I guess I'll start submitting what's left...

Hey guys.

I know I haven't submitted music in a long while. That's about to change.

I'm going to submit a number of things that are unfinished (but pretty damn close), or that I was saving for an EP project of mine that never got off the ground.

I've put up 2 today, 2 are planned for tomorrow, and I hope to keep submitting at a decent pace after that.

This happened because I read this article, a transcript of an interview with Brian Eno. He's a man whom I respect greatly. One of the things he said in this article struck me, right at the end:

If you could email your 20-year-old self about what was ahead, what would you tell him? Or would you tell him nothing and just let him get on with it?

I think I'd say, "Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf." My feeling is that a work has little value until you "release" it, until you liberate it from yourself and your excuses for it - "It's not quite finished yet," "The mix will make all the difference," etc. Until you see it out there in the world along with everything else, you don't really know what it is or what to think of it, so it's of no use to you.

Hopefully, by doing this, I can liberate all the past music from my head and I can move on and be a better producer.

Thanks for reading :) Enjoy the music.

EDIT: 2 more songs up. This means every song that I had planned for the Loosely Fitting Dirty Socks EP is now up. Hopefully I can find more junk to upload tomorrow.

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Quarl 2012-02-01 12:06:29

Brian Eno <3

Quotes can be incredible liberators. I'm immensely thankful for the people that I look up to. As I've learned, other people's ideas can propel me to new heights I never thought possible. I fell in love with a few ideas from one thinker in particular:

"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."

-Eckhart Tolle

I may have said it before but in case I didn't I'll say it again. Sorry if I came off as an ass four years back. You're a huge influence on my current work :p

Nav 2012-02-01 12:06:29

Haha, don't worry about it. I came off as much more of an asshole back then. It's been a long road...

I agree with your sentiment about quotes, but I think it's more contextual than that. If you happen to stumble upon a quote by someone you respect at the right time or place, then it can totally be meaningful. I think quotes are the best method for bringing uncomfortable truths into your conscious or for getting guidance in making a decision, but they certainly aren't for all the time. I often see long lists of quotes that people have made and it just washes over you, because I believe that most of the time we don't really need the quotes.

Anyway, about your specific quote, I realized that a while ago when talking with my girlfriend. It's entirely true. However, it can be extraordinarily tough for people like us to implement. We're often pushed to think about the future (or just OUR future) in this society, and it's a tough habit to break. We skim through the days, wanting them to go by faster, doing the work but never actually paying attention to it. I feel like it's best for us to discover the things that BRING us into the now, rather than bringing the now to stuff that doesn't interest us. For example, I'm taking a programming course this semester, and I've rediscovered how much I love programming and how I can be totally absorbed in it and time just goes by... Like that. It's wonderful.

Thanks for commenting, I'm glad I was helpful to someone. Maybe we'll work together on something someday in the future.

Kajenx 2012-02-01 13:34:36

Yeah, you know, those two songs you've released so far sound kinda choked out, and honestly, I've noticed my songs get that way when I work on them too long and think about them too much.

Maybe set yourself a specific amount of time for your next few songs and go for quantity and experimentation rather than quality. It might flush out the grime. :)

Nav 2012-02-01 13:34:36

Mmm, these songs were "done" almost 6 months ago. I've been listening to very different music these past few months, and the songs I'm working on now are very different.

There are still more songs from that time period to upload, though. I just want to be rid of them so I can truly start fresh.

SineRider 2012-02-01 15:51:21

awesome to see you back ;)

I listened to the new tracks and look forward to hearing what else you have. I kinda follow the same philosophy, which is probably why I pretty much released anything I deemed finishes/close enough.

Nav 2012-02-01 15:51:21

Hey, I appreciate the comment.

I've actually been listening to some indie/shoegaze recently (Loveless is, far and away, the best album on this planet. It's, like, a religious experience), and I don't really intend to make more uptempo dancefloor-only sorts of music. These past 6 months for me have mostly been record collecting and listening to psychedelic rock, folk and other things of that nature from the 60s onward. I guess that means I'll have to listen to some of your stuff, as I know you produce that sort of thing at times.

The projects I'm currently working on are pretty downtempo and chill. After I'm done posting this backlog (damn 2 songs a day rule), I should start actually getting around to putting out things that I think do a better job of describing the sound I'm going for.