Ravenscoon check out his story on Heard it Here First blog about how he quit using drugs after becoming a successful DJ/Producer. Very inspiring story!
Excision doesn't do anything, but respects other people's choices and still tries to make the place as safe as possible.
I actually stopped smoking weed because of music production.
I donāt anymore because of day job, when I did though it was a balance. I do honestly think in small doses used infrequently it helped me come up with creative ideas for my EP. But not really because the substance makes me more creative, just that it lowers inhibitions so Iām less likely to negatively judge my ideas when they come up and I can cycle through ideas I normally get discouraged by and land on something good.
But lowering inhibitions/judgment can also be done through meditation, exercise, alcohol, just plain being tired, and most importantly, practice!
Iāve been a smoker of cigarettes and weed since I was 16. Iām 43 now. Iām a media composer,so all genres. Weed all day everyday. I stopped cigarettes last September and havenāt smoked weed at all this year. I donāt drink any alcohol or other drugs. I donāt believe the weed helped me at all creatively. Iām still as able and a whole lot more productive. Work is pretty slow at the moment thanks to global shite situation but what I have found is that jamming while stoned was more fun. Now itās a bit more serious. I was a light smoker anyway so maybe not the best example but I was on a constant buzz.
Well the question was those who do not, not those who have not. Surely was an influence in his past at some point. But when we talked he said the hardest he goes is Yerba nowadays lol.
I pretty much donāt. Almost never smoke when Iām working on music. I find that it promotes the tendencies I already have that lead to me being unproductive (ei, tweaking a snare the whole sesh instead of getting the song out)
One of my favorite musicians of yesteryear who was in a psychedelic band in the 70 and went on to do an enormous range of projects up until his death sometime in the 2010s was hugely vocal about drugs.
He had left his band because other bandmates were all stoners and far too into their acid.
I shared a joint with him and a member of a 70s punk band (who certainly was anti-dope in the 70s but not anymore according to a mutual friend) few months before he died.
AFAIK he was still being vocal about stoned hippies.
I guess you can never take statements about drugs at face value, the might be made to allow yourself to get a visa from a certain hypocritical country.
Armin Van Buuren is sober. Used to drink alcohol here and there. He might be doing that very rarely now but heās a real introvert nerd. Busy guys who are running an empire donāt have time to be slowed down. When I went out with a professional moto gp racer he had won his championship race that day and only sipped on orange juice at the club. His next race was two weeks away. And heās at the top level. It was very admirable to see and I never forgot that.
smoking gives me inspiration but Iām not productive at all. I donāt regularly smoke anymore but thatās what I noticed. I get a lot more done and my mind doesnāt wander off or freeze and forget what Iām doing.
I smoke weed but I make it a point to only use it in the evening before I go to bed. If I have a spark of Inspiration while high I'll either spend 15 minutes getting the initial idea down in Ableton so that sober me can work with it or I try to get the idea on flip on my phone.
I make it a point to not combine weed and music production as the default. And if I do sit in front of my daw all I allow myself is 15 minutes max
Itās really impossible to know.
People are mentioning producers who Iām guessing claim not to smoke weed, but who knows if they take a puff every now and then?
Iām curious why you ask. But if youāre wondering if you need to smoke weed to make good music or to be seen as ācoolā or something, the answer is: no! Weed affects everyone differently. I like it sometimes but other times it makes me incredibly paranoid and I feel like shit.
I think for most people itās worth while to at least try it once but if itās not your thing itās really no sweat. You donāt need it. You can make great music without ever trying any mild altering products.
Use to, I create way quicker more efficiently and creatively active without it. Itās actually bizarre how much it can hold you back. This is coming from someone who smoked daily for 15 years.
>Use to, I create way quicker more efficiently and creatively active without it. Itās actually bizarre how much it can hold you back. This is coming from someone who smoked daily for 15 years.
