The other night, at my humble home in Bundoora... Aaron and I sat down and started our pre-production work. This basically consisted of me showing him the beats that have already been selected, and showing him what I've already written for the album.
I was actually pretty nervous about this, and I never get nervous! Ever.Why was I nervous I hear you ask?
Well, I don't know to be honest. I had a feeling that these tracks i'd been writing for the album were on such a high level than anything else I had done previously, and i suppose i was nervous that when shown to someone else they wouldn't be perceived that way. MUCH to be delight however, Aaron seemed more excited about them than what I was feeling.
This IS a good thing. To have this so much excitement about something that isn't even halfway written yet let alone recorded etc etc... is a wonderful thing. Have never felt this at home behind the mic or the pen ever... and I'm confident enough with my skills that I no longer feel like I have to ask to be apart of things... I genuinely think I deserve to be there, and am starting to act like it.
On that note it's amazing how how doors start to open as soon as you change your mind set. This change really effects everything. It changes the way I see myself, the way i act when talking about my music, the way i speak to people when its business (music) related. The biggest change however is with their reaction. As soon as i adopted this change with my attitude things are really moving along. I'm no longer asking nicely if I can be put on the bill, I'm thinking/feeling/saying that I deserve to be there, so you should put me on. I am not an arrogant person be any means, shape or form, but I now understand why arrogant people with not even half as much skill as me were advancing a lot further in a shorter amount of time. As much as I hate it, the music industry isn't all about who's making better music, or who puts on a better show. If you can't sell yourself to others than how good your music is really means nothing. And if you don't believe in what your doing yourself, how can you expect some one else too?
This all stems back to what I'm trying to do: Make music that I would listen to. This in my opinion should be every artist's (not just music) goal. To make something of such a high quality, that you yourself would buy (or want to buy) that album. That painting. That sculpture. If you are making something that you would buy, then you know two things.
1. You are making something that is of high quality.
2. You are staying true to yourself. If you aren't meeting these two goals... your not doing it right.
All this is being complimented with hopefully a big name support slot (providing it doesn't fall through) next month. Fingers crossed! I won't say any more until its official, but I am very hopeful.
Monday, 9 April 2012
Monday, 2 April 2012
From The Start: Concept - The Support Act
The concept for this album has been around for about 12 months now.... and was originally intended to be an EP.
After releasing the two mixtapes "Another Day of The Week" and "Smash n' Grab" I wanted to put out an EP. But even for an EP, it is a long road from conception to a final product.
I started looking at different beat makers on the internet... sending emails asking to have a listen to samplers etc etc... most people wouldn't give me the time of day. This left me frustrated, angry and made me look at music in a different light. No one was gonna make this happen bar myself.
As i kept writing and looking for different producers that wanted to work with me (that were also in my price range), I started putting together my own beats (my roots are in piano and drums, so starting to produce music isn't really new to me) and you can see some of my production work on "The Support Act" in the song: "Faces Have Changed".
As that project progressed, i found that i was writing better and better songs and in the end i had about 50 tracks written for what was supposed to be a "EP". The Support Act Mixtape was born from this 50 tracks... with the songs that I felt were a notch above the rest being saved for the actual EP.
I eventually found two producers that were interested in working with me: Engineer (Canada) and Twist (Germany).
It was at about this time that I met Aaron. Aaron came to me saying that he enjoyed my music, and would like to have a crack at mixing some of my new tracks for me. He had a go... did a great job, asking NOTHING in return... he then decided to do the entire mixtape. I found this... inspiring isn't a strong enough word. It re-lit a fire up under me, that i hadn't even released had gone out. My passion is at an all time high... I feel unstoppable. As i mentioned before, he's now decided to stay on for this next project as both manager and producer... I can't wait.
As it stands, Respect Is Real is about halfway through in the writing and pre-production stage... it has progressed well beyond an EP... and now will be a full length album. I'm SO goddamn excited about where we can take this... only time will tell the product that we come up with but I feel that its going to be something special... At the moment we have 9 tracks for the album, hopping to put out aprox 15 tracks... i'll go a little more in depth bout the writing of these tracks, what there like etc in the next post!
until next time,
-Kryptic.
After releasing the two mixtapes "Another Day of The Week" and "Smash n' Grab" I wanted to put out an EP. But even for an EP, it is a long road from conception to a final product.
I started looking at different beat makers on the internet... sending emails asking to have a listen to samplers etc etc... most people wouldn't give me the time of day. This left me frustrated, angry and made me look at music in a different light. No one was gonna make this happen bar myself.
As i kept writing and looking for different producers that wanted to work with me (that were also in my price range), I started putting together my own beats (my roots are in piano and drums, so starting to produce music isn't really new to me) and you can see some of my production work on "The Support Act" in the song: "Faces Have Changed".
