EDM Producer Podcast

Israeli Psy-Trance producer, Freedom Fighters, joins The Producer Podcast. DAW of choice: Ableton Workflow: Start with an idea so it the track comes together naturally. Production tips: Think about each element. Make sure everything fits well in the track. Work hard on the details. Training resources: Watch tutorials on YouTube and read interviews. Influences: Astrix, Prodigy, Dusty Kid, Loud, Daft Punk, Skrillex, Snoop Lion, and Cold Play Favorite Softsynth: Operator Favorite Effects: Native Ableton effects, Fabfilter EQ, Blackhole Reverb, Sausage Fattener, Kickstart, Invisible Limiter, Valhalla Reverbs, and Native Instruments Transient Shaper Hardware: Roland TB3 and Moog Little Phatty Successful career actions: Hard work and using social media. Use facebook and soundcloud. Send your music to other artists. Best advice for aspiring producers: It’s not easy, but believe you can do it and stay unique. Production most proud of: Encounter Links: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/freedomfighters Twitter: https://twitter.com/FF_Official_ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/FreedomFightersRiot Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freedomfightersofficial Instagram: http://instagram.com/FreedomFighters Show notes by Sean Hanagan aka Time Aperture Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/timeaperture

18 year old EDM music producer from Orange County, California, Electrocisum, joins us today on The Producer Podcast and shares a shocking story about Ultra Music Fest 2014! DAW of Choice: FL Studio Workflow: Starts on the piano roll and writes the chords and melody. Production tips: Link Massive to the Vocode X so the bass follows the song Training resources: Youtube Influences: Above and Beyond, Deadmau5, Porter Robinson, The M Machine, and Flume Favorite Softsynth: Sylenth 1, Nexus, and Massive Favorite Effects: Vocode X, Flanger, and Stock FL Reverb Hardware: Juno synth, PC laptop Successful career actions: Getting his songs signed to plasma pool records, and doing top 40 remixes. Best advice for aspiring producers: Don’t follow the trends. Production most proud of: Lost on his new EP that is not yet released. Of his released work he is proud of his Beautiful remix. Links: Soundcloud Facebook Twitter YouTube Show notes by Sean Hanagan aka Time Aperture Soundcloud

Uplifting Trance duo Mostfa & Mostfa from Egypt join us today on The Producer podcast! DAW of choice: Ableton Live and FL Studio Workflow: Find something good and build the track around it Training resources: He goes to his friends for feedback. Influences: Andrew Bayer Favorite Softsynth: Massive Favorite Effects: Arts Acoustic and Fab Filter Hardware: Launch Pad Successful career actions: Getting his songs out on labels Best advice for aspiring producers: Never stop Production most proud of: Everlasting Links: https://soundcloud.com/mostfaandmostfa https://www.facebook.com/mostfaandmostfamusic Show notes by Sean Hanagan aka Time Aperture Soundcloud

Matt Deimos and Punchblade of Kill Shelter join us today to talk about super heavy electronic music, and give us some amazing songwriting tips! DAW of choice: Ableton and Soundforge Workflow: Matt starts with the bass continues into the body of the song, while Punchblade starts with the body. Production tips: Focus on one sound at a time. Training resources: Learn how your favorite producers make their sounds and music. Influences: Mantronix, Man Parrish, Crystal Castles Favorite Softsynth: Used to use Absinth Favorite Effects: Ableton stock effects Hardware: Akai APC40 Successful career actions: Starting their own label Best advice for aspiring producers: Write every track like it’s a set opener. Production most proud of: Sidewinder, Medication, and Glass Planet Kill Shelter Links: choiceconspiracy.com Soundcloud Show notes by Sean Hanagan aka Time Aperture Soundcloud

