Unique Selling Point

You dont have to say exactly what you do but if you care to share how you make yourself stand out from the rest of the beat makers, I'd love to know

Take influences from others but pursue your own style.

Listen to Hip Hop, D&B, Dubstep, Classical or whatever, and find out what makes them work... then shuffle up the various elements like a deck of cards and see what happens. Where do you think new styles and sub- genres come from?

Forget about being "unique" or having any kind of "selling point"... they both cancel each other out in the music industry, unless you're fantastically talented or lucky.

Being told your music is "dope" is flattering but ultimately meaningless. The day someone tells you your track destroyed a dance floor or took them to an entirely different place, will be much more rewarding. I'm still waiting on that, but I'm not giving up hope...


If you were asking for specific techniques I apologise.

I just like certain type of beats/ sounds and samples.
So I may hear a sample on a record that will get all my inspiration going instantly, while the next guy doesn't even bother to check that part of the song again.

For example same thing with drumsounds. My drums have to sound a bit 'dusty'. Because I like my drums to sound that way, and a lot of times it also compliments my style of music. I can't get that sound out of drumlibraries, and even going through songs I might skip a lot of drums that I'm not happy sampling with.

All those small choices and different way of processing things contributes to the fact that almost everybody sounds different. Off course I really taught myself a few techniques because I wanted my beats to sound like this or that.
But most of the things that are significant to my sound just developed automatically while honing my skils.

By following my ears (heart).
If it sounds good, keep doing it.
Do you.

Stay true to yourself and true to what you do. I make what my ears want to hear and not what is trendy. I think doing what someone else is doing is copying and bogs you down to a crowd instead of being a distinquished artist.

Ill-Green wrote:I make what my ears want to hear and not what is trendy.

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