Please tell our readers who you are and what you do?
My name is Piotrek. I am 23 years old and I live in Poland. I am going to graduate from a university soon. In my freetime I am making electronic music in my "bedroom studio". I try to produce in various genres – progressive, tropical, future house and pop music.
How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years? Do you feel that changing tastes over years as artistic growth? ?
Music trends change and being attached to one specific genre might get you burnout. I keep an eye on newest music releases and I try to jump between different subgenres of house music. Many people advise to have your own sound and style. I would say it is not good to copy a specific arists. The rule I live by is that taking a tiny bit from your biggest inspirations and adding a big portion of your own creativity to it will eventually lead to your own unique sound. Analyzing other songs and watching what others did right is an important part of improvement for me.
Obviously my taste has changed over time. Out of many I would say the ones that inspired me the most are Vicetone, Zedd, Cash Cash and Calvin Harris.
What´s new right now?
I make a lot of music, out of which most does not get publicly released – still trying to secretly improve my craft. However from time to time I verify my skills in remix competitions.
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What was the biggest mistake you made when you started making music and what would be the number one tip you could give to a newcomer musician?
Before I started I thought that making music is easy – the melodies are so simple, it cannot be hard to me. I quickly realised how complex music production is – composition, sound design, music theory, mixing, mastering etc. All of that can be very overwhelming for a newcomer and comparing first tracks for professionals can be very discouraging and it actually takes a lot of time to make a good satisfying song. In the beginning I would say quantity is more important than quality – more quickly you will learn what sounds good together and as the time goes your ear gets trained, the production process gets more automatic.
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How do you get gigs? Can you share any tips?
I will let you know when I get one ?
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What has been your biggest challenge right now? Have you been able to overcome that challenge? If so, how?
The biggest challenge for me will be making music production full time. Right now I could spend a lot of time doing it, but it is not yet a reliable source of income. I will graduate from a university soon and will probably have to pick up a full time job which is going to mean less time for music production. Hopefully after some time it will be possible to become a full time music producer.
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How do you promote yourself? Do you have any specific promotion tips for other musicians?
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We meet again in one year. What has changed?
My current goal is to make music good enough that I could do it full time.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3UE5_St0guAN0BORsCwbaA
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