@General Lighting 555332 wrote:

just had a chance to listen properly (also on a decent pair of cans as i had to repair the jack plug on them) both are good tracks but I see no reason why you should not produce both genres, as many others do… also original vocals are often what distinguishes one track from another.

A few weeks ago I was joking with a friend of mine (who DJs more of soulful house) that some EDM tracks were becoming too electronic/minimal – that same weekend I was working on my phone system at home whilst listening to PVR house stream… (I was once a broadcast engineer but moved to telecoms/IT support after the economic depression as there is more paid work there – and I collect 1970s to 1980s era British telephones and associated equipment.

Anyway one track was played that had samples what genuinely sounded so much just like a howler / off hook tone (the harsh sound you get if you leave an analogue phone off the hook) I thought I’d made a wiring error, or knocked over one of the old style phones off the hook, and it had me cursing and searching up the entire workshop for a while (to find which phone/circuit was faulty) until I turned off the speakers and realised what it was..

So I definitely I prefer more vocal / tuneful sounds (whether its progressive/electro or more uptempo trance)…

Cool, and thanks so much for taking the time to type all that out! Thats the kind of feedback we need to hear… we’re practicing instrumentals with this EP because the last one was so vocal heavy, and we didn’t get enough practice leveling and EQing as we went along… so this is kind of “preparation” work for later projects.

Also, I agree with what you said about EDM going too minimalist/electronic lately! I am definitely a big fan of melodic/MUSIC LIKE MUSIC (haha) rather than overuse of too many harsh or strange sounds just to make someone go, “wtf”…. I think we’re going to try to aim to combine the style of these two instrumentals with original vocals, when we’re confident that we can get the instrumental parts perfectly right! (:

Thanks again, take it easy!