John was always going on about how we should chase ghosts.
I’m into ghosts and spooky stuff I guess. I just thought it would be a crazy ass concept.
Like I really want to do a project where we basically don’t do any liquid funk.
Like it’s all just minimal, weird, halfstep, dubstep, ambient, strange and extremely deep shit.
And we release it early in winter so it’s like not really pumping us playing gigs like we would with the summer tape, it’s basically a bed time story with heaps of weird, strange, freaky business going on to give you the cilly willies.
For me it’s really about moving forward with the art, being real with myself and coming up with what I’m feeling rather than trying to be the coolest to the most people.
That’s really my vibe y’know, it’s not just that I’m in business and I always want to go on about it, the point is, music isn’t my career, I do what i feel like I wanna do because for me it’s about the artistic aspect.
Wanting to connect with a crowd is one awesome thing, spilling open your brain just coming up with all this weird business is awesome too. You connect with art inside you, you feel free and realised, you’re tuning into something, feels good, feels real.
Feels powerful, it may be an arrogant attitude but I think I’m empowered now I’m not just a DJ. Thats a real theme for my videos I think actually, reality compound, myspace etc, it was about being more than a DJ.
See that’s what I worry about! great little narrative there, or a way to encapsulate the myspace narrative – as a transition from being just a DJ to something more . . . just . . . more.
I’m thinking about how to make it work. Narratives huh? Sheesh.
Maybe I should just ignore all that until the appropriate time it’s not as if it really needs to be right up front, it’s good to have ready made mythology, but let’s not depend on it.
But yeah, art and upsetting people because you have these arty ambitions and standards that are all self indulgent and must criticise the status quo
And so I can be kind of antagonistic yeah, maybe offending . . . PROBABLY offending people because I want to ask if it can be better, if we can have something better on the scene. but like I said, it’s good to be pushing for something better, things would be no good if there wasn’t always someone wanting it better.
And so it is if I get all arty just for the pure indulgence of it, when you express yourself, you’re opening up the possibility that good things are going to come out
I know this because I’ve already experienced it to some degree. Being more thoughtful – and I don’t mean analytical and methodical but more y’know “attuned” to what I was trying to achieve, allowed my songs to get better.
And I’m gonna stick with it. I don’t want to scare everyone away, but I don’t think the standard of what I do is going to improve unless I’m doing what I want to do, or I guess what I’m supposed to do.
Discovery and searching is all part of it, but you need to be looking and seeing as much as you need to see before you find anything.
MORE GHOST PROJECT:
oh what an effort I went to do conclude eloquently – 1 more thing: Totally going all out supernatural, like doing video stuff and seeing clairvoyamts and going to town on the spookiness factor.
Hmm call it . . . “Past Lives” or . . . “Rosebud”? I want it to come back to us, we the living. That the dead, like satan, is just a kind of reverse polarity figure, it exists principally as the opposite to something we perhaps understand a little better than death: life.
Supernatural link
