- Joined
- Mar 24, 2002
- Location
- Halfway between the gutter and stars
Dont limit yourself to just drum and bass. Using templates to always have the same 170-180 bpm and the same pendulum snare and noisia neuro bass is a sure way to destroy the whole scene. You dont have to have an aim to release a multi million selling hiphop album, you can just do it to amuse yourself and learn from it.
Also listen to other music styles. The reason dnb used to be (and still is to some extent) so diverse was that it took influences from everywhere else, combining them and creating new horizons. Classical, funk, soul, metal, hiphop, dubstep, traditional swedish polka... Nowadays dnb is more of a genre of its own which is good for the genre itself but that's not moving forward, it's moving inward. The bad side of this is that drum and bass tracks get their influences from other drum and bass tracks and not the outside world. This will lead to extinction eventually.
The repeated cliché is: There's nothing bad in learning the rules, but bending them is what separates the "men from the boys" (no offense to any female producers).
I don't want to sound all high and mighty, but I've been producing for a long time, and seen that everytime a new style close to dnb has emerged, it has also contributed much to dnb. The latest is dubstep and there is a clear connection between wobbly dnb of course, but maybe the more obscure connection is the one between this new minimal style and dubstep. Vice versa, new dnb subgenres (oh how i hate that word) can be seen to take influences from other more or less popular genres at the time.
Just a few thoughts.
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Also listen to other music styles. The reason dnb used to be (and still is to some extent) so diverse was that it took influences from everywhere else, combining them and creating new horizons. Classical, funk, soul, metal, hiphop, dubstep, traditional swedish polka... Nowadays dnb is more of a genre of its own which is good for the genre itself but that's not moving forward, it's moving inward. The bad side of this is that drum and bass tracks get their influences from other drum and bass tracks and not the outside world. This will lead to extinction eventually.
The repeated cliché is: There's nothing bad in learning the rules, but bending them is what separates the "men from the boys" (no offense to any female producers).
I don't want to sound all high and mighty, but I've been producing for a long time, and seen that everytime a new style close to dnb has emerged, it has also contributed much to dnb. The latest is dubstep and there is a clear connection between wobbly dnb of course, but maybe the more obscure connection is the one between this new minimal style and dubstep. Vice versa, new dnb subgenres (oh how i hate that word) can be seen to take influences from other more or less popular genres at the time.
Just a few thoughts.
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