So, I figured I should post some actual songs to the ‘our music’ tab, so, I went ahead and posted some awesome soundcloud links today!
Some great tunes from StrangeFlow and Canceroflove! Check em out, there’s definitely some good ones! These are just a few songs, and there are definitely many more, if you’re interested, and if you click on the artist links, you can find our various bandcamp releases and other soundcloud tunes, as well! So when you’re done watching another Bassadelic tutorial or need to take a brake from building your last electro-dubstep tunes, hit up the ‘Our Music’ tab and listen to some good grooves!
So, here’s Nekone, a model from Michigan. She’s twenty years old, she’s gorgeous, and she has some photos up with the little Bassadelic face on her chest! I was excited to post these, and hopefully, there will be more photos like it in the future! :)
Yes, that’s right, Bassadelic is so monumentally huge that it’s inspired models – super hot models – to take photos of themselves endorsing the site! …Ok, so maybe the site isn’t THAT huge… YET. But still! It’s exciting to have Nekone help out! One super hot model is much better than none! :)
She likes to dress up and go to the club with her friends, and two of these photos were actually taken there, at Mac’s Bar, in East Lansing, during a weekly event called Black Mass Sunday. She wears the little speaker-face-dude pretty well, I think.
Nekone is going to continue to pursue her modelling as a career, and has some gigs coming up soon. I’m sure you’ll see her again in the future. If you do, tell her you liked her Bassadelic shoot :) Like I said, I hope I can persuade her to do more shots for the site!
And also, if YOU’VE taken a photo of yourself (with the Bassadelic logo or name) and want it featured, hit us up! We always love posting things like that! Can’t necessarily promise you an article, but it’s always a possibility.
SUBDUE is a French electronic duo based out of Belgium. They’ve been really tearing it up in the music world with their glitch hop / neuro sound, and I was lucky enough to chat with them about their sound, and what they think the label, ‘neuro,’ means to them…
I asked them about their origins, and they told me they were coming from the drum ‘n bass and IDM scenes..
“In the early 2000s we discovered Bad Company, Cause4Concern, Stakka & Skynet, Rascal & Klone, and fell in love with the basslines and deep, dark ambiance. We have also been influenced by artists like Noisia, Spor, Phace, Prolix and many more – but, also, artist from other styles, like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Flashbulb, and Amon Tobin. We are also big fans of cinematic orchestration, and we were trying to incorporate cinematic introduction into our music.”
I went on to ask them about what neuro is, and where it originated..
“Basically, neuro begans with DnB, but many artists like us started to use these sounds in other genres, as you can see in glitch hop and dubstep (with artists like Noisia, KOAN Sound, MakO, Culprate, just to name few). We think neuro is a sub-category that can be applied on every genre, as it’s based on how the reese / basslines are modulated with a funky movement applied on it.”
I’ve noticed a lot of the 100 – 110 bpm style tracks coming into vogue.. funkier glitch-hoppish stuff and also 100 or 110-dubsteppish stuff.. like KOAN Sound.. or, some of Glitch Mob’s older stuff.. I asked them if this was where the neuro style began.
“Those sounds started getting be more popular, and that’s very good, but we don’t really know when glitch hop stuff started. Glitch Mob, KOAN Sound or Opiuo undoubtedly pushed the genre where it is now, and many new artists arrive everyday, so we think it’s gonna be much more popular in the near future.”
The duo’s ‘Neurologic EP’ is astounding, and I was curious about what they were going for, musically.
“With the tune ‘Neurologic’ we wanted to make a kind of a tribute to the old neuro DnB, but with a dubstep-type of tune. It’s a 140 bpm half-beat, like many other dubstep tunes, but we tried, on this one, to put a rollin’ beat like you might hear in drum and bass. The rythm is something dubstep purists will probably not enjoy, and it’s sometimes funny to see people asking if it is DnB or not.
“For ‘Black Stamps’ we started with the same idea of a tribute to the ambiance you can find in old DnB (like bad Company…) but this time with a glitch hop/neuro-hop tune.
I then asked them if they would be so kind as to explain to the musicians that will be reading this interview what types of sounds they’re fond of in their mixing – that clawing bass in Black Stamps, it sounds so nice, and I wondered if they could give us any clues or hints as to what that was… and also, if there is any particular technique or mindset they have when going into a mix – specifically, mixing all of those funky/raw-sounding synths together.
