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    Is electronic music real music ?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    But this has less to do with EDM as a genre than with the perform/compose distinction I mentioned above - it's also the case that someone composing music for an orchestra has to understand and put together every instrument in the track.

     

    Yeah I agree. What you said makes sense. I feel a remix is rather like EDM's version of 'perform'. The re-interpretation. If you think of every EDM track embodying an idea or a certain mood, then the way the original composer writes the track is his way of conveying that. And a remix is another person's re-interpretation of that conveyance and how they see fit to convey that idea/mood. I don't know if this makes sense though? And when a DJ mixes in two tracks, it's is the DJ's performance of the music and of how that DJ wants to convey the idea/mood. So I think of DJs & remixes as representing the perform side of things, DJs more so ofcourse.

    Is electronic music real music ?

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    Always come up against this when I talk about how amazing EDM is ;) Personally music is made by the effect it has on you. That is what makes music, period. It's about emotion and beauty. As long as it holds something for you, it is a piece of art. The process of creating that music only comes in if it contributes to the art-ness of the piece.

     

    I don't think making EDM is that easy, it takes some understanding of the actually frequencies of different instruments, understanding of synths etc... , of the buildup and release of tension, of flow ... Besides I feel the whole point of technology is to empower. So we _should_ use technology to allow us to put our energy into the act of creation instead of spending it on perfecting an instrument.

     

    Another interesting point people miss is that with traditional instruments one person can only play one instrument, but with EDM one person has to understand and put together every single instrument in the track.

    Request feedback on some tracks I made.

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    Made some tracks and I'm wondering if they're any good at all. If anyone has the time to give me any sort of feedback that would be great! :)

     

    Drum & Bass + Orchestral elements. Always wanted to push try and push D&B a bit. http://soundcloud.co...129/karan-slice

     

    Psytrance http://soundcloud.co...an-free-radical

     

    Experimental-ish Dubstep. The second half builds quite nicely if I may say so. http://soundcloud.co...ran-acid-retort

     

    Intelligent Dubstep. Kinda spaced out. http://soundcloud.co...29/other-worlds

     

    Hope it's okay to put it here instead of Music Promotion. I just want feedback, not promoting this or anything.

    Is anyone here NOT a Ron Paul supporter?

    in Off Topic

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    I don't know what Ron Paul's policies are specifically but I know he's a libertarian and I don't think you can build a society on non-intervention, so if I were American, I won't be a Ron Paul supporter.

     

    Also, I always thought psyheads would be more inclined toward social democracy than libertarianism. No?

    After 10 years... I finally know what is the best goa track ever! :)

    in General Psytrance

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    Most people are gonna diss this track for not being properly produced or not being true goa, but to me this track IS the best goa trance track ever made, despite the horrible production and whacky selling tactics from the producer himself.

     

    Hahaha it's so obvious he had speakers that underemphasized the highs and the volume was maxed out on a bunch of channels and the compressor was used to try and fix that :P

     

     

    Personally, the best goa trance cannot just have great melodies + production, it has to _embody_ goa trance, capture the essence of it so to speak, such that when you listen to it you begin to understand what the genre is about.

     

    Psychedelic Drum and Bass

    in Other Electronica

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    So you're saying styles like Psybreaks and Psytechno are a complete waste of megabytes and gigabytes? Might aswell ban Psytrance for the lulz. Get rid of the root of it all.

     

    I think what AlieNed means by 'strange' is that it isn't all that psychedelic, that perhaps it's evolved too far to be considered psy in character.

    Is anyone here NOT a Ron Paul supporter?

    in Off Topic

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    For the purpose of explaining to an international audience I will note a few things about life in the United States of America.

    Our government and all of its workers are not overseen by effective forces, they have no checks and balances that function.

    For this reason many Americans believe that government itself is a bad thing. We hear stories everyday about how someone who works for a government agency has failed in their responsibility.

    For example, the other day I saw a news story about a person who was sent to a deportation detention area. They were a citizen of this country, but only after a lawsuit was filed did this fact come to light.

