Seems like I’m going to finish this last mix in about eight hours in total, 4 to 8 being the goal. it does feel epic but maybe it’s okay and the mixing process is fine now. How long does it take you to mix a 3-min tune?

I don’t think people realize just how much work writing and producing one 2-3 min song is 😬

25 SONGS THAT REMIND YOU OF 2009… 🎤🎹🎶🎧 www.electricityclub.co.uk/30-songs-of-...

When a production is taking forever but it’s getting better all the time so you know you’re not wasting time on perfectionism but you still wonder why does it have to take so long. Respect to all producers tbh 👏

Live the dream love the music

Current AI plugins operate at the signal level. What musicians actually want is semantic music understanding: • tension curves • stylistic lineage • expressive phrasing models • arrangement dramaturgy That layer barely exists yet.

Until AI sorts out this horrible aliased top end, I can’t see much use for it. I remain open minded about it, but I’ve not had any luck using AI in music making so far. I’ll keep trying but regular production seems a lot quicker and better overall, for now

When you finish a tune you’re sick of it but when you release it a few months later you hear it for the first time and it rocks harder than ever: you know you’ve done a good job

Dedicated to all digital thieves, this electro jam came out today - enjoy open.spotify.com/track/5Chs5e...

Doesn’t matter how many tunes you’ve finished and released, the first few sessions on each new project are full of uncertainty.

New tune and production very close to done in just two days / few hours of work. Here’s hoping to finish a lot more tunes this year 🍷

I can hear the difference between different clipping plug ins but can’t explain it…

Ethel Cain at the Apollo last night

A song for those slow goodbyes in life youtube.com/watch?v=QL_H...

Huge discount on this, gonna get it

One Martial Canterel superb tune among many youtube.com/watch?v=TV9c...

Any music artists based in Manchester (or nearby) in here? Let’s connect

This is so good. Doesn’t get better than Andy Wallace youtube.com/watch?v=-9os...

Today I listened to this great album - did you listen to an album today?

What’s a good thing you learned or experienced on social media today?

Modal interchange / borrowed chords are the soul of a song. Borrow one chord and you’ll take your tune to a whole new level.

I think I found my genre: “Oblique Pop” What do you reckon?

The time a production takes changes drastically according to how generic it is or how much investigation goes into it. No such thing as a standard here

The more you dedicate your time to listening to music with full attention, the higher your quality of life

Hugh Jones’ production work in the 80s is so good I made a Spotify playlist for it, check it out - it’s all great but specially the stuff he did with Fiat Lux open.spotify.com/playlist/0SV...

Mocking pop music for being lighthearted is like mocking Modigliani for his light textures.

If you’re learning, you’re happy.

Do people realize how amazing Supergrass are? Way beyond pretty much all bands of that era

To be and not to be, that is the answer

Must watch - doesn’t get better than D Cronemberg www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Be what you can only be by trying to be what you could never. Any place worth inhabiting is arrived at via the outside.

The purpose of poetry is only poetry. Poetry doesn’t serve anything else, but everything else serves it

To love is to disappear

“…at the deepest layer of the divisible, the unequal still rumbles in intensity.” (Deleuze)

Common sense remains the enemy

I am eternal and so are you

Social media should be more social than media

The best part of learning to mix is you enjoy and love music more

God is a philosophical game we play with the unknowable. Certainty never comes into it - it destroys the thinking and the thinker’s world

Ableton still doesn’t have strip silence - I can’t understand this, it’s been around for decades

Is there a way to extract sibilance from a stem without doing it by hand? That is to place on a different track

I read something about music production recently that stayed with me: “ the last 10% of a production is 90% of the work” - do you agree?

This freaked me out today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Those penguins were ripping them off isn’t it? 😂

Music is the outside of feeling

Above all, what Robert Smith mastered in music is TIME. We must focus on time.

You don’t really decide what music you make. I think it decides for you

That moment when you finish a few mixes and have time to wonder if all the sounds are wrong and it’s all shit. Gotta love the creative process 😓

First modern computer 😻