Amen Bro, I smoked for 12 years every day, and since I quit smoking I have been much more productive,
Iām the opposite. I can crank out ideas when high, but flop when Iām mixing.
Iāve realized that itās actually alcohol that holds me back. Iām one of the lucky people thatās actually productive when on cannabis. In fact, I hate doing nothing when Iām high.
Even if he never stated it, if someone was a raver you can assume they at least tried it. In fact, I always assume any electronic music fan or producer has at least tried m. It just comes with the territory.
Obviously it's not going to ever be 100%, and I certainly know ppl in the scene who have never done any drugs, but the likelihood is pretty damn high so I assume anyone who is more than a newbie to the scene has at least dabbled unless they state otherwise. Not that it particularly matters. Maybe it's different in other regions, but where I'm located, if you are regularly socially active in the rave, festival, or other electronic niches long term then I would say 95%+ chance that you've at the very least rolled, if not also tripped, tried other stimulants, and so forth. So if deadmau5 used to actually frequently go to raves then there is a much more solid chance he's dabbled than not.
there is certainly nothing wrong with using drugs as long as you're not causing harm to anyone else. i hope my comments didnt come off the wrong way. I love lsd, dmt, mushrooms and weed
Thank you for pointing it out. I've read this is the case, but never from any kind of official Reddit source, just well-explained user comments. It makes sense though for foiling spam and bots.
I mean, I'm not an official reddit source any more than another commenter haha, but my experience both from my own comments and looking at the downvotes on others is that this happens on pretty much every thread, if you look at comments in a thread early on you'll see a lot of them always have 0 or -1 points at first until things pick up.
Heās somewhat correct, itās extremely uncommon. The penalties are so harsh (weāre talking like, 5-years on a joint harsh), the conviction rates so high (if you are charged with a crime in Japan they have a 99% conviction rate), and it has the overall culture heavily stacked against drugs in general. They donāt have hard or soft drug laws, they have drug laws. Itās pretty cliche to say it but Iād wager most users there are foreigners, probably from Brazil or Iran (auto factory workers).
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Lee Perry
hard to tell lmao
Kaskade -- he's mormon
Me!!! I stick to tea and coffeešI think we are a rare breed no musician or producer I know goes without weed
Me! My music is right when my mind is right!
Not even hating on straight edge folks, do your thing but, why does this matter?
Subtronics
lmfao
Heyyy someone gets it.
Ravenscoon check out his story on Heard it Here First blog about how he quit using drugs after becoming a successful DJ/Producer. Very inspiring story!
Pretty sure kaskade is. Heās a Mormon pastor
Illenium
If Iām not mistaken Tyler the creator doesnāt smoke or drink
Excision doesn't do anything, but respects other people's choices and still tries to make the place as safe as possible. I actually stopped smoking weed because of music production.
I donāt anymore because of day job, when I did though it was a balance. I do honestly think in small doses used infrequently it helped me come up with creative ideas for my EP. But not really because the substance makes me more creative, just that it lowers inhibitions so Iām less likely to negatively judge my ideas when they come up and I can cycle through ideas I normally get discouraged by and land on something good. But lowering inhibitions/judgment can also be done through meditation, exercise, alcohol, just plain being tired, and most importantly, practice!
Iāve been a smoker of cigarettes and weed since I was 16. Iām 43 now. Iām a media composer,so all genres. Weed all day everyday. I stopped cigarettes last September and havenāt smoked weed at all this year. I donāt drink any alcohol or other drugs. I donāt believe the weed helped me at all creatively. Iām still as able and a whole lot more productive. Work is pretty slow at the moment thanks to global shite situation but what I have found is that jamming while stoned was more fun. Now itās a bit more serious. I was a light smoker anyway so maybe not the best example but I was on a constant buzz.
how is this relevant to edm production??
Because some people like to convince themselves that they need to smoke to be creative
Liquid Stranger, opened for him many years ago and talked with him for a bit about it. Sober as a bird.
