I often read reviews on tracks, just this morning reading up on the winners of the rmx comp for Teki latex’s track “Dinosaurs with Guns” - comments by himself and Orgasmic.
Prog house is something they call a guilty pleasure - interesting that - what it’s not cool enough for ya? Hah, I think the will buckle soon
Lots of talk of tracks being well produced but not original
So … what does it mean to be original and how do you achieve. Seems to me as a novice I am spending lots of time analysing other peoples music - what makes a particular song work etc. On the forums there are tons of HTSL - but if you want to know HTSL are you not throwing away your own originality?
Its almost like you have to set out to be deliberately original when kicking off a track, i.e “how can I come up with a set of noises that are just completely different from anything I have ever heard?”
Just something I find fascinating. I loved Para One’s Kiwi/Toadstool release last month, he managed to pull out some amazingly interesting and original tracks. Kiwi is a monstrous Prog track with something almost techy to it, and the whistled melody blew me away.
Origionality just comes from within, the more you practice with your production the more you develop you’re one sense of style. You can’t just ‘be original’, it’s just something that comes, creating music is much like being an artist, infact it’s probably why you are called an artist lol but yeah, it’s art.
Yeah, its tough to be original if you don’t have a bag of tricks to draw from. But what bothers me is that even amongst experienced producers there seems to be a relative lack of originality.
So to me its more than just experience, I think its a mindset as well? Do we produce music confined to genre recipes because that is what we think people want to hear?
I’m not saying go out and produce weird unpalatable experimental stuff though.
Just spilling thoughts out here, thanks for you time :hehe:
it is impossible to be “original”… no one is original…
beatles… ermm no… (ripped off the elvis “thing” and quite a few of the contemporaries too… tut tut!)
elvis… ermm no… (little richard, rip off black southern music)
picasso… no… (ripped off contemporaries and african tribal art)
EVERYONE of the “originals” actually used “influences” from all around them but the way in which they portrayed that “influence” came out slightly different because of them not being able to 100% copy the thing they were after… so it comes out slightly different. which in turn makes it their “own”…
[quote]jpgetty2win (26/07/2010)[hr]it is impossible to be “original”… no one is original…
beatles… ermm no… (ripped off the elvis “thing” and quite a few of the contemporaries too… tut tut!)
elvis… ermm no… (little richard, rip off black southern music)
picasso… no… (ripped off contemporaries and african tribal art)
EVERYONE of the “originals” actually used “influences” from all around them but the way in which they portrayed that “influence” came out slightly different because of them not being able to 100% copy the thing they were after… so it comes out slightly different. which in turn makes it their “own”…
