Progressive House - Dash Berlin, Kaskade, Eric Prdyz, Zedd, Sander van Doorn etc anything that builds up and then drops

Main/Big Room House - Hardwell, afrojack, stuff for festivals really.. anything big room means festivals lol

I dunno, theres not really genres anymore, everything is kinda mixed now

you need a trademark sound that people know you for, you want someone to be like 'oh thats tom, he's the best house dj/producer that i know of'

but you can always experiment with other sounds, just dont go genre hopping when a sound becomes popular, be yourself, follow the market and trends a little to stay relevant you know? so you know whats going on in the world, but dont limit yourself to one sound

because its in you and you love to do it, I started off djing and then got curious to know how a piece of music was made

nowadays i cant spend a day without looking at ableton live, it makes me happy and peaceful, like flow in life, its the best time to be making music now with a computer

freshly squeezed samples has lots of trance content used by the pros but vengeance always works

Hi all, Maarten vorwek gathered all his tips of the week and created a book as a xmas present for producers as posted on his Facebook page, its good material for all producers to all have

get it now while it's still online
http://www54.zippyshare.com/v/wYMSCRk1/file.html

Ghost producing is such a dirty word but its important, all the big rappers like jay z and kanye west have ghost producers, in the pop world, justin bieber and all that have ghost producers, even the great thomas edison had ghost producers and engineers working for him, obama has a team of advisors to advise him what to do, etc people love steve jobs for apple but it was wozniack and Jonathan Ive who are the true designers. i dont see that as any different to electronic music, because when money is involved people want to get involved, i dunno ghost producing works both ways, if you're a talented producer without a name yet, a big dj can get involved and help you, once you get better you can develop your brand, etc, mark sixma was ghost producing for years before he made a name for himself, nicky romero was a ghost producer for david guetta, and now has a big name, people criticise armin but armin is the only reason why trance is still alive and strong today, armin is the greatest and i would ghost produce for him if it helped my career haha LOL.
you need the right attitude/skills and to meet a person who gives you a chance for a career to happen, theres just no money in producing with illegal downloads, torrent etc its gig ticket sales and spotify streams, youtube etc, but at the end of the day we all make music cause we love and enjoy to do it.

luke bond!!  your productions are top quality, how do you do it? Reflex sounds so fat and good

Ableton live is the best to work with imo cause its simple