After listening to various genres of music today on the good ol‘ faithful last, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that musical production effort and complexity seems to be much simpler than first thought. So simple in fact, that I’m almost proposing myself to produce a track this year. Note the almost.

Listening mainly to a wide range of electronica, nu-disco, electro-pop, electro-dance, and every other electronic funky disco nuance to come from the kids today, the track structure and their elements just seemed overwhelmingly simple on listening. Calvin Harris’s new track for example, I’m Not Alone is so basic is actually quite unreal. Now, you can argue sure, KISS, but seriously, I can’t imagine that song really took him longer than 4-5 days to produce from scratch, and the majority of the track is just a very simple trance beat with some pauses in, following the vocal introduction.

I’m not going to dissect the entire thing here, but really, I’d like to produce a song this year. My mixing skills are now pretty good and without serious repetitive work I think I’d find it hard to progress further on in that area (bar moving to other media which I’ll be doing).

Production it is. Anyone know a good place to start?