Energy

hey im very interested by your point about negative space. Is there any particular reggae songs you recommend? Maybe you can elaborate a little more on the topic?

You actually will get more "lift" by removing the bass drum and/or bassline for a few bars and then bringing back than an over the top snare roll or stacking layer upon layer on top hoping to build some big energy. Negative space (aka: quiet and silent parts) is absolutely the most important and under-utilized element of music writing nowadays. Listen to reggae and you will see what I mean. There are big gaps between the hits, the bass notes, the offbeats, etc. And that is some seriously groovey stuff. Too much dubstep is wall to wall flatlined noise, hence it lacks groove. Use rests and don't let your 4 bar loop to play more than twice... 15-20 years ago that was how it was done, nowadays you will put people to sleep.

sometimes when you add too much you started to lose the energy as the sounds are clashing. solution is to clean the mix a bit by doing some quick mixing: high pass everything except drums and bass, remove unneeded frequencies from instruments, etc

you'll feel more energy when it's not all mud and rumble

Hey,

Quite obvious equal energy level maintenance through out the music note is the prime requisite. Drum and base add up to this energy level. At the same time it is required from the person too playing the notes.

hey im very interested by your point about negative space. Is there any particular reggae songs you recommend? Maybe you can elaborate a little more on the topic?

?? Nothing wrong with that
I assume he's talking about generally giving the song a high-cut at around 19-20 khz, a general low-cut at around 30-40 Hz plus individual low cuts on instruments depending on their main frequency range. So on strings you will want to cut everything beneath 100Hz or more for example.
This all might reduce mud and rumble but I don't believe it will really enhance your songs energy if there was a lack.

You are just joking right?

Hey,

Quite obvious equal energy level maintenance through out the music note is the prime requisite. Drum and base add up to this energy level. At the same time it is required from the person too playing the notes.

Energy is all about push and pull at different strata of the track. Tension and release. Lack of dynamism equals boredom equals lack of dancing and head banging. So... where does the dynamism happen? Lots of places:

Volume levels - differences in parts of the track, between instruments, and even within the riffs of a single instrument.
Negative space - this is huge. Really it's a rhythmic component. Silence bangs as hard as the baddest bass when used right. The drop in a track is a typical example. More subtle creates tons of suspense and energy.
Harmonic relationships - Music theory is good. The energy you get from tension and release between frequencies is pretty much the fundamental core of music, along with percussion. This goes for frequencies that are closer to one another, like melody, as well as contrast between ranges, ie bass/body frequencies and high/head frequencies.
The Rhythm - Change it up!! Static rhythms put people to sleep. Vary those patterns at the end of 4, 8, 16 bars (turnaround/fill). Change the whole pattern, and all the instruments, in different sections. Human beings respond to drums on a deep, subconscious level.
Groove - the swing, shuffle and location of "the pocket" inside the rhythm is where the real head-bobbin' comes in. Hard to describe, but so important. Lots of EDM producers are guilty of making completely grid-locked, quantized music with no groove. But hey, that's a valid exploration too.

Just my 2 cents. If I had to sum it up in a phrase, it'd be "Contrast and Variation"