2. What styles of music are on the EP? - Ambient Music.
3. What genre would you categorise the EP as? It can be more than one. - Electro, Hip-Hop and R&B influenced.
4. In terms of the style/artistic content - are you happy with the EP? Tell me about the strengths and weaknesses of your music. - I am kind of happy with how some of the tracks turned out but not satisfied with the final product because I feel I could of worked a lot harder in some tracks to bring it up to life a bit more, I also feel that I should've used more instruments and singers. It was also an idea that came together instead of being planned for it to come together. The strength of the E.P itself is the atmosphere that the whole E.P brings and the emotion behind each track, It made me happy with that because it was exactly what I wanted the E.P to have. The weaknesses was probably the mixing, after hearing back the tracks I realised I should've mixed the tracks better, an example of that is 'Old Man', The main lead in that track is barely hearable because I kept the main lead quite. Another weakness in this E.P is the musicality, sometimes I felt like my tracks were too long to listen to due to the lack of solo's and musicality, due to my lack of music theory.
5. Musically - How well does your EP fit into the genre you work in? Compare your work to your favourite artist - My E.P fits well with the genre of the artists I listen to, there is lots of similarities for example I used lots of dreamy pads, smooth lead sounds, sampled noises and hip-hop influenced drum beats which are aspects of 'Flying Lotus' and 'Catching Flies' have on their E.P and they are the people that inspired me to make a E.P with this kind of vibe. Old Man is a track that was very heavily influenced from 'Flying Lotus' due to the very heavy side chain compression attached to the kick triggering the pads making a bounce effect, which can be heard on his track called the 'The Kill' and another of his track called 'Tea Leaf Dancers'. Also the track which I made called 'Giving All To Up' is influenced by 'Catching Flies' Song which he remixed called 'Live Sized Ghost'. I have heard the original track and I really liked what catching flies done to change the feel of the track, so I done a song with the same type of mood that he brought on to his remix.
6. In terms of technical standard (recording/mixdowns) - are you happy with the EP? Tell me about the strengths and weaknesses of your music. - For some songs I am very happy with how I mixed and the standard of the whole E.P is to a good level, what made me even more proud was that I didn't use expensive equipment to get the end result, but I used reasonable monitors to do my mix downs so the result was a good one. There was also a few songs that I over mixed meaning that I spend too much time on it, so I kind of lost sense of how the track should of sounded. On other tracks the mix down was done to quickly and after I re-played it I realised I should've spent more time on them. You can say that the strength of the E.P's technical standard is the space each instrument has for each track. The weaknesses is over using plug-ins like side chain compression due to the hard time you have mastering after.
7. Technically - How well does your EP fit into the genre? Compare your work to your favourite artists - Technically my work does not meet the standard of the artist's I listen to because the amount of money that they spend more than I do, the years of experience that they have more than me, but I think that I am heading at the right direction to achieve the same result, if not a better result.
8. Did you collaborate with other musicians/artists on your EP? - No because I wanted it to be a more instrumental E.P more than a normal track E.P, I felt that I could of lost a lot of the impact that the E.P has by choosing people to collaborate with me. I am not technically good enough to get people working with the same ideas at me.
9. Who did you work with in the studio? What roles did they fill? How did this help you complete your EP? - To complete my E.P I mainly stayed at home and my task was to be a sound engineer/producer/artist for my own E.P. Those were the roles that I took in order to make the E.P, I feel that I have learnt a lot by filling these roles because it gave me more insight: A good example of this is when I listen to a track I listen to it musically, technically and lyrically and these are the ears you have to put on as a Producer/sound engineer and artist if you want to improve your mix and your track in general.
10. What was the most important piece of equipment you used when making your EP? How did you use it? Why was this the most important? - My most important piece of equipment was my macbook pro and my bose headphones, these two different equipment were vital to me especially when I was travelling and I wanted to write an idea down, It was vital that I had these two pieces of equipment. Without my macbook pro I could not use logic pro (software), without my bose headphones I could not hear the quality that I needed to hear to improve my mixing. Even though bose headphones are not made for mixing I found out a very important aspect about mixing which is that it is not what equipment you have but how you teach your ears to listen, I can probably mix better on my bose headphones then a lot of monitors.
11. Give me an example of a studio session that went really well. What was good about the session? Why? - An example of a studio session that went really well was when me and elliot grabbed all the equipment that we needed, got ready in half an hour and we had at least 4 hours of recording with the singer. The reason why the session went well was that we used half an hour to allow the singer to warm her vocals up and we used that time to get all the equipment ready to record. When the singer came in to the session to record she was much more confident and the session became much more productive. I have learnt that the technique that was taught by our tutor phil is to make the singer comfortable by bringing the singer water, making the singers laugh and being friendly.
12. What is your favourite track on your EP? Why is it your favourite? - My favourite track is giving all the up and the reason why This is my favourite track is because the track feels like a step up in progression from all the tracks I did before. It is also nicely mixed and I got a good response from people that heard it.
13. What are you going to do with your completed EP? Send to labels? Post online for free? What are your plans for the future? - My plan is to get it well mastered by a sound engineer and then to release it online for free to see if I can increase my fan base or get people interested in working with me in the future.
14. What is the most important thing you have learnt when creating your EP? - The most important thing I learnt is that you can learn a lot from your class mates and you can share skills to improve each others work. Team work was the most important thing I have learnt from making this E.P and also being inspired by every day things helps your creativity.
15. What was your most recent music purchase? - My most recent purchase was latin music
16. How much money do you spend on music every month? - £20
17. How much money do you spend going to gigs/clubs? - Not a lot
18. How do you plan to make a career in the music industry? What are your future plans? - I am planning on making a recording studio in the near future and eventually owning my own label.
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