As that project progressed, i found that i was writing better and better songs and in the end i had about 50 tracks written for what was supposed to be a "EP". The Support Act Mixtape was born from this 50 tracks... with the songs that I felt were a notch above the rest being saved for the actual EP.
I eventually found two producers that were interested in working with me: Engineer (Canada) and Twist (Germany).
It was at about this time that I met Aaron. Aaron came to me saying that he enjoyed my music, and would like to have a crack at mixing some of my new tracks for me. He had a go... did a great job, asking NOTHING in return... he then decided to do the entire mixtape. I found this... inspiring isn't a strong enough word. It re-lit a fire up under me, that i hadn't even released had gone out. My passion is at an all time high... I feel unstoppable. As i mentioned before, he's now decided to stay on for this next project as both manager and producer... I can't wait.
As it stands, Respect Is Real is about halfway through in the writing and pre-production stage... it has progressed well beyond an EP... and now will be a full length album. I'm SO goddamn excited about where we can take this... only time will tell the product that we come up with but I feel that its going to be something special... At the moment we have 9 tracks for the album, hopping to put out aprox 15 tracks... i'll go a little more in depth bout the writing of these tracks, what there like etc in the next post!
until next time,
-Kryptic.
Introduction
First of all, if you are new to who I am let me introduce myself...
My name is Kryptic (Jackson Wright)... I'm 20 years old, from south-east Melbourne, been making and playing music my entire life, and am now studying mechanical engineering.
This is a blog about my upcoming album "Respect Is real".
In this blog going to be going through the entire process, how it's done... why we're doing certain things and not others in a lot more depth than what you can fit into a Facebook post (IF you want to find me on Facebook I'm at www.facebook.com/kryptic.music). If anyone else out there is making independent music this will be a really good thing to follow because you can see me make the mistake so you don't have too!! lol.
In preparation for this album, have just released "The Support Act Mixtape" which you can find here
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You can also find my very early work there.... but, I wouldn't bother with it. hahaha. The Support Act how ever is solid. Really proud of what we made with a budget of $0 for recording, mixing and mastering. This cd was recorded 100% by myself in my bedroom, then mixed and mastered by Aaron Rogers. This brings me to me next point; Why I keep saying We instead of I.
Let me introduce the team: Aaron Rogers. In the short time that I have known this man he has already done more for my music career than a lot of people have done or attempted to do in years. Aaron has stepped on board as my manager and producer for Respect Is Real. This blog will be going through what both of us are doing with the project, and to give you a really detailed vision of the work going into it.
Dylan Nie - Photographer and general all round help. Dylan is a mate of mine from uni and also now one of my house mates... is always around as part of the crew helping out with different things that I just don't no how to do (e.g. photo editing lol). He took the photo's for "The Support Act Mixtape" cover, and is another big asset/help for a lot of the things that I am doing...
Respect Is Real is the name of the album that we are putting together... I will go into much more detail about it in the next post... but that should just about do it for introductions... Hope that you follow along with the process, i'll be posting very frequently with updates, questions, ideas and in general where we're up too.
- Kryptic.
My name is Kryptic (Jackson Wright)... I'm 20 years old, from south-east Melbourne, been making and playing music my entire life, and am now studying mechanical engineering.
This is a blog about my upcoming album "Respect Is real".
In this blog going to be going through the entire process, how it's done... why we're doing certain things and not others in a lot more depth than what you can fit into a Facebook post (IF you want to find me on Facebook I'm at www.facebook.com/kryptic.music). If anyone else out there is making independent music this will be a really good thing to follow because you can see me make the mistake so you don't have too!! lol.
In preparation for this album, have just released "The Support Act Mixtape" which you can find here
------>
You can also find my very early work there.... but, I wouldn't bother with it. hahaha. The Support Act how ever is solid. Really proud of what we made with a budget of $0 for recording, mixing and mastering. This cd was recorded 100% by myself in my bedroom, then mixed and mastered by Aaron Rogers. This brings me to me next point; Why I keep saying We instead of I.
Let me introduce the team: Aaron Rogers. In the short time that I have known this man he has already done more for my music career than a lot of people have done or attempted to do in years. Aaron has stepped on board as my manager and producer for Respect Is Real. This blog will be going through what both of us are doing with the project, and to give you a really detailed vision of the work going into it.
Dylan Nie - Photographer and general all round help. Dylan is a mate of mine from uni and also now one of my house mates... is always around as part of the crew helping out with different things that I just don't no how to do (e.g. photo editing lol). He took the photo's for "The Support Act Mixtape" cover, and is another big asset/help for a lot of the things that I am doing...
Respect Is Real is the name of the album that we are putting together... I will go into much more detail about it in the next post... but that should just about do it for introductions... Hope that you follow along with the process, i'll be posting very frequently with updates, questions, ideas and in general where we're up too.
- Kryptic.
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