    It is an easy and populist thing for politicians in this county to simplify things in order to get elected and that is exactly what Ron Paul and many other are doing.

    Overall America has a shrinking workforce, whether it is in the public or private sector, the remaining workers get paid more while the unemployed fend for themselves.

    I have not seen any candidate for either party come up with an effective plan for the future of the country.

     

    Well put. Not American but I live in America, and this is what I've observed. America needs better government/administration, not less, but there are a number of complicating factors that get in the way.

    Why so few female Psy-artists?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    The ratio at parties was not what I was talking about. I was thinking about the amount of people who buy EDM albums/singles, not the casual listener.

    The topic was also about psytrance, so I don't think we should lump all EDM into the debate especially since it is hard to put boundries on what exactly encapsulates EDM.

    Some people believe that Lady Gaga is EDM and I have seen her put into that genre in stores! I would strongly disagree that serious collectors of electronic music are split into the ratio of 1:1 male to female.

     

    Yeah I should've said psy. That's what I meant to say. I'm not doubting that "serious collectors of electronic music are split into the ratio of 1:1 male to female." but I thought you were using that to say women aren't into psy, and I don't agree with that part of it.

    Why so few female Psy-artists?

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I would like to add something on the whole genetics discussion. Don't you think that general upbringing in our society is radical different rather than our gene-pool? If you take into account the dominant stereotype of what a girl is "supposed" to like, and the way that influences her upbringing (it's another stereotype but I think about barbies, other dolls, whose sole purpose is to look "pretty"), isn't that a much better explanation? What I think, and what sounds a lot more logical to me, is that the way you sculpt something eventually has a much wider and bigger impact on what it becomes than the buildingblocks it is made of have. So in that sense, I would go looking for the reason why there are fewer female dj's and artists in the socio-cultural paradigm rather than in the eugenic paradigm. The reason why men are more "technical" is because that stereotype has been held intact for a very long time, not because our genes are more "technically" biased. Ofcourse I can't say for sure whether or not this has, in the long run, affected our gene-pool, but one shouldn't automatically assign every (and take this with a grain of salt, I don't literally mean EVERY) difference between men and women to the field of eugenics. It's more complicated than that and just brazenly ignores socio-cultural impact (mainly the environment we grow up in and the way we are raised) in the equation.

     

    Some food for thought, I think.

     

    I'm sure dolls signify a lot more to girls than looking 'pretty'. If you go down this route you could say boys play with action figures whose sole purpose is to look 'violent'. Also, ofcourse part it of it is as you said the environment but of it is your genes. In other words girls can be genetically programmed to play with dolls, and it mayn't just be a case of environment. I agree with you in that it comes down to a combination of genes + environment.

     

    Also, can we please not use the word 'eugenics'?

     

    89% of all percentages are made up on the spot.

    I agree, however, that it is because of the propensity of males to become obsessive that they get into electronic music more then females. I think that electronic music is far more difficult to learn about and hear then pop music is so most women never get into it.

     

    Disagree. From experience, EDM parties have about 50/50 ratios so to say women are not into EDM would be incorrect imo. Women are as much into EDM as men are. I don't think how records you own is a good metric of how much you like EDM. I'd say it's how much you participate in the scene. And then comes the question of deciding how pop is more difficult than EDM, seeing that a lot of pop is made using synthesizers now-a-days anyway. Secondly, when you say women aren't into EDM because it's difficult, that implies that women are lacking and is sexist and incorrect. Have you considered that they maybe just interested in different things and that messing around with synths and DAWs just doesn't interest them? I also think there's a counter-argument that someone could say pop is harder to make than EDM and that's why men don't get into it (you get what I mean).

    What books are you reading now?

    in Books and literature!

    Posted

    Good book.

    Yeah, I didn't fully appreciate k-space till I read it. It's much better than Kittel, I feel that Solid State Physics is too great a subject for one book though, so unfortunately you have to patch together info from a bunch of sources to get the entire picture. Every source seems to take a different tack/approach.
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