Message 15/23
Date: 14-Feb-02 @ 11:59 AM -
RE: my new dream breakbeat trance track
Hey xoxos, long time. Thanks so much for the response. Maybe I'll just might do that!
influx, yeah I like all of them and I make all of them, or at least I try anyway. One of my (illusive) goals is really to combine all elements that I like from these genres. Basically I just make whatever I want to hear after a long day at school. That's pretty much all music making is to me. Something for me to blast off with and it makes me feel good. (That's probably why I haven't thought about sending demos anywhere.)
About my (illusive) goal, allow me to muse a little bit.
I don't know if one song can't actually be many styles. I think it's funny sometimes people don't want to be categorized into any genres and they'd rather say they are writing their own style. But when they listen to someone's else music, they'd at least try to categorize it to something they are familiar with anyway.
Take this song as an example, I am quite surprised this track of mine gets quite good reviews here because it got bad reviews so far from people closer to me. One said it was too Enigma-ish for him. (I don't even listen to Enigma.) The sound engineer of the original version said it sounded funny like chinese music. (Well, I can see why he thinks so. Whole tone scale is sometimes associated with Asian music.) I don't mind bad reviews, of course but the point is I think it's possible that one piece of music can be viewed as different styles to many people depending on who they are.
But as I said, I kind of just want to make what I want to hear. Maybe mixing too many different elements for this track is a bad idea as people don't see it like I intended it to be. But hey what's the fun in making music if you always have to follow some certain sets of rules. Plus it'd be terrible if an artform has to be perfectly perceived the same by everyone like Mathematics (which is in fact my major hehe).
That's a good musing for the morning. Thanks for listening, influx
