Defining Your sonic Identity and consistency


 

Jungle drum and bass mixes saturating on a casette tape from a rave tape pack. Ambient drone CDs, warehouse raves, video games, underground comix, the internet, hacking, exploring the matrix. The good old days of the 1990s. 

 

These things built me up and my creative systems. My inspirations. These things structured the internal modules to a younger life that remind me of the most profound times. Reality was like a playground. We were hanging out at record shops during the day, At the weekends we travelled miles to warehouse raves in fields. A gang of use, one of which had a bag of records. Hoping he would get a set. You would arrive at a big concrete structure. The noise levels at ridcilous levels. You would be hearing LTJ bukem ambient beats and breaks being chopped into newer and dark Tech-step jungle mutants.

 

You could hear the Akai samplers and the hardware syntheitc waveforms at maximum volume. The sonics and the way things were chopped and arranged sonically against each other. The machines at work and the soul within them. You could hear the influence of the dreamscape raves, but you didn’t know the history yet. When I was 19 I bought a drum and bass mix CD by DJ Hype. It was 2001. I didn’t know the history of the music. I knew more about Dub at that point.

 

But I began to understand the machines, the culture. The techniques_ 

 

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Maintaining Consistency Across Tracks

 

Once I got back from these raves, I began installing music making software and got to work. I never got too obsessed or possessive over what I created. I built tracks and moved onto the next. Your perceptions change according to your ongoing experiences and this perception needs to be monitored.

 

Build up your creative currency and keep it for later access. You find tools that you love. You learn their functions and you begin building things, one after another. You treat each one with its own respect. These are the MVPs, the Demos, the formulas that allow you to escape from reality. The bottled dreams. 

 

I ken that I loved chaotic breakbeats and those technical drum edits _ l kept going banck to those 93-96 Jungle_ drum and bass tracks. You can only fully appreciate them when you hear them getting smashed together in the club or at a rave in the middle of no where on a big sound system. Different sound systems give you clarity of your sound, but you need one set of speakers in the studio, that you can get used to. You have to go out to experience these moments. The energy and the atmosphere. You can only experience life by living it.