Making Tunes

[MIKEE HUSSLA]

What is it best to do?

Or how do you do it?

[Misdemeanor]

no idea. you'll get slated either way im sure

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less negative response woudl be to play your own tunes when you're out or get your mates to play them!

[MIKEE HUSSLA]

I don't make tunes yet but I'd say I'd put all my concentration into certain tunes and get them out.

Otherwise like when top producers flood teh scene, people get bored of their sound.

[Mikee Merge n C]

When you are making tracks Mike I'd expect you to want us to hear them.

Thanks for your support mate.

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[mattrick]

for me it's all about quality control. i have 1000s of unfinished tracks that nobody will ever hear cos they're rubbish. it's important to make lots of tunes in order to find your own sound, but there's no need for everyone to hear them.

ages ago i asked quiff for the best advice he could give me, and he said something like "find your own sound and believe in it". my best breaks in this industry so far have been a result of me doing that, so cheers jason.

also you have to be ready to take criticism. this involves a fair amount of skill in deciphering good criticism from bad, and by good i mean constructive. bad criticism can be just plain hating or it can be people not understanding what you're trying to do or where you're coming from. but then even that can be useful.

but anyway, people will lose interest very quickly if you just flood the scene with loads of mediocre tracks. the best way to break through is to work at it yourself, just playing stuff to friends, until you've made something truly outstanding. then people will start to take notice.

i just realised i could go on for ages about this but should get back to work......

bottom line = quality control

[Mikee Merge n C]

Sorry Mikee, Feel The Bass is my most local forum and I'd like to give this lot a preview.

By all means carry on advertising for Trouble On Vinyl etc, if thats what you want, but I suggest you start producing music - there's nothing like it!

If no-one is interested in my tracks they won't listen!

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Thankyou please.

[Mikee Merge n C]

I'm guessing Mattrick doesn't need to promote his music the way I am choosing to because [and please correct me if I'm wrong here].

a. He's signed to at least one label with proper distribution.
b. He is discouraged from giving away for free what could be sold.
c. He has been producing since 1987.
d. He has more friends in the production game who he can get feedback from, in private.
e. He looks on FTB and thinks "hhhhhm. I don't think this lot are really ready for me yet."

:badteeth:

[azonica]

I'll be playing some of Mattricks stuff at Source on Friday :hyper:

[Mikee Merge n C]

I think I'm banned! :(

[Manikular]

Originally posted by Mikee Merge n C
I think I'm banned! :(

well you're behaviour has actually improved in the last few days so you never know mate! :badteeth:

[Mikee Merge n C]

Sorry - all this "Bad Boy Mikee Merge 'n' C" shit my MC's keep shouting has had quite a negative affect on my personality recently.


Give us a kiss!

:badteeth:

Hehehe..

[MIKEE HUSSLA]

this post was not a direct aim at you.

i just posed a question

[MIKEE HUSSLA]

Plus when it comes to advertising sites, I do it as I know others are interested in these labels and if tunes are there to buy etc.

Passing knowledge on...

[rogue]

Originally posted by azonica
I'll be playing some of Mattricks stuff at Source on Friday :hyper:

wicked mate! :funk:

what time are you on - don't want to miss it :D

[mattrick]

Originally posted by Mikee Merge n C
I'm guessing Mattrick doesn't need to promote his music the way I am choosing to because [and please correct me if I'm wrong here].

a. He's signed to at least one label with proper distribution.
b. He is discouraged from giving away for free what could be sold.
c. He has been producing since 1987.
d. He has more friends in the production game who he can get feedback from, in private.
e. He looks on FTB and thinks "hhhhhm. I don't think this lot are really ready for me yet."

