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infiniteposse · 19th March 2003

Coming from a slightly different perspective...

I made electronic music (house, dnb, downtempo, etc) for years and in doing so sort of became the defacto engineer, producer and songwriter. I did this kind of writing from about 96' till about 2 years ago. I just all of a sudden hit this place where the process of building these songs, which is a lot about lengthy processes/treatments and fleshing out good sounds and "ear candy" got so painfully boring that I just couldn't stand it anymore.

I then moved back to writing on guitar exclusively which is how I started out making music over 15 years ago. I've never been happier with my songs and they hold up when played and sung by one person. The ear candy after the fact is OK, but actually working out a solid chord progression and a catchy melody is just so much more rewarding and the shelf life is going to be way way longer. I just can't listen to a lot of the electronic music I was buying a few years ago. There's just not enough substance there all of a sudden. There are the happy exceptions like the Boards of Canada, but for the most part, the appeal has just faded for me. Maybe it was largely contextual as well (ie: clubs and uh...substances).

This is a tad sad in that the music buying market is now gobbling up cr@p like nobody's buisness and I'm not making it anymore, but ultimately I think this poor non-music (by that I'm thinking more the mass produced stuff that's got little to do with real talent and everything to do with the "machine" that creates it) will go away. The real stuff will survive and really has for the most part. As many of my friends who used to be party kids (who listened to a steady diet of dnb, house, etc...) grow up they're adding more and more "songs" into their music diet. God willing it's a trend.

My 15cents.

19th March 2003	#8
infiniteposse Lives for gear Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 590	Coming from a slightly different perspective... I made electronic music (house, dnb, downtempo, etc) for years and in doing so sort of became the defacto engineer, producer and songwriter. I did this kind of writing from about 96' till about 2 years ago. I just all of a sudden hit this place where the process of building these songs, which is a lot about lengthy processes/treatments and fleshing out good sounds and "ear candy" got so painfully boring that I just couldn't stand it anymore. I then moved back to writing on guitar exclusively which is how I started out making music over 15 years ago. I've never been happier with my songs and they hold up when played and sung by one person. The ear candy after the fact is OK, but actually working out a solid chord progression and a catchy melody is just so much more rewarding and the shelf life is going to be way way longer. I just can't listen to a lot of the electronic music I was buying a few years ago. There's just not enough substance there all of a sudden. There are the happy exceptions like the Boards of Canada, but for the most part, the appeal has just faded for me. Maybe it was largely contextual as well (ie: clubs and uh...substances). This is a tad sad in that the music buying market is now gobbling up cr@p like nobody's buisness and I'm not making it anymore, but ultimately I think this poor non-music (by that I'm thinking more the mass produced stuff that's got little to do with real talent and everything to do with the "machine" that creates it) will go away. The real stuff will survive and really has for the most part. As many of my friends who used to be party kids (who listened to a steady diet of dnb, house, etc...) grow up they're adding more and more "songs" into their music diet. God willing it's a trend. My 15cents.