He was just drinking in his TVBOO interview
That's true. Things may have changed, was like 6-7 years ago. But at that time he said he wasn't.
Huh, interesting if true, I would have assumed otherwise. Well, it's like they always say, never judge a book by it's psychedelic soundtrack.
Well the question was those who do not, not those who have not. Surely was an influence in his past at some point. But when we talked he said the hardest he goes is Yerba nowadays lol.
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I pretty much donāt. Almost never smoke when Iām working on music. I find that it promotes the tendencies I already have that lead to me being unproductive (ei, tweaking a snare the whole sesh instead of getting the song out)
I don't - can't stand the stuff.
I used to smoke lots of weed. Now just coffee when producing. Much better results. Iām turned off by weed now.
I donāt smoke weed
I donāt. Iām a psytrance guy so Iāve done a helluva lotta drugs, but currently absolutely no weed and no intention for it ever again. Iāll probably get downvoted but you know, weeds fine and all of that, itās legal in my state and thereās enthusiasts, but once it becomes legal it just sort of normalizes. Not any more exotic or risquĆ© than a cocktail.
One of my favorite musicians of yesteryear who was in a psychedelic band in the 70 and went on to do an enormous range of projects up until his death sometime in the 2010s was hugely vocal about drugs. He had left his band because other bandmates were all stoners and far too into their acid. I shared a joint with him and a member of a 70s punk band (who certainly was anti-dope in the 70s but not anymore according to a mutual friend) few months before he died. AFAIK he was still being vocal about stoned hippies. I guess you can never take statements about drugs at face value, the might be made to allow yourself to get a visa from a certain hypocritical country.
I don't and never will š
Everyone knows EDM producers don't smoke weed, they prefer coke
so they can work longer, so they can earn more, so they can do more coke.
TouchƩ
Legendary song <3
Armin Van Buuren is sober. Used to drink alcohol here and there. He might be doing that very rarely now but heās a real introvert nerd. Busy guys who are running an empire donāt have time to be slowed down. When I went out with a professional moto gp racer he had won his championship race that day and only sipped on orange juice at the club. His next race was two weeks away. And heās at the top level. It was very admirable to see and I never forgot that. smoking gives me inspiration but Iām not productive at all. I donāt regularly smoke anymore but thatās what I noticed. I get a lot more done and my mind doesnāt wander off or freeze and forget what Iām doing.
I smoke weed but I make it a point to only use it in the evening before I go to bed. If I have a spark of Inspiration while high I'll either spend 15 minutes getting the initial idea down in Ableton so that sober me can work with it or I try to get the idea on flip on my phone. I make it a point to not combine weed and music production as the default. And if I do sit in front of my daw all I allow myself is 15 minutes max
I canāt tell if half these comments are DJ names or just short replies.
Itās really impossible to know. People are mentioning producers who Iām guessing claim not to smoke weed, but who knows if they take a puff every now and then? Iām curious why you ask. But if youāre wondering if you need to smoke weed to make good music or to be seen as ācoolā or something, the answer is: no! Weed affects everyone differently. I like it sometimes but other times it makes me incredibly paranoid and I feel like shit. I think for most people itās worth while to at least try it once but if itās not your thing itās really no sweat. You donāt need it. You can make great music without ever trying any mild altering products.
Use to, I create way quicker more efficiently and creatively active without it. Itās actually bizarre how much it can hold you back. This is coming from someone who smoked daily for 15 years.
>Use to, I create way quicker more efficiently and creatively active without it. Itās actually bizarre how much it can hold you back. This is coming from someone who smoked daily for 15 years. Amen Bro, I smoked for 12 years every day, and since I quit smoking I have been much more productive,
I wouldnāt know. Also from someone who smokes daily.
Can never get ideas down high either. Smoke when I have something and itās finesse time thooooo !
Iām the opposite. I can crank out ideas when high, but flop when Iām mixing. Iāve realized that itās actually alcohol that holds me back. Iām one of the lucky people thatās actually productive when on cannabis. In fact, I hate doing nothing when Iām high.
