Why Do You Produce?

duality · Post by **duality** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:20 am

8 years of guitar, started producing metal and hardcore when i was like 17, did some music production courses and stuff.
Got really interested in electronics around 18, started going to dnb nights, started a band (which i think might cop a lot of shit from you guys cos the description sounds of the live setup sounds a bit pendulum-ish), but full rock band with electronics and shit playing breaks sort of stuff.

Then caught a dubstep dj at the start of a dnb night in sydney. Ever since i havent been able to listen to any electronica besides dubstep!

Now Im 21, teaching guitar, and loving producin dubstep.

Only bad thing is im like an hour and a half south of Sydney, and no one even knows what the fuck dubstep is! Everyone listens to that modular ed banger electro fuckery!

loving this forum and loving the void nights in sydney!

Cheers!

Pallms · Post by **Pallms** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:20 am

My favorite group growing up was The Prodigy, so I always had an electronic influence. As I grew older, I slowly became aware of different artists and really started to become addicted to music. I started to play the drums and I still play them today.

It was when I first heard "Hold Your Colour" by Pendulum that I finally realized producing was something I wanted to do. I first started producing with Reason 3 and mainly attempted at drum n bass. Shortly after, I switched over to producing hip-hop beats as well as writing and rapping. Last year I came across the dubstep sound (Skream was the first artist I heard) and I've been in love with it ever since. I am just now starting to produce dubstep, and it's definitely the most fun I've had producing in a long while.

wave o · Post by **wave o** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:00 am

I started dancing in the streets of Los Angeles when I was 11 years old in 1979. At that time, electro funk music was changing the shape of sound, more electronic devices were in play, the 808 sounds took things to newer levels. My friend Egyptian Lover was a pioneer here in LA, one of our godfathers of electro music here in the West Coast, I use to dance at some of the venues he played, here is an example of me dancing (to some Ulrich Schnauss) so you get an idea....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGikts5EOAw

I fell in love with these sounds, its what created a lot of different styles of Poppin, you see, here in California, Poppin is our gift to the world, for example, New York gave us Hip Hop, Breaking started there, as other elements of Hip Hop did as well. Detroit with the Techno, Chicago with House, UK with so many Electronic music scenes (where do I start, hehe), you get my point.

The food of the Poppin culture is music. This is how I got into it. In the late 80's I hooked up my casio keyboard to a PA system, a mic, and two turntables and a mixer outputting to a tape recorder, I had what you would call now a bad ass self made karaoke machine, hehe. Unfortunately, the dance scene died here those years, but something else was making noise here.....underground hip hop. I started producing with the Shape Shifters, a well known underground Hip Hop crew from LA.

From hip hop to trip hop to jungle to IDM I feel in love with all these sounds. Now Dubstep, haha. It was with the Roland JV 1000 workstation when I started really tweeking parameters, falling in love with oscillators and modulation. This was very early 90's, I'm old I guess....hehe

http://www.myspace.com/wave0matic

I'm glad a homie told me about this site, stoked to be a member.

akilles · Post by **akilles** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:47 pm

Done a National Diploma in Music Technology. When I started I was more into recording bands and that, but started using reason and got into d'n'b and grime. Then I co-produced a hip hop album for a guy called Sparx from Neasden (who is playing in guildford tonight at platform 9 if anyone is interested!) and kept making grime beats.

Came to Bournemouth uni for BSc Music and Audio Technology, which btw is waste so anyone looking at uni's don't bother with this one (more to do with music software applications), and started making dubstep at the end of last August, and am learning to DJ at the moment so that I can push my music.

I'm now moving to ACM in september to study BA Music Production.
I'm about production in all aspects, I do a lot of work with bands and artists as well as producing dubstep and grime tracks.

I'd heard about this website before but only recently joined when my mate Wachs Lyrical said that it's pretty useful. And it is.

lewisr · Post by **lewisr** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:55 pm

jackieboi · Post by **jackieboi** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:10 pm

Did a sound production course that first got me into making beats and taught me some basic techniques for recording and how to use pro tools properly. Got me a years job at a post production house and whenever it was quiet i'd sit and make tunes with one of the dubbing mixers there - it was where i made my first tune.

Since then i've got myself some gear together and i think i've progressed as a producer definitely. I'd like to get some stuff signed but i havent really pushed anything yet, give it a wee while and i think i'll maybe get somewhere.

Suppose the main reason i produce is cos i dont do anything else - i dont play football, i dont play an instrument, i dont snowboard, if i didnt produce i would be bored out my tits every single day. Being able to come home after work, have a spliff and do tunes keeps me sane. Any of my mates that dont have a hobby spend every night in the pub or smoking shitloads of ganj. I can sit, smoke a few spliffs, spend fuck all money and do something i genuinely enjoy while wasting hours of time that i'd otherwise be sitting wathcing shitty tv etc.

Everyone needs a hobby - mine is making tunes

__________ · Post by **__________** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:34 pm

wave o wrote:here is an example of me dancing (to some Ulrich Schnauss) so you get an idea....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGikts5EOAw

you got some crazy moves - large up

wave o · Post by **wave o** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:39 pm

you got some crazy moves - large up

Thank you, cheers!

gkmusic · Post by **gkmusic** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:29 am

Started producing around year 11, dunno what makes me wanna do it just curiosity and the gratification i get after making a track n yeah it's also bare addictive XD

nah but really it's all about the expression for me and making people wanna get inspired n shit, n yea self taught all the way all the way down to the mixing n stuff just picked it all up as i went along

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:06 pm

Depone wrote: Haha, your like liquid man. big ups!

But yeah back to the topic, i make music because i love myself.. (jk) nah i just love music. Straight up wanna marry music! Music is having my children

shut the fuck up i didnt ask you why you produce get the fuck out my thread

not really babes

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:10 pm

i was only messing

thanks for the beef

+2 · Post by +2 » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:15 am

ive just been around music for so long that everything about it seems natural. i started spinning around 5 or 6 years ago, and at some point, i just wanted to try and see if i could produce well enough to own my own toonz on wax.

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:27 am

I produce because I'm addicted to staring at screens, twitching my index finger repeatedly and its safer than crack!

norman swashbuckle · Post by **norman swashbuckle** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:28 am

its cool liike guns and crack................

what dya do norman???????

shot crack

rob other crack dealers

produce dubstep

go's hand in hand like michael jackson and macauley caulkin

diverseconcepts · Post by **diverseconcepts** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:57 am

The reason I started to make beats was for two reasons... My main reason was like an epithany at an old dnb night about 1998. I was there, sweating my bollox off and just stopped and started watching everyone... everyone praising the dj, enchanted by the music he was playing! I thought, fuck me, imagine how good it feels knowing your making all these people dance but imagine knowing you made that track. It was beyond me, that buzz was what initially got me started but I also reckon its just a progression in what culture/life you lead.
I'm 26 now, been making beats since 98/99 making dnb. At the same time I was doing a lot of graffiti so well into my hip hop too. Music slowly took over and my graff days were numbered. I started rinsing hip hop, thats what I got really good at and quite fast. You can peep some of my hip hop and old dnb tracks on...

www.reverbnation.com/diverseconcepts

The reason I got into dub step is cos of my friends... I've only been making dub step for about a month really, I tryed it before but was just stuck in my hip hop ways...

Fuck me man... I'm blazed and babbling like a monkey.

diverseconcepts · Post by **diverseconcepts** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:00 am

Shit... I haven't done any sound technolagy course or ef all just taught myself from scratch on Reason, Cubase and FL...
Forgot about that part to add...

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