“We like a lot of differents types of sounds but as you heard we have sort of a preference for neuro. We try to create the best sounds we can, and we work hard for that. We take the time it needs to make them more personal.
“For our basses, we often start with saw oscillators and we try to modulate them as much as we can/want with some filters, flangers, phasers, EQ, distortions …anything the sound needs. Then, we resample them and restart again and again to get the sound we want. Layering is also a way to get more complex sounds. There is no magic tips/tools to make good sounds, you just need to hear what you’re doing and think what the sound needs to be better. You just need to experiment a lot…
“However, making good sounds doesn’t mean your mixdown is automatically gonna sound good. It’s more complicated than that. It’s sometimes quite hard to make them work well together.
“We don’t really have favorites vsti/synthesizers, we are using many of them, and each one can makes some good sounds ( Abino 3, Massive, Sylenth, Yamaha DX7, Access VirusTi, Roland Sh-201…) but we also really like using analog hardware gear and synths, like compressors, filters, eqs, or a little moog phatty, and the Korg MS20.
So there you have it. Some insight into the neuro sound, and also, a great new EP by SUBDUE!
They added one last piece of advice near the end, concerning the use of sub-bass…
“To put your mind at ease, an important thing to have is tolerant neighbors… lol.”
You can get their new EP now on Beatport! And also, hit up their fan page on Facebook!
Rolling Stone Magazine recently had an issue about “all the newest club” music sweeping the nation, including Skrillex, Deadmau5, and Bassnectar.
Now, although I have nothing against a mainstream music magazine covering ANY of those musicians, I just gotta ask: why now? Why the fuck, now?
Oh, because Hollywood started putting dubstep and electro music in some of their action movie trailers – so, clearly, it’s relevant to talk about that music now? What about Glitch Mob? They should’ve had a cover story, and it should’ve been four years ago! What about iLL.Gates? Do you even know who that guy is, Rolling Stone? You should!
Now, credit where credit’s due: Rolling Stone has some very decent political articles (especially from your best writer, Matt Taibi!) but as far as your music articles go, you’re stuck on an outdated music narrative from decades ago, where, as far as you’re concerned, the best days in music glory are likely behind us – as you jerk off top ten lists of “best new albums of 2012,” and cite no hip hop or electronic music, but instead have SOME decent new rock, as well Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen – ah, Bruce Springsteen!
You can almost see the magazine having a prolonged wet dream about The Boss as they cite his every (“relevant?”) move in the world of pop culture and music.
Now this is NOT an article designed to bitch about Springsteen. In fact, I don’t really hate his music, I think he’s a talented guy. But if he’s REALLY at “the top of his career,” let me ask you, readers, what’s his latest single called? Give up? Me too, I don’t know, and I bet most people don’t know… (But I bet Rolling Stone does!)
Oh, and U2. Why, oh, why, does U2 continue be on the radar off all these big music magazines. If Bono is relevant for his work in Africa, alright, then talk about that – but I’d say that’s a little different than his work in a band most people haven’t cared about in ten or twenty years… and ACDC. Please, just stop talking about them. No one really gives a damn if they have new music. It sounds the same as all their old music, and why do they get press for it? There’s a million groups and artists who deserve recognition over those jackasses.
The point is, they’re appealing to the Triple-B’s: their Baby-Boomer-Base. They’re trying really hard to pretend like all the rock from the golden years is STILL what we should be paying attention to, as much as we should be paying attention to anything else that’s “new” in music… And, again, I’ll give them a LITTLE credit: they do have some articles about some of the new rock that’s come out (because Rolling Stone LOVES to rant about any new rock sub-genre in existence, as it helps validate their musical narrative, the narrative that proclaims that ‘every ten years, there will be a new rock revolution’) but you know what? There’s a lot more going on. Way more.
And no, I don’t expect them to do a cover story on all the new and incredible WONKY tunes…. (they should’ve done that two years ago) but just NOW coming to terms with “EDM” music, as if it JUST showed up, and blew away all your old Van Halen tunes that you’ve been overplaying for years? What are you, Rolling Stone, a frat house? Even most frat houses have been playing dubstep (or, what some folks might refer to as ‘brostep,’ – but I’m not even getting into THAT, as I’d completely you lose you, then!) for a decent amount of time. Not to mention all the fine glitch hop that’s been coming out… or, how about moombah? It’s somewhat popular now. Have you done anything more than a tiny little paragraph dedicated to “other” music for moombah? Have you even done that? …or did you just put it under some “DJ’s To Watch,” section, (or, you know, whatever BS “let’s get the ravers to read this, too”- themed subsections that mainstream music magazines love to throw in there on a whim, as an afterthought)
For god damn’s sake, dubstep is peaking, and many are talking about the “after-dubstep” time period now… In England, they’ve been at THAT point for awhile, now! Where were you, RS? Pretending you mattered? Isolated in your own little arrogant and stubborn world of rock glory that you ignored the world around you? Do you even have the internet? What’s next, a cover story on nyan cat? I wouldn’t be surprised. In fact, I kind of expect it… It would look something like this:
“Nyan Cat: How ‘Memes’ are Sweeping the Nation! But Have They Gone Too Far?”