Successful Psytrance producer, Bliss, joins The Producer Podcast today, calling us from his hometown of Tel Aviv, Isreal DAW of choice: Cubase Workflow: If he has no ideas, start with kick and bass. Into the other drums and then the hook. When inspired he’ll start with the hook. Production tips: Add distortion to kick to find its key. Training resources: Producing with a friend helped Bliss get started. He sometimes goes to YouTube for any questions. Influences: Heavy Metal, Infected Mushroom, Astral Projection, and Cosma Favorite Softsynth: Massive, Kontact, Razor,Vanguard Favorite Effects: Glue compressor, UAD, URS, Sound toys crystallizer, and Valhalla uber mod Hardware: Virus and Akai APC40 Successful career actions: Joining his friend’s booking agency Best advice for aspiring producers: Take any gig. Merchandise. Believe in your music. Production most proud of: Groovatron and Warriors Links: soundcloud Facebook Youtube Show notes by Sean Hanagan aka Time Aperture Soundcloud

New York house producer, Morsy, joins The Producer Podcast. DAW of choice: Ableton Live Workflow: Starts with his drums. Production tips: Freezing tracks in Ableton to free up cpu, sidechain your tracks, and cut out the low end out on everything other than the kick and bass. Training resources: When fist starting he watched YouTube tutorials. Influences: Basement Jaxx, Daft Punk, The Cube Guys, Federico Scavo and Gregor Salto Favorite Softsynth: Sylenth, Massive, Effectrix, Albino 3, Blue, Muted Favorite Effects: Fabfilter Hardware: Yamaha MH80, Korg micro key, and a Mac Mini Successful career actions: Making a lot of quality tracks. Best advice for aspiring producers: Do your research. Look towards YouTube for answers. Production most proud of: His latest track, called Banza, will be released on Undercool productions, and his track Get Mad will be released on Nervous records. Platinum and Gold will be released on Moody recordings. Morsy’s links- Soundcloud Facebook Twitter YouTube Show notes by Sean Hanagan aka Time Aperture Soundcloud

Hungarian electronic progressive bass music producer Gaspar Horvath, known as JumoDaddy, joins The Producer Podcast. DAW of Choice: Ableton Live Work Flow: Starts with drums, bassline, or a melody that he thinks of. Production Tips: Making an effects rack and applying different effects to different frequencies. EDM training resources: He learned a lot abut mixing from his father. Influences: Skrillex and Zomboy Favorite softsynths: Massive, FM8, Spire, Sylenth Favorite effects: Reverbs: UADEMT 140, Lexicon 224, Valhalla vintage verb, and Valhalla shimmer. Hardware: Nord lead 3 and Nord wave Successful career actions: Winning a Zomboy remix contest and making an official remix for Kraftykuts. Best advice for aspiring producers: Express yourself.Make your music unique from everyone else’s and stay motivated. Production he’s most proud of: His most recent EP that was released on Play Me Records called Four Horses. Links: Listen to his music: https://soundcloud.com/jumodaddy Check him out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JumoDaddy or on twitter: https://twitter.com/JumoDaddy Show notes by Sean Hanagan aka Time Aperture https://soundcloud.com/timeaperture

DJ and Producer Matthew1626 joins us today to talk about production, songwriting, getting your music out there, and staying positive! Artist: Tech, deep, progressive house, and new disco Producer/DJ Matthew Brown, aka Matthew 1626, from Vancouver, Canada joins The Producer Podcast. DAW of choice: He primarily uses Reason in his home studio, but when working with his engineer, Jamie Kuse, Matthew works around Logic. Workflow: Matthew starts off with a rough draft of a track while working in his home studio. Once getting the rough draft down Matthew sends the track over to Jamie. They continue bouncing ideas off each other until the track is complete. Influences: Hipp-E & Halo, AMtrak, SKLA, Loui & Scibi, Erick Hassan, ATB, and Sasha and Dogwood Successful Career Actions: Matthew1626 gives the belief in himself and his audio engineer Jamie credit for helping him succeed in his music career. Best advice for aspiring producers: Know what you’re producing. Make sure it’s the path you want to pursue. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Get involved in the EDM community to get feedback and to have people spurring you along. Most effective way to market music: He says getting a good label allows for your music to get heard. Most proud production: His most proud productions are I Pray and Mandela. Mandela features Nelson Mandela’s excerpts from inauguration speech. Hear his tracks at: https://soundcloud.com/dj-matthew1626 Check out his Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matthewbrown1626 Official Matthew 1626 Website: http://www.djmatthew1626.com/ Show notes provided by Sean Hanagan - Aka Time Aperture https://soundcloud.com/timeaperture

