On March 31st, I released Cooking Sausages on Seroquel. Ten tracks in fourteen days. (EDIT: I added more tracks) A continued exploration of experimental and psychedelic bass through crunchy neuro wobbles, resampled distortion, and compressed chaos. The project explores genre defying bass music: techno, halftime, dubstep, riddim, experimental beats; Cooking Sausages On Seroquel defies routine and embraces the unknown. I got bored. Ya know?
Writing similar tunes all the time. Time to change it up.
I’m looking for my sound – Landing somewhere between the hyper glitch hellscapes of Woulg, the galactic gurgles of glitch hop, to the metallic clashes of Bleep Bloop. Don’t forget a smidgen of the west coast beat scene.
Tsuruda, Woolymammoth, and Flying Lotus.
I’m not saying my production matches these artists, but you can probably hear the acknowledgment in my tracks. The influence, the hours listened. I love the more chaotic and intrusive sounds paired with psychedelic, experimental, and/or cinematic symphonies. Countered with the high octane, moshpit energy of riddim. It’s kind of a weird bag. Especially with the attention to ambient drum and bass, saw waves. Barrages of reverb.
Changing the flow, I offered songs like Try 2 Smile Goddamit and Bernie Sanders Bends The Knee to the techno gods. Exemplifying experimental and glitchy sound design over kicking grooves and approachable dance music.
I still have a long ways to go producing listenable music, especially since I lost production time to health concerns, legal battles, and general moping/psychological resistance, but I’ve been hounding to make up for lost time.
I love video games, so its about approaching Ableton or Final Cut Pro like a new or saved game of Minecraft, or working toward the next Prestige on Call of Duty; staying motivated, goal oriented, and having fun. I learned this from a stream with Subtronics who said he noticed better results after replacing daily gaming habits with daily production. The more songs you write, the better habits you build, the better you become, quicker too.
I’ve read and asked music forums how long it takes to achieve worthwhile results. The answer lingered around 5-7 years for artists to start coming into their own sound, to 10-15 years for artists to become headliners. Fifteen to twenty years are generally the pioneers of modern bass music. Eprom, Nosia, Seppa, Kursa, Tipper, Mike Wallis, G Jones, Resonant Language. But it varies, and remember it’s not a race. Bad years occur, shit happens. Life happens. And the journey isn’t always linear. Some people learn quicker than others, and others are more disciplined about getting to the studio and working. Again, it’s never a simple answer to how soon you’ll see your results.
Just work hard. Have fun. Don’t ruin it for yourself.
(A Note to self)
Anyway…
The track “I Don’t Trust AOC” proved difficult to master and I might re-upload a finalized version later, who knows…. but the rest of the tracks are ready to go.
Again, I’m exploring my sound and tackled a variety of genres compared to the typical neuro or dubstep beat. ALSO. The writing process was more exhilarating with the recent release of Serum 2. While typically an Ableton Whore. Serum 2 is cool as fuck. Spectral and granular synthesis, a sampler and advanced wavetable functionalities? Insane. A majority of the sounds are made in Serum 2 with little to no post processing in Ableton. Extraordinary.
This project also explores the potential of Trash 2.
I’m going to start mixing my songs better I swear, and the answer lies in distortion and limiting with Trash 2. I can start pushing my sounds and squashing the compression, giving me more control over volume and mixing. Wish me luck.
Also, random thought.
Do I upload all posts to Substack? I’m thinking no. Maybe?
Substack should house nonfiction “essays” and short stories, while maybe the THEBADBOOB.com offers the uncensored glimpse into my work – content exclusive to the THEBADBOOB.com, blogs and the updated portfolio of work, especially release notifications like this about music or music videos.
I’m still in love with the idea of hosting my own site and managing my own content. If anything happens to the hosting provider, I export the content and import directly into another hosting provider. Substack is rented land, although the rents cheap and the landlord’s chill as hell, so I might as well use both. I just want to create an incentive to visit thebadboob.com over substack. Although any visibility is better than none.
Anyway, rambling.
Here you go.
Enjoy.
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