How to Produce a Track During Lockdown

SoLow, LaChap & ThatMan explain how they made the hit EP Battle Colours (Must be Special) - Poochy Harcourt Flavour from three remote locations during the 2020-21 Pandemic.

Every record has an overall feeling. That feeling could be excitement, joy, sorrow, hope, fear, and everything in between. A great track makes us sympathetic to the feeling that the musician was expressing when they wrote it.

Whenever you have a desire to express an emotion, imagine how you would put it in music. You may find that your imagination blends bits from other tracks you’ve heard in the past. If any of those memories stir up a good feeling, go find the tracks, listen to them and capture your favourite moments as audio files.

Don’t be afraid to base your track on another one. Simply copying something isn’t creative, but reinventing it is how progress works. Every work of art is inspired by what came before it and Humanity has only got this far because of the creative efforts of previous generations. Even Sir Isaac Newton admitted that his groundbreaking scientific discoveries were built on other people’s discoveries. He is quoted to have said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”.