(Subtitle: When Will There Be a Springsteen Meme? Because THENWe’ll Take it Seriously… We’re All Over 50.”)
And you might say, “gee whiz, if they want to talk about The Boss, why not just let them?”
Yes, it’s true, they can be as irrelevant about new music as they want, but if so, they need to stop acting like they give a damn about new culture and musical trends, and just say what they are, “a magazine about music that your parents might like,” instead of acting like they’re this counter-culture buzz-worthy hip-as-fuck magazine that ALWAYS knows what’s up.
They helped introduce the world to the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin, nearly fifty years ago… But expecting something like that today? Ha, forget it! They don’t care what you think. They know they’ll sell magazines doing an issue entirely about the Beatles, or talking up Madonna (whom Deadmau5 rightfully told off) or sticking Britney Speares on the cover, again, like they love doing. I want to type FTL, but I’m sure RS won’t get it.
Ah! No way, a new article about Ziggy? Yesss! So relevant! He’s goin’ places!
Rolling Stone and other giants of music journalism are one of the reasons it’s so hard for smaller sounds and musicians to get ahead. Why cover new music when you could rehash some story about any 60s legend? Well, I’m personally sick of hearing this notion – the notion that modern music lives in the shadow of the 60s or 70s (or occasionally 80s) music legends.
I’m sick of that over domineering attitude by the Big Music press to ignore a niche style of music until it starts to blow up – at which point, Big Music will see it, swallow it whole, and small music will have to start over. If they cared about new music, they would’ve done their homework, kept an ear to the ground, and talked up the new music trend when it actually started to become a new music trend in the first place! Their current approach is whorish. Straight up whorish.
Not that they’re reading this, in their little cocoon on another, more tubular-and-rockified planet… Mine is a small blog. But you know what? I wonder if they even know what a blog is!
Yes, that’s a bit of sarcasm, but I’m completely sincere when I say: Rolling Stone, you’re a fucking dinosaur, buck up or quit.
(and in case it’s at all unclear, the graphic above is of a tombstone of Rolling Stone, but it’s a joke, I don’t actually want them to die, I just want them to change, and change a LOT..)
StrangeFlow’s Guide to Breakcore takes you step by step on the basics of making a breakcore with Acid pro to sequence (using old funk breaks like the Funky Drummer) — style beat. More tutorials to come soon! If you want to make drums like Venetian Snares, FFF, Bong-Ra, Jason Forrest, watch this video!
This is also, jokingly, a response to Producer Snafu’ guide to deleting the amen break (“to make breakcore”)…
If you like this video, please subscribe, and if you have any comments on how much this video fucking sucks, post a comment, I’m all ears! (and a mouth… I like to eat)
Hope you enjoy this! And again, many more videos to come soon! I’m going to post another video tutorial soon about how to incorporate breakcore-style mashed-up drums into a glitch hop/crunk beat pattern, so that you can rock the clubs with a sound similar to Edit or the Glitch Mob! Stay tuned!
Subtitle: Routines and Practices Intended for Strengthening One’s Mental Agility
“…greater right-hemisphere activity occurs even during a “resting” state in those with a tendency to solve problems by creative insight. This finding suggests that even the spontaneous thought of creative individuals, such as in their daydreams, contains more remote associations.”
(from ScienceDaily, referencing study by John Kounios, professor of Psychology at DrexelUniversity, and Mark Jung-Beeman, of NorthwesternUniversity.)
This is one of my favorite articles, and I hope it will inspire you to get more creative in productive new ways.
Ok, so let’s break this down as simply as possible. Below are six tools / methods to developing a routine of creativity. It might seem daunting at first, but trust me, once you kill your intimidation by starting to practice some of these techniques, you will find yourself getting into a very creative flow, which will most likely be very rewarding to you… Alright, let’s get started…
1.) A+B=C
2.) Randomization Patterning.
