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Not sure if these will translate to what sort of stuff you put together, but for me, a combo of the following:
Pick a random key/mode to work in. I often default to a few options that seem to have me fall into repeating the same lines again and again. I've got both a "high-tech" (psuedo-random generation via script) and "low-tech" (a D12 and D8) solution to this which work very nicely.
Build out the instrumentation in a different order. Again, I have a relatively standard way of starting out a track. It's nice to flip that on it's head to see what comes out.
Take a track that you enjoy, dissect it to build out your arrangement in terms of empty blocks and build out those blocks to create something in the same form but very different sounding.
Definitely interested to hear other people's takes also.
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How do you all break creative stagnation? I'd tried taking a month off which initially got some ideas brewing, but I quickly lost steam. Since I've been setting up a series of simple tasks to keep me occupied but now it feels like I'm just stuck in a loop of doing the production equivalent of data-entry.