Should you make music you really don’t care for just because a Friend ask you to make it ? I write on emotion not what’s “Hot” . When I try to Write music that’s not me I get nowhere and the music falls short of interesting .
Basically I was ask to make a Hip hop track , I went for it only to get bored 20 mins later… I don’t listen to hip hop unless a friend sent me his track to checkout . Come to think of it when I was writing the hip hop track it was turning into ( Trip hop ) lol
dude i dont like Hip Hop but i would learn alot from just making a track . the experience and challenge is what i counts. also remember that u can break Thru with a new style of Hip Hop . u should be fine and force to try it at least 
[quote]alinenunez (11/06/2010)[hr]dude i dont like Hip Hop but i would learn alot from just making a track . the experience and challenge is what i counts. also remember that u can break Thru with a new style of Hip Hop . u should be fine and force to try it at least :)[/quote]
I guess your right about that . When I was wiring it it did not sound like your typical hip hop Song it felt more like Trance meets hip hop with a Dirty south twist
i can’t stand Hip Hop but a friend of mine wanted me to produce an EP so i did it for him(i made him pay me lol). I learned sooooooo much from it that i was actually thanking him at the end of it. the “trick” for me was to just try and make something i myself would listen to out of a genre that i hate. it went pretty well i think. i’m not saying the project itself was the best work i’ve ever done, but he was stoked and i was stoked that i learned so much from something i was dreading doing in the first place.
after i finish my 1/2 done tracks, i’m going to try to make some dubstep. i’m not crazy about dubstep, but i know i will learn a lot from the experience, just as i did making the hip hop.
I think every producer should aim to give genres they either don’t know or perhaps don’t like a go. Makes for interesting thinking, because I feel that you can learn more this way. At least give it a whirl, what’s the worst that can happen?
stick to what you love
[quote]jon_fisher (11/06/2010)[hr]stick to what you love[/quote]
Says Jon who made and released a hard house tune 
[quote]roben (11/06/2010)[hr][quote]jon_fisher (11/06/2010)[hr]stick to what you love[/quote]
Says Jon who made and released a hard house tune :P[/quote]
He he! Or why not make up new genres your friends will hate! Anyone for some ‘R n Gabba’.( Forgot - there’s already happy hardcore!)
I guess it depends on you, and how you write music. As a personal basis, I only write music from the heart and soul, music that means something to me when I’m writing it, and that’s how I make it. That’s my inspiration, and what guides me through the process of writing a track.
So when someone asks me to remix something, or in my cousins instance, asking me to create a hip hop beat for him, I normally tell them to sod off and that I don’t write on demand.
This is why I’d never join a major record label, and stick to independent only.