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yghartsyrt
that made me smile.
i know that. i made a cassette ages ago with a track of mine somewhere in it. whne listening to it back the other day. i was like. wow. that's cool and then realizing itwas my. felt so great.
that epiphany is awesome.
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Zanf
One of my old tracks is on rotation on systrum and first I knew of it was bsr jumped on IM and told me. I was gobsmacked that someone actually listened to it and liked it enough to play it.
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mlbot
I can't say any of my old tracks have ever resurfaced thanks to someone else's love for them.
I probably wouldn't think "hey this is good" if that were to happen.
congrats on both accounts!
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tantan
mlbot
it's happened to me with our stuff
a year or so ago most recently streaming some online radio don't even know what
some ml track came on and I was all disoriented
I recognized it though and didn't think it was so great, but I always hate everything I've had a part in creating once the initial shine is off
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astroid
i keep a mental catalog of everything i've ever done, including a rating system for how awesome it is. if i can handle the fucking most awesome stuff, i head straight for that. if i only want something that's totally fucking awesome, then i know where to go too.
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ejectorset
yes! recently i was going back through and cleaning off and sorting gigs worth of stuff that was on my drive, that used to be on another drive, before that was in my old home pc, before i switched to apple.
some of the songs go back i dunno maybe 6 years.
back when all i had was a johnson j-station (cheaper thingy like a line 6 pod), a crappy epiphone sg copy that was falling apart, sonar 1, reason 1-ish and the cheapest/crappiest fatar midi keyboard hooked up through a joystick to midi adapter. no ASIO drivers, seriously something like 4 or 5 seconds of midi latency. (yes seconds)
anyways, i listen back to mp3 after mp3 of songs/song ideas i had been working on then and i was really amazed not only at how good/much better than i would have ever remembered or thought at the time the stuff was. but yeah, some songs you completely forget ever making and its like, WOW how did i forget about that.
what really tripped me out though was how much more productive i was with that first setup as i was acquiring just enough gear to write/record at home and learning things and trying everything out. i probably made more music and worked on more ideas and got them further along in like 2 or 3 months back then, than i have in all of the years since.
i think it was easier to focus more on writing before i had a computer that could run a bunch of synths and samplers and tons and tons of effects. there are a lot of distractions these days. even ableton with device racks comes with endless possibilities before you ever record a note.
