I’ve just released my fourth album ‘Reviver’ on my This Never Happened label. While making ‘Reviver', one of my primary goals was to reinvent myself as a producer. I've always felt this way while working on albums - a nagging desire to break new ground and avoid repeating myself - but the feeling was stronger than ever this time around. But while making the album, I realized how much I have changed as a person in the two years since my last album. Events that happened both in the outside world and in my personal life changed me and my outlook on life, almost comprehensively. In reality, I didn't really need to reinvent myself in any intentional way, because I myself had changed. The liberation I felt after making that realization was extremely powerful, and the music poured out almost effortlessly in the months after.
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THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH - I'm taking a break for dinner, but keep adding questions. I'll try to add some more later.
Long time lurker back again to chat with you all! Like so many, I watched Squid Game and loved it. As a Korean American, seeing this type of representation paired with boundary breaking acceptance is important for Asian minorities living in Western societies. That being said, after watching it I felt inspired to write something unique and tied to my Korean roots.
I made the song, played it at all my shows and a lot of major festivals (including EDC Vegas), but wasn't sure how to actually release it-- I was just a fangirl. Well, I cold emailed the Netflix music department and the rest is history - today the song it out via Netflix and Casablanca Records!
You can listen to it here: https://squidgameep.lnk.to/SquidGameEP
BTW, we can talk about anything. Food, music, art, metaverse, why I'm so scared of flying bugs - ask me anything.
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This is inspired more by discussions I’ve read on Gearspace, though I’ve seen it here on Reddit as well.
There seems to be a culture among some producers of putting people down when they ask questions. Time and again, I see responses along the lines of “just practice for 5-10 more years and you’ll get it.” This in response to someone’s specific question. This is unhelpful, patronizing, and discouraging to people who are asking genuine questions and trying to improve.
If a piano player asks how to play an E flat major scale, you don’t immediately tell them, “just keep practicing and then you’ll get it.” You explain how it’s done, and then leave them to practice. So many people seem to forget about that middle step.
If you don’t have anything but condescension to offer, don’t offer anything at all.
Rant over.
Seems like he and Tony were cordial which makes me think he did or did Tony know he had nothing left and forgave what remained?
Hey I'm XAKHI from Palakkad and i just released a new track "Cologne".
I'm trying to get connected to other musicians and music producers around Kerala
I'm really sorry if this post is annoying I apologise if you're not interested but if you are, "Cologne" is an experimental song which I've been working on for quite a while now I tap into lyrics and vocals outside of my comfort zone
This is the 2nd track from my upcoming ep: to the girls I've met which will be released in April 2022 There are a couple other experimental songs but i wanted to put this out first as this was the hardest of them all
I'd really appreciate it if you spare 3 minutes of your time to give my song a listen Much love & good energy to you 💙🌎
Pretty much the title lol.
I'm a student getting into journalism, with a love for music. I dream of getting interviews with the artists I look up to, but that obviously isn't possible at this stage. But if there was a series with more up-and-coming creators, would that be interesting?
When we create music, we often want other people to hear it. It can be hard to even consider a song finished if we do not eventually publish it. This is natural.
However, we don’t just want people to listen to the music. We also want them to appreciate it. It can be hard to be confident about the quality of the music you create unless someone validates it for you. Thus, we closely watch our view and like counts, and feel like a failure when they do not go our way.
Being a musician is being someone who produces music. To care deeply about what other people think of your music is to be a consumer of opinions. That is a much less satisfying role to play, and removes the sense of freedom and self-expression that being a musician is supposed to give someone.
Once you finish your song, your work is done. It is now time for you to share it with the world out of the kindness of your heart. You do not need to check your likes, followers, comments, or anything else.
Anyone who has an opinion on your craft, good or bad, had to consume your product. However, you do not need to consume their opinion on it. Nor do you have to mind if no one says anything at all. If you want to, great. However, do not feel like you have to. Just focus on the next one.
Since a lot of people (if not all) start making music by watching internet tutorials and not by being part (intern or whatever) of a professional production team, I think this point must be made:
The tutorial guys are doing entertainment shows with a steady stream of episodes.
They make money from keeping the audience hooked for as much time as possible. (I know people 5 years later still “educating” themselves with not a single song finished.) The tutorial guys often offer solutions to problems that don’t really exist in real life while avoiding the true basic education that jumpstart the viewer to the point that he/she can start making music without resorting to watch tutorials.
