<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> I would say, if you wanne make dance, than you should forget about classical harmonic and melodic thinking, like also someone else in your thread points out!Let the machines talk. Why?
What they are good in, is making the arrangement by technological stuf like lots of filtering, release times, all controllers, arpeggiatings, etc.
Without resonance filtering no dance!
That's why the 303 got so famous.
And if you see a sequencer as a machine, than let do the arrangement his work, meaning let the job done by activating and de-activating parts, by special fx, by fade ins and outs, by filtering the audio tracks, etc., instead playing around 1000 (great) notes.
You're a really good musicion, but you know, one could say who cares? (no offend, just logical).
For me I try to imagine what people *need*, on the floor or also at home.
Not me or my playing is really interesting for the consumer of (dance)music, but the musical result, what you hear when time is there.
I never really play keyboard (I can't!), but sometimes I play a bit, make a note part by cutting and replacing some 'played' notes, and repeat x times.
May I direct you to my post of the song I made with dj Phezzler, his name is in the subject.
The only thing I played by myself is the 'guitar' part, but I was recording just some notes to check routings while recording.
Yet the song isn't sounding heavily 'sequenced', the job is done just by the arrangement itself, some big fx, and lots of modulation and filtering (Northpole is s-u-p-e-r!).
For me virtuosity isn't interesting, cause there is *allways* someone who's better, and if you're not one of those gods, there are lots of them...
Personelly I feel this as a moment of freedom, not beeing dependent of my virtuosity or moreover the lack of it.
In one statement: it's the result that counts, not the intentions of the playing musicion.
In dance there is nothing 'behind' the music, there's just a waxy 12#, you can't imagin the picture of a band or even human beings, it's just you and the music in your head.
It's about trance.
In your head.
I just took an arbitrairy trance mix of whoever and posted a small part of it.
Hey, it's goa trance, but it makes very clear what I'm trying to say to you.
After that I will upload a song by myself, what has some trance aspirations. (before someone says why not something of yourself
And the best advice: Why not go to some progressive dance parties, you won't regret (if you didn't allready).
Feed your head
Let There Be Music!
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: hubird on 2002-04-11 21:35 ]</font>
