My Instrumental Electronic Music

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Here is my weird, strange, instrumental electronic music. For anyone interested:

http://www.soundcloud.com/clockwork_honeybadger

All comments welcome, provided one sticks to the rules of WP, of course

Not bad.

I've listened to a bit of IDM and that.

Which musicians are your main inspirations?

I've noticed a lot of IDM doesn't have the typical pop structure of dance music but instead is more like a stream of interconnected ideas and sounds.

Your song Sanguine Pangolin is a really good example of what I'm talking about and you do an alright job with that song of having connected ideas and transitions between sounds, especially after 2:55.

It flows pretty well.

It's repetitive but not repetitive enough that one gets tired of it. This is good. A lot of electronic is repetitive but has small and subtle differences and changes here and there to keep things interesting.

Also, I like the complexity of your percussion in some of the other stuff.

What program are you using at the moment?

Anyway, this is something I've been working on at the moment.

Not an original song, but a cover/remake of one of my favorite songs - Rivalry Aside by Daniel Skyver and Lee Osbourne. It's a nice Uplifting Trance song.

It's unfinished, and I'm only a beginner but here's the link:

And this is the original song, starting at the point mine does:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLOzMFaW924&t=3m50s

Pretty good tunes you've got there. They give me a really Japan-esque vibe for some reason.

Out of curiosity, how long have you been making these?

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Orbital, Paul Hartnoll, B12, Kraftwerk, Underworld, Fabio Paras, John Tejada, Leftfield, Aphex Twin, Eat Static, Porcupine Tree, Riverside, Steven Wilson & Lunatic Soul.



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Thank you.

As for simple but awesome--at least to me--electronic songs... here's what to me is a perfect example of a very simple electronic song that I love:





Thanks.

I feel the same way about the above song, Monday by Orbital.



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Yeah I love it.



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Ejay's Techno 5.

They don't sell it anymore, as far as I know.



Oh cool. I'll bookmark these and give them a listen later. About to play some Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

Thank you!



Awesome! My favorite rock band ever, Porcupine Tree, features the former keyboardist from Japan: Richard Barbieri

I adore Porcupine Tree. Second to Orbital they're the music artist I have listened to the most... and Richard Barbieri not only played the keyboards for them (Porcupine Tree have disbanded now)... but he also did some of the song writing. Steven Wilson was always the main writer but I presume Barbieri would have written a lot of the keyboard parts, naturally.

I love the atmospheric keyboards he plays so maybe it subconsciously made its way into my music



I'm 28 now. I started arranging pre-made loops I hadn't made myself at age 15. I started making all my own sounds and synths and rhythms and everything all by myself and arranging it all at age 17. I then didn't make any more music until I was about 21 or something. Then I made music for a few months and started again a little when I was 26... then I took a break until about when I was, I'd say, 27 and a half... Then I took a break for another half a year and at 28 I returned to music again

So I've been doing it for years but I've took more breaks than I've made music.

At times I've suffered depression in the past and felt very discouraged and had writers block. I call it editors block, for me, though because I got stuck in editing my songs and never finishing them.

I don't have that problem anymore. I edit and write new songs at the same time. All my new songs are made out of the parts of the previous song. If I ever lost the previous song I'd start over once with a quick song and then make the next song from that and the next song from that and so on. The songs end up so edited that they change almost entirely in BPM, rhythm, arrangement, recorded notes, synths, effects, all the loops, everything... but they all start from the finished previous song.

Prior to 02WithHeld Grave there was 01HalcyonBabylon and the original song they've all been made from: 0 Space Eyes Atmos... which clocks in at over 14 minutes.

But I don't consider those previous two songs anywhere near as good so I don't have them uploaded anymore. 'Sides I have a limited amount I can upload on my Soundcloud because I don't have the premium version and can't afford to yet... so imma make sure I get my best stuff up there.

Also sometimes, a music collection is only as good as its weakest song.


Anyone have a favorite or least favorite of these?

Only if you've heard them all, obviously, otherwise can't really be judged

I ramble a lot. Lolz.

Right I got sidetracked but I'm off to play some Baldur's Gate now.

Hi guys.

I made a lot of new music recently. I also am using FL Studio now instead of the cheap $25 music program I had before.

It's the same link:

https://soundcloud.com/clockwork_honeybadger

Nice tunes. I agree with the guy who said it sounded japanese, that's vibe I'm getting aswell.

What synths do you like using?

GMS and Transistor