Artist: Australian glitch-hop/electro artist, Crazy Daylight DAW: Ableton (formerly Cubase) Workflow: Starts with drums then continues into the hook and bass. Production tips: Crazy Daylight is a fan of side-chain. He runs two side-chain tracks for his kick and snare in order for them to really punch through in a track. Resources: When in need of production tips he goes to Mr. Bill, a fellow producer. Crazy Daylight, himself, is also a training source with his own YouTube tutorials. Influences: Operator Burstop, and The Floozies. Favorite Softsynth: His favorite softsynths include razor, massive, and sylenth. Favorite Effects: Isotope exciter and multiband distortion. Favorite Hardware: TC electronics voicetone synth Most successful career action: His work ethic is the secret to his success. Most effective marketing actions: He feels that the best way to market your music is to get it on blogs and other social media. Best Advice to aspiring producers: Make your own music and to not be a “carbon copy” of another artist. Production most proud of: His most proud work is his most recent three tracks, which will be released on Westwood recordings on the 8th of June. Hear Crazy Daylight’s tracks at: https://soundcloud.com/crazy-daylight Check out his facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crazydaylight Other: Watch his tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMz0cwyl6r9rmXPy0RRgcRA

Beatport #1 ranked producer Mob Device joins us today, and we talk about all aspects of production: including experimentation, keeping it simple, EQ’ing your tracks, CamelPhat, and even the 80′s! I also ask him how he reached #1 in Beatport Chill-Out genre, and he tells all. Enjoy the show! Find out more about Mob Device and hear his tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/mobdevice Check out his Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mobdevice

So happy to have Defunk joining us on this show! Today we chat about: - how Defunk got into EDM - why having great album art is important - Propellerhead Reason and why it is his DAW of choice - which of his productions he is most proud of and much more! Hear Defunk’s music at: https://soundcloud.com/defunk-music Check out his facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DefunkOfficialMusic

Saleem Razvi from San Antonio joins us today for a great talk about killer VSTs and effects, how he produces a song, his successful steps to get signed to labels, and awesome advice on collaborating with other producers. Enjoy the show! Hear his tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/saleemrazvi Check him out of Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saleemrazvi

Flavours joins us this show to chat about his favorite production tips, how he uses Logic, and his production workflow. We also explore turntablism and how Flavours uses this to express himself and make his live shows an entertaining and memorable experience! Find out more about Flavours and hear his tracks: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/flavoursmusic Facebook: facebook.com/flavoursmusic Instragram: instagram.com/flavoursmusic Twitter: twitter.com/flavoursmusic

Hi-Tech Psychedelic Trance producer Apollyon joins us this week to talk about his craft. He divulges some incredible production tips, industry insights, internet resources and brings us into his world of the Psychedelic Trance scene. Enjoy! Find out more and hear his music at: https://soundcloud.com/nimai

Yunnuen Montes and DJ Idix join us along with their incredibly knowledgeable manager Octavio (Forza) to talk production (especially some killer Ableton tips), getting your music heard, and how to make yourself known in the EDM world. Find out more about the guys and hear their tunes here: Yunneun: https://soundcloud.com/user274728738 Idix: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1lOlZq1eLcGyln-sq2g1sA Forza: http://www.soundcloud.com/forza And also: www.tattvamusic.com