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Plantastic Joyage, looking back, looking ahead
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Author: cosmod on June 29 2006 Viewed 2092 times. 23 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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When I was in High School I released my first album of electronic music. I had called it "The Blue Room" based on a dream I had. A few months later I would find out about U.F.Orb, but by then it was too late. Pure coincidence, I swear! Though I haven't heard the disc in a while, I remember it was raw, uninhibited, crudely produced and got a lot of its sound from electronic music of the 90s. This was 2000, after all.
I also recall setting up a picnic blanket in my school hallway, getting a few pillows, sitting out in front of the cafeteria trying to hustle my music. A couple of other people sat with me, made it look like a scene out of a hookah den, minus the hookahs. One of my, shall we say, lures was that people who bought the disc could themselves stomp the CD-cover directly on the disc using a CD-stomping gadget that I had lying nearby. I also had headphones set up on my disc-man in case people wanted to listen to the album. The first iPod would not arrive until a year-and-a-half later.
No one in my school quite knew what to make of all this. Some people bought the disc out of novelty, others out of curiosity, others because they were my friends and others because they liked what they had sampled or someone told them they should check it out. Whatever the reason, it was sort of a fun, sincere move on my part to create, sell and release this music. I also did it because I was trying to win back the heart of a girl who had recently ditched me for an actor guy. Though Alex never came back to me, she did become a fan of my tunes and I considered the whole operation a suprising success.
I continued to create music into college, but my focus shifted. A lot of music that I've posted here over the years (which has since been deleted since the recent site redesign), I created a piece at a time. Either I didn't have the time or the focus to work on something that functioned as a whole, roughly 45-minute listening experience. But now, after about a year of creating, mixing, mastering, remastering and designing the art, "Plantastic Joyage" is ready.
In the time since I released my first CD in high school to now, I feel like my writing and style has gotten more personal, more distinctive and probably wierder, not that it wasn't wierd to begin with. I've listened to a lot more classical music, free music, electronic jams from Germany and Japan and beyond. I've had experiences that have influenced my own playing, like touring the country with the classically-trained piano polymath Fred Hirsch or blowing old-style jazz bop with Lee Konitz. My friends, each with their tastes running from Brazillian pop to metal to British improv to anime, have guided and misguided me, marvelously, and given me a ton of music to chew on and think about.
All of this is why "Plantastic Joyage" sounds the way it does. Whil I'm not *trying* to sound like anyone other than myself, I did manage to get a few homages in there, intentional and unintentiona. ;-) Either way, the sound I've committed to on this album will continue to evolve as I have more life and music experience. I want to hustle and promote this album the best way I humanly can, with creative and panache. Given all the human and electronic options I have at my disposal, my goal is to figure out smart and fun ways of doing this.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's been a long time coming and *thank you*, the em411 community at large, for continuing to encourage me to make this music. You guys (and girls) have been feeling what I do for years and I appreciate that. You guys listen to everything I write and you always suprise me with your comments on my work. I've even gotten the opportunity to meet some of you in person and work with you outside of the em411 umbrella.
Now as I seek to actively widen my audience through live shows, self-sustained touring and more relases, it's you, em411 crew, who I'll say were there in the early stages. I'm not sure where all this is headed, but "PJ" is out now and I feel the time has come that I throw myself into the mix. This is the closest I feel to what I want to be doing in my life and in my art. It's a long process to make it work, but I'm going be taking it a step at a time. Fortunately, the album making step has finally been reached.
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06/29/06
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jdg
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06/29/06
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lowlifi
I am ordering the cd tomorrow...love it..great work, but wouldn't expect any less from you..
06/29/06
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GregTArtZ
One of my best friends had a room at his house we called the blue room.
It was really a big closet we hung out in, but it had blue lights and
psychedelic posters- Its a cool name, i loev teh color blue. I love dreams
and ability to lucid dream since i can remember-cool stuff
06/30/06
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kidko
I love the story about selling your disc at school. I wish I had the sense to do something like that. Looking forward to hearing the album.
07/01/06
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bb01
it has an open ending!!
The guy and the girl getting back together is my favorite part of any movie. I hate mushy movies though. Im the one that makes sentimental comments during '28days later'.
P.S.:Its my expert opinion that Alex is the most sexy name for a girl ever.
P.P.S.: congrats on the cd. I will listen to the previews at night. Suits it better I think.
07/02/06
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piege
I did something similar in high school... Wrote all the music for a school fashion show (in Digitracker no less!) and then in the subsequent days sold it in the school foyer... My handle then was Echo... how bleepin clichéed! hehehe... oh well....
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