Not even the established artists that stream will touch the mindset part, because on one hand they think everyone thinks the same and on the other hand they also want the audience hooked.
On the opposite side, a pro environment teaches you how to get from A to B in the fastest way possible and a more useful, more straight-forward, real life, making music workflow. This is the place where myths are busted, useless crap is unlearned and - most important - taste in music is acquired (you won’t need to rely on 10 different metering solutions to know when a song is balanced, when the bass is enough and so on).
So if you can’t be a part of such environment, be mindful to your “education addiction” for each hour of video tutorial, put out at least 10 hours of active work and finish crappy songs. You need to accomodate your brain with a new way of thinking: from consumer mindset to producer (creator) mindset.
It will be the most boring, hard, frustrating, miserable couple of years in your life because you’ll put an immense amount of work and nothing to show for it. It will be very frustrating like nothing else you ever experienced, so the temptation to give up is huge but don't give up(!), just show up every day and blindly put in the hours (inside the daw, not on youtube). That's it. Know that if you feel that discomfort, your taste is there and change happen and sooner or later you will reduce the gap between your taste and your current abilities. Ideally you want at all times your taste to be 1-2 steps ahead of your abilities, so you have a very clear direction & sense of what to aspire towards to. But at the beginning, the gap is 100 steps. No one talks about it (because is boring and nothing special - is doing the same thing daily for years) but every artist you fo
... keep reading on reddit ➡This is controversial , because I personally make something worse when I rush it. What do you prefer , quantity or quality ?
I've heard huge artists could take from 2 hours all the way up to other artists taking a year to produce good music but even some records done in two hours became really big songs ! , why is this ?
hi all - this is aimed more at UK people! i don’t know if anyone on here will see this but PLEASE stop to read if you have the time.
idk if anyone will remember him but his name was The Chemist. my Dad died when i was 8, and he was 37. too young for what happened to him.
he made trance/house between 1980s-2000s and produced other music too, people liked his music a lot in the underground/rave scene but he struggled to get his music out after issues with his management which essentially got him blacklisted from radio (which at the time was really the only way of getting music into the mainstream).
i’m turning 20 soon and i miss him, but he lives on through his music. all i want is for someone to hear his music, for someone maybe to feel some joy from whatever there is left of him. his shit genuinely is good if you like 90s-2000s trance; so if you have the time please give these a listen. the idea that some people might be rolling while listening to his tunes the way he would’ve intended makes me finally feel at peace. all he wanted was for people to listen to his shit and i want that for him too.
here’s the link to his reposted soundcloud - https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/f4S1ZTBJSU4euUSC6
my faves are - Therealrolla (dirtyyyyy tune), the unknown journey and wilderness.
TLDR; my dad died when he was 37, he’d been making trance for 20 years. i want people to hear his music and experience his memory if anyone would be so kind as to listen.
Hi everyone.
I'm the guy doing sound design and music production/mix/mastering.
For anyone interested, I made a "behind the scenes" video, on how I produced the track "Hold My Beard".
Feel free to ask any questions or comment on how I can improve my videos.
Hope you enjoy:)
(and merry Christmas of course).
I DJ and produce a bit of music. So often i am more interested in who is behind the artist than the artist him or herself.
So i wonder who the biggest music producers in Kpop are?
Thank you.
For me, it is hands down the loneliness. I'd love to be with people. But I find in order to get better, for me, I see no other way than spending hours and hours alone in my room working on it, not going outside, not working with other people, sacrificing social life, mental health, and physical health by sitting in front of the computer sometimes for 12+ hours.
What's your experience, and how do you tackle loneliness?
How do you deal with creative block? Drop a comment ⬇️
I’m currently re setting up my Logic Pro X, re installing all the available sounds that come with Logic that didn’t get fully installed right now. I have serum. That wasn’t free though lol.
I need your favorite plugins and where I can find them! 😁
A youtube video titled 'noise music' ruined kpop; now I am aware that the creator expressed that anyone or the majority of persons who would like to counter the creator's opinion may be delusional and in denial. Therefore in my state of denial, I would proceed with my rant and counterexamples; the 'noise music' is not the actual problem.
