http://soundcloud.com/jonas-edenbrandt/pre-mix I just finished arranging a track. It's made up of sounds recorded from around my apartment exclusivly. Any way this tracks is pre mixing I havn't added any compression or EQ and hardly any effects at all. It would be great to get some input on what to ...

Gustav Mahler absolute favorite.
Schoenberg great modernist.
Cage.
Stockhausen the most well maid electronic music i ever heard.

this gets kinda confusing since minimalism can meen so many diffrent things. A Philip Glass composition isn't minimal in a techno sort of way. Isn't DIY rock and punk productions a sort of minimalism in a rock way?

thanks a bunch for the input. You probably saved me alot of work removing noise from the mixdown.

With previous tracks I havn't spent that much time with the actual mixing aspect of my tracks. I've used reason and ableton and done some volume adjustments and some panning to get the sound were i wan't them in the mix. This spring i got pro-tools as well wich I intend to use for mixing tracks and ...

I searched but couldn't find this exact topic. Yesterday i decided to stop using 808 samples and also not to program drums in for example Operator. Instead I'm now recording all sounds in my apartment. For example a made a kick out of a few piano notes and banging a pillow and then putting some satu...

If i don't have any thing else going on like school asignments and stuff i usually get at least an hour in every day. Maybe not like focused producing but playing around with loops and rhythms and stuff.

I have this problem as well sometimes. What you can try to do is replace a percussive beat with a harmonic one? Lets say a bongo plays on 1 2 and 3 replace the on on 2 with a stab and you still have the same rhythm going and the same groove but a new instrument.