Yes you don't need talent to sell music produced by yourself. Don't people realize the dude is bigger than deadmau5? And he acomplished in a year? And NOOOOOOO he didn't jump on the bandwagon. The bandwagon was composed by house music with electro influences. Nobody in the "bandwagon" produced dubstep.hutyluty wrote:Grammies are not won because of someone's talent, they are an event where the industry slaps each other on the back and congratulates people on how many records they've sold, so to be somehow putting it out there as an indicator of his talent is ridiculous. He won the grammies because he happened to jump on the bandwagon of dubstep just as 'rave' music was starting to become the big thing in America. If he had been making these same beats in 2004, would he be so huge? Without DeadMau5? Without the sudden rise in popularity of dance music everywhere?...
The "If he made these same beats in 2004" doesn't make any sense. None of us has the ability to time travel.
The key word here is "technically". I'm going to say this again... we're musicians, not technicans. You may have 20years of experience resampling your basses and it won't make your music any better. In the end, it's all about the melody, harmony and rhythm, because it's MUSIC.hutyluty wrote:There are a lot of very technically accomplished amateur producers, who make music which is good enough, yet they aren't even signed, let alone winning grammies.
People need to stop thinking as producers. You need to stop listening to tracks and say "oh, I don't like it, I don't like tuned snares" or "oh I don't like it, the mixdown sounds bad in mono" because that's the reason you'll never get pro. You're becoming a technician and you're loosing your musical taste. You can't make good music like this.
