Well said, sandneil.

@ ShinigamiMachine: I mean like... they don't even have to be the same genre or anything. There are so many creative (and uncreative) ways to keep things coherent and related.

Hey I took this as just a humorous "what if..." comic relief question. It is not very relevant to what I think most people are thinking of this topic being about because, for example, the LSDJ equivalent would be "imagine an LSDJ releasing a VF5 only record, then a wav channel frame cycle speed 4 VFF only record, then a 402+Fine-tune=02-pulse-in-unison-with-the-other-pulse-channel only record, then a wav channel saw wave width modulation record" or something. But it was a funny question, and it was a thought provoking question according to some people in IRC. Not to be taken super super seriously as a super serious question I think.

It'd be kinda cool if somebody did do that as a concept and called it "jazz fission" or something

"tehse matters" are selling a product. value for money isnt a poor metric

yeah, why not?

yeah, why not?

i would have thought "depth" as a concept was related to having a lot of something

theres inevitably something lost when you dont release songs. namely ~the songs you dont release~. im not sure what you lose by releasing songs and then also releasing other songs

this topic is about "release formats" not about how many songs to write or how much of your time to dedicate to writing songs. in fact it gets said every day all the time by everyone that "quality > quantity" but thats not what this thread is about

¿Since when are questions considered points?

I was talking if you can imagine buying a record and the inlay notes saying FUZZ ONLY!  Can you?

What the fuck are you talking about? You're not good at making valid, coherent points.

I think this is the ideal way for me to make music because in my opinion that's where most of the innovative ideas\sounds come from, experimentation.

I don't mind if there are songs made on multiple platforms on the same album, for example Game Boy, C64, and NES, but if the mastering\mixing differs based on platform that might be a little off-putting. Though in all honesty I don't really care. It's up to the artist to decide what the theme(s) of the release should be.

My style always varies a little bit, though I think writing a group of songs within the same year or two generally makes them related enough (as they represent my general leanings/feelings around that time.)

I do prefer releases that are limited to a specific sound set or chip, so they are at least more sonically cohesive. I've done 2 Game Boy albums, an NES album, and plan to keep up with that grouping method in the future.

Value for money is a poor metric in these matters - by this logic, why not release any old thing that comes into your head? Why not make all your songs 10 minutes longer than they need to be? An artist who edits their own work ruthlessly may not produce a lot of material, but maybe the material is deeper and more enriching.

Not to say there's anything wrong with being prolific and releasing a lot of stuff, but there's inevitably something lost there. We all have limited time and ability, and there's a lot to be said (though it doesn't get said often these days) for using what you've been given to make something as good as possible rather than making as much of it as possible.

Basically what I meant.

Honestly I don't care. They can throw as much variety at me as they want. I like to be surprised by music. It's nice for things to be related, but they don't have to be "same" to be related.

I'd think one would be able to better tell a story with a variety of things.

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¿Can you imagine a rock band releasing a fuzz only record, then a muff only record, then a clean+phase only record, then a distortion record?

this sentence will fill up my boring day at work with deep silent metaphysical self debate

idc really

id rather be swamped with stuff & be able to find my own gems in it than be given a handful of tracks every few years in the name of consistency/coherence/other vague terms (ahihi bitshifter/blitz lunar)... the gold standard is the ropmusic releases with 50+ tracks.

a lot of weight is given to The Release but in the end its just that, a release. like a fart. it doesnt have to be a masterwork and ultimately its not really even up to you to decide what is/isnt your magnum opus.

im not saying "dont do a concept album" just dont let thoughts like these prevent you from sharing stuff you made with people who might enjoy it:
"these tracks dont 'fit' well together"
"this album is too long"
"this is an album but the chip scene prefers EPs"
"this album is too diverse"

ya if youre charging money for something maybe you need to try offering good value for money. but taking songs away isnt likely to increase the value for money ever

in another life I've worked on some projects for dancing and theater performances (I was on Reason+ friend on turntables then)

it was great for composition to have both general directions for every given tracks AND a global plot to follow... it gives a lot of ideas in terms of samples, instruments to use, different colors to add, a certain rythm to find between tracks.

same here. i feel that my proper releases should have a feel to them rather than just a bunch of random tracks banged together.

I've made more than enough music this year to put out several records but most of it doesn't fit together in a coherent release or it isn't good enough to release.