I've certainly taken a new liking to Adam Young's music - finding all the instrumentals I can and all the unreleased stuff of his that nobody really knows about (look up Adam Young Boise).

Dude's really talented. His whole Ocean Eyes album is self-produced, meaning that he composed all the music, arranged all the synths, did all the little clicks and beeps you hear (those 'clicks' are amazing and I'll tell you why in a sec). I've heavily adapted a lot of his style into my own music, and yet every time I listen to a track of his, I'm blown away by the detail.

Detail. Those 'clicks', or hi-hats as they're technically called, are goddamn amazing. It's a shit-ton of detail that nobody really knows about because the majority of people don't really have an ear for those details. What Adam does is he loads like ten of these hi-hat sounds and plays them with varying volume (technically called velocity), varying panning (left or right), and in differing sequences. When I focus on the hi-hat track in an instrumental of his Ocean Eyes songs, I'm astounded by how much work went into them.

Adam Young is incredibly talented, whether you like him or not. He's served as a huge inspiration for a lot of my music, and perhaps someday, if I'm lucky enough, I'll get to meet him, and if the stars of fortune are shining upon me, maybe I'll get some insight on how he produces.