Posted on 19/06/2016
The hen or the egg? Everyone making modern pop music has probably been in one of the following dilemmas: “I have this great little pop song, but how do I make an interesting musical scenario around it, without messing up the simple appeal of the song?” “I have a great instrumental track, but how do I […]
Posted on 14/05/2016
The Fluxic way of remixing stuff is somewhat deviant from general practices. By isolating the various elements of a track, and then preparing and looping that information algorithmically you will get a coincidental sequence of the elements that will produce results, ranging from the brillant to the useless. Depending on the raw material, this method […]
Posted on 08/05/2016
The term “dogmatic sound use” covers situations, where you only have one – or very few – basic sounds at your disposal. Such a limited basic sound set can be stretched and tweaked to get maximum mileage out of every sound. Some examples of what you can do to achieve this play the sound at a higher […]
Posted on 14/04/2016
With simple means and a few tricks you can get a lot of creative moments from your DAW. Depending on your kind of music, these methods may be more or less useful. It tends to lean towards the experimental side, and may be too chaotic to be used in a traditional pop context. For a […]