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I read somewhere that in rock you could be like Springsteen (I'm one of you, but I'm onstage) or you could be like Bowie (I don't care I'm completely different from you and you think I'm a weirdo... You finally realise you love me)
With all due respect to The Boss, I've always been more attracted to that second type. A true inspiration for me and countless others.
His legacy goes way beyond his music. My deepest respect.
Go to Profile/Your Song, then submit, so you can edit, delete your track and/or reupload.
These days it seems someone could fart and feel the need to classify it as a new genre with 5 layers of sub-genres. Which makes sense given the variety of tones one can achieve, not to mention articulation. But I digress.
I guess we all are trying to give some orientation about what to expect, given that what I've heard in this community is miles ahead (both in quality and "openmindedness") from a lot of more hyped commercial stuff (commercial as in "sold for profit", not as in "you sell millions and I'm obscure so I'm better that thou").
Anyway, I could not agree more with you about how pointless those endless discussions are (you know, "that vaporwave post-bass EDM ukelele influenced seapunk goth polka scene is not what it used to be" attitude)
I would love to call my particular kind of music "synth hop" without giving much seriousness to the label: downtempo beats more in line with nineties hip hop (that classic "boom bam") along with more ambient-ish/electronic melodies. Abstract/instrumental hip hop influenced music, much influenced by Boards of Canada, DJ Krush, Mux Mool, Dabrye, Om Unit...
Heavyly influenced by the chiptune and demo-music scene. Also some early 80's electro (for me that EDM electrohouse "throw your hands in the air" thing is... well, not worth the "electro" name. Not to offend anyone).
Anyway, I'm really interested in a lot of other genres, but that is what comes to me naturally. I'd love to come up magically with something like "Imitation of life" by R.E.M., for example, but I'm not much of a skilled pop composer.
And what artist is your insp/motivation?
From the thirty minutes or so I've been lurking around these threads, I've heard mostly stuff in the dance/edm vein. This is my first time on wb so i'm curious as to what the most prevalent genre around here is :-)
I'd say most people around the last WeeklyBeats are more experimental that "EDM", which for a lot of people means just uptempo euphoric house/brostep from 2010-12 onwards and Steve Aoki throwing cakes at the audience... try maybe "IDM" and you'll be closer to it, IMHO 
personally i like making R&B/hip-hop sounding stuff. and the main inspiration for the sound i go for is partynextdoor.
I'll check them now since I don't know them (I'm uncool, I guess haha ). Curious about what it's your take on the genre. For me, interesting r'n'b right now is The Weeknd, JMSN, The Internet or How To Dress Well.
Chuck? Hardcore. Interested to see stuff you have done/will do with that.
Here you can hear some short sketch composed and generated completely in Chuck
[soundcloud]221733014[/soundcloud]
I rounded out the year with a self-released EP that I'm very happy with (you can check it out here via bandcamp.)
Your "ANNO EP" is quite good. Mellow yet somewhat disturbing... Currently checking the rest of your stuff
Hello everybody!
I just wanted to know whom of you are in the same continent as me (currently the only Spaniard, I'm afraid).
I get a little envious to see several people from US/CANADA, Australia... Will love to meet you all guys, but it's difficult.
I guess it could be great to share with fellow musicians from your area, like what you have in Adelaide, AUS.
Peace and happy WB'2016!
I dropped WB12 (and didn't participate in WB14), and it was due to the workload I had with school at the time. I regret that a lot, so my advice would be to suck it up, and release -something-, even if it's just some random junk you put together in an hour. No-one on the site will judge you for it, and if it's a competition, it's one with yourself.
In this case I feel it's true that something not great is better than nothing at all.
I remember hearing some of your stuff back in 2012, so I'll hope you stick around for a while
You said it: this is for you. It's not a competition.
Some thing that helps me is reworking the material I had sitting in my hard drive for a couple of months. Resample/remix yourself with no hesitation.
A lot of times you'll find that "that pointless nanoloop jam" that u thought it sucked gets more comments than "the definitive masterpiece" you were working and reworking for days, so we musicians are not always our best own audience
Prepare to be surprised... And man, glad you're here
laguna wrote:I built a simple modular synth.
Congratulations! Impressive work! Looking forward to hearing it!
