Signature style/sound dilemma

EarlGrey · **Joined:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:46 am **Posts:** 189

True but the proces of improvement is never finished. I don't go like 'hey this method is really working out for me and now I wil proceed with making music'. I'm more likely to keep questioning myself about the basics and looking for new methods WHILE I'm writing, creating. I just need to draw a line I guess haha.

Dust le Villain · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:37 pm **Posts:** 430

ellaguru wrote:

Dust le Villain wrote:

Also, I really wish I could sing.

i do it all the time, i have project in wich i sing, but since some years i do beats instead of tracks, and now i like to move on to origins.
@Kalaba
i remeber your Oil Tape,
my advice is to finalize some of your ideas (not all, that is difficult, but if you succeded, chapeau!) or at least focalize on some of them. Variety is not an enemy, but it could be if many directions tend to make loose the principal ones (also the contrary is true, anyway, it Always depend on us)

ah nice bro. Where i can hear your singing?

last_try · **Joined:** Mon Dec 07, 2015 2:21 am **Posts:** 24

The way I look at it is: we're all on a sampling forum so we are all, to one degree or another, collage artists. And collage is all about taking material from all kinds of different places and putting it together to create something new. It's hard to be deliberate when you're collaging. You can have a particular concept or vibe in mind but the process is heavily dependent on the materials at hand.

So be a collage artist and put out hip-hop and future garage and dark ambient. Put out low key downtempo stuff and put out bangers. Put out whatever feels right at the time.

Keeping things in separate folders is a good idea. Instead of feeling like you need to sit down and work on an album with a consistent theme, just make what you wanna make on a given day and months later go through and sift through things. I'm sure you'll find enough with common themes and a common aesthetic to put stuff out.

I don't like when an artist's output is all one thing. I can respect a purist but I'm much more interested when someone has a distinct voice that crosses genres. One of my favorite artists is Destroyer. The difference between his releases is always surprising. Your Blues was covered in MIDI orchestral arrangements, Destroyer's Rubies was a lush guitar-rock record, Kaputt was this loungey low-key synth album. And in between Rubies and Kaputt he put out EPs and singles of droney ambient stuff (Bay of Pigs EP) and spoken word pieces (Archer on the Beach).

Another favorite of mine is Kevin Martin who has produced everything from improv noise with GOD to industrial hip-hop with Techno Animal, to aggressive dancehall and dub as The Bug to more chilled out dub in King Midas Sound.

Be diverse. It's more intersting.

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