Take 2:
So last night was a Friday and I’m staying in again because I don’t want this sore throat turning into a full blown disease.
And so I did my shit, and I watched a movie, and then I got onto my tunes, and banged out another minimal drum and bass thing, and then . . . well I thought about doing another but I got into thinking seriously about this Soul Science mix coming up.
If you got to http://www.soundcloud.com/kurbpromo
You’ll find Romantech stuff I record and dump up there, such as this jam “Donk is Good Food” that I put up just because I was showing off that I wrote it just over 20 minutes and within 30 minutes was uploaded, had a blurb and was flying. 2009, baby.
http://soundcloud.com/kurbpromo/donkisgoodfood-romantech
So any way, the Soul Science mix.
What’s it about?
Well it’s likely to be called “Dojo Inspectors” because it’s just something dumb that John and I happen to both actually think is funny. I don’t know why he thinks it’s funny. I don’t know why I think it’s funny!
But it is, and that’s why it’s called “Dojo Inspectors”.
It’s looking like a lot of tracks, like 28 or something, fully mixed. In fact I stopped working on new tunes and have slowly started to become interested in the final product.
What’s the final product? What’s the point?
I have really shyed away from that question this year, I’ve just focused purely on songwriting so that’s why I have knocked out 20+ jams so far this year, without really thinking about the end result except that the more tunes you write the more you refine your sense of what’s going on with your music.
That’s a problem I’ve always had. Album, y’know BIG DEAL.
But again the songwritng is like my business, taking the path of least resistance, y’know, while it’s easy to make money and to write new songs and feel like I’m making progress . . . am I really?
Well that’s where “Dojo Inspectors” is coming from. I’m banging out tunes and trying to bring some kind of presence to this art, but in order to present that art, well it’s another story.
That’s what I was kind of what I was saying in the last post about representing yourself as a real artist.
We’re writing a lot of stuff, I probably mentioned it, but in order to play the drum and bass politics game we thought we wouldn’t release it. But now we’ve got 28 half decent jams, what are we gonna do with it?
Bring it to a standard, and put it out, as in – a free mix. It shows our depth, our ability to present ourselves as serious performers.
People can see for themselves we’ve put out a serious product. We know it’s not a huge deal, but it’s important to be able to put your money where your mouth is and say well, y’know, we DO have a 28 track mix of all original songs and it’s reasonably solid.
Shows our range as well, minimal dnb, liquid funk, big electro dnb, dubby stuff, atmospheric, jungle, etc.
So I’m pretty caught up in how to make it good now, but also excited that I’m gonna have my first proper 100% original my stuff release. It is a big deal.
So what am I trying to achieve?
Well it’s art. Art helps the artist make sense of the world, and if that helps the audience make sense of the world, then great.
Especially with this blog, it often strikes me how making art is a great way of confronting your problems, dealing with it, because let’s face it, a lot of problems people have are problems- or y’know, unresolved issues – that can never completely be understood, and what’s more, they can’t even be fixed.
They just have to be . . . dealt with.
And in a lot of ways it’s all about saying something. I’m not looking to “answer the critics” or even answer the questions but this at least like standing up to actually say something.
Say something, hear the response, analyse, revaluate and adjust in reaction.
You got 20+ decent songs, you put them out, you say “whatever” and get on with the next 20, the next project. Whatever you learn is a bonus.
