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Owen The Geek

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Proof the techniques work
I’m currently sat at #5 on beatport charts for my genre, up there with some huge names in the scene, thanks to the techniques I learned here 👌 big up OTG!
Proof the techniques work
2 likes • 12d
Congrats George your work inspires me!
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Yooo gang, Been super busy with other projects this year, but finally back onto focusing on music production and it feels great! Got this double single I started before my hiatus but feel like it's in a great place now and want to get it out. Wanted to see what u all think of where they are at. They're far from perfect, but I'm not chasing that. These are old tracks that took a lot of work to get up to my new standard, so I just want them at a level where I'm happy to put them out into the world. https://untitled.stream/library/project/CY9dK04wu78FsXl9ZjyOQ (You can click the dots next to the track and download the WAV files by clicking export)
2 likes • 12d
Guido these are good and I'm gonna come in mean instead of nice. TRACK 1: First kick should have a shorter tail, rings out too far in the intro. Has 2.5 distinct intros and the second one is so much busier (as is the whole track) that it made the first intro misleading. It has a high level of complexity and doesn’t sit with the ideas, long, and then changes suddenly to a different thing, so I don't get time to figure out how to fit my ears and body into that complexity and work with it. Until you let the quieter drums run through the call and response at around 1:55 I can’t dance. Because whenever I start to, you change it on me. Too much use of drop-out. Way too much use of drop out, it interrupts me instead of making me go “oh shiiiii”. I do get that you went so far it's kind of the point of the track.. The fast house section is cool, unexpected but fit in so well I wondered if I failed to notice it was 4/floor before (it wasn't lol). The 3:39 is where it sounded like you ran out of ideas, but 3:49 breathes some life back, but the next at 4:00 is stale again Even though I know the central idea is the two ways the bass calls and responses, 0:37 and 1:00, I kind of don’t know what the central vibe is. It’s like, you have the call and response, and you’re just cycling the different. My favorite parts are 1:49 and 2:36. But neither let me keep dancing! In track 2, the 3:19 section is sick for the first half. I mean really sick. Track 1 is cleaner, hits better more interesting ideas. But track 2 is coherently, never too busy compositionally, and let’s me keep grooving, which makes it the winner. I would enjoy a simplified version of your music where you reduced the micro variations in the sections, and just played between my favorite parts. Because the good is really good and I'll be sure to keep checking out everything you post.
2 likes • 12d
@Owen Palmer it's true. Both directions! Sometimes we reject some cool because it's new and only listened once or twice. Maybe if I listen 4 or 5 times I'll change my mind on some critiques. But those were my first thoughts.
Interesting post...
If ever I needed justification to be aspiring for elite sound and mix design this is it. Balance is one of the pinnacle festivals for Progressive house and breakbeat.
Interesting post...
2 likes • 12d
I like it. It reminds me of how people mistake novelty for innovation, when raising the bar for excellence in an existing lane often takes considerable innovation. Playing an hour of same genre tracks only sucks if you sucked at it. Genre doesn't make something interesting. Juxtaposing genres isn't "keeping it fresh" any more than it's "killing the vibe". Either way 100% it depends. A friend of man played a "last set" after running a party for a few years and moving away. He was in the zone. Somehow, somehow, he was hot slamming in his best house tracks every 3 minutes trying to squeeze them all in at the end. It was so fucking good. Every song was genrewise THE SAME. But we were tuned in and he was turned up, crowd spontaneously cheering each new track because it was PERFECT. Brilliant selections. Meanwhile Floating Points, Skrillex, Todd Terje, Carl Craig... all might hit you with a sudden and complete genre switches at just the right moment, and it's glorious. But doing it because you're anxious your crowd might get bored because of the genre itself is unmedicated childhood ADHD thinking and I speak that truth from experience.
Any more dance music classic wavetable requests?
Recently delivered Donks (Klubbheads) and Sandy Organ (Make The World Go Round). We already had the House Organ (Korg M1) and Elec Organ (CZ-1000), plus the classic Tx81z bass patches (Solid, Lately). I've always wanted to try Android by The Prodigy... What next? What else? 🤔
Any more dance music classic wavetable requests?
2 likes • 20d
There's a non trance super saw from JDS - Nine Ways for the main climax runs (drop sorta). Not too different from sandstorm. Sounds a tiny bit like actually what you're playing right now in the group meeting as I type. Nine Ways slaps and I never get it right.
1 like • 14d
@Owen Palmer thats the one. So simple, right? But it's got magic.
8.5 Days (~200 hours)
...that's how much audio needs to be rendered to create the IMD wavetables 😂 Keep in mind this is done at 192kHz for efficiency I suppose I could split the input signals into Left and Right channels in order to render 2 feeds at once (cutting the time in half), but that's a lot of work to set up and will still take over 4 whole days of constant render time... I don't even have space on my laptop for this. I'm down to my last 320GB 🫠 (this operation requires around 1.2TB) These hurdles make me want it more 😍
8.5 Days (~200 hours)
2 likes • 27d
This sounds crazy. I'm in!
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Call me Justin. I like big synths, big bass, and weird little noises like sick.

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