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'Music Critic' Isn't a Real Job

By DonutShoes on March 24, 2024 8:11 am

This week I made a 160bpm Jungle? IDM? Something? I bought the new Amigo sampler
( https://www.potenzadsp.com/amigo/ ) and wanted to test it out, so I threw a break in there, and then I generated some midi to trigger it using ORCA.

Title is based on a conversation I had with my kid today. Thinking critically about music is both cool and good, and it's an important part about furthering music as an artform. Sharing critical thoughts and opinions about music is also good, but its usefulness doesn't extend beyond a forum of your peers, as a conversation and a sharing and melding of ideas. When a critic moves away from that forum and delivers their ideas as an individual to an audience, said audience will start to regard the critic as an authority, from whom their opinions are adopted.

Here's an activity that I heartily recommend: Invite some friends over, get a case of beer (or, if you're sober, an interesting soda or some mocktails), make a party dish of some kind (my go-to is bean dip), and then the activity of the evening is everyone round-robins their most niche favorite bands/songs all night. (Spotify Jam lets you and your friends make a playlist together) I guarantee you'll have some excellent conversations.

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well if being a music critic was a job id make million's off of my own song's... too bad it isn't

i love the build up in this and how you got it rolling

I've always thought it a little odd that someone would present themselves as an authority on one of the most subjective things there is.  That's, like, your opinion, man.  I find critics useful only insofar as how much they share my taste and even then, there's never a perfect match.  Cool track though.  Has a great bouncy energy to it.

ooh fun to hear you do something like this, loving the chops and ratchets!

Nullsleep wrote:

ooh fun to hear you do something like this, loving the chops and ratchets!

Thanks! I 100% bounced around listening to some of your stuff for inspo [eyes emoji]


Cosmic Cairns wrote:

I've always thought it a little odd that someone would present themselves as an authority on one of the most subjective things there is.  That's, like, your opinion, man.  I find critics useful only insofar as how much they share my taste and even then, there's never a perfect match.  Cool track though.  Has a great bouncy energy to it.

There's a world in which I believe that the usefulness of critics goes as far as introducing you to music you otherwise would never discover, but maybe make that your job instead of being an arbiter of taste? Also thanks for listening heart


b bro wrote:

well if being a music critic was a job id make million's off of my own song's... too bad it isn't

THIS IS SO REAL T_T

If it was a real job I would be very bad at it, because I am not critical when it comes to tracks that sound this rad, at all.  The breaks & BBASSSS™ sound fantastic, and Amigo looks cool (the description makes it sound like a next-gen Akaizer).  But what on earth did you use to make that GodFistToEarDrum bassline?

ineff wrote:

If it was a real job I would be very bad at it, because I am not critical when it comes to tracks that sound this rad, at all.  The breaks & BBASSSS™ sound fantastic, and Amigo looks cool (the description makes it sound like a next-gen Akaizer).  But what on earth did you use to make that GodFistToEarDrum bassline?

I used an 808 sample from this sample pack, with some distortion and filter automation, and then there's just a simple sub bass underneath smile https://splice.com/sounds/packs/discipl … -1/samples

The tone on that bass is out of this world... also "everyone round-robins their most niche favorite bands/songs all night"... I LOVE this idea.  I don't know how many friends I have (IRL) that would be into it for more than 10 minutes, but still, new live goal. 

this sounds great! nice track

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