This is my 10th day of posting 500 words on my blog. Today’s topic loosely follows from yesterday’s topic, which is a continuation of everything I’ve been writing about from when I started this endeavor 10 days ago.
- If you want to start reading from the beginning, check out DAY 1.
- If you want to start reading from yesterday’s post, check out DAY 9.
Otherwise, just start reading from today’s post, no worries.
Yesterday I wrote about my fascination with randomness. I’ve
always enjoyed exploring the results of mixing lots of different things
together, just like a playlist filled with so many different genres and styles of
music, that could quickly go from Green Day to Brian Eno, from Tool to Bob
Marley, from Eminem to Lana Del Rey, to who knows what else. I don’t know if it’s
the same thing, but I suspect that my love of randomness is somehow connected to
my love of everything trippy and weird, even chaotic to some degree. Maybe that’s
why I tried mixing so many drugs together so often when I was younger. Well,
you live and you learn as you grow, right? Anyway, trippiness is something I’ve always admired and
appreciated, so I’ve aspired to incorporate it into my music for quite a while
now. When I first got into music, I knew nothing but hip-hop. Of course, I knew
other music existed, but I had never experienced any other genre in a way that moved
me, I was just a kid and I knew very little music at that point. Eminem was my
first introduction into hip-hop, shortly followed by 2Pac and Nas, and these
three rappers played a huge role in my decision to become a rapper. I found a
burning passion for writing deep, powerful lyrics, I wanted people to get goosebumps
from my raps like I did from Pac’s. Being primarily a rapper throughout my
early years in music, making songs simply consisted of picking a beat and
trying to write the best possible verse, so the only musical creativity I was
really developing was on the lyrical side. The main focus were the lyrics, as
well as the delivery of the rhymes, so that’s what I had set out to master, and
I feel like I did. The beats I used were usually ripped off YouTube or
something, since the ones I made weren’t the best back then. I immersed myself
in hip-hop and listened to the discographies of all the greats, studying their
styles. It wasn’t until a few years later that my love of weed eventually lead
me to search for trippy and chill music. I became obsessed with Bob Marley’s music and the way it
would make me feel like I was in paradise as I sparked up a joint, sitting by a
tree at a park on a hot summer day, feeling the refreshing breeze blowing
around me. The beauty of nature was magnified by the weed, and both the beauty
of nature and the weed’s amplification of it, were amplified by the beautiful
music in my ears. I had my perfect stoned music. I also got really into Pink
Floyd, especially as I started tripping a lot on shrooms and acid as well. Now
I had my tripping music. I just couldn’t believe how trippy, how moving, this
music was. It resonated with me on such a deep level, even tracks that were only
instrumentals like “Cluster One” or “Marooned” from Pink Floyd’s album ‘The
Division Bell.’Since those days, I have always wanted to create trippy
music, music that someone could enjoy while blazing or tripping just like me. I’ve
come a long way when it comes to methods of creating music, and these days I
got myself an MPC which I’ve paired up with a few good synthesizers, and I got
a mixer and a whole studio setup going on, which I’ve gotta say, I’ve gotten
super comfortable with. My recent venture into the world of grooveboxes and synthesizers
has taken me way beyond the realm of rap beats, and I’ve been playing around
with finally making some extremely trippy ambient music which I created
specifically for the purpose of getting stoned, tripping, meditating, or just
for relaxing for a nice minute. I did release an ambient album last year, titled
‘dawn of a new day,’ and although it is indeed very relaxing, it is lacking in
the trippy factor. To be fair, I wasn’t trying to make a trippy album with ‘dawn
of a new day,’ just a beautiful and relaxing album. This new ambient album I’m
working on, which will probably be titled ‘shoreline blues’, is relaxing yet
trippy. It’s definitely the weirdest-sounding album I’ve ever produced, and it
feels good to know that I’m finally getting closer to perhaps one day making an
album I can truly call a psychedelic masterpiece, an album I can feel while I’m
tripping just as I feel a Pink Floyd or Beatles album.
If you have a few minutes, please consider listening to my song ‘dawn of a new day’, the intro and title track for my 2023 ambient/trip-hop album of the same name. I appreciate you reading this, and listening to this song as well! Much love.
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