First, there is no 'noise music' in kpop that is an incorrect term further explained in many Reddit posts just search kpop noise music. These song descriptions are heavy EDM, hip-hop/rap inspired elements, dance-pop or other genres; they are more than just 'noise.'
The issue with some of or what feels like most of the 4th Generation music is not that it may sound jarring, very in the faced, heavy EDM, but the truth is most of it is lazy. Some companies are becoming lazy in producing their music, most heavily depending on visuals, the typical kpop genic beats, some catchy yet cringy lyrics and intense choreography. Some 4th Gen is following the trend of just looking 'cool,' but not having any substance of actually being 'cool' within the music or production.
The creator's intentions for the video is what I just said, then it definitely didn't come across that way. It's not what you say; it is how you say it.
They are groups who use these heavy EDM in their music and have some great work:
Stray Kids - God's Menu, MIROH, My Pace, Side Effect, Voices, Double Knot
NCT - Firetruck, Simon Says, Cherry Bomb, Punch, Stronger, Drippin
Seventeen - Getting Closer, HIT, Fearless
Shinee - CODE, Hitchhiking, Spoiler
TVXQ - Rising Sun, Keep Your Head Down, Humanoids, Catch Me
Infinite - The Eye, Back, Bad, Destiny, Synchronise
Big Bang - BBB, Fantastic Baby, Good Boy
Golden Child - Burn It, One, Wannabe
Verivery - Thunder, GBTB, Get Away, Trigger
TXT - Puma
Black Pink - Playing with Fire, As if it's your last
BTS - Fire, Silver Spoon
And can definitely keep going insert Snuper
There are groups and producers out there that making use of the fusing between rap/hip-hop, EDM and other genres in kpop and generalization statements is kind of an insult to their work.
Second, not everyone will be into it, and that is understandable. No one should force themselves to like a song; personally, I didn't like No Diggity by Oneus but not because it is 'loud,' but I don't enjoy the chorus; the verses are standout. They lost me at the hook; I found it weak, and that is just my opinion because someone else can really like this song to
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm currently a synthwave music producer who has finished making a track and is looking for background cover art to go with the track.
The cover art should be just a simple image of the beach with bright blue skies, the ocean with a couple of waves, hazy white clouds, a chair and umbrella, few palm trees, tall beach grasses, and sand....can't forget sand lol.
The artwork should be made in a similar fashion to Hiroshi Nagai's work, but made in watercolor in particular.
I'm willing to pay up to $150 for it to be made. Also, the size of the image should be around 1400x1400 because the track will be uploaded to bandcamp specifically, but that same cover art will be uploaded to other sites as well.
I hope this isn't too much to ask. I was referred here by someone in the r/synthwaveproducers subreddit. And I was hoping someone here would be able to help me. I'd really very much appreciate it. Thank you. Hope to work with you very soon.
As-salamu alaykum. I’m a recent revert of around 4 months, coming from an irreligious, broken household. Mother and father separated when I was young. You know, the norm in the west.
I’ve managed to make a good living for myself selling instrumentals online. All I do is make the instrumental, post it online, onto my website, and I make sales this way with the traffic I get from platforms such as YouTube.
Ever since I reverted, I have found I don’t listen to a lot of music anymore. My iman has allowed me to detach from it. But I’m at a point where producing instrumentals is my main driver of income, and I recently moved out from that broken household I was talking about, into my own apartment.
So here’s the thing; I would prefer to leave it all behind for the sake of Allah swt, but I think this could take time. I don’t want to let myself go broke, and I’d rather pursue other business opportunities before I abandon my only real source of income altogether.
Should I continue to make ends meet, keeping close to the Deen in all aspects that I can, whilst looking and praying for an out? Or is what I do not an issue? Am I making a bigger deal out of it than what it is.
I often compare what I do to someone who sells knives for a living. Is that individual to be condemned for selling an item to someone who didn’t use it for the purpose it was sold for?
Thanks brothers and sisters.
A question for a class
So I've graduated from a top Music Production/Business and Sound School and I've been thinking to maybye go to work there and study something more like a master's related to my field or something like that. My contact there said there's a lot of industry there, not only mainstream but also underground. My main focus is to work as a Music Producer or as a Mixing/Mastering engineer. Is it worth it? Or it's just too late to get into it.
