Elektron Musical Instruments

I wouldn't call myself a professional musician, but it's certainly the 
only thing I do with my free time.  I am not signed to a label, and 
don't want to be... I'm waiting to see how the P2P / online stores 
(iTunes, bleep.com) / etc shake out before sending demos in, as I'm of 
the belief that there may be better choices than getting with a label 
for independents to release their music soon.  I'm pretty terrified at 
the sort of 'benefits' peers of mine have had to deal with who've been 
signed to labels who care about them but don't have the manpower / 
resources / ability / mind to combat the piracy happening to electronic 
musicians right now (this community is hit hardest, as so many of the 
indy electronic labels and musicians are living inches from the line as 
it is, financially, and the audience is largely folk who also have the 
convenience of Kazaa / SoulSeek / etc at their fingertips, baiting 
their ethics with convenient downloads.

Sort of a pickle of a situation... small electronic labels have issues 
with distribution, so fans have problems finding albums, so they turn 
online to download them as they need to, unfortunately then the labels 
don't get money, which leads to not having resources to increase 
distribution... it's a very difficult time.

Sorry to soap box / go on on this.  It's something I've been thinking 
about and talking to folks about a lot lately.

As for the style of music, I love theory... I use my elektron gear for 
everything I do.  The machinedrum and monomachine are often my 
inspiration points... I always start there or on my modular.  It's so 
easy to take a basic idea and play with it in many variations where 
only the ears can be trusted (no computer screen) using the Elektron 
gear that I despise starting work in the DAW now... even if everything 
ends up there for the 'real' composition work.

As for styles... well, I'd hate to be forced to put a label on myself.  
Maybe another reason why I fear labels.  ;-]

Cheers,

Damon

On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 01:31 PM, starpawz612 wrote:

> this list is super active with users talking about features and bugs,
> but i havn't seen a lot of people sharing their music . . . is it
> mostly people on labels in here or what (with the price of the
> products i imagine it's mostly serious producers)? i just make music
> for fun and release it on the internet and cdr/tape labels all the
> time. anyone else?
>
> also, what kinds of music are people making with the monomachine? is
> it primarily IDM/techno/hiphop??? any classical/theory-
> oriented/experimental composers? are you using you monomachines and
> machinedrums as part of a full-fledged studio or as a stand-alone
> workstation?
>
> ok i feel like that's enough questions and things, looking forward to
> hearing from everyone!
>
> j.ordan
>