3.) Culture Shock / Accepting Temporary Chaos
4.) Physical Exercise
5.) Building a Mental Base for Specific Thought Patterns
6.) Breaking it Down
What is meant by this equation? A could be anything. B could be anything else and C is the result. Simplistic, but here’s how it works… (grab your notebook. Rule # 0 to every lesson I’ll ever provide is to have somewhere to write things down… laptop will work, but it’s great, in my opinion, to have a physical notebook. There’s no Facebook in your notebook to distract you…)
Ok, in your notebook, make three columns. One for A, one for B, one for C.
In column A, on the first line, write down a noun. Anything. An animal, a color, a genre of music, a genre of literature, a kind of food, an electronic device, an emotion, anything. Got it? Ok. Now to column B, write down another noun, but of a different category.
Let’s say you chose, for Column A, the word, “Duck.” Now, for Column B, you wrote down the word, “Radio.” Random? Yes, that’s the point! Now, for C, write down the first possible way you could combine a duck with a radio…please bare with me! Imagine a radio that’s in the shape of a duck… or, the inverse; a duck that looks like a radio… Yes, it’s a ridiculous (and probably useless) image. Ok, now draw a picture of it in Column C. Doesn’t have to be a big and illustrious drawing, just something basic.
Ok, now repeat the process again for the second row of Column A, B, and C… What random images did you get? If it helps, you can stick to a formula from the first example (an animal + a machine) as long as it helps you work faster. Or try “random food + random place.” The trick is to keep writing, continuously. How about a, “frog,” plus a, “truck,” and creating some kind of wheeled amphibian? Trust me, it’s Ok if you’re skeptical. The point of this exercise is just to free your existing thought patterns and loosen up your mind, and eventually start to build more neuron connections in your brain, allowing you to be more creative. Yes, you’re rewiring your brain, physically. Do it twenty times. Again, it’s alright if your pictures for Column C aren’t very good.
Combining things that needn’t be combined is an excellent way to come up with new thought patterns that you likely wouldn’t have thought of, even if they’re throw away ideas. It’s also, potentially, a useful way to come up with interesting ideas for new inventions and tools (or musical genres, or artistic forms, etc) and eventually, once you feel more creative and are more lucid with idea-construction, you’ll be glad you took the necessary steps to get there… alright, on to the next step…
2.) Randomization Patterning.
This is a lot like the first step, but more freeform. You’re going to need to set an alarm on your phone for five minutes from now, and you’re going to fill an entire page with random images and ideas. One after another. One or two words per image/idea, that’s it… If it helps, here are some categories, to glance through, if you get stuck…
Ok, so you should be able to fill an entire page. It might seem odd, but I bet it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do. It will get far easier, though, if you practice. I can guarantee you that much. And, when it does get easier, just know that you’re starting to build a strong base in your brain for creative sponteanity. You’re building more neuron connections, and you WILL become more lucid in your thinking. Even though the whole thing might look stupid, remember, building more physical connections in your brain is really, technically, the opposite of stupid, by definition…
Get into a routine of performing these first two steps, everyday, and fill up a page for each of them. You are preparing yourself for a shockingly creative mentality.
3.) Culture Shock / Accepting Temporary Chaos
Ok, now I wanted to talk a little bit about this, because, I think it’s very important to understand something about culture shock. I think it’s one of the healthiest things a person can do for themselves.
Why? I remember when I was a kid, my parents took my on a trip to England. Now, England, compared to America, is not as insanely foreign as, say, Taiwan or Russia. But, for me, at the time, it was pretty damn different. There were so many things in the UK that were just slightly different, and yet the same… For example, they had CDs, but different artists than I’d heard of… They had stop signs and everything on the road, just like in America, but their stop signs were shaped differently, the fonts were different, things like that. They had a slightly different version of breakfast. They had a cereal called Wheatabix which was like a cereal chunk that you break into your bowl and pour milk over it!
Also, conditioning yourself to getting used to what you’re not used to forces you to improvise, and become more accepting of what might, at first, seem like chaos. And, having said that, it probably seems a bit funny to consider how mind-expanding all these seemingly-trivial things might be – after all, Wheatabix is just a fucking cereal, right? Well, I was just a kid at the time, and it blew my mind to think that they had a slightly different version of everything! Not just a differently-organized political system, or different cultural perspective, but minor things like cereal that were shaped just a little alternative to what I was used to! It made me appreciate how everything can be done a little bit differently. Everything.
