Ich bin auf der Myspace-Page von Will B (Ex-Trance Produzent) über sehr interessante, übertriebene und sarkastische Texte gestoßen die provokant wie interessant sind. Aus diesem Grund eröffne ich dieses Thema. Ich will nicht dass hier stundenlange Endlosdiskussionen aufkeimen, sondern ich möchte, dass diese Texte mal gelesen werden. Ich für meinen Teil finde er hat in vielen Dingen absolut Recht, in anderen Sachen würde ich ihm widersprechen. Zu manchen Dingen kann ich keine Aussage reffen.
Aber macht euch selbst ein Bild. Schon seine Bio ist schön zu lesen:
"Some facts and vital statistics about me:
I'm 24 years old.
I make trance music, as I am sure you are aware by now from the music that is coming out of the player...
I won't try and talk too much about my music here. I assume you found my page because either a) you knew my music already b) you know someone who knew my music already or c) you know me outside of my music. So there's a good chance you either know anything I could type in here already, or you don't particularly care. Either way is fine by me!
I'll try and keep the player reasonably updated with my new stuff, I make music all the time and sometimes it turns out OK enough to stick in there. That's probably the best way to keep up to date with my musical goings on if you wish to do so.
You may well think that I'm an angry, cynical and sarcastic bastard. This is indeed the case. However, I say what I think about anything and everything (especially music) and I won't bullshit. If I like something, I'll tell you, if I don't I'll tell you. And by keeping your "OMG THANKZ 4 ADDING ME!" or "PLEEZ VOTE 4 ME IN THE DJ TOP 100" posts off here you'll really help me out. Thank you please.
Things I like:
Music, films, anything that can make me laugh, monkeys (especially the ones that are always shagging), Jammie Dodgers, dancing like a lunatic, Jack Daniels, fettling my beard, saying inappropriate things, cooking, Eau D'Issey, poker, travelling and most importantly socialising with my friends.
Things I dislike:
Mushrooms, happy hardcore, "Thanks for the add" posts on myspace, people who try to befriend me solely to get somewhere, people who eat too loudly, people who drive too slowly, spiders and microwaved food.
I guess that'll do for this presentation, if you want to know more about me then just ask or leave a comment, I won't bite (unless you ask nicely) and I'm generally friendly despite the apparent constant anger that is on display above.
Anyway, I hope you didn't get too bored reading these words. Thankyou for taking the time to visit my page and read my scrawlings here.
Will :o) "
Im Dezember 2008 folgender Text:
" How to make it big in trance in 8 easy steps.
Well hello there.
Seeing as it's so important these days for everyone who's ever listened to an Armin set to be a "producer", and how anyone who ever downloaded Traktor is now a DJ, I thought I'd post some helpful tips to point you in the right direction when you try and make it too.
1. Get your own radio show.
This is important because it means you can believe you're a proper DJ, even if you only play for an hour a month to 6 listeners, most of whom are your friends from high school. It's important that you make a banner on your cracked version of Photoshop which says how awesome you are, and gives details of the show. It's also important that you post on every forum you can think of with a list of all the tracks that you're going to play that night.
2. Get some DJs & producers on your MSN list and spam them all the time.
This one is really important. It means that you can tell them every day that you have a radio show on www.whogivesashit.fm and ask them to send all the music they make to you, as soon as they finished making it, for free. It also means that you can ask them "Do you have DJ Awesome's MSN?" and then post it on your screen name "Can DJ Awesome please contact me" just to show how many cool people you know. If you manage to get a promo from them, don't forget to play it in your radio show regardless of how shit it is, and say the record label is [Artist CDR]. Producers can also be useful for other things, but we'll come to that later.
3. Learn to produce.
This one is optional, but we'll come to that in a minute. You can get a cracked copy of FL Studio really easily, and all VSTs have presets that sound exactly like Above & Beyond so don't worry about learning how to program synths properly.
Don't forget to spam all the producers you met in step 2 with your latest attempts at copying Above & Beyond or Deadmau5 and then ask them to give you loads of constructive feedback straight away. Also, don't forget to ask them to remix for you, demand to remix for them, and suggest collaborations with them at regular intervals.
Now, if you don't want to learn to produce your own music, use your producer contacts for step 4.
4. Get someone else to engineer for you.
This one is great. It means that you pay someone a small fee to make some music for you, then you put your name on it. It means you don't have to learn how to make music at all, and you can spring from nowhere to sound really good straight away. People will think you are awesome and cool, and people who are now at step 1 in this program will add you to their MSN lists and ask you about their music all the time.
Two good artists to get to engineer for you are Sean Tyas and Deadmau5. Everyone wants to sound like them anyway, so you might as well save the effort and just pay them straight away.
It's also important at this stage to keep the big DJs on your side. Regularly email Tiesto to thank him for playing your track on Club Life. This means he'll keep playing your stuff, regardless of how many times you recycle the same sounds.
