With the Tired Tape EP, I took a minimalist approach, rediscovering influences like The Haxan Cloak, Raime, and Hecq. The IDM, dark ambient side of music. Chilling atmospheres, intrusive distortions, and surreal mind melts, summarize my initial influences, moviescapes. In fact, my earliest attempts at writing music took place inside Final Cut Pro with drone and ambient samples – Loudening the dark textures to create bass sounds, with little to no percussion. Fast forward, I discover G Jones, Aphex Twin, Bleep Bloop, tsuruda, Little Snake, and Eprom; diving headfirst into experimental bass music, where I might remain? Not sure, still figuring out my sound.
Here’s Tired Tape, an attempt to make music while my mind was secreting through the cracks in my skull, oozing, oozing.
Summoning the spirit of Team Supreme, Milano known for his wonky trap/dub influenced bass, has established The Producer Party- a Discord dedicated to production challenges, hosted by the Lost Dogz native. Looking to engage with the r/spacebass community, flex your production skills, appear on a weekly mix?
After providing a new sample pack per challenge, Milano beckons creativity, giving artists anywhere from a “power hour” to weekend-long event to create beats. We’ve seen variations of deep dub, riddim, and this week: the producer’s take on 174 beats per minute.
The rules are simple:
1. Follow the Beats Per Minute or Genre 2. Intro & Outro 3. No longer than requested time (60-120 seconds) 4. Post by Due Date 5. Use the samples provided, especially the GOLDEN SAMPLE.
With electronic music’s ethos of perfectionism, a return to raw artistic production is welcomed. How often are producer’s guilty of fidgeting a frequency shifter for an hour, EQing a snare, rewriting an ending?
Is art about perfecting minuscule details or releasing and processing an emotion? I tend to fall behind the ladder…. With increased reps and sets, the perfected result is attained naturally, intuitively.
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times,” says Bruce Lee.
How often do you see artists tweeting or posting about the song they’ve mastered for the past two years, and for what?
Is the song any better than one produced in four hours?
An interesting concept. A product of western work culture, “the grind”? If I didn’t bleed, sweat, and cry, is it really art?
The struggling artist, a victim complex?
I sense a highly competitive nature too: “If this producer spent two years writing a track, then I need to spend three years writing my greatest track.” How much of production and the arts is a pissing contest? Through our expression of the ego, we become a bit enslaved – blinded by narrowness and the self. Instead of creating community and dissolving into the collective, the ego prefers separation. A natural response- as the ego’s wired for survival.
Production challenges are a break from perfectionism, while focusing on community engagement and having fun! How important is keeping the creative process engaging and exciting? S/o Milano and the homies for picking up the torch and invigorating the scene. We’ve seen contributions from CamBot, Arcadian Sound, Xotix, and pantsoph, not to mention new producers like myself, anxious to acquire as much practice possible while learning from the pioneers.
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