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The Advanced Guide to Tension and Energy in Electronic Music - EDMProd. Sometimes, I feel that bedroom producers focus too much on the minor aspects of electronic music production and not enough on fundamental musical concepts that have aided musicians for centuries. I was one of those bedroom producers. Most of us are when we start out. We want to learn how to make complex bass sounds or massive build-ups. We want to make something cool that’ll impress our peers. There’s nothing inherently wrong with learning how to make a Tchami bass or craft a spine-tingling build-up, but they aren’t fundamentals.

What are the fundamentals? One fundamental would be music theory, another would be basic synthesis (which is more necessary than you think, even if you don’t use presets). But this article isn’t about fundamentals as a whole – that would require a book to be written. Unfortunately, there isn’t a great deal of information–at least on the internet–about these two fundamentals, especially for the modern producer.

Here’s an overview of what the post covers: Who’s it for? Binary Heap | Thoughts, Research and Experimentation with Electronic Music, Art and Photography. Attack Magazine - Dance music production and culture.