I barely even heard of Domu to be honest, it’s usually as much as I can take to keep out with the poppier liquid, deep and dancefloorish tunes I push, I guessed he was kinda on some deep tip, or jazzy tip?
Maybe I probably would have like his stuff if I really had time to sit around and hear a lot of beats.
But of course I vultured in to check out the post, hot on the heels of Kubik’s resignation, and I got all the juicy entrails.
He wasn’t only talking about the money but how he’d become detached from the music, how he was 31, shifting priorities, and he took a stab at the scene being full of well, posers, I guess. Dickheads.
And I just totally empathised with him, I think the same thing. I do.
He’s made his beats, he’s said his thing maybe, but me, bro, no amount of young dickheads posing off on the scene are going to make me quit making beats, I know that, that’s what all my behaviour stems from.
Maybe I won’t play gigs, but I’ll always write.
Maybe I was never that young dickhead DJ because my mixing was shit and my tunes sounded muddy and they only ever got marginally better.
But if I can be that older experienced guy who’s been on the scene, who has different motivations than the young dickheads then that’s fine.
I don’t make music to be cool. It used to be a big part of the reason, but that’s not turned into pure inertia, now I’m just making it because I always have and if there is no friction
He took the post down by the way, you can’t read it, so I feel glad I did read it because it was a heavy trip, as I say I totally empathised.
Maybe I’ll feel the same one day, I understand the feeling y’know, like, forget this, this is just a little world where I got caught up as a young man because I was dazzled and inspired but now, what I am I doing here?
I thought the music was cool, so I stayed for 10 years? Dude.
Well what I am not doing here, that’s what I’m thinking, if you’re reaching for your pipe and slippers, be my guest.
I dunno, maybe you want to spend more time with your girlfriend, maybe you got a kid, maybe that’s the choice you make.
But I make beats, maybe that’ll change, I run my business so I have the option to do what I want.
That’s my vibe, my business comes first because I can’t do anything in any kind of fashion, what am I , some kind of professional amateur?
I dunno, I make beats, and y’know, for now, that’s it.
