As I complete my latest tune, I’ve started to expand my general production sound. The detuned leads have grown stale for the time being, and I’ve been experimenting more in chillout and Drum n’ Bass sounds. The sheer difficulty of DnB production is recognized by many in the electronic music production scene as the hardest genre to produce. It follows it’s name sake: one half of the trouble of making it is programming the drums, the other half creating the bass. The genre that this song is in, however, is unknown to me.

About the song

I feel that all the great artists have pushed for their own unique sound, so I’ve tried to do the same. The main focus of this song is the piano, which I’m not a stranger to. I tried to extract the melody from my imagination without much interference from anything, resulting in what I deem as my “pure-self sound”. When I produce, I always seem to naturally produce laidback themes with a cooler edge to them but am torn over my love of happy hardcore music. This causes me to alter my songs to sound more like what I like to listen to rather than what naturally comes out. The strangest thing is that I don’t have a single chillout song in my massive music library.

The song’s name is the name of a good friend just as the song itself is a close friend of mine. Naming a song is much like naming a child — I feel that it is harder to give it a name than it is to make it (totally not sexual). Nomenclature is a very interesting thing so I’ve decided to experiment in it (instead of the cliche names of happy hardcore - almost all of them have the word “love, angle, high, flying, etc…” in them). As much as I enjoyed writing this song, however, I leave the verdict to the listener - Which sounds better, the chillout or the happy hardcore?

P.S. I also have some songs with a harder edge that are in the works as well as a trance song, so keep an ear out for them.

 

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