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Do you have one?

I'm caught between the ambient/chilled and the more aggro at the minute, just need to find my calling.

J.

jaydot wrote:Do you have one?

I'm caught between the ambient/chilled and the more aggro at the minute, just need to find my calling.

J.

I think the best producers have a style that isn't defined as "ambient" or "aggro", rather, whatever style they make it still sounds like them. Zomby, for example: his stuff spans a range of styles and tempos but its always Zomby.

Point is you don't need to find your calling, keep making different stuff, keep yourself on your toes, itll help creativity for sure

Yeah I think there's a difference between "sound" and "style" in a way, as style is the generic production sound and "sound" as in an artist's sound is their motif, the synths they use maybe, and the the bassline's they make and the way you can listen to a track and know it's theirs almost instantly. Rusko's unique sounding wobbles, Reso's atmospherics and drums, etc etc

If an up and coming producer can nail a unique "sound" they will carve a niche for themselves but it's getting harder.

Is naff a style? 'Cuz I got that one down, been rinsing it for years.

Seriously though, I agree with you mostly, except "it's getting harder". I dunno why, I just don't really think that's true. Changing, definitely.

i keep makin chilled out dubstep at the moment
but dont mean to .... hmmm

some one tell me whats my style

tripwire22 wrote:some one tell me whats my style

sometimes im like damn, im I TRYING to make this sound unique and its really just some bandwagon wanna be different oh look at me im like kinda indie rock meets the next burial bulshit or is it interesting and original?... I realllllyy dont want to be jumping on that kind of shit,

I make down to earth stuff or at least I think i do, I dont add fancy stuff at all, and I dont really like having over the top weird crazy electronic sounds on my tunes. what I love about dub, like dub dub is that its psychedelic, sounds crazy and chill but it sounds totally natural (some dub obviously doesnt fall into this style)

You can call it the art of fighting, without fighting.

Just make what you want and what feels right, and a style will develop in one way or another over time. Even if you can't hear it; I've had people comment about my style in abstract terms regarding tunes that were totally different vibes in totally different genres, made in different DAWs.

But, forcing yourself to make one style probably won't speed up the process any, unless that's really what you're into. I dunno, as a musician, I'm way more interested in expanding my palette instead of narrowing it down and honing it. Neither approach is wrong, but I can only speak from my own experience.

It's all about deep stuff for me. Deep, dark, grimey is what it's all about.

Think it is something that develops over time, naturally. Not that it will necessarily be unique though.

Just keep making toons that interest you, your sound will emerge.

i think that every one has their own finger print which they impress on all they do.

subindex wrote:i keep makin chilled out dubstep at the moment
but dont mean to .... hmmm

exactly same as!

wanna make some hard, dirty 'rape your mother' kind of stuff
but im feeling the chilled scene.
only been making for a month though..i end up making chilled because
my wobbles etc arnt good enough

cloak and dagger wrote:Just make what you want and what feels right, and a style will develop in one way or another over time. Even if you can't hear it; I've had people comment about my style in abstract terms regarding tunes that were totally different vibes in totally different genres, made in different DAWs.

But, forcing yourself to make one style probably won't speed up the process any, unless that's really what you're into. I dunno, as a musician, I'm way more interested in expanding my palette instead of narrowing it down and honing it. Neither approach is wrong, but I can only speak from my own experience.

I have my own wobble sound secret. It's not a brilliant one but it's subtly distinctive. My tunes tend to come out with a contrast between emotion (either really happy or depressing) and "filth" for want of a better word. Even if the main thing is dirty wobbles I'll almost certainly have an emotional intro... I'm also a "let the music do the talking and tell a story" guy. My tunes have energy and flow and have distintive variations and sections, almost like a rock layout except it's usually more like

A B C B A D B A

A being the emotion intro/breakdown/whatever , B being the "hook" if you will, C being (usually just a sub centered) variation of B and D being a really in your face filthy bit.

probably didnt need to go into that much detail. But I dont aim to make my tunes sound like this, it just happens!

someone say wobble style?

Yeah I dunno, I just keep making songs. Not really progressed far enough to have a style, not even sure if I want one haha. Just going to keep making the tunes that come to me and see where it goes I guess.

I hate writing banger hard bro shit, people eat it up when I do, and its kinda like, only thing I get wheels on...

Abandoned that. Cold world trying to force it.

Kinda getting back to the blues... through a dubstep medium? Does that make sense?

IDK man do what you love and not what people love and thats my point. Im alot happier fathoming philosophical shit about why I connect so much with EMinor and how on earth I can translate the feeling of blank scenario into a line then I was trying to find that brostep sweet spot where pattern meets patches n bleh bleh bleh...

No matter what you do, do it for YOU and put YOUR soul in it. Dont sweat, if nothing you make ever sounds the same. Worry about if what you make, says what you wanted it too.

yea do what you do. have fun, as long as it's not cookie cutter and has your own sound to it who cares. i flow all over diff genres and styles yet for most part people recognize my sound somehow.
it is what it is