At the moment I'm going through a period of dammed writers block, and can't for the life of me get anything out of the sandbox to show to you guys (usually I spend these times just playing around, but no...im bored). So I am hunting through (or should say slogging through) my computers old data dump looking at older projects which I haven't released yet on Newgrounds, adding to them and remixing them and bringing them up to scratch, with new VST's I've aquired in the time since I created them. There is lots of trance in there, as well as all manner of EDM pieces, there maybe the occasional drum and bass piece but we'll have to see as I haven't got a clue whats in the filing system. 

I'm working on all manner of remixes, using old samples and doing a lot of chopping up and resampling, I've made a few new dubstep style sounds in Massive, which may take a few weeks to get into a state were I can release it as a song. I have done extensive research into dubstep and also purchased a dubstep drum package, but I will say there are very few dubstep songs which I actually like and as I'm more of a trance nut, I will be doing EDM/dubstep or Drum and bass/Dubstep, but nothing like Skrillex as most of his productions I just don't like (apart from Bangarang as that track sounds awesome in my car on the subwoofer), I guess Billy Van was cool and most of his newer mashups are insirational, but again alot of the dubstep hes produced is not to my liking. 

I'm a 90's kid and I grew up with the likes of William Orbit, Tiesto, Jurgen Vries and Kernkraft, I do still listen to newer music, but alot of my music tastes as time has gone on has actually taken a step back, and find myself listening to alot more 80's style music (even though im not to good a producing it myself, apart from the occasional accident).

I find alot of music these days i getting rather samey and the garbage that comes out the radio is at most intolerable, sorry if I sound like I've got my head stuck under a rock, but I just don't like the majority of commecial music. 

When I actually come up with new material I feel like hitting a curve ball and going of in another direction musically, and its mainly as im getting bored of some of some of the lame material I've been producing in the last month. I may go out and buy myself a new synth (VST) and see if that can revive my passion, before the light completely goes out. 

Also I've had a lot of call recently to sound like other bands or groups, and this is one of my pet hates, I like to sound original, keep on developing my own style and be something new, I hate recreating songs and plagerising, but I do agree it can sometimes be helpful to recreate music to learn, i.e: I recreated Cannon the other day, I found it boring as hell to program it, but I probably learned soemthing along the way, but I can't quite put my finger on it...I was also trying to recreate one of newgrounds top tracks "heaven", got about half through and decided that I got bored, wasn't really learning anything new and even if I finished it what would I have done with it as I probably A.) would'nt get permission to release it on newgrounds B.)feel that the song I've created can't best the original (as to be honest its a pretty complex piece of music and even though I got the flow right, there was something missing, which kind of brings me to my next point.

Everytime I create a track it usually takes me a remix or to add what I beleive to be missing from the orginal track, but thats open to interperation what this means, as I don't want to go over board and add so much that it scares people off, I figure most award winning tracks have upmost of four tracks? My projects usually have a minium of ten tracks and more, and apart from hearing Jean michel Jarre play something this complex, you wouldn't hear these more complex tracks in the public domain. I like my music to be complex, maybe I should back off a bit compact my songs slightly and concentrate more on the hooks and beats, and stop putting complicated arpeggios into my tracks? I don't know again I think its up to the listeners taste of music and I should continue making niche music for the time being.

Oh yeah my Youtube channel kind of died a slow painful death and not even moths will visit it...I seem to be getting a bit of a so-so reaction from sound cloud, but am getting a alright reaction from newgrounds, so I will stay on this platform and continue my quest to find a sound or beat and then produce something which Is originally great and get a good reaction out of it. (which in this day and age is nearly impossible...)