Official Retirement(at-least in my mind)

gompo · Mar 3, 2019

grabme said: ↑

It sounds no worse or better than most modern electronic music out there today, including commercial releases although they sound unfinished. However, its not adding a thing to what is already out there and you don't have your own sound yet or anything that stands out from the crowd.Best track for me is Another Fear, definitely needs a vocal as do most of your tracks.
Also it doesn't sound like you have stepped away from a laptop to make this stuff, it needs something a bit more organic going on, some acoustic instruments or field recordings.
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will take this advice for sure.

gompo · Mar 3, 2019

LZ Jaydon said: ↑

It is so... empowering.

To see all of you people speaking out your truth to gompo.
This is not about convincing someone. It is about a matter of fact.

gompo. There are goals to reach yes. But those goals should not be too serious to you. Literally see what you are doing right now. Find the enjoyment in it. Be with it. Even if it seems like you are not getting anywhere and are stuck in this one place.

If that means composing music, listening, fine tuning, being creative with your DAW then yes do that. Do all of that.

If that means to do something else, then, yes, do that.

But don't compromise something so lovely as creating music into just being heard by a certain label or even person. Music is not about that. It is so much greater then you and still through you it comes into this world.

So yes. Toughen up. You can do it. I can do it. Everyone can do it. We are not alone here.
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seriously speaking this is the best place on internet.

gompo · Mar 3, 2019

Lois Lane said: ↑

You're on the road to somewhere, most people aren't and let the road roll on by them. If you're "soul" ambition in making music is to be signed to a label though, maybe you're on the wrong road.

If my arms and my legs were then severed
My tongue RIPPED right out of my mouth
I would bang on the floor with my forehead
Grunt my angst
To any ear that could hear
And keep time with my fluttering eyelids.
Hear that rhythm?
Them's the drops of my musical tears.

If you can live without creating, then stop and try something else, like watching soap operas to fill up your time. But boy, wouldn't that suck
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Yes my daw has the power to attract me and it did after 8 months and Another Fear was the result of around 3-4 hours of production. As of now let me take a break maybe my mind will get bored outside again and will force me to work on music.

gompo · Mar 3, 2019

wouala woualouf said: ↑

My humble opinion...

The 1st reason one should be making music is for having fun. If you are making a music in an automatic way, as the chinese worker who places several components on a motherboard, 16 hours a day, just to do MORE, instead of VERY GOOD, then, there is a problem. ..

2nd reason would be making music for ourselves, in the first place, and LOVING what we did. Can you pick one of your tracks, and listen to it 10 or 15 times ? Next day, another 15 times... and you do it one entire week. Were you able to do it ? If not, if YOU can't listen to your stuff hundreds of times, how to expect others will love it, to the point of wanting to publish it/buy it, and replay it over and over. .

3rd reason... setting the bar too high can be a good thing, a good way to keep thriving and becoming better each day. .. but if the whole thing becomes an obsession, and the frustration replaces the pleasure. .. the more you try to climb... when you fall (and fall you will), the more it will hurt. And if you fall too often, you start realizing you will never do it... and you will want to quit.

4th reason. Try to watch the 'bonsai records' story, it was released on AZ like a month ago. You will notice by 90-95, the only way for an electronic musician to succeed was SPENDING thousand and thousand of euros/dollars (by that time, there were the francs..marks..pesetas..) on new hardware. Want you music to sound different and better ? Just buy that 5'000 euro synthesizer. . Our that expensive sampler... that rare delay unit... a big expensive mixer... everything was expensive. By the year 2000's, i remember paying like 900 bucks, for a simple shitty lexicon mpx100 fx unit.

Today ? Anybody can buy a 2nd hand computer, download a few plugins, and start making music. Eg, the light zebra computer-music plugin, made by uhe...if that 'simple freeware' existed by 1995... it would be like having a plugin 10x better than a Diva! Even freeware stuff sound amazing. Everything is so accessible. The problem = it is accessible to ALL THE PLANET.
Whereas in the 90's, there only existed a few labels, and a few hundreds artists making music and sending to labels, TODAY, there are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people making music. I wouldn't be surprised if many major edm labels were receiving 1000, 2000...even 5'000 NEW EDM tracks every single day.
Ex, when martin garrix has released 'animals', all the edm labels must have received 100'000 tracks that sounded 95% like the original!
The same lead sound. .. the same inversed clock riser... the same beat...
Yeah, it is super easy to create music. .. but the competition is super tough

5th reason. ... I'd prefer making a cool track, easy to listen, nice melodies, etc, in a more exotic genre, then simply trying to clone WHAT has already been done/cloned 700'000 times. It's better to have only 2 nice tracks that all your friends, family, etc can listen, than trying to make something that EVERYBODY has been listening to thousands of times, the last 5 years.
I'd rather have only 5 original songs , than having 80 tracks that are 98% similar to all the stuff that already exists

6th reason. ..originality makes you feel good. How do you feel, when you finish creating a track, that is 98% like all the 175 edm tracks
you have in that folder, how do you feel ? Do you really feel, great, unique, like a true artist ? Do you realize, if you give a simple garageband app to a 6yo kid, give him a folder with 40 or 50 samples, and show him how to place the samples on the timeline, and on different tracks...30 minutes later, he probably will have created a track that resembles 90% like the 'pro' track you have made.
As easy as that. Where is the pleasure, when making the same stuff 200'000 other guys are making, at the same time...?

7th reason.. again... obsession. .. will destroy everything. It is well known, very often, when we really really want something, it never happens. And I've day...
Who hasn't experienced this: you absolutely want to find a great girl. You do everything you can, you put a lot of efforts on it... you are super optimistic. .. you are sure you will find what you want... you go out every single night, 30 days a month... and nothing.
And several months later, when you're no longer obsessed about that idea, out of nowhere, without any reason, you meet that lovely girl/woman... and you are happy!
Give time to time. Don't give up, don't be too obsessed. If you are a good caring person, the high powers above the skies (don't want to use the wird 'God', otherwise, many will say God has nothing to do with your talent, bla bla..) will help you.

like others said, don't hesitate working with a cousin, friend, brother... forget the 'i want to be alone, that way, if i make a lot of money, i will get 100% of it'....

There would be many other things to say, but. ..

Believe in you... know your limits. .. ask opinions : pick 2 of your tracks, pick 2 tracks from a good label... ask a friend 'listen to these 4 tracks, and give me your opinion'. If your tracks aren't good enough, he will say 'i prefer these 2, because the other ones sound ...'
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this forum post and the answers may inspire a lot of people in the future and the warmness offered by this community is the best and can not be found elsewhere. Love you all Guys

blaqmatic · Mar 4, 2019

No problem anytime. 1st round on me.

gompo · Mar 5, 2019

blaqmatic said: ↑

No problem anytime. 1st round on me.
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pm me your location, will get in touch with you once I'm there. :D

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