Now think about that in context to your music. What are you making, exactly? As an example, let’s say it’s some kind of drum ‘n bass. There are so many different, untried ways to drum ‘n bass, just like there are different ways to eat cereal! What if you thought up a new way to put bass into your DnB track? Or, what if you tried an alternative time signature? Or, what if you just used sounds that aren’t typically used in DnB? What if you gave the track a completely different emphasis? Or, what if you did something relatively minor, like try to slightly mix some Chicago footwork ideas into your DnB tune? …Or… what if you performed step 1, and combined DnB with something very non-DnB (or non-musical altogether) and got some wacky new ideas to try and create music out of. An example might be, what would a fish-themed DnB tune sound like? What would that image suggest? Try it. New approaches to anything can spring from both major or minor ideas.
Note: not sure why ‘fish’ is always one of the first animals I think of when I’m doing the A+B=C experiment, but it is. I’m not even a big fan of fish. Hmm….Also, for the sake of full disclosure, I should point out that I didn’t like Wheatabix… or anything on the English breakfast menu… Sorry… just being honest…)
So try the untried! Plus, here’s another interesting thought to consider – listen to musical genres that you wouldn’t normally listen to. Oh, there’s SO much music most people haven’t heard, simply because it’s not put right in front of them. Just going on a good ol’ Youtbe-surfing session could help you in that department! There are lists of genres all over the place. Listen to something you wouldn’t normally think of trying out. Why? I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it here – to expand your mind (and stay OUT of any creative ruts you might have) and to build new connections in your mind… so you’re listening to Giant Steps by Coltrane, and you enjoy the weird time signature that seems to be employed in the intro.
“…It’s nice, but how does that connect to anything in EDM?…” you might ask…. Then, a week later, when you’re trying some things out in your DAW, sequencing beats, layering sounds together, perhaps you will try some slightly-different technique in your production, and not know where it came from…
“Yea, this sounds different, how did I think of this? The notes move around differently than I would’ve expected… Oh, it was that Coltrane song I listened to! It influenced me…”
Exactly!
4.) Physical exercise
I’m not going to write too much about this because I know you can figure this one out on your own, and I’m not a gym teacher or a physical trainer – but what I do know is that keeping a routine going of aerobic fitness on a regular basis can give you energy and get the blood flowing the way it needs to. I would even recommend performing this step, and doing a bunch of sit ups or pushups or walking/running before attempting steps 1 and 2. They will probably be easier after some physical exercise.
5.) Building a Mental Base for Specific Thought Patterns
This tip is designed to reinforce the concept of positivity, as well as to get you into the routine of trying to continually build a constructive base in your mind for creative thought patterns. Building a base is all about cementing the pathways in your mind that you want. A good example is to think about all the steps in this article, and to re-read them whenever necessary (which is why I put this article on the home page) and to go over the exercises described, everyday. You’ll find, as I stated earlier, that they get easier with time. I remember working on the ‘Random’ exercises often enough that I came to a point where I could freely improve dozens of random images and thoughts at any given time. It paid off in other areas, as well.
I always enjoyed writing, when I was younger. I decided, one day, to write a full novel. I did it, and I was extremely pleased. It took awhile, but I was Ok with that. Then, about three months ago, I decided to do it again. This second novel took me about six weeks. Now, I’m not saying it’s as epic as War & Peace, but it’s a fun, quality read. Why such a small time frame? Because I was able to get through multiple chapters every sitting, on account of being able to creatively improvise. Or, take this website, for example – I’ve spent a lot of time on it, and put up around twenty articles/posts in the last couple weeks.
I’m NOT saying this to brag (it’s not as if I’m making a dime off this site or anything) I’m just saying that improving your ability to creatively improvise can worked, and I am walking proof of that. If you look around, there are others who are walking proof, too! We walk among you! Join us! There’s room for one more……
Also, as far as thought patterns go – ambition, imagination, impatience, and stubbornness are good things to go for… I intend to make a whole video on why impatience is an underrated virtue, but for right now I’ll basically say that, although you DO need patience to learn your craft and go about these techniques, it takes a certain level of impatience to motivate yourself out of a lazy stupor (that we all get into) and to decide, “No, I want to make beats, right now. Right now!” …and to be stubborn about it, too! If other people other people want you to hang out and go to a movie, but you’ve just gotten into a super productive music flow, tell them you can go out later. Explain the situation to them, but know that they MIGHT not understand, and they might think you’re being lame. Fuck that, you’re not being lame. Be stubborn about it. Chances are, they don’t have any cool hobbies like you do, that take up much time. If they did, they might understand.
