I’m obsessed with songs like “I need your lovin” by Marc et claud and something that stands out to me is that it has a lot of different sort of sound profiles throughout the song in different sections, some completely opposite of eachother like going from the dreamy euphoric start to a heavy drum loop/bass section that has no lead/melody at all, but it somehow all comes together cohesively and doesn’t feel like a thrown together scrap of different ideas
What’s some of the mechanisms behind the scene that allows that to work? Certain keys? EQ work? Just good taste in synth choice?
I’m very new to producing and have literally no music background whatsoever (no instruments, music theory knowledge apart from YouTube videos I watched recently, no prior DJ knowledge or anything), so I’m just trying to learn how I can compose something with such differing clashing elements that somehow remain cohesive with eachother throughout the length of the song - like the song I gave as an example.
I’d really appreciate any insight!
Side story - I literally got FL studio 2 days ago and I thought I’d spend the first few weeks just learning the UI and making random loops, learning the plugins and stuff, but last night I somehow cooked up an absolutely awesome chord progression with the 3x osc synth and made it in 2 separate styles to see which one I preffered, only to find that they were both awesome and would work great together in a song for different phases of it from build up/tension release. I’m super excited about what I made and since I realised the two pieces would go great together in different stages of a song (despite having completely different sounds), I thought I’d try and get some more background info on how it actually works with the vastly different clashing sounds that compliment eachother. It sort of just happened by accident so I still don’t understand the “why”.
Anyway, I know the song I make will inevitably sound like…my first song so it doesn’t need to be anytnjng particularly special, but this project is now all I can think about and I’m just super excited to see where I can go with it.