I've hit a writers block lately. Writing to a specific genre can be really challenging when your trying to follow all these crazy rules invented by people you have no knowledge of or respect for. While it's great to write a really typical dnb track with a standardized structure, a standard drum rhythm, standard mixing, standard sounds, standard this standard that, I begin to wonder where the fuck is the honest attempt at trying something different? Every now and then I get fed up with this standardized approach to making music and try to write an experimental track. It's a lot harder to write typical club or dance music simply because of all the strain artists end up putting on themselves to follow specific rules to perfect their music; something that's going to be subjectively enjoyable anyways.
I'll come out and say it, the only thing that a musician really knows is theory and the history of that theory. Western music could have evolved in any number of directions and had it not have been for arrogant pretentious assholes claiming to know something more than the rest of us, everything could have been better or worse. So before you start telling people how to think, realize that you don't really know anything but what you've been programmed to know. Try new things. Expand your expectations. Hang your opinions at the door and learn something new from everything you come across.
