auryn wrote:
But seriously, from a fellow nitpicker who can easily spend just as much time on a track, I'm happy to oblige. The devil is in the details, as they say. Do you consider the stuff you do dance music if I may ask? Or is it more intended for listening? Or do you not actually consider that (the purpose) while making a track?
nice to see a proper reply,
with carefully chosen words.
At the moment, I'm sitting here with noise-cancelling headphones on,
surrounded by my girls who are playing "Just Dance 3" on the Wii,
and who are begging for a replay of dad going nuts on "hey boy, hey girl"
("hey dad, I didn't know you could really dance", ow the shame..."but I make electronic music FFS !!"
),
having an easy weekend home with the kids while my mrs is on guard at the hospital the whole weekend.
So yeah, hard to focus right now (they just started to play Britney Spears, haha)
Anyway, I'm still not sure what to answer to that question.
Tbh, I just try not to give it much thought.
I've kind of fell into my own style-thing by accident,
and I think it's fair to say this is more listening stuff than dance floor stuff.
But then I hear my tracks in the subsekt mix, and somehow Planar got away with mixing them in,
and it still seems more than fine.
so I don't know, really.
All I know is that it just doesn't sound (or feel ??) "right" whenever I try to force myself to make something that is purposefully aimed to be in a certain style. It feels cheap, it feels like selling out, and it feels wrong.
But yeah, there are many days when I listen to my own stuff (even while still creating a new track),
and I think "damn, I wish I could break more free from that same kind of style that I pretty much end up doing most of the time".
So many people just make music and try to "find their own style", so to say,
and here I am, and I found it by accident, so in a way I would feel like a bastard to give up on that just cause I have the feeling I "must" do something different.
I've made quite a few tracks that are like 70% finished that are quite different from what's on my SC page,
but they never felt on the same level as the ones that I put up there.
Some day though, it's all a slow process with me...
and thank god the girls just switched to shaking their ass off to "take on me"