You could say that about any kind of music - orchestral, jazz, rock, pop, it's all ubiquitous and 99% of it is all complete krap. So what? That doesn't mean yours has to be the same.Much as I love electronic music, and making it, electronic music has a certain quality that can make it sour very quickly. That's because it's everywhere, predominantly in forms that, for me, are less appealing or kinda boring. I'm not anti dance/techno/house etc by any means (though not really my cup of tea), the ubiquity of such music and it's inherent simplicity lends itself to stagnancy and a lack of ideas.
It sounds to me like it's the concepts that lack punch. Your concepts should be things that get you fired up, not just name-out-of-a-hat stuff. Start writing about those kinds of things and see how it improves your music.I like to make music that has a concept. Even if it's something dopey or silly like Lord of the Rings or something. A random selection of songs is fine, and I like plenty of such albums. But as a writer that's what I want to make.
Listening to some of your stuff on BC, I see you don't write about your concepts at all, your music is all instrumental. One thing you might want to try is spending more than a day producing a piece. It takes me anywhere from three to six months to get a song to a point where I am happy enough with it. Of course, I usually have several on the go at once but, even with covers, it takes a lot of time, a lot of repeat listens, to get them right. You seem to be pumping stuff out every week. And maybe try and do something a little less derivative. Nightmare Club has a nice feel to it and doesn't sound quite so much like a B Side that escaped from the 70s.
Seriously? You can't find inspiration from within yourself without chemical assistance? How very f**king sad.Drink, smoke weed, dance around a satanic pentagram.....do whatever it takes to let loose. Write in this state and keep.going until something grabs you.
Statistics: Posted by BONES — Sat Jan 25, 2025 6:11 am