experimentation also just does not exist anymore.
I took this gay little bass.
it's call The Enigma, it sounds horrible.
One of the worst midi basses I ever heard and no one would ever use it unironically.
Well
I used it, I played with it for weeks and became fascinated by how bad it sounds.
Finds out, if I phase shifted the signal it would make this crazy WHHEEEEEE sound anytime it played notes in ASCENDING order.
So you're over here going
dun dun dun, dun dun, dun, Da (weee), DAH (weee), DO (WEEEE).
And the bass sounds literally like an electric guitar it's absurd. Added a distortion on it, couldn't tell the difference.
So when I play bass on that song you're listening and like okay where is this going and when the bass solos come up you get this absurd guitar sound that no one could replicate in their heads and I get questioned to this day about.
You can't do that if you're playing it safe.
and most the zoom zooms don't understand that chaos is how good music was made.
switch random knobs, throw random effects on things.
Stop trying to make a song, because that's how bad songs are made.
Instead hyper focus on this weird sound, this weird idea, and trying to build order from that chaos.
literal citation
any industrial band
michael jacksons Thriller
any NIN song
Fucking Reznor throwing out Dorian scales left and right on nearly every song with those synth beats he does like in Terrible Lie, Ruiner, etc.
there is a reason that shit slaps you in the face.
It's just jazz baby, order from chaos.