So what's the secret to making hyper-maximalist, detail-oriented electronic music?

So what's the secret to making hyper-maximalist, detail-oriented electronic music?

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LFOs

A pirated copy of Ableton and lots of stock samples and presets should do the trick.

pretend to be death grips for a little bit

a lot of focus and attention to detail mainly

Clarence Clarity is considering giving private production lessons over the internet soon.
So, ask him.

when the fuck is his new album coming out? i remember the announcement like, 6 months ago

He's releasing it one song at a time. It's 60% out at this point.
People have to buy merch like hoodies and tshirts and whatnot and every now and then he mails a USB stick along with the shirts. It's basically an ARG.

Also, he says he's actually still working on the album. So he's releasing the songs basically as soon as he feels like they're "finished."

wow, as if his music wasn't gimmicky enough he has to wring money out of people _that_ shamelessly

Download a bunch of 90’s video game sound effects, then play those sound effects like instruments. That should probably get you good results.

The man is right on the verge of eviction. Let him wring money outta people.

that sounds like a pretty fucking lazy ARG

the music industry is falling apart

Well considering his last ARG totally flopped because nobody actually visited the hidden coordinates in Tathagatagharba, one would logically assume he has to dumb it down so that all that effort doesn't actually go to waste.

The "SAME ARG" worked pretty well, though. Maybe Tathagatagarbha was just too much to ask.

bro just release the fucking album
this ARG shit is so fucking corny

I like it. I think it's cool.

I find that promotional ARGs only really work when you have a giant budget. Like what Radiohead did with A Moon Shaped Pool, if that one could even really be described as an ARG.
Clarence is poor, which makes promotional stunts a lot harder.

>ploy to get people to spend money on merch
>cool

I mean, musicians make 0 moneys via streaming or album sales, especially smaller musicians, so the rest of pretty much all of their budget comes from live performances and merch.
Nobody buys merch and Clarity's live performances are super cheap anyway 'cause he's not exactly a household name like fucking Taylor Swift. The album is still going to be released, just not all at once. Any other musician would announce the album, make you wait 2 months regardless of what you do, then release it all at once later.
I like the one-by-one idea. He's probably not going to do it again, but it's a cool idea.

>Lack of social life
Having friends can pull you away from your computer, thus giving you less time to work on the songs.

>Discipline
You have to force yourself to keep incubating tracks painstakingly until there is absolutely nothing else to add. Every second counts.

>Unfettered interest
You have to be interested in what you're doing, otherwise it gets old fast.

>Creativity
obvs

Basically, you need Asperger's syndrome.

you put allotta time n effort into it

this is a fact. I have a sizeable following (1000 on soundcloud, 583 spotify, 500 twitter, 230 instagram) have yet to recieve a penny from streaming despite having more than 100,000 streams on soundcloud and 5,000 on spotify.

I'm starting to think posting music online is a waste of time. Just go peform it somewhere and convince concert promoters that you can bring people to the venue.

>I'm starting to think posting music online is a waste of time.
It's really more of a form of promotion. How will anyone know about your music or what it sounds like if they haven't heard it?
Making records is shifting from a source of income to a source of promotion.

wtf its just homestuck music you lied and said it was good Sup Forums

I have three problems with this album.
1.) There's really no flow to it. It's just an endless barrage of stuff happening. That's good - Iglooghost's use of maximalism is good - but there's no particular order to it so the result seems rushed. It's almost like Iglooghost was just trying to fit as many ideas in there as possible at all costs. One of the things I loved about Chinese Nu Yr was the fact that it's sort of like a roller-coaster; it has up and down moments, build ups, drops, etc. There's a sort of coherent story to it. Neo Wax Bloom is just a collage of sounds. It's a roller-coaster with no hills or loops. It's too linear.
2.) He keeps using the same samples over and over and it gets a little monotonous and predictable sometimes. There are a few elements on NWB that have appeared on at least 4 other songs on other releases. To hear an artist keep rehashing the same things over and over is kind of stale.
3.) Real instruments don't belong in the Iglooghost universe. It's weird to keep hearing watery flutes, saxophones, frantic pianos and noodly guitars where they don't fit. It breaks the "interdimensional" atmosphere of the songs to hear something so familiar.

Generally, Iglooghost's sound just doesn't translate to LP form quite as well as I expected it to and it was a little disappointing. It's still a great album, though.

this has been posted before

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THIS has been posted before, guaranteed

This post is actually a modified version of something that's been posted before.

nice projecting

I don't get why keep shilling or over hyping this guy
It's mediocre Brainfeeder-core shit

Yeah, you either need a lot of money or a large and incredibly devoted fanbase. Tomorrow's Harvest might be the best example.

