The check in station

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Nice thread.

I’m spread too thin these days, too many interests not enough time. as always.

Looks like the death metal band is going on tour next June, and the full length debut seemed to go over well. We peaked at like 2500 monthly listeners on spotify so that’s neat, 70 countries reached.

Black metal band just finished recording the debut and it’s easily the best thing I’ve ever been a part of, doing drums and half vocal duties, too.

Still somehow trying to find time to crank out the oil painting sessions and keep that going, especially for album art for all this shit.

Aye, I can’t wait to fucking retire, granted, hopefully my job and hobbies don’t kill my body too hard before 55 (my pension age) or it’ll be a pretty raw deal to keep doing extreme drumming, ha. Then it’ll just be full time joints and synths.

glad to read everyone is truckin’ along good. <3

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I know i cant be the only one going trough this.. One day i feel like making IDM (plug like ) beats, the next its ..dub step, next is breakbeat or rave, next is ambient… in a week an album is done (every week). Why cant i only focus on idm glitch vibe, i wish the other genres would just delete em selves from my brain. Ahhhh

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That’s very relatable,
I wanted to focus on Shitcore/“Furry Gabber” when I started producing… (Yes, that is a genre, and some of it’s not bad. Especially the breakbeat infused stuff.) Even speedcore was one of my favourite genres (still is…)

Now I’m a fucking UPTEMPO/RAWTEMPO HARDCORE and DnB producer
what the hell happened?

I think it’s good to just enjoy making slappin’ beats, regardless of genre
Some pieces won’t even belong to a specific genre, but if it sounds good, who cares? I’ve yet to hear your tracks, but I’m sure that they’re bangers (they’re an idm forum goer’s, of course they’ll slap.)

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You are most welcome, i heard “HIGHS AND LOWS”, its very fun music you are making. On Mondays my brain tends to try for dnb stuff, on Tuesdays its IDM or braindance, then its mostly random. You are right, if it sounds good its fine :wink: Good to know im not going crazy by myself :stuck_out_tongue:

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dubstep is a hard thing to shake off lmao

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Yo, whaddup peeps!

Hope everyones been well. Thought I’d give a quick random ass update about things from today:

  1. Last night, I stole first place in the leaderboard on duolingo from some lady who was racing me. It was literally down to 30 seconds. I stopped for a while because she got ahead of me by a few hundred points. Then i logged back on after about 15 minutes and she was off. So i busted ass and took it right out from under her. What a fuckin’ scrub, get good Diana.

  2. I got new jars for my sourdough started that dont fucking suck ass. So that’s cool. We’ve been baking a lot recently. It’s kinda nice to have essentially an endless supply of delicious breads.

  3. I finally got one corner of my studio / chill space in order. Finally framed and put up some artwork i’ve had for a while, including an original Himukalt collage (which I fucking love) and some other gems from a few of my favorite artists. I celebrated by playing for the first time my copy of Surachai’s Heavy Mask.

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Here are the artist names if you’re interested in any of the images

Himukalt (Ester Karkkainen) - center Image
Maena Paillet - Left painting
Nona Limmen - Right photograph

  1. For those that have not seen the other thread, I’m in the middle of adding a section the the forum called the “Knowledge Base”. It’s a community resource for users that want to learn about certain aspects of music making, and those that want to contribute written or video tutorials, articles, etc. It’s coming along well, and I have the base of it. It exists, but it’s only viewable by admins until i get it all sorted. Then I’m gonna let everyone have at it if they wish, and will probably contribute several articles myself.

Anyway, that’s all i got. I gotta go get the boys ready for bed. Cheers all!

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What language are you doing on Duolingo? I used to do spanish to knock to rust off my highschool spanish, but now I’m doing japanese so that I’m not completely helpless in Japan when I visit later this year.

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My wife and I are learning Swedish. It was sort f a random impulse, but now i’m like “Well, i guess if shit gets super fucked over the next four years we can just immigrate and know roughly how to talk to people” haha

I did Japanese for a while, i have a bunch of friends that do it, but i have a hard time remembering to do my lessons, and then before long i’ve dropped the habit all-together.

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Diana isn’t your wife is she? Would be pretty funny if it was.

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As of recently i got a new computer that i can actually use so for right now im working on my noise project. Ill post some test demos here and there to see if my expermenting has paid off. My musical ear cant really tell if its good or bad for some reason.

For my experimental/math metal project i got an audio interface, but its kinda crappy and i have to fix the clipping and cutting out issues. So yet another delay on the demo.

Some dude broke 4 metacarpals in my foot on Decmeber 4th. Got surgery on christmas week, and the pain has been getting a pot better. Been doing exercises to combat pneumonia and blood clots, and ive stopped taking painkillers for the first time around 5 days ago.
I kinda just go with the flow with everything, especially now.

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No, but that would be funny as hell. haha!

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I’m a little sad that I’m posting here after so long and not in the listening booth or something, but I’ve been so damn busy recently with work and my kids, I haven’t had time for hardly any projects, including music.

How’s everyone been? The Comp sounds great, lots of good stuff on there. :slight_smile: Nice curation @Manton.

I’m gonna go try and steal another duolingo trophy from some bitch while I watch my kids on the baby monitor. They’re going through a sleep regression hard, and it’s been kind of a nightmare. lol. They’re like little ticking time bombs.

Hope everyone is well, glad to see that this place is fairly active. :slight_smile:

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I’m actually going through a point in my life where I’m both struggling and also thriving.

