Had a productive day for music. Found some cool synths for the iPad and recorded a bunch of samples that I later sifted through and chopped into songs I’m working on + new beats. Had some errands to run in Zizkov so I spent a couple of hours in the park with headphones in. It’s always great to switch up the scenery - you don’t always get a good mix going but you usually end up trying things you normally wouldn’t.

I’m thinking about starting to post beats online under a pseudonym. Just to produce and release more ‘finished’ work without the pressure of it being connected to my name, or adding to the overwhelm/confusion of my followers. I’ve got lots of stuff on my hard drive, and maybe 1% is releasable in this way right now. Another 5-10% needs a dedicated session or two. This stuff piles up, becomes a kind of burden on the part of your mind that manages creative projects.

You don’t want to open old shit, cause mannnnn you know it’s messy in there. That was you X months ago. You’ve learned a lot since then. You have new templates. New workflows. New plugins. Shit. Well, maybe I can pull some of the stems into a new project. But hold up you also don’t want to make new shit. Cause wait I have some 20-30 songs that are 80% done and halfway decent. What am I gonna wait till I have 40-50 partially done’s till I force myself to finish something? And only after an hour of listening through you’re entire beat library for the 5th or 6th time this year to establish a *priority list* do you realize that maybe this isn’t a productive way to spend your time.

Then, naturally, you crack open your DAW and start playing around with an idea you had in the shower the other day. And of course, a few productive hour’s later, this one gets added to the partially done pile. You’re satisfied with it, and you convince yourself that this time will be different. This time you’ll actually finish it.

And so the cycle repeats. This is why I want to release more. Set up some kind of systematic process, whereby tracks that have been around for a certain period either get dumped onto a spare hard drive, released in their current state or moved to a very selective folder of tracks I’m really excited about [and for which I’ve set aside time to work on a regular basis].