All the music is, is very many samples that sound good in a certain direction, which are then sequenced over a relatively simple song.

basically, just sprinkle samples all over a catchy tune.

vehemently and exclusively focus on sound design only.

>clyp.it/zgqm5jaj

I made this little loop that was pretty iglooghost inspired. AMA

work slowly and then speed up the result by 50%

I have many questions.
1.) What DAW?
2.) What VSTs were used in this?
3.) ...How?

>all these anons implying it's easy to do
Typical Sup Forums

youtu.be/p4nIb8T4eUs

ez

The same secret to making unlistenable tech-death

It is actually pretty easy. It just takes the attention span of a demigod.
Also your computer might hate you for making it work so hard but technically speaking it's not hard.

this is sick dood

actually learn how music works and not just rely solely on samples

Made me lol

Take a Janet Jackson track. Speed that shit up, then recreate it from scratch
no bs
twitter.com/Jesesese/status/941169455421317121

this, his sound design isn't even that good, it just sounds like blank banshee on meth, but without artistic depth.

this is the same reason why i dislike most classical, it just sounds like a bunch of technical wankery without any soul or heart.

>I could actually do it guys lol, I swear
Yeah yeah you're a diamond in the rough, anons of Sup Forums. To be fair, the one did say it requires the attention span of a demigod, which it does.

>I could actually do it guys lol, I swear
Here. clyp.it/kd5knink
I did this in a matter of about 40 hours. It really is not that hard, all you have to do is stay focused and gather as many samples as possible.
It's just a matter of doing it.

>clyp.it/kd5knink
>40 hours
>Sounds nothing like igloo

It's maximalist. I didn't say it would sound anything like Iglooghost. I wouldn't want it to.
I'm just saying maximalism isn't hard.

>moving the goalposts
We're in a iglooghost thread, I think the main assumption is we were talking about how he makes his music and whether it was easy to do or not. Not "maximalist" stuff in general.

That's like me going into a Alan Holdsworth thread and saying it's to easy to do, someone challenges me and I post some basic jazz playing. Then I say "It's jazz. I didn't say it would sound anything like Holdsworth."

eq

clyp.it/0zxtcxt2?token=5a3f17c32c052a8ec051c5c927856837
Half-assed attempt at iglooghost sound. It was fun to make though!

>We're in a iglooghost thread
We are literally not in an Iglooghost thread. We are in a "" thread. Anything that counts as "hyper-maximalist, detail-oriented electronic music" goes in this thread. Iglooghost's EP was just an example.

Splitting hairs.

Wtf really how do I pay him for this

Clarence Clarity was also posted in this thread.
Clarence Clarity sounds nothing like Iglooghost, yet fits OP's description.
Doesn't that count?

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He said he was 'considering it.' I think you can just DM him on twitter and ask about it.

Clarence Clarity also has a song titled Splitting Hairs

Coincidence?

bitch ass nigga

Good one

Hi, OP here.
No, this isn't a thread about iglooghost. It's a thread about maximal electronic music. I wasn't asking about how iglooghost specifically makes his music, I was just asking about how one would go about making layered, experimental, intricate, dense, flooded electronic stuff.

was right.

Hi, OP here.
No, this is a thread about iglooghost. Don't listen to this imposter

Hi, OP here.
This user is the real imposter, this is NOT an Iglooghost thread.

CC confirmed for stealth-shilling on Sup Forums

Hi guys, OP Here.
Just wanted to clear some things up, as this thread seems to have caused a bit of controversy. This user is an imposter, as were the other two before it. This really was a iglooghost thread, but that one user that said so was an impostor. I, the true OP, can confirm that this is indeed an iglooghost thread. Carry on.

thats more like pc music

this shit is crazy. what daw do you use?

what was this actually from i forgot the album

having someone vouch for you

i realy need to know the album

the album cover had a room with a dog on it

The song was originally called "minutes in and chill meme" and it was from shadowdog.

thank u so much

it's really not hard. it just takes time

Would you like the link to the Mega file of it?
I took it off Bandcamp.

sure thanks

Here.
mega.nz/#F!M0FRXTxJ!m5y1q1GS22RTL0KpsUpukw

great music man

Thanks! It'll be pretty hard to sit through the entire thing though.

not a bad go at it young man. I sense the fuego within you