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Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:02 am
by bum robot
Finally got around to signing up, long time creeper, first time poster. this place is great btw..lots of info and tunes. now with that aside. Who and what was your inspiration to start producing/mixing? how long have you been at it? and lastly what keeps you motivated to keep producing/mixing?

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:25 am
by irregular foundation
biggest inspiration ? getting shit faced and hearing big chunes

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:31 am
by LFpHUNK
druqz

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:54 am
by jolly wailer
making beats for 10 years.

just wanna sit on as many beats as I can..


work ethic

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:33 am
by upstateface
irregular foundation wrote:biggest inspiration ? getting shit faced and hearing big chunes
lol

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:38 am
by deadly_habit
brian boitano

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:40 am
by tripaddict
life in general

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:48 am
by honey-d
irregular foundation wrote:biggest inspiration ? getting shit faced and hearing big chunes
srsly

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:36 am
by upstateface
deadly habit wrote:brian boitano
What would Brian Boitano do?

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:13 am
by pets bud
Motivation? Pirated DAW taking up room on my desktop bout 5 years ago.

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:29 am
by eops
The history and lineage of music for the last 200 years or so ...

Go listen to some old stuff that 'broke the mold' theres a ton of inspiration out there.

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:19 am
by DEMZ
Music is motivation. New music, old music, and classical music....... especially classical music :i:

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:41 pm
by Basic A
The music is god, of course, the sounds around me (I love my minirec)... Also, the reaction of the world to this and not too that...

Oh... n good, old, dubs.

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:59 pm
by humancond1tion
When I was 14 in GCSE Music I was taught basic MIDI sequencing, and then from there it just sort of turned into an obsession... I've always been musical, but now my main instrument is a computer 8)

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:40 pm
by JFK
Didnt even want to make tunes at first.... Just wanted to Dj and get a few birds. :D

Started making tunes because I wanted my own to play out. Motivation?...... Hmmmmm I just love doing it.

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:48 pm
by tripwire22
cuz nothing else in life is a fun as creating something and nothing satisfies me more than having someone i dont kno say "big up"

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:52 pm
by DEMZ
tripwire22 wrote:nothing satisfies me more than having someone i dont kno say "big up"
:z:

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:50 pm
by aesthetics
*Going out to big nights always leaves me with insane amounts of inspiration
*Piles of Crack/Cocaine (Not really though...)
*Having people say nice things, especially when they exaggerate, and especially when it's a friend of a friend I don't know asking him on facebook "WTF DUDE YOU KNOW THE GUY WHO MADE THIS!?"
*Hash and alcohol obviously help
*It's just what I love doing with my free time
*I love almost all of the other people doing this, being part of such a cool scene especially here in Israel where it's small enough that everyone knows everyone, but you can always meet someone new
*I hear music in everything
*Anger, euphoria, experiences, sadness, temporary insanity, etc... all those make me want to vent out through my music
*Hearing a song I like from a completely different genre and trying to interpret it through dubstep

IMHO I think writers block is bullshit. Inspiration is endless, just get out there and experience the world.
I do believe in generally just not feeling it at the moment...

Safe :)

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:02 pm
by narcissus
aesthetics wrote:*Going out to big nights always leaves me with insane amounts of inspiration
*Piles of Crack/Cocaine (Not really though...)
*Having people say nice things, especially when they exaggerate, and especially when it's a friend of a friend I don't know asking him on facebook "WTF DUDE YOU KNOW THE GUY WHO MADE THIS!?"
*Hash and alcohol obviously help
*It's just what I love doing with my free time
*I love almost all of the other people doing this, being part of such a cool scene especially here in Israel where it's small enough that everyone knows everyone, but you can always meet someone new
*I hear music in everything
*Anger, euphoria, experiences, sadness, temporary insanity, etc... all those make me want to vent out through my music
*Hearing a song I like from a completely different genre and trying to interpret it through dubstep

IMHO I think writers block is bullshit. Inspiration is endless, just get out there and experience the world.
I do believe in generally just not feeling it at the moment...

Safe :)
dude, i think you've described all of us... music is the way that musicians deal with the world, in the same way that a gun is how a soldier deals with the world...

what i take inspiration from is everything... all music that has ever happened influences me. when i feel that super deep sub bass, sometimes i think back to the stories where buddha walked the earth and all that kind of zen stuff... makes me feel so peaceful inside... i think it's the same feeling that christian's call "god"... and when i hear those shuffley hi hats and huge snare, i sometimes think of the dual nature of chaos/order, in the way it relates to subatomic particles... and when i hear some atmospheric pads, i sometimes think of all the universe, constantly revolving around us, unseen, and how it would continue to go even without us... and sometimes when i hear all those things at a big night, i just think about all that liquid i dropped not too long ago...
all these things become one.. all the past exists in the present, and so does the future.. that's how music makes me feel. that's what inspires me to reach out with music.

Re: Inspiration and Motivation

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:00 pm
by knobby_roots
bassnectar inspired me to give a shot at makin beats

his music takes me to a different place

fell in love once i made a cheesy little ice cream truck song hip hop remix. :lol:

but yeah
aesthetics wrote:*Going out to big nights always leaves me with insane amounts of inspiration
*Piles of Crack/Cocaine (Not really though...)
*Having people say nice things, especially when they exaggerate, and especially when it's a friend of a friend I don't know asking him on facebook "WTF DUDE YOU KNOW THE GUY WHO MADE THIS!?"
*Hash and alcohol obviously help
*It's just what I love doing with my free time
*I love almost all of the other people doing this, being part of such a cool scene especially here in Israel where it's small enough that everyone knows everyone, but you can always meet someone new
*I hear music in everything
*Anger, euphoria, experiences, sadness, temporary insanity, etc... all those make me want to vent out through my music
*Hearing a song I like from a completely different genre and trying to interpret it through dubstep

IMHO I think writers block is bullshit. Inspiration is endless, just get out there and experience the world.
I do believe in generally just not feeling it at the moment...

Safe :)
aesthetics pretty much summed it up