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downloaded Mpc beats and have been toiling away at making ‘music’ for a couple of hours. I have no idea what I’m doing it’s like the swampy equivalent of when you see a piano and just jam around on the keys for a bit. No talent no Shame. Just having a hell of a time stringing noises together in a way they should never be strung
Mar 3, 2024
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I’m still early on making music — but this is it:
I️ played like drums in middle school and then fell out of like “performing“ until adulthood when I️ decided to start DJ-ing. I️ loved that so much I️ was like I️ feel like I️ can make my own things like 6 months ago and I’ve just been making small shitty 2 minute things for myself every day.
For me it’s kinda meditative? Like usually no one hears the songs I am making (besides my partner) but it’s really just for me. No clue if any of them will ever reach a record or be on Spotify, but I️ feel like it’s making me greater appreciate music in general.
May 4, 2024
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I’ve wasted hundreds of hours of my life - maybe even more - doing nothing but listening to music with weird effects put onto them. I like to drag and drop songs from my downloads folder and put a bunch of flanger and compression and low pass filters and blah blah blah… like whatever im feeling!! Its really boring but also really fun to me… and sometimes the inner workings of a song comes out when you put effects on it… frequencies that you didn’t even know were there!
May 8, 2023
i just got the teenage engineering ep 133 ko ii (whew, what a mouthful.) i don’t yet know all the functions but ive had a blast making a few beats with my limited knowledge. i love the fact that there seems to be no eq—your samples are as they come, with the exception of pitch and amplitude. in the world of DAWs i feel like i am sometimes overwhelmed by options (this sound would be better if i Eq’d it. or maybe the transient has too much attack. or i think it needs to be sidechained to blah blah blah etc). of course these capabilities are incredibly useful, but when making music i feel like you can make a banger with really simple stuff. with the ko ii i just play the audio directly into the machine, sample it where i want it, and play the chops. then i play the drums in by hand. and that’s it and it sounds fucking great
Jan 31, 2024
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Think about it all the time, be obsessed with it! Sneak off and work on your project. wonder how it is when you’re not around.
Jan 29, 2024
30th birthday theme was “little miss” not the characters just the energy of being a little miss. The fits were so good my heart is so full
Feb 9, 2025
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All my friends are great and I love to hang out with them and feel loved & to be silly, and when they hang out and get along I'm like damn I’m really killing having a rich social circle and deeply fulfilling friendships.
If you’re a reflection of your three closest friends (or whatever that saying is) I’m a god damn god. My friends are the best and I love them SO MUCH
Mar 11, 2024