insparations?

[Mr_Happy]

some fairly simular questions:

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

2) when are you at your most creative?

3) what are your influences?

 

1 its hard to say where i get my ideas from, its definatly when i'm relaxed. some thing will happen (a noice of a door shutting or something someone says, etc) and it will trigger a thought "maybe if i wrote a tune that went like x"

 

2 i find i'm at my most creative when i'm walking around (usually either home from or to work) with my discman on.

 

3 i'm not really sure i have any influences any more. i used to be influenced alot by 'chris lieberator', karim and glazby in my mixing style, but now i have my own style and just do what comes natrually. if i did have an influence, it might be phil benson as his given me some fantastic advice thats really pulled my mixing along 10fold

[DJ Elemental]

Good questions matey

 

1 again its hard to define my ideas down to a single source as i find there are often more than one thing which set the 'mood' in which i will write in. I find that all my emotions and feelings are expressed 110% into my music - so the genre compleatly depends on the mood im in - i find it hard to sit down and say right, im going to make a trance track today - cause i might not been in the right mood.

 

2 im creative pretty much all the time - theres been very few occasions where i've gone in the studio and been able to write anything.

 

3 recently Lab4 - Yoji Biomehanika have been my main influence but thats because im trying to write a specific type of music, else like my happy i have my own style and my own way of playing so i tend to just go with the flow

[BenRW]

i haven't started producning yet but have plans to in the very near future. However for past year i have been noting down ideas.

 

These have mainly been from:

 

walking back from uni with MP3 player on

walking back from uni on my own

trying to sleep at night but cant (i now keep a notepad by my bed

just in case)

Listening to a tune randomly and getting inspiration (either to remix it in certain style or to steal an idea.

 

Half the time i lose my ideas as i fail to write them down b4 i forget them. Have about 20 original ideas for track names and about 15 ideas for tracks/vocals for tracks.

 

Haven't written down ne in ages tho

[Phil B]

yppaH_rM said:

if i did have an influence, it might be phil benson as his given me some fantastic advice thats really pulled my mixing along 10fold

 

I'm glad that I've helped you out, knowledge is there to be shared

 

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

 

Ideas for what? Mixing? Style? Tricks? Its a very open question

 

2) when are you at your most creative?

 

Usually when I'm happy and content with myself, which means I'm nice and relaxed and can therefore 'feel the vibe' I'm creating whilst mixing.

 

3) what are your influences?

 

When I'm playing out it's definitely the crowd and its vibe. At home it's my moods mainly, I've reached the point where I definitely have my style although I don't think I've played to my full potential in quite a while. DJing is an expression of how I feel, not just something I do.

 

[tommy]

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

 

[censored] about with stuff and making noises that sound good to me.

 

2) when are you at your most creative?

 

When I'm bolloxed.

 

3) what are your influences?

 

DJs/producers that I have heard recently and thought '[censored] !'.

Also mates production work. Its always an inspiration when you can actually see someone making really good music.

[LiquidEyes]

yppaH_rM said:

some fairly simular questions:

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

2) when are you at your most creative?

3) what are your influences?

1. I nick them all! Er no, I just get ideas from the tunes I buy (across all genres), & mucking around with my synth, and dropping samples onto Fruityloops.

2. After going clubbing! There's nothing like a night of hearing new music, to fill me with ideas for tuneage!

3. Every [good] record I've ever heard or bought! Usually tunes I've heard clubbing, but have no idea what they are.

[Mr_Happy]

Phil_B said:

 

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

 

Ideas for what? Mixing? Style? Tricks? Its a very open question

 

 

all three. a creative idea is a creative idea no matter what the technical field (imo)

[Ian Cashman]

1- inspiration normally comes from a cool synth sound.

 

2- i work well when i am totally alone in my house.. i find i cant get on with people listening (even if im kinda forcing them to listen cos of volume) i only like people hearing what im happy with..

 

3- influences? [censored] knows.. its what i listen to i suppose..no-one springs to mind as a definate influence that i hear in my own stuff.. im still finding myself, cos ive had a real stale year production-wise cos of a computer thats not been right for months now.. ive not been able to get stuck into it

[LiquidEyes]

Mod1 said:

2- i work well when i am totally alone in my house.. i find i cant get on with people listening (even if im kinda forcing them to listen cos of volume) i only like people hearing what im happy with..

Ditto

 

Usually it's headphones for me.

[DJam]

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

I get them from what I see and what I hear. When I spin and make sets, I try to draw upon the scene that I hear that specific sound. When I do house, I try to sound like the South Side Black clubs. When I do trance, I try to sound like my fave DJs playing at Vision. You get the idea.

 

2) when are you at your most creative?

Late at night. Something will hit me at 10 PM and I'll be at it til 3 or 4 AM. It gets harder when you have a job and have to "put it on hold" til a more normal time.

 

3) what are your influences?

Everyone I hear. A lot of times I will go to the club and hear a guest DJ...and I will come home with ideas on how to do things differently. Some of the bigger influences in my life have been Derrick May, Charles Feelgood, Derrick Carter, Tiesto, and Ferry Corsten. I also gained a LOT of inspiration from Orbital. I wear headlights like theirs as a tribue to them.

 

 

 

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[Chris Hutchinson]

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

 

No idea.... when I hear something good, I will look for more of it usually

 

 

2) when are you at your most creative?

 

When im bored strangely enough....

 

 

3) what are your influences?

 

every dj I have ever seen that I have been impressed by!

[Ian Cashman]

Mod1 said:

1- inspiration normally comes from a cool synth sound.

 

2- i work well when i am totally alone in my house.. i find i cant get on with people listening (even if im kinda forcing them to listen cos of volume) i only like people hearing what im happy with..

 

3- influences? [censored] knows.. its what i listen to i suppose..no-one springs to mind as a definate influence that i hear in my own stuff.. im still finding myself, cos ive had a real stale year production-wise cos of a computer thats not been right for months now.. ive not been able to get stuck into it

 

that was for music making if you didnt guess....lol.

 

for dj'ing>>

i only ever touch my decks when ive just bought some new tunes.. a mix cd will normally follow..

im rarely on my decks...lol

[Daredevil Tony]

1) where do you pull your ideas from?

CTW

 

 

2) when are you at your most creative?

Down the pub!

 

 

3) what are your influences?

Creamy C