Music is not a game, but it's still a competition
The topic of the week is competition. More precisely, it's about analyzing what other house producers do, what separates their music from mine. I've chosen some recent releases on those respectable labels, trying to listen to them closely, find out the missing ingredient, that special something that made the label choose that particular track for their release. The tracks aren't really the biggest hits, neither are they necessarily my favorite tracks the last few years. I've simply chosen ones that would be stylistically at least somewhat similar to what I do, so they can be compared to my work. First in order is a track from the latest installation of Innervisions' series Secret Weapons. It's called On Two Strangers and it's by Thomas Gandey and Santiago Garcia. I've listened to it a few dozen times on a loop now, trying to understand what makes it tick and why did Innervisions choose this particular one on their compilation, instead of the