What I mean by that, is that we probably all have a track or two that maybe we think best represents “who you are” or that comes closest to the ideal of “what you want to say”. Not the tracks that get the most plays, or the ones that sound super polished, or even the ones that took 7 minutest to write. Post a track that comes close to that pure ideal that could have only come from you.
I remember (I can only remember because they are all lost) my first experiments with a 4 track tascam recorder, some pedals, bass guitar, drum machine, and a mic. They were shit but so fun and pretty original in the sense of me having no preconceived ideas and most everything had to come from my own imagination.
I’m afraid you can hear my influences clearly in all of my tracks.
It’s a mix of all of them and distributed over several genres but you can always hear them.
I try to make music that I want to listen to myself and I have a lot of role models I like to listen to.
This track, like me, is not particularly pleasant, goes on for ages and, no matter how much you hope for change, refuses to change at all. So yeah, the track that is closest to who I am is this shit.
There’s too many genres I love/play that don’t relate. I haven’t put the screaming Zorn/Patton-influenced punk into my mid tempo trip hop influenced material. Not that it doesn’t work… but each project with each of my collaborators has its own life that’s both entirely me, and not representative of all of me. “Schrödinger’s genre-A.D.D” - both is entirely me and isn’t entirely me at the same time.
came from a brief flurry of high creative energy, one of the rare intervals I make my favorite stuff, and struggle to achieve otherwise when I try (track + portrait + video from scratch in a weekend). It is how it is…
This one comes from those glorious days when you don’t quite know what you’re doing with a new instrument. In this case, it was one of the most complicated and confusing instruments of all time: Octatrack! Somehow it just fell out of me in one session and is largely a fluke because the unreplicatable free running LFOs took it to the butchers perfectly imo. It combines a lot of my contradictions and worries about myself, in a way. It’s mellow yet angry, it’s up and down a lot and it’s written in language that confuses me but that I wish I could speak back. Cheers!