So what music do you guys normally listen too?
It may be a good idea to put down your main likes ie: what you prefer to listen to in the club/what you prefer to DJ / produce etc, so that Phil and the team have a good idea what kind of future ‘bite size’ may be required.
I’m really big into House and Trance, but mainly House as it’s what i play in the clubs and on Radio (across 6 stations).
My house taste really varies which is why my show is called ‘Eclectic’ because it can have a whole host of diff ‘sub genres’ of house. Ie: jackin chicago style US right over to Dirty Electro/Tech.
What i’m finding though lately with my productions is they are sounding very prog house / tech but with trancy elements
I really want to produce some tracks like Sean Tyas and Simon Patterson as well though.
I love all sorts of music though, real main biggies for the club for me are Tech House, Trance and Techno (techno tutorial would be really nice, infact i’m really loving the Psycatron sound!!!).
I also love in the clubs Breaks, i go down on occasion to a night called Battlejam and also Supercharged which are big breaks/dnb nights in Brighton.
Breaks especially tech funk! Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes, and of course Elite Force! I like breaks that I can easily mix into a techno set to spice things up a bit.
On that note, I am loving anything Format:B, or D-Unity right now! Their sounds are such a refined technical sound that it doesn’t matter how minimal the track, it sounds so rich (if you know what I mean)
The Twocker/Ads thing is mainly me being blown away by such crazy bass and the technicality of it all.
I don’t typically like to go to clubs, but I live in Los Angeles, so it’s all trance and electro(not bashing, but I’ve heard enough to last a life time, as well as it seems that the select few club dj’s share a record bag)… I do in fact though go to many warehouse parties, where it seems that minimal tech has taken the city by the balls… I honestly would die to get a good breaks tutorial, which is on the way so that’s solved. Most importantly though, I would love to get an extensive minimal tech course if you may. Exactly or close to the detail the one that PointBlank Online gives. That one is fully detailed in the genre, but they want 4 times the cost of here for just one tutorial/class. The course though looks about as sick as it can get with info though…
I honestly feel like the hardest part in production for me isn’t the coming up with ideas and sounds, but actually arranging it correctly to where all my tracks don’t sound like they come from the same template. This probably comes from years of experience though and isn’t necessarily something that can be taught. Anything that could help tighten productions though would be great. Honestly, maybe if the bite size were more like, “how to sound like tech house”, or “how to sound like funky techno”, instead of how to sound like a particular artist I would get more from it. I can’t help but almost not want the information sometimes because its an artist I can’t stand(I’ve met all the ones on these tuts, not bragging, and not saying I dislike any particular one). Where as I might be more inclined to accept the information knowing that this is a Phil thing, and not a DJ sound alike thing. I guess what I’m really getting at is, I want to see how Phil would write his own track, and not so much how he can decipher another artist. I digress enough though!
Raymond
i’m seriously into Electo house type sound of Angello, Deadmau5, Laidbak Luke etc.
Also like house in general probably the Hed Kandi type funky stuff.
Also like a bit of trance and techy stuff from the likes of Tiesto and Armin Van.
As for production wise pretty much all of the above - cant really stand the urban dance scene although some of its okay but i would’nt listen to it.
i’m pretty opened minded when it comes to music though and i wouldn’t be able to name a top 5 albums list as there is so much good stuff past and present that i like.
Was really into the coast to coast track when that came out and that sort of era of trance but i’m likeing the newer type techy trance stuff.
Deep house, downtempo, chill out and bit of tech house now and then.
I also like Jazz fusion - Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Ayers etc
I DJ’d professionally for 10 years (Late eighties and early 90’s playing deeper side of house mostly) but now make video games for a living
Making music is just a hobby for me. I don’t have a lot of spare time.
I also like eating lots of chocolate bars like texan, penguin and clubs :w00t:
Shit, this reads more like a profile than what I like musically but hey… that’s what I am into.
Im going through a nostalgic phaze atm eat static / system seven / orbital are on my pod .
When I DJ’d out in the UK I used to play soulful/vocal house or tech house (on separate nights).
I used to have a radio show where I played a right mixed bag - usually soulful to funky to tech and breaks. Sometimes D&B. I listen to simlar
I’ve been working on a soulful house track the last few weeks… before that it was a downtempo track, before that a breakbeat track.
I find the soulful/funky stuff comes a bit more naturally for me so I end up drifting towards that most of the time.
Club wise, I dont’ think you can beat vocal house or party breakbeat, plump DJ’s, Krafty Kuts etc
Very Much into my tribal, tech, techno, electro & trance