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When writing, I often make scratch CDs to listen to that include a lot of simply wrong material. The legit ideas are there, but I find that, when I can't make something fit to it, putting in the wrong thing will inspire me to "fix it". I'm a much better arranger than I am a writer.

 

I'll cobble stuff together to fill up space between good ideas, or let something loop for 64 bars so I can noodle around on top of it, maybe drop in a common drum loop just to have something there until I flesh out the part I like. Un-mixed, unedited, unfinished, and barely tolerable to me.

 

I once gave a CD of these to a producer who I wanted to impress. I meant to give him one with actual finished works on it ... I found out why he hadn't called me back weeks later through a mutual friend.

 

"Dude, he just though it was really, really bad. Sorry."

"Did he have anything else to say? I can take criticism; be honest."

"He just said it sounded like a bunch of {censored} tossed together, like, not even real songs, just playing around ..."

"Oh. My. GOD."

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lol, i don't think i ever did worse than that.


for the record, that's a roland tr505 on drums, and novation nova and prophet 600 on the rest... and my {censored} awful singing:freak:

 

OK, now I just HAVE to listen...

 

 

 

 

 

 

:eek::lol::lol::lol::thu: I'm speechless! And yet, better than anything I've managed to post. :D

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lol, i don't think i ever did worse than that.


for the record, that's a roland tr505 on drums, and novation nova and prophet 600 on the rest... and my {censored} awful singing:freak:

 

Wow, I really don't know what to say - I can tell you that I have real tears running down my cheeks right now, though :lol:

 

Thanks for posting that :thu:

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never got why they release this {censored}..

 

 

A lot of pop music especially dance music is supposed to be disposable. You listen to it the first time it's a surprise, even if it is just some simple thing. The second and third time are fun because it still sounds fresh. A few more plays and boredom sets in, time for the next tune...

 

That's why dance music has always been singles oriented and there is so much flavor of the month turnover.

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ironically my worst track was a one-off performed in front of the largest audience I had ever played before- about 3000 people- but thankfully it was after 3 AM and everyone was on really good acid - I was performing in a duo with me on sampler and my partner adnan on bass/FX- we had sort of rehearsed some electrogoth jams that sounded like early depeche mode/ erasure synths/sequences with cure/cocteau twins/new order style flangy goth bass- but when we got on stage the amp driving our monitors crashed and we were flying blind! luckily all of my sequences and drum parts were pre-programmed- I just had to play meandering pads over top- but adnan could not hear the beat or anything else so he did the only thing he could and started scraping his bass with fingernails and playing harsh noise while making his fx pedal feedback and distort-

 

the result was an odd mixture of pretty/sad vince clarke-ish melodies suspended in grinding harsh noise bursts- I was thoroughly embarsassed and thought it was probably horrible- but people seemed to like it and we actually had a little buzz from it- go figure

 

thank god it was never recorded

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