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Just curious what are some techniques when producing fidgety, dirty, electro house.

With basslines cutting in and out, wobbling at different rates it's hard for me to even comprehend whats going on in the playing field. However, I love to create it and mess around with it.

2 recent examples shown here to give you a better understanding..

- http://soundcloud.com/hypstermusic-1

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxnaQ455lwc

ya, it can be hard to comprehend whats going on sometimes, i think the most important thing to think about is that not everything is playing at once in a track like that, but hen one part drops out, another comes in in its place. if you think of that it might help, cut out some parts of the bass, (or maybe the bass is what you have playing through all the time) but put other parts in the place of what you just cut out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcMtxpUAKcQ
that link should help get you on the right track.

Thanks for the tips guys, I have found a few tutorials myself.

Seems people are giving this type of music a genre named "Complex Electro" or Complextro.
(Have never heard it before).

Here's a tut I found..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjbcMHcGh1w

sidechain everything to the kick, everything... at inf ratio and about -25db, and learn about operator to get those metallic basslines, they are quite easy to achieve.

Here's another.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

Breaks Dude wrote:Here's another.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

...How's that for some inspiration.

Touche.

Watch this youtube vedio... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFQf0Jiq ... ure=relmfu

Breaks Dude wrote:Here's another.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

needs more wobble, cowbell