Dance Music for Heroes
Today’s guest is Nathan Boutwell, better known as The Living Poof, an amazing bass and dubstep producer who lives in Los Angeles. His original tracks and remixes have racked up over 100,000 streams on SoundCloud, and he has over 12,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. In this episode Nathan and I geek out about learning to DJ in VR, his favorite plugins, his approach to producing and remixing, and his daily productivity habits.
I thought a good way to start 2021 would be to recap the top lessons I learned over the last year as a result of this podcast and my guests. This will be a quick, but really important episode since it will not only give you some of the overarching themes from the previous year but can also serve as an index for some of the shows you may have missed.
In this episode of the Producer Life Podcast I talk about two related issues: how to determine your Minimum Viable Product as a DJ and a producer, and how you can use the Musical Turing Test to help determine if you’re there with your production. I’ll also talk about the importance of using metrics to drive your decision making and finally give you a cool new marketing idea for your tracks on Spotify.
Today we welcome back Chris Micahels, also known as Cryptochronica, for part two of our interview. Cryptochronica is Chris’ glitch fusion project which blends genre and style into the glitchy bass fabric of funk, soul, rock, reggae, hip-hop and downtempo all mixed together with heavy bass styles of the underground.
This week I talk about a processor-friendly strategy for rapidly creating variations on MIDI-based melodies called preset thrashing.
You put a lot of love and time into your music, here are some ideas for making the most of your tracks. This is all about being more efficient as a producer. I’ll also talk about Mixcloud’s new live-streaming service.
ADPTR Metric AB is a fantastic plugin that gives you a variety of visual tools which help draw your attention to problematic points in your mix. It also allows you to easily compare your mix to multiple reference tracks in your genre.