Hi people of San Diego,
If anyone here currently lives in San Diego, and is passionate about music production specifically with Ableton Live, let me know! I want to meet some determined, like-minded people and make some friends and also potentially some music!
Edit: discord link for those who want to chat!
https://discord.gg/QEK9RdvP
Was having a conversation last night and a friend stated that she’d never seen or heard of one that was really making moves. Speaking currently, we all know about how dope Missy Elliot was
My new EP "Somewhere In Between" just dropped... listen here --> https://beacons.ai/faroutofficial/
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I'm looking for a DAW, preferably open-source which is good for recording vocals with, specifically RAP/Hip-hop vocals. I'm currently using Audacity which works decently. However, I'm having issues with the compressor, equaliser and Nyquist's de-esser is kind of outdated.
Another alternative would be to install some plug-ins to Audacity, but I am unsure of how to install any plug-ins including Nyquist's since I've just distro hopped from Ubuntu 20.04 to Fedora 35 and the flatpak installation differs from "APT".
I would greatly appreciate if someone could help me with this!
As someone who is a casual listener since their debut, I just wanted to let some things off my chest because it’s been bothering me.
As I have stated, I have been a casual listener of Everglow for a while now, and I have began to realize that despite all the success they have had for the time they have been active, I have began to realize that Everglow are almost never talked about outside of K-pop fans. I know they are popular and aren’t “nugu”, so why don’t I hear anyone outside of K-pop spaces talking about them?
Everglow have great rappers, mesmerizing choreography (some of the best in K-pop), good visuals, great production quality, and a unique concept, so why has their popularity plateaued? So I began thinking and I came to this conclusion: their title tracks.
Their title tracks aren’t bad or necessarily repetitive, but rather they don’t do anything that feels fresh or new. Even though they do different things each comeback, it all sounds familiar but not in the “it’s their signature style” kind of way. It sucks because their b-sides are ALWAYS great, so it’s not like they (they meaning Yuehua and/or Everglow) aren’t capable of making different or better music, but don’t.
I feel like when they had an actual, full chorus instead of saying a repeated phrase over and over again like how they did with “La Di Da” they can get even bigger and more popular. Not only that, In general the whole “beat drop with with two repeated phrase” boring in general.
His new album is so so. The beats are mid. He needs to lock in one producer and really create some shit. He has the latent but his music feels like he is brainstorming to talk about something. When he was in the group with those other bums he really shined only because they were trash. I feel like that’s why he did 20 k first week. Feels like he goes through the motions. And that single with Gunna was trash.
So i often watch people produce music on livestreams and everytime they make a new project they leave the first bar empty as if it doesnt exist why is this the case?
I aspire to become a musician but, how am I gonna be earning money out of it if I invest my full time into it, all music nowadays is expected to be free and if I do make it paid anyway, it is very easy to reupload (if anyone would even buy it) and I earn less.
music production doesn't seem like a very profiting occupation, how would any music producer make at least a *reasonable* amount of money from working fulltime?
As producers, we usually want to show our skills when making our song. For example, we want to show how cool we can make our synth sound, or how crazy our bass is, etc. So I used to make my songs super complex and show all of my skills in every song, to the point where it was the most important thing. But here is a lesson I’ve learned a little too late: We are not making music for other producers.
An important thing to realize is that the average listener listens to music very differently than the average producer. The average listener is not listening to the way you compressed your kick or modulated your synth. For the average listener, the only thing that matters is: Do I like the song or not?
I’m not saying to not make your song complex. Complexity varies from genre to genre, and listeners from a certain genre may like complexity. Also, it’s good to put your skills into making your song sound good. But where it can go wrong is when showing your skills becomes more important than the song itself.
So try to use your skills in service of making a good song, because in the end you’re making music for listeners, not for other producers.
Hey I'm XAKHI from Kerala and i just released a new track "Cologne".
I'm trying to get connected to other musicians and music producers around India
I'm really sorry if this post is annoying I apologise if you're not interested but if you are, "Cologne" is an experimental song which I've been working on for quite a while now I tap into lyrics and vocals outside of my comfort zone
This is the 2nd track from my upcoming ep: to the girls I've met which will be released by mid 2022 There are a couple other experimental songs but i wanted to put this out first as this was the hardest of them all
I'd really appreciate it if you spare 3 minutes of your time to give my song a listen Link will be in the comments <3 Much love & good energy to you 💙🌎
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