Listening to and producing different styles?

[corpu5]

http://the-weeknd.com/

download the mixtape. listen to the production value. listen to the lyrics. most refreshing work ive heard in a long time.

sex, drugs, raw, atmosphere .... and its not dubstep

[drokkr]

This thread is far too liberal - needs more haters and elitist flaming imo

You forgot shameless self promotion.

Oh shit ya

Soundcloud

[Basic A]

This thread is far too liberal - needs more haters and elitist flaming imo

You forgot shameless self promotion.

Oh shit ya

Soundcloud

I have a pack of 7 big tunes going around.

[AllNightDayDream]

http://the-weeknd.com/

Not the first or second time i've seen someone rep this group. Gonna give them a listen.

I can listen to my own tunes and see how my listening habits morph them as time goes on. At first I listened to the club oriented dubstep, both spacious and hype vibes, and my music reflected that. Once I started really branching out, listening to these new house sounds, chillwave, trip-hop, ambient, gettin back into analog a bit, etc., without a doubt it's had an effect on my tunes. I don't know if it started with dubstep, but now the sound is so much bigger than deep & bro, and goes beyond dubstep entirely. It goes along with what that one indie film-maker guy said about nothing being original. Gotta be like a sponge, soak in the sonic goodness from all directions and splatter the things that you really absorbed onto an empty canvas. In the context of all this diverse music, none of my shit is original. I'll listen and think "oh there's some jacques greene comin through, and I was definitely listening to mount kimbie when I was writing that drum loop" and so on, but even with that I feel like for the first time in a while I have a handful of tunes that I really relate to in a way that's hard to explain.

But I'm just ranting because everyone around here knows this already. I'd be fairly surprised if any of the more talented producers around here strictly listened to a couple genres.

[jaydot]

This thread is far too liberal - needs more haters and elitist flaming imo

You forgot shameless self promotion.

Or mature musical debate? Cos that's what I was kinda hoping for, but I'm pissing into the wind

[lowpass]

I think there's two sides to this, if you want to:-

A: Be a proficient DJ : Listen to as many different styles of Dubstep as you can (if this is the one genre you play out) you want to know the classics, what is currently happening and what is on the horizon release wise. You should be able to flip your mix at any given moment if you realize that's the direction the crowd is into, you should know enough to be able to do this easily, but this usually means you are listening to nothing but dubstep.

B : Be a proficient Producer : You want to be listening to as many styles (outside of dubstep) as you can, drawing influence from wherever you can find it. When you have a decent enough realisation of structure and patterns for dubstep it should become like a second language to the point where you can literally 'Speak' the other forms of music into it (if that makes any sense? )

Edit : This was being typed while burning off some DNB tracks

[zerbaman]

True, don't just listen to and produce dubstep, that would defeat the point of dubstep.

[Kes-Es]

I listen to very little dubstep, as a matter of fact, unless I'm out with people, or just in the mood for it, which is rare, I don't listen to it at all. I listen to mostly music that is created and performed on traditional live instruments, guitars, drums, stuff like that, I still cling to the idea that that's what I'm good at doing, myself, and that one day I'll tour in a band, I have yet to take myself seriously as a producer.

I very rarely sit down with the intention of producing a deep or bro track or whatever else, or even with the intention of producing a track that sounds like my other tracks.

I think that the more you focus on one sound, the less your music as a whole will mean to you, you're a musician before you're a dubstep producer.