What makes you so (damn) special?
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
What makes me special? Thick black fur with white stripes down the back, a huge fluffy tail, and world-famous defensive capabilities.
Oh -- musically special, you say? Nothing at all. The music I try to make is derivative of that I heard and enjoyed during my youthful formative years (roughly age eight through the present). Not a lot of innovation there.
Like Anne Elk, I have a theory: there's not enough conceptual space for everyone to be "special." By being unexceptional, I help to make the field less crowded for those of you who are able to show some special-ness.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Meffy
Oh -- musically special, you say? Nothing at all. The music I try to make is derivative of that I heard and enjoyed during my youthful formative years (roughly age eight through the present). Not a lot of innovation there.
Like Anne Elk, I have a theory: there's not enough conceptual space for everyone to be "special." By being unexceptional, I help to make the field less crowded for those of you who are able to show some special-ness.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Meffy
- KVRAF
- 2744 posts since 5 Dec, 2003 from Harlan's World
My uniqueness lies in how everybody "likes" my music. 
My Soundcloud Too many pieces of music finish far too long after the end. - Stravinsky
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- KVRAF
- 2356 posts since 30 Sep, 2003 from Sunny Staffordshire
I think a combination of my broad musical training and open mind make my music unique. I think if combine a wide range of influences into your music then you're onto a good thing. This wont guarentee a uniqe style, but it certainly cant thurt to try!
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- KVRAF
- 2108 posts since 31 Dec, 2002 from London, UK
hmmm.... good question. most music is not really THAT original. Yet most big artist have that something that makes them just a little bit different.
I'm not great a subtleties
so I try to take elements from other styles and incorporate into the genre I'm working on. Like e.g. adding electronic bleeps in RnB, orchestral flavours in breakbeat or synth arps in nu metal. Of course, doing it too much and you end up in the "experimental" category. There's a fine line between being original and being weird.
I'm not great a subtleties
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- KVRist
- 77 posts since 17 Nov, 2004
What makes me unique?... My arse... The noises that emenate should really be sampled and released as the next expansion tank for Sampletank 2.
Chugga's Butt with stretch technology ....
Musically though, the one outstanding feature of my toonz is the complete lack of output for the last coupla years. Which I intend to rectify once my new laptop arrives..
Chugga's Butt with stretch technology ....
Musically though, the one outstanding feature of my toonz is the complete lack of output for the last coupla years. Which I intend to rectify once my new laptop arrives..
Chugga says "Turn it up!!!"
For extra epointz - quote "ChuggaChugga"
For extra epointz - quote "ChuggaChugga"
- Narcissistic Messiah
- 4565 posts since 8 Apr, 2002 from https://soundcloud.com/remcoh
im not special at all .. my music isn`t special either
my goal is to be non special .. i am specialized in being non special .. im a extremely conceited puppy just like all other musicians ... i believe i am actualy succeeding in being non special .. i`m just as special as the special people .. and just as ordinary as the ordinary people
my goal is to be non special .. i am specialized in being non special .. im a extremely conceited puppy just like all other musicians ... i believe i am actualy succeeding in being non special .. i`m just as special as the special people .. and just as ordinary as the ordinary people
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- KVRAF
- 3588 posts since 13 May, 2004 from montreal
I can't say I've reached the sound I'm looking for yet, even after 18 years. Though I'm getting closer. I know when I've done the right thing when I play something back and say 'where the f**k did that come from?'. I suspect that I'm working in a contrary vein to most people here (or possibly anywhere) in that I'm aiming for total impersonality and (probably vainly) objectivity in sound, a total expressionlessness that aims more at the subconscious/unconscious than at the heart or mind. I'm not trying to put myself into the sounds, but to take my 'self' out of the equation to the greatest degree possible.
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- KVRAF
- 3409 posts since 26 Mar, 2002 from london
What makes my sound so unique is that I play the guitar with bananas strapped to my fingers, and I sing with bananas shoved in my nostrils.
Every day takes figuring out all over again how to f#ckin’ live.