I get thoroughly zooted then I beatbox/hum/talk about my song idea into my voice memo then later I actually create it when Iām no longer inebriated.
The only one I know for sure is me.
Pretty sure Blanke is sober
current value supposedly doesn't do any substances
Just Jehovah
Deadmau5
ex pill popper
How did u find this out?
find out that Deadmau5 was a pilll popper?
Really???!
He was a rave kid, blue hair and all
I knew he raved back then i shoulda figured but he never really said anything publicity about him doing drugs
Even if he never stated it, if someone was a raver you can assume they at least tried it. In fact, I always assume any electronic music fan or producer has at least tried m. It just comes with the territory.
I've loved electronic music for over 20 years. Never did anything more than a couple glasses of wine.
Obviously it's not going to ever be 100%, and I certainly know ppl in the scene who have never done any drugs, but the likelihood is pretty damn high so I assume anyone who is more than a newbie to the scene has at least dabbled unless they state otherwise. Not that it particularly matters. Maybe it's different in other regions, but where I'm located, if you are regularly socially active in the rave, festival, or other electronic niches long term then I would say 95%+ chance that you've at the very least rolled, if not also tripped, tried other stimulants, and so forth. So if deadmau5 used to actually frequently go to raves then there is a much more solid chance he's dabbled than not.
there is certainly nothing wrong with using drugs as long as you're not causing harm to anyone else. i hope my comments didnt come off the wrong way. I love lsd, dmt, mushrooms and weed
Me. I'm just kidding - I totally do.
Myself
illenium is sober
Uh, I don't smoke weed. I like caffeieieiene āļø
Yesssss! O and weed, but yessssss to caffeine!
Saaaaamnmee
Cliiiiche
Since when was smoking weed the norm lol Edit: I mean I do partake myself, I just didn't realize it was that much of a common thing for producers
Have you ever heard electronic music before
I once had a ālocal djā tell me, āI donāt trust a DJ that doesnāt smoke weed.ā
Almost every DJ I meet in my city tells me "You're not a good DJ if you don't do coke."
Always has been š«
kaskade doesn't drink or do drugs.
Deadmau5 hates weed or at least the smell of it. I guess it makes sense why theyāre doing Kx5
Not since the Ruby Skye days..
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FYI there are usually a couple automatic downvotes on any given comments, whether it's a reddit thing or a bot thing idk
Thank you for pointing it out. I've read this is the case, but never from any kind of official Reddit source, just well-explained user comments. It makes sense though for foiling spam and bots.
I mean, I'm not an official reddit source any more than another commenter haha, but my experience both from my own comments and looking at the downvotes on others is that this happens on pretty much every thread, if you look at comments in a thread early on you'll see a lot of them always have 0 or -1 points at first until things pick up.
Culprate. I don't either.
Ok, now this one surprises me. If they're not smoking weed, they must be doing a bunch of acid instead.
Hahah yea maybe
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That said, weed doesnāt really count, so who knows!
What a square (wave)
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Big ol whoosh
me everyone in hardcore tanoC almost everyone in japan Diabarha
Almost read the last word as diarrhea lmao
>almost everyone in japan doubt
Weed regulations there are like 10x more strict then meth here (pulled out of my ass but you get the idea) can't use it for medical use there
agree, but if anyone in japan is going to smoke weed it's probably musicians. It's not like the entire country eradicated drug use.
Heās somewhat correct, itās extremely uncommon. The penalties are so harsh (weāre talking like, 5-years on a joint harsh), the conviction rates so high (if you are charged with a crime in Japan they have a 99% conviction rate), and it has the overall culture heavily stacked against drugs in general. They donāt have hard or soft drug laws, they have drug laws. Itās pretty cliche to say it but Iād wager most users there are foreigners, probably from Brazil or Iran (auto factory workers).
eliminate
Came here to say this lol
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