Thanks man, although is just the case and the power supply that are DIY. Most modules are still commercial.. But I'm working on some stuff
laguna wrote:finally learn some Max For Live
You and me both! Now that I have access to it...I'd like to do more.
laguna wrote:use my recently learnt Chuck skills
Badass! Looking forward to hearing it. During the last year, I've gotten a bit into Tidal, so that may make an appearance this year.
laguna wrote:Maybe more sharing between us (collabs, samples, source code...)
I'd be interested!
You could count on it, Maurice. Hope we share code and algorithms... Tidal sounds pretty interesting for live coding, by the way...
My WB 2k12 was done entirely on the OP-1. It featured heavily in 2k14 too but I added some PD stuff and modular. This year (and last), I am now a "registered composer" at Elektronmusikstudio in Stockholm so I'll be using the Serge and Buchla modulars there from time to time. But there are countless other experiments to be carried out too...most likely many will be featuring the device I have invented (with friends) in my day job...automat.
I remember all those "tape" effects on your OP-1's tracks. Very eager to hear what you get on those modulars.
Impressive work, the Automat. Will it be open source hardware or a public API instead?
Klystrack is free AND open source (an AHX style tracker)
Sunvox is free for all desktop platforms (a buzz style tracker)
I forgot about SunVox, which is also available (paid app) on iOS (and Android, I think)...
Did u tried it on a PDA, back in the day?
I spent 2015 polishing some WB'14 mixes (my Soundcloud lives still in 2014!), rearranging my studio, developing my skills in Chuck musical programming language and learning some Reaktor also.
I built myself a small modular setup and made my first steps in hardware design (still choosing an oscilloscope to buy...). Improved my workflow and got back to some old-school hardware samplers, which I used to create some soundbanks for 2016.
I've got some tracks ready for an EP, my first Bandcamp release: some ambient/drone/berlin-school stuff a little bit far from my usual Boom Bap/Hiphop-esque stuff. Got back to Blender and Processing so I can match the artwork you guys put in your releases.
And, also very important, I kept track of some of my favourite WeeklyBeaters
... something i also want to do in 2016 is maybe hopefully listen and respond to more of my peers submissions :X ...
I think that's the key. When I did my first WB back in 2012 I kept it all to myself, with almost no feedback and hardly ever listening to other people's music. When I got back in 2014 I started feeling this more like a community and less like "homework". Truth is I produced some music in 2015, but missed all the great musicians that were a true inspiration throught 2014.
As a personal goal: I want to improve my Reaktor skills, finally learn some Max For Live, use my recently learnt Chuck skills and finally get to use Maschine and Arturia SparkLE.
I've collected some new gear and got rid of some other hardware. I built a simple modular synth. Now I want to put all my software to good use so I could feel I'm getting the most of my current setup.
I think I'll be very interesting to hear other people's work this year. Maybe more sharing between us (collabs, samples, source code...)
Thanks you for your nice work. I'll give it a go with some synth sounds
These are my 2 cents, Trash80:
- Milkytracker, a contemporary Fast Tracker II clone available for all major platforms (win,mac,linux... and Android!). It supports the old Amiga MOD format, Impulse Tracker's IT and XM. It's a little bit limited compared to modern things like Renoise (which is excellent and quite affordable, but propietary).
- LittleGPTracker: another tracker with an interface almost identical to LSDJ, but handles WAV samples and decent polyphony. Along with all desktop systems, it runs in the PSP, the GP32, the Dingoo and some other handhelds.
- NitroTracker, a tracker for the Nintendo DS, with no effects, but extremely portable. I use it for sketching some songs on the go
That's what it comes to trackers.
P.S.: The Ardour open source DAW is worth checking, also, but I'm quite unexperienced on it. I've seen some people here using LMMS on Linux (kinda public FLStudio)
Will add some as soon as they come to mind
Cheers!
laguna wrote:Hello Mr Phil and Trash80. BIGTHANKYOU for bringing back the best site in the world!!!
A technical question: do you know if the previous WB (12/14) are archived (google/archive.org) anywhere?
Thanks again!!! I'm really looking forward to this...
I had nothing to do with it!
I found the solution under "music/filter/2014"... thanks anyway. Looking forward to hear somoe of your Moogy stuff, Phil
