what style are you makin

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what style are you makin

Post by djdrake13 » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:40 am

Just wondering what styles of music people are making out there. Is there any experimental musicians??
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Re: what style are you makin

Post by Rick Hunter » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:44 am

I write bad folk songs and slap a drum machine over it.

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Post by bad_dude_69 » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:46 am

judging by other people's reactions, i'd say my stuff is experimental.
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Post by Rigsby » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:19 am

Tricky question. My stuff's pretty much always instrumental, been that way about seven years now. Moving from the singer songwriter thing to instrumentals was a whole new learning curve, things like how to keep the flow and movement, when to use a hook, that sort of stuff takes on a whole different slant when you never intend to use a vocal. I tend to lean more towards acoustic instruments these days, though i also use some samples when time is short. I like percussion a whole lot and often record layers and layers and layers and dance around to them before i have to decide how much is enougha nd how much is too much, it's probably one of the things i struggle with most: that balance.

I guess i draw from late 50's-early 60's jazz, musique concrete, some classical, arabic music, world folk, soundtracks, ambient, gamelan, found sounds, some post rock amongst other things. Actually to say i draw from it is probably incorrect, these days on the whole i'll write something, take that wherever it goes and then look out for some music i can listen to that has a similar vein so i can listen to more than just what i've written.

This is turning into an essay.

I don't know if it's experimental, that's a difficult one, it's kind of a genre and i don't think i probably fit into that, but most of my stuff has been born of trying things and seeing if they work which are experiments i suppose.
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Re: what style are you makin

Post by YOUR KONG » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:37 am

This feels so unambitious following Rigsby's post, but I make funky electronica/jazzy dance music.

I'm also finishing an album of illbient/dNb stuff, but that's more commercially motivated.

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Post by andrew embassy » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:07 am

"Splunge for me too."

I make instrumental jazz/hip hop/electro stuff...

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Re: what style are you makin

Post by psychicoctopus » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:30 am

It depends on who I'm collaborating with. On my own, I usually make dub/electro/hip hop instrumentals. Sometimes I collaborate with a turntablist and we end up with nerdy hip-hop. I also play in a psychedelic noise band, and we make 45-minute drone collages with analog sources, feedback, and circuit bending.

Lately I've been playing bass for a Tejano / Cumbia band, so I expect some latin groove spillover into my other projects... I have an idea to do an EP of electronic cumbias with skratch turntable, latin gangsta rap, and spanish diva vocals. Sounds like fun!
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Re: what style are you makin

Post by andyg666 » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:16 am

currently, hip-hop. been through various stages. singer-songwriter, rock-n-roll, electro-house, acid jazz...

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Re: what style are you makin

Post by psychicoctopus » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:28 am

wow, there's more hip hop here than I thought. How come the music and mp3's section seems to be dominated by rock-type stuff?
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Re: what style are you makin

Post by JGriffin » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:29 am

My own stuff is rock, maybe Bowie/Wilco/Tom Petty/Beatles inspired, I dunno.

the project that supplies my screen name here, Donny Who Loved Bowling, is a garage-experimental band I am in with my friend Chris from Austin. You can check that out here if you like.

And then I play in my brother's hard rock thing, Braintree.
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Re: what style are you makin

Post by ottokbre » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:32 am

my personal stuff: electro-folk

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Re: what style are you makin

Post by nicksense15 » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:48 am

I mainly do indie rock stuff. Id love to do something a little more experimental/instrumental someday though, like Mogwai or Mercury Program.

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Re: what style are you makin

Post by ubertar » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:52 am

Right now I'm doing some microtonal rock-- overall you could call my stuff experimental, with a lot of "world" influences, and far out unique sounds.

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Re: what style are you makin

Post by bobbydj » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:37 pm

No-fi rubbish with a dash of death and punk. Kind of badly diseased pop aimed squarely at the post-pubescent Rittalin jonesers.
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Re: what style are you makin

Post by YOUR KONG » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:50 pm

psychicoctopus wrote:Lately I've been playing bass for a Tejano / Cumbia band, so I expect some latin groove spillover into my other projects... I have an idea to do an EP of electronic cumbias with skratch turntable, latin gangsta rap, and spanish diva vocals. Sounds like fun!
That's awesome - I have some "urban cumbia" with rapping/toasing on some compilation CDs around here - very cool stuff.

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