Quote Originally Posted by Jay Pace View Post
Got to start somewhere. Nobody really starts out creating innovative, original work.

Best starting off by getting to grips with people you rate, understanding how they have put tracks together and why, and then going off and doing your own thing once you have mastered the sound a little bit more.
Yeah, it takes time to make killer tracks - but I have never heard it said that you should copy your favourite producer first, and then find your own route?? It's inevitable that any of us that produce will be in some way influenced by our favourite producers, but to go in and step-by-step COPY someone else's work is a terrible way to start, and to be honest is pretty extraordinary advice for you to be giving someone here. Ok, so maybe you or the majority of techno producers operate this way, but it's a pretty sad way to go about things in my opinion and highlights a lack of ambition and desire to experiment.

You're basically giving this guy the advice to be a sheep for a year or two, and then to start being himself? Yeah, really good reasoning in that - probably the biggest load of bullony I've read here in a while I'm sorry to say.