A Mixture of writer's block and insomnia spawned about 28 hip-hop tracks over the past year of which the first few were started as hardcore techno. I've actually been having a lot more fun playing around with hip-hop over the past year on so many different fronts. News sounds to play with, new people to work with and, to a degree, more freedom because I'm not comparing it to stuff that I've done before. So, while I could have had "writer's block," it really looks like I was just trying to write the wrong music at the time. It's dificult to figure out when that's the case quite often and can be bad in that it's almost like you've started to resemble you're programming. Easy to get stuck and lost in that when it happens. So, it's weird, whereas before I'd do one hip-hop/breaks track a year at best, with the rest being hardcore, I've done a complete reversal. I'm just gonna let it ride because I'm still having "block" with hardcore and, while I'd like to be doing more than 3-4 tracks like that in a year,Originally Posted by djshiva
there's no point if it's going to sound forced or pretty much identital to other songs I've already written.
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19-09-2005, 03:51 PM #21BOA Lifetime Member
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20-09-2005, 09:24 AM #22Supreme Freak
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ahhh...so an update on the writer's block situation.
i brought my friend andy james in on the remix, and we have a nice one in the making. more later when we are closer to finished.
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feeling the creativity again. so happy!
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22-09-2005, 01:43 AM #23BOA Lifetime Member
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Open a synth in stand alone and jam with it, or program absynth to make loops. Both usually inspire me
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23-09-2005, 04:06 PM #24Supreme Freak
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dont push it, you may be learning something important or gathering inspiration.
it will pass and you will again find yourself under pressure to get all the ideas out.
all the comments here are good btw. you'll be right just chill.LivePA
That is all...
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23-09-2005, 07:14 PM #25BOA Lifetime Member
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patience is key
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29-09-2005, 05:18 PM #26Supreme Freak
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well, i did manage to solve one of my technical difficulties which has caused numerous problems for months.
evidently my shuttle ****in' HATES nvidia geforce video cards. lo and behold, i finally thought to check the shuttle compatibility listings. *smacks forehead* DOH!
so i am running the onboard card...no screen lockups. for whatever reason, this was only happening in live. *shrugs*
so i got a video card on the compatible list. yay!
i have been able to work in live lockup free. makes things a damn sight less tedious...although now my job is once again interfering in my musicmaking... ;)
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30-09-2005, 05:05 AM #27Junior Freak
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i'm as happy as you are that you're out of your funk...it happens to all of us. look at it this way sista, after all these years we finally got to collab on something Originally Posted by djshiva
indy/ohio techno represent :clap:
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