Learn to appreciate the beauty in everything around you, and to see things in a more creative light, everyday. Even if you don’t knock Skrillex off the list of highest-payed DJ’s, at least you’ll have a fulfilling life, if you can really appreciate how wonderful and beautiful so many things in life really are. Remember, these ‘tricks’ really do work, and you’ll start to see it in your own life after a little practice.
6.) Breaking it Down (now they call it a, ‘drop’)
Now that you’ve looked through all of these topics, consider, for a moment – what kind of music do you want to make? Find the best track in that genre (be picky, but find one!) and listen to it 50 times. Yes, 50. Consider it research. Break the track down in every possible way. Take notes. Write down as many things as you can think of. What’s going on in the track? What separates this track from others? What makes it great?
It might take awhile, but think of it this way – if the track is 4 minutes long, and you listen to it 50 times, 4*50 = 200 minutes, or, 3 hours and 20 minutes. You might want to do this in two sittings… But I guarantee it will help you. I remember breaking down a track by Edit (from Glitch Mob fame) and at first, the track was dauntingly complex. But after listening to it five times, I started internalizing all of the ideas of the track, and by ten times, I was no longer intimidated by it. That’s just ten times. I kept listening to it, and the more I did, the more I understood of the track!
Ok, so if you’re not ready for 50 plays, just go as long as you can… And, listen, I’m NOT saying that you need to spend three and a half hours on EVERY track, but, to understand a style of music comprehensively, it could REALLY help you out a lot. I really mean that. For extra credit (or, just for fun) try doing the Break-it-Down exercise on this (lol.. Yes, im half joking… it’s crazy.. unless you’re into breakcore and want to figure it out, in which case, go for it!)
<<< if you ARE trying to make breakcore, though, I JUST posted a tutorial here
But back to the lesson… after you’ve broken your desired track down, do research and see what the artist said they were up to when did the song. What techniques did they employ in the studio? What were they going for? What do the other tracks on the album sound like?
Try to contact them, tell them you’ve been listening to their track for LITERALLY fifty plays to try and understand it and ‘master’ it COMPLETELY, and that you’d like helping decoding something in their wonderful tune. Chances are they will be extremely flattered and will definitely want to help you out, at least a little… unless they’re far too busy (or if they’re just a big douche) but there’s a pretty great chance you will get somewhere doing all of this.
If someone told me they’d listened to one of my songs LITERALLY-FIFTY-TIMES, I would bend over backwards trying to help them, especially if I generally thought they sounded sincere and honest about it. I mean, how would you feel, if it happened to you? It’s a step or two beyond obsessive.
And here’s where it specifically fits into your creative mindset – beyond building a base for creative ideas and REALLY internalizing the song structure/style that you want to work with, after you listen to a song fifty times, and are trying to come up with notes, you will start to come up with new ways of interpreting the song; interesting perspectives on it, a unique and creative analysis that others might have missed. When you talk to the artist directly and bring some of your truly-inspired ideas to them about what you heard in that wonderful song, they will likely be pretty impressed and surprised that you took the time to think of all sorts of original ideas and methods to describe his or her song in a completely new light. (For example – I just heard your “_______” track fifty times, and after listening to it for the third hour in a row, I started picturing nine-headed unicorn having sex in space; because the spacey, pulsating, and animalistic screeching melodies you used seem to flow together in such a way as to seemingly have that galactic-unicorn-sex-energy sound after you hear it long enough!)
Ok, maybe you don’t need to say that to some artists (especially if you DON’T get a unicorn-space-sex vibe…) but I’m just saying you should try to be a wordsmith with it. Be poetic and come up with a wholly new way to transform what could be rampant (albeit clever) knob-twiddlin’ and sequenced grooves – into something epic and meaningful. Hopefully, you’ll find it in their track. If not, maybe you should’ve picked a better song? ;)
In conclusion, these are some very powerful ways to get your mind going in the right direction. Like I said earlier, if you practice these techniques, I promise you, they will get a lot easier. You have to put the time in, but if you’re willing to do what it takes, you will likely, down the line, be shocked and impressed with the results. Your music will be better, you’ll gain more mental agility, you’ll be able to go about creative projects faster, and you’ll get WAY more presents for Christmas.
Well, most of that last statement is true, anyway.
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