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Whatsup ‘nauts!
I’ve finally put the live beattape I made using the AR and a portastudio to streaming:
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Great sounds!
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Hey,
My first finished boom bap beat on the DT2 after few months of experimenting. 
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Any elektronauts up for Wu-Tang in Manchester 19 March next year?
WU-TANG CLAN — WU-TANG FOREVER: THE FINAL CHAPTER | Co-op Live
Rest In Power PEACE of the Freestyle Fellowship. An absolute titan of rhyme, rhythm and flow. Such an immense loss and a truly singular talent.
We lost a rap deity.
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Oh no! Easily the most talented cat off the dome I’ve ever seen. Deity is correct. Fuck!
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Happy Halloween to my fellow Elektronaut hip hop heads! In 2019 I flipped some scores of a few horror movies I was feeling back then (Terrifier, Midsommar & Mandy) and turned it into an annual thing. Eventually I stopped adhering to the scary movie flips and just kind of made it an Autumn/Halloween themed project. The only real consistent thing is that I keep making them so here’s this year’s installment in case anyone is interested:
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Hip-Hop was my first love as a kid. I performed The Message in my 4th grade talent show. I later got in to punk and metal and played in bands for years. I wrote and produced a couple rap songs in my early twenties just to see if I could. I had a blast, but always felt like a fraud. Now, I really want to write and record rap again, but there’s some stories holding me back. A: who am I that I think anything I say needs to be said or heard? I’ve been only doing instrumental stuff for years out of ego death/exhausted from the constant yelling of the internet. Social media kinda ruined me. B: I feel too old. Haha! C: It’s terrifying to think of putting any bit of myself out there again.
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From my own experience there is a stark difference between having the aptitude, having the ability and having the personality.
Even at the point where you have a lot of experience under your belt, you may still be dealing with one or more of these factors.
Ultimately, you may find that you were happier before you ever opened your mouth.
This is self-assessment rather than encouragement or discouragement of your ambitions so I would say that there is no harm in investing time into something to get better at it, because rarely is anybody good at anything without having to first practice and try to get better.
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Well I know for a fact that I’m not good at it, or any music in general, if I compare myself to my favorites. Compare to despair. But, music has always been a ballast that when I can shirk the fear of disapproval, I can get lost in the playful creativity and find a baseline of emotional and mental stability, Sometimes I even find joy.
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You have to be delusional enough to believe in yourself and in what you’re saying without getting discouraged or feeling cringe, but realistic enough to know when something is bad or when it’s time to call it quits. Sometimes it’s quite far down the road and you’re like “oops, should have been working harder on polishing my production skills instead”.
In the same right, if you are not afraid to sound like a tourist and you just want to do it because it sounds like something you would enjoy, then that is exactly the right attitude to have and that is also the same staircase that leads to progress.
I guess that the difficult part is fighting through the pain of self-analysis or conversely, being comfortably reliant on attitude instead of skill.
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I really appreciate you shigg!
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A few months back, I went to a roots & dub reggae event at a club here in Tokyo with my friend who was visiting. Towards the end an old Japanese guy that looks like he came straight from working behind the desk at the tax office (including with a pocket protector full of pens) got up and sang some of the most amazing dancehall I’ve ever heard.
I’d say if you do it for the right reasons (because you enjoy it), and don’t mind loads of practice, give it a go and don’t worry what anyone thinks.
Speaking of people that look like they came from the tax office, this guy did pretty well for himself as well (one of my favorite videos). Just cast that David Rodigan spell of protection he does at the beginning before your performances and you should be grand. 
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you are who you are and that is enough. I understand approaching the idea of making something with the question of “does anyone need this?” or “do I have anything to say?” but I’d argue we are far past the point where any of that is relevant or worth questioning for too long. Someone is trying to make a commercially viable hit right now by prompting a generative AI model and someone else is doing the same thing for their own amusement. I don’t know if that’s good or bad or neither but it’s happening. So if you want to make something, I’d encourage you to go for it without worrying about the function it’s serving. In the immediate sense, it will serve you and if you end up making something you want to share with the world, you never know who it’s going to reach… it could end up meaning a lot to someone else but it’s not worth hinging all your aspirations on the reception in my opinion. I still care too much about it and hope more people will like my music but I’m able to not dwell on it and mostly just keep looking ahead to the next song/project. Mostly I’m just grateful that I can create this stuff and share it at all.
Don’t worry about age… despite what young people (or older folks trying to make excuses) say or do, hip hop has been around long enough that we are starting to see it age like other music forms and people can still push boundaries or just make stellar shit at any age.
Just make what feels fun and/or important for you to make and the rest isn’t really worth worrying about imo.
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I got the Ableton Move a couple of weeks ago and its been very inspiring using it.
Here’s the first beat I’ve fully finished on it:
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Lovely beat mate. Somehow reminds me of Raekwons first solo album.
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Thanks man!
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DN2 + DT2 Boombap beat
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Love it!
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