picture for the next 3 hours, while listening to Rocky IV training montages:

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Aim for perfection and you might just do something great, aim for great, and you'll just end up doing something mediocre like everyone else.

... On a more serious note, that article's actually not a bad read...

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by jaydot » Thu May 19, 2011 4:58 pm

Nice philosophy there Kaiori. 8)
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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by obzen » Thu May 19, 2011 6:41 pm

kaiori breathe wrote:
It’s great to strive towards the perfection that the voice in your head tells you about, but the reality is you will never get there. Never.
Pussy talk.

I recommend not reading this article, and instead, looking at this picture for the next 3 hours, while listening to Rocky IV training montages:

Image

Aim for perfection and you might just do something great, aim for great, and you'll just end up doing something mediocre like everyone else.

... On a more serious note, that article's actually not a bad read...

Haha

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by Turnipish_Thoughts » Thu May 19, 2011 7:20 pm

"want to make more music? Say hello to your enemy perfection"

How a simple lack of punctuation can give such amusing results. Quite how interacting with an achieved state encompassing your personal Nemesis may somehow equate to you becoming more musically prolific is a little beyond me. But entertaining muse material non the less... :corndance:

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by daft cunt » Thu May 19, 2011 8:12 pm

This article sucks. I'll go with the Rocky montages.

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by Shum » Thu May 19, 2011 9:39 pm

Good read.

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by grooki » Fri May 20, 2011 5:21 am

I think that was a great article.

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by ForbiddenFruitRecord » Sat May 21, 2011 4:39 pm

Glad you folks enjoyed the read.

Haha quality wolf picture - did you punch god then?

In all seriousness - It's not about lowering your standards per-say but about grounding them so you don't keep endlessly tweak elements that in reality no one is going to notice but you. That way instead of spending another 2 weeks tweaking the frequency on your snare or synth sound you could have made another track incorporating the lessons you've learned and and take you closer to perfection ;p. :u: :corndance:

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Re: want to make more music? say hello to your enemy perfect

Post by deadly_habit » Sat May 21, 2011 4:43 pm

kaiori breathe wrote:
It’s great to strive towards the perfection that the voice in your head tells you about, but the reality is you will never get there. Never.
Pussy talk.

I recommend not reading this article, and instead, looking at this picture for the next 3 hours, while listening to Rocky IV training montages:

Image

Aim for perfection and you might just do something great, aim for great, and you'll just end up doing something mediocre like everyone else.

... On a more serious note, that article's actually not a bad read...
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