5. Write about yourself in the third person.
You've started to get famous now, even though you've not really done anything worth celebrating. Your Deadmau5 engineered track is being played on ASOT every week and people on the internet think you are the most promising young producer in the trance scene, even though you don't make the music yourself. Don't give in to pressure and tell people you use an engineer, simply write about how awesome you are on your myspace page, and pretend that someone else wrote it. You fucking beauty. Repeat steps 4 and 5 a couple of times and you're ready for step 6...
6. Move on to playing at clubs.
DJing is a very difficult thing to do. After all, beatmatching 2 tracks that both run at the same BPM is so difficult that people pay $50 just to see Tiesto get close to managing it. So now you're ready to play at clubs. Don't forget to look miserable while you play, because nobody likes a DJ to look like he's having fun. Also remember that you are far more important than anyone else in there, so feel free to run 30 minutes into the next DJs set, and ban anyone from the club if you don't like them.
7. Keep making the same style of track over and over again.
If you're paying someone else to engineer for you, just keep paying them and getting them to change the key of the tracks they are making for you every now and then to make it seem like it's something different. If, by some accident, you actually make music yourself, don't forget to keep using the same samples over and over again. Trance is recycled so often anyway it makes no difference and nobody will notice. By now all the big DJs know exactly who you are, so will doubtless play your music regardless if it's good or not. If some people complain that your music sounds the same, feel free to tell them to fuck off because you're more important.
8. Make more and more outlandish requests.
So you want 11 CDJs at each DJ gig, all of them held aloft by trained chipmunks? No problem. After all, you're making money from playing other people's music off CD so you deserve all the credit you're getting. People will worship the ground you walk on by now, so you're fully entitled to act like royalty. Don't forget to completely ignore all the people you used along the way to help to get you where you are. They aren't important now. You can continue to pay people to engineer music for you, so just make sure you choose someone who is vaguely popular at the time. You can also make more and more outlandish choices in your t-shirts, because everyone will think you're cool even if you turn up with "I AM A TWAT" written on your shirt. By now you've got all the drugs, women and fame you could ever want. Congratulations, you're now a fully fledged trance superstar. Enjoy your richly deserved success!!!"
Und last not least seine "Abschiedsworte":
"Morning all.
Over the last few months I've been through a lot of changes, both (in an incredibly self important way) personally and also musically. There are a few things I've come to realise and it is for the following reasons that I am now officially retiring from producing dance music. As usual, this blog will get progressively more angry as it goes along.
1. Trance is musically dead.
Yup. You only get any kind of recognition if you produce exactly the same style as Armin's current favourite producer. Here's looking at you Myon & Shane 54, you Deadmau5 and Inpetto cloners you!!! Any kind of originality left the genre about 3 years ago.
2. I can't be bothered to shout about how awesome I am all the time.
I know I'm awesome. I mean, look at me. I'm an adonis. However, I don't ever want my music to be recognised because I'm more shameless, more self-promotional or more sycophantic than other producers. I don't want to spend the rest of my life telling people I am awesome simply to promote a dead genre of music.
3. There is no money in trance & the money that remains is taken by labels.
Seriously. 3 years ago 'Luz de Sol' was released and it sold around 1000 vinyl copies. I made a decent, if not life changing, amount of money from this. I received statements from 2 of my newer releases the other day and it seems I actually OWE THE LABEL MONEY!!! For fuck's sake. If the sole way my music will be heard involves some label having the audacity to take all of my profits, own the copyright to my music and then pay me nothing then they can fuck themselves.
4. DJs do 1% of the work and take 99% of the credit.
Playing CDs and getting drunk, blowing coke off a hooker's arse and standing there with your arms out like you're Jesus while you play my music that I took 4 weeks of love and craft to make really pisses me off. You're not important, you're just a fucking moron. If you actually made one of the tracks you are playing I'd have some degree of respect for you. You're getting all the credit for my work, for other producer's work and then charging £10,000 a fucking night to take all of the plaudits. Fuck yourself.
5. 4 minute long breakdowns.
Yeah I can use the Omnisphere presets too, but it doesn't make me a musical fucking genius. There is no excuse to give people enough time to leave the dancefloor, have a massive shit and then return before the beat kicks in again. It's called 'dance music', not 'boring wanky synth preset music'. ASOT producers I direct this squarely at you, although Armin can take some of the blame for promoting such a bland type of music in the first place.
I'll probably add some more reasons as and when I think of them. But the irony is, all of the above has made me all the more inspired. I haven't listened to trance in months and some really exciting musical ideas have hit me now. I'm going to be working with some amazingly talented people next year on some musical projects I really believe in. No more 138bpm, no more supersaws, no more breakdowns. Just good, honest music made alongside talented people. I've never been so excited about making music."
Harter Tobak in jedem Fall würde ich sagen,er nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund...
Sein Abschiedspost ist vielleicht dann doch etwas überspitzt formuliert, aber das muss er letztlich selbst wissen, wie er es formuliert und wie es evtl. vertsanden wird.
