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STYLE: Your OWN style.
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e-motion
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Posted : May 19, 2006 12:52
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sometime ago there was a very interesting topic about style by mantik, that topic was about creating your own style so you sound like you and nobody else.
my problem is not my style in relation to others but in relation to myself.
well i have a wide range of tastes in relation to psy full on (which i mostly produce). from night full on to something even more psychedelic to the complete opposite like melodic morning. this reflects in the music i produce making my tracks have a pretty different style between each one. for example the 2 tracks i'm making at the momment, one is pure morning shanti whatsoever and the other is really really psy almost night full on. you wouldn't tell both were made by me unless you listened to it very carefully.
now my problem is, do you think i should try to have a more consistent sound? since most lives nowadays have a style of their own (off-topic: good lives i mean, the others have the style of the good lives lol) and are consistent to that style how do you think the people would react to a multi-style live (altough it never exists the full on realm) ? my doubt is that psy is so time-of-the-day based i think it would be a little confusing. also most listeners have a style they enjoy and are consistent to that style. i think this would be nice for an album but not so sure for a live act.
but also it could be less boring (or maybe more)... well i don't know.
what is your opinion here? hope you understand my point. |
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Fragletrollet
Fragletrollet
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Posted : May 19, 2006 12:56
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I never limit myself to styles, even tough most of the outcome have clear similarities with the "Standards", hopefully with a twist. I produce what I want in any style. I make music for my own liking, and other people can relate to it in whatever way they desire.
You may have different aliases for different styles? Even tough it may just end up with 15 different projects and alot of confusion  |
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e-motion
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Posted : May 19, 2006 13:06
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double the name, double the tracks you have to make, double the trouble 
i don't really like the idea of having multiple aliases but could be a sollution as i could (for example) separate myself in morning stuff and psychedelic stuff. but only for the future as it is much harder for an artists who's trying to launch itself to launch 2 aliases |
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gill
Melorix
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Posted : May 19, 2006 13:33
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Fragletrollet
Fragletrollet
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Posted : May 19, 2006 13:33
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Just make it clair that your the man behind both names, and it wouldnt be more of a problem than with 1 name... |
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Sound Surgeon
Crater / Mish-kah
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Posted : May 19, 2006 14:33
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I don't have one style. Each track is a different story. There are few artists that have a unique style of thier own and most of them come from the progressive trance stream.
I dont limit myself to one style, I love both full on and progressive and other genres too.
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UnderTow
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Posted : May 19, 2006 15:17
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On 2006-05-19 12:52, e-motion wrote:
you wouldn't tell both were made by me unless you listened to it very carefully.
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I also make different styles of tracks with different moods and speeds and I have the feeling that they are completely different. When I play them to friends, they will say something like "It is very recognisable as your music. It is very much your style" or something like that. Grrr!
I think that we tend to listen to the differences in our own music and seem to be a bit blind to the similarities. It is as though we constantly have pink tinted glasses on (our mind/brain/tastes/style/etc) and look at things arround us and notice the differences in colours of the things we look at. If you give those tinted glasses to someone else the first thing they will probably say is that everything is very pink.
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now my problem is, do you think i should try to have a more consistent sound?
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No. First I think that your sound is probably more consistant than you think but even more importantly, variety is great! There are some artists out there that seem to be releasing the exact same track with different arrangements time and time again. Booooring!
If you have variety, keep that up!
Obviously you shouldn't be playing ambient tracks between full-on 150BPM night tracks in a live set but that doesn't seem to be what you are talking about. A nice progression in a live set is very nice. You can tell a story rather than just be a DJ of your own music.
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Mike A
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Posted : May 19, 2006 15:23
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IMO you should make different styles, under the same name. It'll make people value you more as an artist - as being capable of doing everything and not recycling himself over and over again.
That's what I do anyway  Some tracks are progressive, some are fullon, some are freestyle breakbeat. All under the Mike A name. The oldschool goa sound is what connects all of them.
About lives - I think it'll be great to listen to different styles in a live. The thing is to know how to make it work together, but I've never worked on a live before so I have no idea.
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Elad
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Posted : May 19, 2006 16:16
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On 2006-05-19 12:52, e-motion wrote:
well i have a wide range of tastes in relation to psy full on (which i mostly produce). from night full on to something even more psychedelic to the complete opposite like melodic morning.
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aint that all psytrance ?
i have probs if to make my 4 trance projects or to leave it and make chillout or breakbeat , or may be get back on rock band..
p/s u can always create 2 diffrent things with 2 names or even more (i have tsabeat,sattel battle,toy,darknoizz,each for diffrent sound preception , and if i had no job i would make prog project as well but for now no time for more... )
 www.sattelbattle.com
http://yoavweinberg.weebly.com/ |
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PoM
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Posted : May 19, 2006 16:20
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for my taste it s better to stick to one style for a name so the crowd is not disapointed in parties,(it ll be a big joke if a artist like kindzadza play astrix style trance hehe )if you play different style in your live act it s not good too , you can t play morning stuff a 02 in the morning or you have to run fast after your set  same for dark in the afternoon or things like taht.. maybe it depends the parties |
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Boobytrip
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Posted : May 19, 2006 16:46
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Just make the music you want to mate. Don't worry about styles or the labels that are used in the record store. There's so much dogmatic music being made, a lot of people are looking forward to something fresh. If you ask me, open-minded music is psycedelic music. Let your freak flag fly !
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e-motion
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Posted : May 19, 2006 18:27
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thanks everyone for giving your opinions |
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pH_
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Posted : May 20, 2006 07:14
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i think that your style will be you regardless.. your morning psy will be you.. your night full on psy will be you.. you will be you. beneath all your different styles (full on, morning, chill etc) youll see the similarity (like you said.. if you listen very carefully)
as for live and stuff ill have to agree with PoM. dont wanna be dishing up dark psy to people wanting morning! then again.. if u want to tell a story with the set a story that is only dark or only light will be a boring story! |
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Fragletrollet
Fragletrollet
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Posted : May 20, 2006 12:17
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I have 2 different aliases: Fragletrollet (for darkpsy-twisted psy) and Unknown Cause (for ambient, chillout, "slower" psy and breakbeat...).
Works fine for me. |
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Troll
Troll Scientists
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Posted : May 20, 2006 12:37
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