I’ve never been more musically vibrant than right now… but I also haven’t been this embarrassingly broke in a long time. I lost my job because I lost my voice, footnote it was the mental strain caused by the loss of voice that actually caused me to cauterize (aka self destruct) my job as a bartender. that said after much effort, I officially finally broke out of the golden-handcuff industry of bartending and got a job in data research with a health insurance company, which I see as a stepping stone for building my resume…said the middle aged man (Idgaf about my resume) but it’s probably gonna suck. maybe it won’t! I have no idea. I start on Monday. I’ll make the most of it and grind grind grind… work long hours. I’m gonna fuckin put a lot of effort into it. they offer overtime and double time.

I have been so fucking sick of being a front facing booze server for like, seriously ten years. I am fucking amazing at it and people are like “wow you’re such a great bartender” lol i hated every moment of it.

I also am seeing the treachorous grass is always greener thing where I’m going to be turned upside down socially. at the same time, I am excited for it.

My health hasn’t been great. That’s another thing.

My marriage and home life is pretty awesome. I have a wife who supports me, god knows why. I am such a little bitch sometimes. Every little dumb quip and attitude angsty bullshit thing you guys have ever seen me write out on here, my wife occasionally gets to experience from me in real time. I am trying to be a better person.

I’m turning 40 in june. I’ve already been making the steps to not be a complete piece of shit for a few years now. It’s just a slow process.

Released the first subquire EP today. listening party was fun. i’m enjoying putting the labor of love effort into my music. I feel like for the first time ever I’m experiencing true internal wealth through my musicality.

I’ve started setting myself up to be a sort of one man band situation with my acoustic piano and synths plus Ableton (looping and what not) and also learning how to stream it and have it not sound like complete garbage. every time i do it I learn new things and improve. I feel like at this point in my life I’m learning more than i ever did in college in my 20s and in being a fucktard in my 30s.

Since losing my voice (it’s like 80% back now btw) I have been more reserved. I yearn for solitude. social gatherings are a chore. I do love my friends and family but I just feel the need to be alone mostly these days. It’s probably because I’m fucking broke…

my friends, the last 6 months of my life have been kind of surreal. it’s hard to describe. that is all. much love to all of you and hope you all are doing well.

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Gets those multiple sources of income going…

With the normal job job…,being a musician…, and also i feel like you could earn some extra cash by being a freelance copywriter…and make advertisements for both big businesses and small business with your in depth knowledge of art technology.

Like i said multple sources of income.
:100::grin:

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thanks for mentioning this and saying that, appreciate it brotha. I actually have been lowkey trying to amass a series of my writings together for a CV to do exactly that. just need to do that before I start putting myself out there, but yeah I do love writin werdz

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Also freelance graphic designer…which all of us on these boards have some experience with

:100:

Graphic design and copywriting often go hand in hand…so :+1:

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Yeah, man. You’re turning into me - service industry burnout that got their shit together late and learned to view and love life a different way. As someone intimately close to that situation + a decade or two, I’m going to call it a big win on the other side of the mirror. Things are just…smoother. More together. I do things because I want to and not because I’m expected to. I’m just more settled. I think a lot of it is being out of the whirlwind of constant forced social interaction where it’s sort of hard to breathe, much less stop and get your bearings. I hope you get there, too, because it feels pretty good most of the time.

Sounds like a potentially great opportunity. Data science is hot hot hot and likely here to stay. Be curious, because knowing how to do shit is cool. Yeah, you’ll be doing scutwork to get your foot in the door, but there’s a crazy high skill ceiling there if you want to chase it (the way there isn’t in service jobs) - programming, mathematics, statistics, visualization, all sorts of socio-political and econ stuff, and on and on. And best of all, it’s the kind of skillset that applies to anything you can collect enough data on, so you can go off on your own and do interesting things with those skills. Also tends to pay well and come with nice benefits.

protip - most of those people are super fucking nerdy about their job. Find out where the data goes when it leaves your hands and talk to those people about what they do and how they do it. They’re usually more than happy to talk shop with interested people.

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It truly is so great to read this. Thank you so much @Artificer for this encouraging and uplifting response. Made my week.

I know I’m headed somewhere. Where exactly… I’m not sure – I just know I’m moving forward, which is a lot more to say about my trajectory than what my life and self-worth has been for the last 12 years.

I actually remember the exact moment I stopped loving bartending and yeah it was about 12 years ago. I’ve been in the service industry for about 18 years total. Can’t believe I couldn’t bring myself around to change my life and choices around for sooo long. It’s just so comfortable. Props to people that love it and that’s their life’s work… I salute you. In no way do I mean to bash it. I learned a lot, met a lot of amazing people in it (including my wife), and had a fuck-ton of incredible experiences and opportunities from it but… people man. PEOPLE. Also the whole, you know, not being able to control my drinking once I start drinking. Believe me I’ve tried.

I’m really looking forward and for the first time I can see a future beyond a week or a month. I see 5, 10, 20 years from now, because I’m taking action. Believe me, sometimes it’s impossible for me to get out of bed or whatever rut I’ve fallen in at whatever point, but one thing I do know is that if I take one step further working on myself everyday, that I will get in a better life and headspace than where I am now. Even when it feels like the world is falling apart around us.

Thanks again <3

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Finally got some inspiration after a long dry spell…
It feels good to be making music properly again :sunglasses:

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