Been doing this for over four years now. I have almost 8K plays and over 300 downloads on my Soundcloud (largely thanks to the Misc!), and threw my first house party DJ'ed by me a few weekends ago. It went awesome and I decided I want to get serious and do this stuff as much as I can now.
My DJ Moniker is RoboDrop.
Yes I am 29 and have a job.
Ask away!
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02-18-2015, 04:05 PM #1
Ask a guy who is trying to become an electronic music producer and DJ anything!
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02-18-2015, 04:07 PM #2
good luck brah.
btw i love all music, i like electronic music to, was hoping to make some of my own though, maybe not with electronic though, i like mine to be a bit more personal.
btw if you don't mind me saying, do you find *******s who've recently gone onto the electronic music hype annoying?
what programmes do you use?
who's your favourite dj?
is making electronic music hard?
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02-18-2015, 04:11 PM #3
Thanks man!
I think anyone that is in the scene contributing something is doing something great, doesn't matter to me if it's a more underground genre or pop genre, I can listen to whatever I want. The same guys who are making "pop" EDM now are the same ones who brought it to mainstream levels in the late 2000's and started the EDM explosion, so it's hard to hate.
I use Ableton, and it's not hard to get started but very hard to make something sound good. I don't find mixing/dj'ing nearly as hard as producing.
Favorite DJ is Laidback Luke, favorite producer is Deadmau5
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02-18-2015, 04:19 PM #7
How does it feel to be trying to break through in a market that is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY saturated?
This is what de-motivates me, and I end up producing just for fun. Which in its own way is a better way to go about it.
One of my friends is about to get signed to OWSLA and I know a lot about the industry.
will check out your soundcloud.Last edited by AirWar; 02-18-2015 at 04:34 PM.
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02-18-2015, 04:23 PM #9
The feelings are all good, I'm very established into my career and only started doing this as a side project for fun. It's still just a fun project for me, but I am willing to dream crazy and see what happens. If nothing happens then it will just continue being a fun hobby for me and my friends.
Like any entrepreneurial venture, the core motivation should be a passion to change the world for the better and make people happy with your thing, or your service. If that's your only motivation then there is nothing that could possibly disappoint you.
Congrats to your friend, that is quite the accomplishment. It's easy to put a lot of pressure on yourself with this stuff but just need to remember why you started doing it in the first place and what made you continue wanting to do it. Guarantee it's not just the thought of a potential big payday down the road.
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02-18-2015, 04:35 PM #14
Nice will have to check out Serum too.
Similar to Flume (apart from him being insanely talented lol) I have my own weird style so I guess it'd be labelled electronica or experimental.
My plan is to release nothing until I think I've created a winner track, so my debut song on YouTube will be top notch and will submit it to lots of competitions for hopeful exposure.Your friendly neighbourhood Miscer
If you need help just call me out, everybody gets one
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02-18-2015, 04:45 PM #15
tip for anyone looking to get into this industry - do not promote your music and try to make something out of nothing. if your music is mediocre you will fail. it was hard enough to be successful a few years ago, now there's literally millions of kids thinking they'll be the next skrillex if they torrent a DAW and start making crappy electronic music. you have to be ****ING talented and dedicated to making absolutely elite tier music.
not trying to **** on anybodies parade but there are far too many kids doing this for the wrong reasons these days and they end up polluting all social media and other music outlets with music that sucks because all they care about is being a famous DJ.
if your music is really good then you MIGHT have a chance at turning this into a career, that's if your music is good. do not promote anything until you are 100% confident that your music is legit. and I don't mind being satisfied, I mean you're literally ****ting your pants because of how awesome the song you made is. if you don't feel that excited about it, there's a 99.9% chance it sucks
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02-19-2015, 04:31 AM #24
^^Can't go wrong with the ableton push, produced a (albeit rudimentary) 4 minute track in 20 minutes when demo'ing one at a local store.
OP, I see where you are coming from with wanting to hold back on releasing anything until you have a winner, but, I do have a suggestion: finish something that you're fairly happy with, but wouldn't want to submit to a record label and throw that up as a 'self release' or even just on YouTube. My reasoning behind this, is you want to have something up that can begin to generate a following but at the same time not be your best work. That way, once you have a line of communication open with the A&R team at a label, you can blow them away with your best stuff.
No label wants to release material that is already out there, as it generates less cash flow for themselves.
Another tip: try and land yourself a residency at one of your local clubs. I'm a resident at the biggest club in my area, it only has a capacity of 600 but it's a way to get your name out there. It actually feels good when people approach you all night, introduce themselves to you and refer to you as your DJ name rather than your own name. It also gives you the opportunity to play your own music to a decent crowd on a regular basis, along with your new found following coming in to see you each week, in turn paying the cover charge and buying drinks which makes the management happy.
Edit: remember though, playing a club is not like playing a party. If you have an hour long set it's fine to go hard, but, if you're playing for a few hours or an entire night, you have to modulate the energy that you're putting out through the music in order to give people a breather and let them buy drinks. You'll find that if you follow that, when you want everyone on the dance floor going hard once you bring up the energy then they actually will, instead of all being tired and just wanting to chill.
Another thing: once you start to invest so much time in to organising and planning, along with booking shows + parties etc then it's time to get yourself a manager. It's at that point, when you can lose your passion for it and it starts to feel more like a job. It should never feel that way, as you lose touch with your creative influences and end up making pop radio music like an EDM Trend MachinePropertyBrah
| 1. Trust yourself | 2. Break some rules | 3. Don't be afraid to fail | 4. Ignore the naysayers | 5. Work like hell | 6. Give something back |
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