:badteeth:

some fair points there mike! i must point out i haven't checked any of your stuff lately so don't think i'm directing anything at you. i'll be spending more time checking out new producers in the near future and i will give your stuff a listen then, and let you know what i think.

an excellent place for feedback is the tune showcase on doa. just remember to give as much feedback as you'd like to receive. before i got signed to any labels i put about 20 tracks (over the course of a year or so) on besonic.com - actually they're still there i think - and got feedback from various boards, but mostly off doa. however, i never flooded anywhere with tunes. i'd make a tune over a weekend, stick it on besonic and get feedback, then a couple of weeks or so later i'd have finished another one and then i'd do the same with that. you stand a better chance of being listened to if you just put your tunes out one or two at a time i think.

same with demo CDs - best kept to under 4 tracks i think. if someone likes what they hear, they'll ask for more.

[MIKEE HUSSLA]

Originally posted by mattrick
you stand a better chance of being listened to if you just put your tunes out one or two at a time i think.

same with demo CDs - best kept to under 4 tracks i think. if someone likes what they hear, they'll ask for more.

excellent points

[azonica]

Originally posted by rogue
wicked mate! :funk:

what time are you on - don't want to miss it :D

Not sure yet mate, think Dave will post set times some time soon though :hyper:

[Mikee Merge n C]

Originally posted by Mikee Hussla
this post was not a direct aim at you.

i just posed a question

No sorry Mike I see that - I was, whilst posting the links, thinking any minute now Hussla will say 'Oh look the boards been flooded again' or something....

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[Mikee Merge n C]

Originally posted by Mikee Hussla
Plus when it comes to advertising sites, I do it as I know others are interested in these labels and if tunes are there to buy etc.

Passing knowledge on...

If more people started threads it would help inject some life into this occassionally stale place so really I do big that up mate....

I'm just gutted it's no use to me as I'm so often broke these days! :badteeth:

Keep it up son. :D

[Mikee Merge n C]

Originally posted by mattrick
some fair points there mike! i must point out i haven't checked any of your stuff lately so don't think i'm directing anything at you. i'll be spending more time checking out new producers in the near future and i will give your stuff a listen then, and let you know what i think.

an excellent place for feedback is the tune showcase on doa. just remember to give as much feedback as you'd like to receive. before i got signed to any labels i put about 20 tracks (over the course of a year or so) on besonic.com - actually they're still there i think - and got feedback from various boards, but mostly off doa. however, i never flooded anywhere with tunes. i'd make a tune over a weekend, stick it on besonic and get feedback, then a couple of weeks or so later i'd have finished another one and then i'd do the same with that. you stand a better chance of being listened to if you just put your tunes out one or two at a time i think.

same with demo CDs - best kept to under 4 tracks i think. if someone likes what they hear, they'll ask for more.

Thanks for your thoughts I didn't think of that to be honest, mainly because I've accumulated bare tracks which noones heard yet and I'm kind of keen to put them first to our extended family and later to people around the planet...

As for four tracks per CD - I sort of would if I could decide on which to use and if I wasn't trying to economise...

To be honest I'm not strictly after a signing on these tracks... They are old to me now, although still exclusive...

I'm never going to stop producing now I've started and I look at producing like a journal of my life...

Whilst friends of mine make music purely for people to dance to, I mainly make my shit for myself to relax to - although I want to make people dance!

There is nuff D'n'B for the dancefloor - this is for my walkman!

I hope you lot are feeling it - it ain't rocket science - just sketches really.

I've still yet to send this out on disc to most of the FTB crew but I'm on the case...

Life does my head in a bit! :o

Big ups.

[Mikee Merge n C]

I want to do everything YESTERDAY!

[Philblunt]

'individual tunes with lots of effort' for the win.

[Mikee Merge n C]

It's odd that often the tracks which take least time or effort are most popular!

Some of my least favourite tracks have got the best reviews and vice versa...

I think this back-ups the argument that sometimes simplicity is the key...

It's knowing where to end that is the problem!

When is a tune 'done'?

[mayhem danger]

Originally posted by Manikular
well you're behaviour has actually improved in the last few days so you never know mate! :badteeth:

It's like being back at school all of a sudden.........or maybe you never left playschool Mikee........

[Mikee Merge n C]

Oh god not you again. :badteeth:

[Mikee Merge n C]

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