The Avalanche vs. The Snowball

Avalaaaaanche!I’m sitting here in the studio tonight, but I haven’t started creating any music yet.  I’ve noticed something about the way I work these days.  I think putting it down in words will help me to gain focus… or at least, to understand how to focus and what it means when I cannot.  I find myself discouraged when I don’t have huge blocks of time to work on music consecutively, or when I do have a huge block and I feel inclined to use it doing something other than something I am normally so passionate about.  You see, due to some major changes in my life a few years back, I lost a lot of momentum.  And I’m talking about 3 or 4 years that my music-making libido has been fighting against me. Continue reading

The Dubstep Bubble

Rusko - Sold OutBeing that the economic “Housing Bubble” is at the forefront of our minds here in the States, I couldn’t help but bring this comparison into the EDM world.  An economic bubble is described as ”trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values.” It could also be described as a “trade in products or assets with inflated values.”

The most obvious genre to compare this to at the time of writing this is dubstep, but really Continue reading

I’m Done… And I’m Just Getting Started!

I think it’s time.  Time to expand myself, musically.  Time to think outside of the box.  I want to be done creating tracks that I think I “should” be creating, and just create good music.  I want to be done recording every DJ mix as a club demo (“this is what you should expect to hear when I play at a nightclub) and start treating them more like putting albums together…. good albums full of good, moody, emotive music, regardless of genre, tempo, release date or popularity.  It’s also time to start putting this blog to some use, for once!

This is going to sound pessimistic or jaded, but it’s really not.  I’m just ready to Continue reading