From mallen Sent Thu, Jul 9th 1998, 23:54
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, GamePrg. wrote: > I mean, people should make the music they feel like making, but I mean, you > can't deny that a lot these drill'n'bass ppl are jumping on a bandwagon, even > if sub-conciously. This is an eternally inherent problem in any type of art form. When you create something you basically are a filter for the experiences that you have seen/felt/tasted/heard/whatever. You cannot make art in a vacuum ... everything you do has some relevance to what you have been subjected to. When i sit down and work on a piece (whether art or music) i have specific ideas of where i want that piece to go ... and somewhere down inside those ideas are based on a track that i really like or a drawing that struck the right chord with me ... Yes alot of what gets done come from experimenting within the medium .. but even an experiment has to evolve from something ... now its how you mix and match these various experiences that create something that many people would consider 'new' ... remember originality is how well you mask your influences ... m.