NietzSKY

Still kept my favorite tracks (and my productions) out of this demo, gotta save a little something for the live show eh?  Will keep posted, was just wondering how other djs felt about this new sound I’m working towards.

Right when I heard about it I just couldn’t stop thinking about how fast the composition process would be if I could just hum-input tunes and use the maschine for percussion. All the times I heard melodies in my head but just couldn’t get them exactly how they sounded in my head……. this is certainly a new age for music.

What once took weeks will now only take days…….I loved you logic, but I think I need to start saving to make the switch asap.

Well shit, I must’ve really forgot that the ”ship sailed” then, I listen to primarily classical music lol. I tend to be extremely conservative about music, because I find the beauty in music to be demonstrated in the marriage of pathos and logos. As time progresses, music hasn’t necessarily gotten worse, but it’s become more and more simplistic. To one who appreciates the mathematical aspects of music, Grunge/Hair Metal/ Disco/ ”Bandwagon” music offers little-to-nothing.

I tend not to inference on human nature, for every attempt comes off as a glaring overgeneralization. If I were, however, to make one, it’d be more along the lines of ”people are social creatures who find greater strength in symbiotic relationships. They are more willing to change their outer/inner appearance based on perceived acceptance, whether intentional or subconscious, rather than focusing on being individualistic or different (although consciously, people feel a desire to be special). The introvert is the anomaly, as opposed to the extrovert.”

J-Zed, post: 39696, member: 1486 wrote:
I’m not gonna get really into the whole metal topic but as for your words on melodically speaking, if you’re interested in melodic metal bands I’d suggest looking in the melodic death and melodic black metal genres. My favourite metal band, Emperor was one of the bands at the forefront of black metal in general and were one of the first to go start using background synths with their music. Children of Bodom (earlier albums, they got less melodic with time), Dimmu Borgir and some other bands I can’t remember (I’m at work) are also notable bands that are more or less along the same style.

When it’s done right, it’s done right (don’t get me wrong). I am still a fan of Children of Bodom, Necrophagist, and other stuff of the nature (I also enjoy a lot of power metal). Borgir I was never impressed with, though my friend swore by them, Lamb of God and Black Dahlia Murder. Even with Bodom, however, if you analyze their progressions, it’s a lot of very basic simple arpeggiated chord progressions, made to sound complex through the use of alternate picking. Solos, while requiring technicality, are usually just scale and mode grinds.

The problem for me is that there’s a difference between melodically/harmonically complex music, and music that requires a great deal of technicality to play.

Chopin’s 28 20, for example, is only an intermediate piano piece in terms of technical proficiency; however, the chord inversions/variations he uses are fairly atypical; he manages to create a seamless melody, embrace more than a simple 3-4 chord progression, and demonstrate his vast knowledge of chromaticism.

NietzSKY, post: 39698, member: 4553 wrote: Dutch house (also known as dirty house) is a genre of house that emphasizes the higher frequencies after drops.

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When I play clubs, I like to mix a lot of dutch house and electro; the music is still fun to shuffle to in the end.

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There are 4 different types of hardstyle kicks: the gated kick, filtered kick, reverse bass kick and the nustyle kick.

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The basic premise is that you turn your kick drum into the bass line; these type of kicks require a good amount of EQing, distortion, and layering. A good kick can take weeks to tweak to get it to sound just right.

Thanks for the great response halfamazing. Funny thing, really, for I actually include Russian house/electro, Buglarian ethno-house and Romanian house into my sets when I play house-parties during the summer; lots of my friends who come over are eastern European, and they get a kick out of popular house/electro over here mixed with some of the artists from back home.

Now, I’m not a huge hard trance fan, but a lot of hardstyle music the product of a hardcore/hard trance merger. My favorite opera is Gotterdammerung (4th installment of the Ring cycle by Wagner), and my favorite musical period is the Baroque. In the classical world, I tend to gravitate towards more ”powerful” sounding music. I don’t know if there is some deeper Freud-esque revelation in my selection of music, or whether I simply enjoy what I enjoy, but the harder sounds of techno I feel are the closest we have to the emulation of the music of the periods in which I enjoy.

Allow me to explain; the bulk of the harder metal sounds (stuff that makes disturbed sound like new kids on the block) is generally very aggressive on percussion, and requires a great level of skill to perform on any instrument. HOWEVER, melodically speaking I find most of it to be incredibly lacking (usually a 4 chord arpeggiated progression or a very predictable modal scale made to sound more-complex through a use of alternative picking). I find these songs very boring and predictable. With the harder sounds of techno, however, there’s an entirely new element that can’t yet be understood in terms of tonal theory. This brings back the surprise in music for me, when I don’t know what sounds are going to be used in instrumentation and how they are going to mix with the chord structure/melodic progression. It’s as-if I’ve discovered a new world full of excitement, whereas I find most pop/metal to be incredibly weak in terms of poetry, boring in terms of structure, and a lesser variant of the art that has been with us for the last 400 years. In addition, harder techno generally tends to use completely synthesized synthetic sounds that are quite different from any other genre. The hardstyle kick in particular I believe is genius; I only wish I could have been there for the first.