Are you alone?

[thecontrolcentre]

maybe in summer i will
its a bit nippy out at 3 n 4 am this time of year.
to be honest im surprised theyre up as well.

Maybe it's the monitoring that's off? I suggest you drill a few holes in the wall to improve, then you could slide a microphone in as well to get recording from both sides.

... or point your speakers at the neighbours wall and turn it up so they can hear you properly.

[robogone]

maybe in summer i will
its a bit nippy out at 3 n 4 am this time of year.
to be honest im surprised theyre up as well.

Maybe they got up because they're such big fans of your music?

[fluffy_little_something]

I have found that women tend to be much more tolerant in terms of music, most will listen to a much wider variety of music then most men do.

Obviously you don't know Tricky Loops, I'm listening to everything. Whether I like it, is another question...

(But I hate over 30s parties, they always make me look so old - I cannot stand listening the whole night to the chart hits from the 70ies and 80ies! )

It was clear that a couple of users would pop up and say that is not so. But my observation is just what I had written...

Chart music has seldom been good music, not in the 80's, and even less so today. I prefer being forced to listen to Abba rather than Justin Bieber Both amounts to torture, though...

[fluffy_little_something]

The sound of trumpet is hard to bear, I like select Herb Alpert, Freddie Hubbard, and Miles Davis tunes, but I can't take them any time. The Mexican stuff sounds horrible to me.

[T-CM11]

My significant other (we don't do the husband/wife/rugrats thing) supports me in everything I do, including making music. And the other way around.

[thecontrolcentre]

My girlfriends over the years have always been very supportive of my musical outpourings. In fact being a musician is what they liked about me. Most of my friends are musicians too, so there are lots of possibilities for collaboration and jamming, but tbh, after 25 years or so in bands, I'm enjoying working alone these days.

[Tricky-Loops]

...not if you mute your trumpet (I LOVE these muted Mexican trumpets in Ranchera/Norteño! )

I used to work at a commercial studio where we recorded a lot of stuff like that. It was really weird because almost all of the records we made for those bands were funded by drug cartels.

I later came to find out that it was one of the ways they would launder money. They would sell drugs in California and pay us cash to produce an album or even just a few songs. Then they would take the CDs down to Mexico and sell the music for a profit. I guess it was less risky than carrying cash across the border.

I'm not saying all of that kind of music is for the benefit of drug smugglers. I know most of it is a combination of traditional music and European music styles that were brought over in the 1800's (including Polka ). That said, there is even a modern sub-genre called Narco-corrido which seems like folk-tales of narco gangs and drug smugglers.

Which one? El Chapo de Sinaloa? I love this kind of plastic sounding trumpets! (But I listen to it without drugs )

[thecontrolcentre]

maybe in summer i will
its a bit nippy out at 3 n 4 am this time of year.
to be honest im surprised theyre up as well.

Maybe they got up because they're such big fans of your music?

I wish Vurt lived next-door to me

[tanabarbier]

Hi!
Not alone here, my wife loves music too (we have a band, electro/expe/noisy something: http://soundcloud.com/mister-eddy and she has her own compositions also: http://soundcloud.com/sassy-hertz
I love to be able to share that with her, and I support her in her other passions as she supports me in mine.
The dog is the one being less supportive, she does not seem to like noise.

And musica norteña is my B side, I listen to a radio station called "la Z" in the car, pura música norteña, I am fascinated by the mix of tuba, trumpets, hysteria, cheap romantic lyrics, it is FUN!



Have a good day!

[justin3am]

Which one? El Chapo de Sinaloa? I love this kind of plastic sounding trumpets! (But I listen to it without drugs )

I don't remember if we worked with any well known acts. I did learn to appreciate those styles of music a lot more during that time. People I knew at the time (gringos ) considered all Mexican music as 'Mariachi music' in a dismissive way. As I've gotten older I've found that even when I'm not into a certain style of music, I'm better able to appreciate it once I've had a conversation with someone who works in that style.

There is a lot of music that I wouldn't normally be exposed to (because of where I live, my cultural background, etc.), which I have learned to like just from working in the music industry. As a result, I don't find myself griping about music I don't like, as much as finding things to like about music I wouldn't normally listen to.

Sorry for the derail, but I guess it's related to working with others.

[highkoo]

Im alone, in my world, and I have loved that for a long time.
I wouldnt know how to incorporate someone elses.. stuff into my weird world...

But, I visit other peoples nearby worlds sometimes, and make sounds with them.
That is very fun, but a different feel, with a different outcome.
When I am alone there are no 'rules', no 'destination'... Its all just on my whim.
But when someone else is involved I feel some kind of "responsibility" to have it make some kind of sense.

If any of you are 'alone' musically, and hating it, just hit someone up for a casual collab.
Not that it is always all peaches and cream.. But I have enjoyed every collab Ive ever participated in, and felt like I got something out of it.

[D.H. Miltz]

That said, there is even a modern sub-genre called Narco-corrido which seems like folk-tales of narco gangs and drug smugglers.

There's a documentary about that that's worth a look: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2504022/

[justin3am]

That said, there is even a modern sub-genre called Narco-corrido which seems like folk-tales of narco gangs and drug smugglers.

There's a documentary about that that's worth a look: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2504022/

Thanks! I'll check it out.

[hibidy]

I used to work at a commercial studio where we recorded a lot of stuff like that. It was really weird because almost all of the records we made for those bands were funded by drug cartels.

I later came to find out that it was one of the ways they would launder money. They would sell drugs in California and pay us cash to produce an album or even just a few songs. Then they would take the CDs down to Mexico and sell the music for a profit. I guess it was less risky than carrying cash across the border.

I'm not saying all of that kind of music is for the benefit of drug smugglers. I know most of it is a combination of traditional music and European music styles that were brought over in the 1800's (including Polka ). That said, there is even a modern sub-genre called Narco-corrido which seems like folk-tales of narco gangs and drug smugglers.

I can't tell if I'm depressed or need a gram!

[foosnark]

I would really have a problem with a gf/wife that liked different music than I do. Which is also why age difference is usually a problem, young people just don't listen to the music I grew up with.

My wife and I have some overlapping and some non-overlapping tastes. She's introduced me to some good music. She's 6 years younger than I am so her pop preferences are a little different, and the bands we are now embarrassed to admit we were into in our youth are different. Usually if I avoid the harder and weirder stuff she doesn't mind my musical choices, and I don't mind most of hers if it's not the same album 900 times in a row.