Two pieces of advice for new EDM producers:
1. That section you're looping should probably be about half as long as you first want it to be.
2. Make big changes. Trust your listeners to follow you to new and different places.
@unfamiliartunes@Virtual_Riot There are a few artists (especially in K-pop) that make music I really enjoy(ed) before I learned about their anti-Blackness. I take it as an opportunity to take their good ideas and deliver them in a thoughtful way.
@unfamiliartunes@Virtual_Riot I also think it’s a great opportunity to take inspiration and make something just as good or better for people that *should* have that excellent experience without supporting somebody who doesn’t deserve the support
@SekaiTunes@Virtual_Riot Honestly a good example of this is that I hadn’t heard of this person before this tweet. All publicity is at least somewhat good publicity when it comes to music. You have to be careful who you amplify.
If you're putting together an electronic music performance, you need to decide how much you care about being *seen* as talented. It's not necessarily important. A lot of audiences just want spectacle, and don't care if what you're doing is challenging or in-real-time.
The real challenge of electronic music performance is showing people what you're doing, not just doing it.
Audiences often don't know the difference between pretending to turn a knob and generating an entire song from scratch.
no disrespect to charlie but it’s amazing how people creating mind-bogglingly complex things with electronic music are still written off as unskilled while this gets a screaming crowd reaction
@officialslayde I think folks tend to underestimate the effect that radio silence has on survivors of SA/SV and the issues that marginalized folks face more broadly. It’s really important that people feel heard and supported when they speak up.