I don’t know if it’s the same for anyone else, and it’s been quite a while for you, but it takes me like an entire month sometimes just to come up with a track that doesn’t sound like something that someone could’ve made in a DAW on day one with a little dedication, and even that’s up for debate. Every time it’s like being back at square one.
Obviously being in that loop might not be worth it to most people, and your mileage might end up varying a lot if you stick with it, but those sound like the usual necessary-evils to me
I had a conversation with my girlfriend about this just now. I like to think that I’m really open minded when it comes to music genres, and I’ve always been sort of proud of the fact that I will give any type of music a chance. I’ll listen to trap, jazz, black metal, industrial, harsh noise, art rock, classical, anything that feels somewhat inspired. Recently I did a bit of a deep dive into the history of juke and footwork and the whole Chicago scene and how it got adopted by European jungle producers. I just love music in general.
That being said, I have to this day not heard a single balkan beats song that hasn’t immediately pissed me off. If someone can make a case for it and teach me to love it, please do, because right now all I hear is flaccid, uninspired, derivative drivel that feels like it’s making what’s left of my already barely functional brain leak out of my ears.
It sounds like one would need an Adidas tracksuit (and live in a moldy council flat) to be able to listen to this properly. Thankfully I don’t (and will never) own any such thing
Id say just dont force it but that’s what I do. If I’m not feeling artistic, I move on to other hobbies until Im feeling creative again. I understand your situation is a little different because you’re coming off a long hiatus, got updated ableton, got super amped to get back into it and are not feeling it. If I was a betting man, the spark will come back though, so it’s not a wasted effort, give it time.
If you’re getting paid, it’s a different story but where it’s a hobby, why force a hobby that isn’t giving you excitement at the moment
Yeah, I get burnt out quickly just looking at files, and I feel like that’s what I’m doing at the moment. I have all these old Live instruments (I neeeeeed that old Live 7 sub bass lol), but it doesn’t seem to want to read them when I put them with the other instruments.
Not sure if this applies to you, but it works for me so I’ll share it and maybe it helps. I feel like I have different creative ‘states’ that I go in to, and when I’m in one it’s very hard to move to another. Specifically when it comes to music, I’ll be in an improvisational, freeform mode, where I just try stuff, play, experiment, and usually record whatever comes out, without trying to finish anything specific. Whatever I come up with goes into my bag of tricks for later.
The other mode is when I actually go to finish songs, which is way more structured and focused on sequencing and mixing, and that’s really when songs come together and when I usually fish around in my bag of tricks (recordings, samples, presets) to find what works.
Both modes are great and valuable. The reason I differentiate between the two is because it helps me not beat myself up when I sit down and don’t finish something, or feel bad because I ended up fucking around with a weird thing I was trying for half a day. Failure and play is important. Essential, in fact.
I don’t hate this either! Thanks. I think it sounds close enough to actual balkan music that it feels more honest I think. some of the stuff I heard before just sounded asinine to me
Racism is hate, most project their hate and use it to unfairly define others. Yellow hates green for being green. Green hates yellow because yellow hates green.
When yellow does something criminal to green..there should be accountability.
When green does something criminal to yellow there should also be accountability.
Equality everybody has to respect everybody…everybody has to take responsibility. It goes both ways.
That being said green and yellow should have equal freedoms meaning the right to self determination. After that everything else boils down to individual competency.
It’s easy to blame the external for personal shortcomings.
