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The comments at this release link got me thinking:
What do you consciously avoid in your musical choices, both as a composer and a listener? It's really too abstract a question to ask "What are your musical goals?", so might be better to ask what you steer clear of.
A significant ambition of the artists on this forum seems to be originality. Not necessarily to stand out, since every release is unique in some way, but to create a sound all your own. I come back to em411 time and time again knowing that the releases will often be refreshing and occasionally enlightening.
That rules out any intimidation to experiment for the most part. So I'm wondering what's left.
Although I rarely finish, let alone release anyting, for starters I'd say I don't like:
* continuously harsh, noisy sounds (addicted to warmth, I guess)
* repetition without anything to seduce the listener first
* blues lead riffs on monosynths
and most importantly
* anything that comes to mind as overused in such a fashion that the listener anticipates, then ignores it(or worse, dreads it) I'm big on spontaneity.
So what about yourself? As you see it, what are the unforgiveable, irreconcilable crimes being committed in music, past, present and future, in all aspects not related to distribution, marketing and exhibition?(composition,performance,production,etc.) How difficult or easy are they for you to overcome when composing? | |
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j_chot
when I'm making dance music, I try to make something that would make someone say "oh snap!" when they hear the riff/drums/music hit.
I aim for making resistance to shaking your ass futile.
08/11/08
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fakeBlooper
i don't like lyrics that tell me to do something.
you're not the boss of me.
08/11/08
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adcBicycle
anything that would appeal to a listener who uses the phrase "oh snap"
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mlbot
there goes the idea for my next song, "Fabeblooper buy me a beer will ya?"
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jogn
totally detest the blues riff thing
08/11/08
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RogerRoger
fakeBlooper said: "i don't like lyrics that tell me to do something."
Reminds me of all those tracks shouting at the crowd to "DANCE!DANCE!" or "We will make you move".
From that release I linked to, there seems to be this notion that using something easily identifiable will make you look pretentious or lazy. (Assuming it's not buried in the mix) So is the initmidation that if you want to use it anyway, that you have to do so in a way no one else has?
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oxymoron
"* blues lead riffs on monosynths"
Amen! (and please do not cue amen break...)
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fakeBlooper
i will neither get up nor get down.
i'm staying exactly where i am.
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electrodan
So much electronica, to me, is either way too much or way too little.
Minimalism sort of bores me. Harsh/fast/loud shit annoys me...
I guess I dig the warm too
I like my synths to melt butter from across the room.
08/11/08
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hardvoltnine
Miami House Mama action can go to hell along with the lounge mixes.
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bla
i dont like it when the different elements of a track are too seperated- like a beat and a melody that have nothing to do with each other at all- they need rhythmically integrating with one another
pointless random sounding effects for the sake of it are bad too
08/11/08
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Tridact
I desire a certain cheese factor in everything I listen to.
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astroid
whatever other people do is fine, i guess. rather, i'm not gonna assign some arbitrary criteria to it and pretend like it will always apply.
but for me, i fucking HATE cheap 'earworms', unless they're very well-earned. it's an act of violence and makes me grind my teeth.
08/11/08
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Leo
It is hard for me to really truly dislike anything, as I've heard almost everything in a context that I liked. That being said...
Bland arpeggios.
Unprocessed super-saw sounds.
When drum samples are used, and the tails or transients clip because the sample wasn't aligned to zero-snap or faded in/out. Hip Hop can get away with it from time to time, but c'mon.
Predictable snare rushes.
When rhythm is so tied to the grid that there is no pocket / When rhythm has no syncopation whatsoever.
Inappropriate (and subsequently not-cool) stops in music. When done right, it is a nice effect, but sometimes it is just annoying.
Clipping. I hate clipping.
Over-compression. My ears get tired.
Most of the time, in electronic music, lyrics. Raw human voice alongside nothing else recorded with a microphone sounds really wrong to me.
Mostly clipping and over-compression, though.
08/11/08
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dkarma
j_chot said: "when I'm making dance music, I try to make something that would make someone say "oh snap!" when they hear the riff/drums/music hit.
I aim for making resistance to shaking your ass futile."
SPOT ON!!!
It's like my buddy said about Juno Reactor: "It MAKES you dance...you can't stop it."
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