Editorial

John Lennon once said….

“Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It’s like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won’t let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you’re allowed to sleep. It’s always in the middle of the night, or you’re half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them.”

For me, this quote couldn’t be closer to the truth:

I’ll try not to bore you with the irrelevant events of my life nor will I talk about my DJ and music career in the third person. I am not one of those identity advocates set out to make a list of achievements to put on display. I do what I love. That’s it.

Its compulsive, the process really and how it all started for me. I needed something new. At 18 living in a small town, fresh into the ether, I was drawn into finding something to satisfy my desire for new music. I would go to the local music store and just buy bands I had never heard of. It’s how I discovered Three Mile Pilot, one of my favorite bands. Then there was techno. I found a cd with a clear jewel case titled “Messiah – 21st Century Jesus”. And it was. It was the feeling and sound I was looking for. To this day I still go “digging” for that “new sound”. That hasn’t changed.

Fast forward. My music and DJ career spans over 12 years. My moniker for 8 years was Uphonic. Playing party after party I went unsatisfied. I loved the music scene but I wanted more. I wanted to write and produce my own music. It was time to go underground. I spent 4 years locked in a cave spending endless hours learning the studio. Around me others were paying producers to write their tracks. I couldn’t do it, not that its bad, it just didn’t intrest me. I wanted to do it on my own.

More forward now. I’ve started producing music for TV/Film/Games. I’ve also started my own label: Fierce Animal Recordings. I’ve set out to release my own brand of EDM which I’ve dubbed “Nu-Tech”.  It’s like that place between tech house, minimal, electro and techno where the lines start to blur and you don’t know what to call it. The label will diversify over time and offer a wide variety of genre’s. I’ve also had some remixes on labels: Ak-Tek Records, Vibrance Recordings, Mizumo Music and Frequency 8.

I was in a kite store and bought an awesome kite too.

Too be continued….