Meteo Xavier

I might have some chiptune work if you'd like to sing on sometime in the near future. Not real soon, but I am looking to see if I can get a lady to sing on a chiptune album I'm going to do.

Find us a Youtube of it plz

What if you played Super Mario Brothers Wii with your girlfriend AND her boyfriend? Certainly you'd agree it wouldn't get any more strained from there.

Whats in The Dance Music Manual? Is there tutorial stuff someone who is trying to study electronica for more general genres like me to learn how they do that stuff?

Well that's pretty confusing right there. You're not offering much in the way of important details and some of what you're trying to say is apparently getting lost in translation. We need more details with better clarification. Why you need a SWEDISH producer on a site where we have talented musicians from all over the world is a good start.

Damn, girl... Still, your enthusiasm for the project is a sorely needed source of energy and we appreciate you greatly. If only more people on this project were as enthusiastic about it... Yes, I'm talking about YOU. Get your mixes in and let's finish this sumbitch ahready!

Yeah we need some clarification here. I know a bunch of producers, but this doesn't make any sense and I can't give them this.

Umm... why only Swedish?

I defied FATE and pretty much anyone who's ever known me by getting married back near my birthday in late March.

It's not a secret when it's upfront of 60% of the song.

I won't lie that I've been studying the genre to bate for listeners with another entry in a flooded genre with my name on it. What I have trouble with is so much of the genre devotes itself to the bass and beats, what about the rest of the accompaniment? I'm able to get the bass and drums to work, but I'm still pretty far off from a convincing Dubstep track and I'm not sure what I'm missing. It's never impossible to hear anything else going on in there but a bunch of FX wankery and I have little idea how to do any of that. I found a couple tutorials on stuff I'll look at later, but could anyone be so kind to point me in some direction there? Yes, I've Googled, I have horrible luck finding stuff like that on my own.

The irony of using post #666, a week from Samhaim, is not lost on me as I report my studio headphones seemed to have fixed themselves and are not, currently, offering me the problems I nearly spent $70 to get fixed. So I'll be ready to help out on tracks again after Samhaim, but yeah, I figured it was going to take something to get me to post on #666, but this irony is a whole new level.

So you can basically do just about anything with a dubstep mix as long as it has half-time beats and major bass modulation? If so, that opens me up to try it. >

Why didn't you buy a cover for it? Seems like it would be a smarter move to get a $30 cover than to take a $60 loss and not have it at all.

A lot of them have additional marketing and connections that would be beneficial and easier to come by then it you did it yourself. Granted, its still not stuff you couldn't potentially get yourself, but that's the record label's job. That's what they're taking a cut from you for.

I almost went that route myself, but I think I've been really pushing the self-promotion thing too hard lately...

Well of course your music is more than likely going to sound like shit the first few times around. It's an ART, it takes time to manage and learn how you're going to do it. It's like anything else you're doing for the first few times.

Oh yeah, I forgot about his Secret of Mana remix. Go get that. Now.

Sorry, I just wanted to laugh at this for a moment. Nothing can be the greatest thing EVER until it's actually born. I'm going to use this later on because it's a spot on description of how that works. There IS a logic and even some math to how music works so you know what sounds have logically been designed to please us, the art part of it is taking that logic and designing it into something unique and/or gorgeous. It's just like the brush and easel or chisel and hammer or whatever sculptures use to sculpt. Learn the tools first, then learn what you can do with them.

Part of the point of contention is that your question was so fundamental, asking US what to do about it is pretty baffling. We don't know you, so how would we know if you should do original or cover material? Without trying to be a dick, the only people who ask questions like those the way you did are 9 years old. Those are fundamental goals and directions you need to decide for yourself before you can even start, and if you need help with something like that already, then you might have a LOT of work ahead of you. Again, not trying to be a dick, but thats the reality of that. Anything else to touch on there Rozovian covered already.

Ooh, thank you Goll! I DID get it published eventually, by a VERY good man named Gary Vincent from Burning Bulb publishing. It's like God had to balance the books in this karmic example here and delivered someone who not only has a brain in his head, but delivered helpful, useful contact in record time. It was submitted, edited, printed and released in 2 months time - like 1/6th of the time I even waited to be rejected by others. The fact that 9/10s of the time, most publishers you can even chat with are the opposite of him is VERY sobering. I don't know what it is about the literary world thats like that, but it's much less open than the music world where it's much easier all the way around to do stuff like we do here at Ocremix than to do its literary equivalent. I'm not one to pay attention or even agree with Nekofrog, but a post he made got me thinking - why do you need Capcom for this mega series? What exactly is the end-goal with it that fanfiction.net or even something like a series of concept remix albums couldn't do (besides generate revenue anyhow)?

This we can agree on. Fanfiction has its rightful place on the internet and definitely people will enjoy it regardless if they find it.

Dude, have you ever tried to get into literary publishing at all? It is almost literally 100 times more complicated than walking into a business with a good manuscript and thinking something will come of it. Literary publishing, from 5 years experience in trying to get published until I did late last month, is not just insanely competitive, it is just INSANE. I once lost a manuscript deal because when I introduced myself, I didn't give my NAME, despite it being in the email itself. I once lost a manuscript deal because the publisher found out I posted something on Facebook about a guy he just happened to be friends with and the only way he would've found out about that is to actually hack into my Facebook account to see it. TODAY I got an email back from a publisher I submitted a story, 7 months ago, from my Vulgarity For The Masses book, that they recently finally rejected, who was pissed off that I broke their submission guidelines and sent it to someone else in that time frame. I.E. They literally expected me to just sit on my writing and twiddle my thumbs for 7 MONTHS and just wait for them to reject it before I could send it to someone else (and in my defense, 90% of the time, publishers who reject your work don't even bother to tell you so, so after month #5, I can safely assume it was already rejected). In that industry model with someone else's IP and no experience in publishing before, what do you think is going to happen? That's not hate, that's reality. It was failed from conception on.

Dammit, what happened to my nicely laid out response here?