Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

My production philosophy is basically that production should be approached as "its own instrument" basically. Kind of like coming up with interesting synthesizer patches that have a lot of musical value. I'm not at all fond of approaches that approach production in a more "clinical" way, where everything has to be at certain standard, relative levels in the mix, EQ'ed in typical ways, be necessarily "clean"-sounding, etc. Producers should experiment with timbres and tackle each project with a clean slate, where they're forgetting about norms and focusing on creating interesting sounds that serve as an additional artistic element shaping the whole.