An audio assault through the eyes of the meek...

The world, as it stands is ready.
Ready for the audio assault that I plan on launching.
The music scene as I see it needs shaking up. It needs grabbing by its scrawny little neck and throwing across the room until it realises that no matter what people do to/with it, it will still bounce back and though it might look a little more 'ugly', we will still love it with the same passion we did when we first experienced it properly.

Now some of you may be questioning my authority to declare this kind of audio assault, and I will openly declare that I have no kind of authority on the matter.

But... I don't need any authority.

As listeners and creators of music we do not need authority to be passionate about something and I think it is time that the listeners and creators of music took back what is rightfully theirs: the passion and spirit to create what they want, to listen to what they want.

Of late I believe that record companies have started to tighten their grip over bands and artists and I believe that art for the sake of art is being lost deep within the depths of bureaucracy and money.

I haven't heard a really decent album in a while that I didn't think was trying to grab at five minutes of fucking "fame"or make more money than the last album. It saddens me that music has lost its fundamental reason for being.

I will agree that there are some great artists out there, doing great things and making great music with a really awesome ethic (The Bloody Beetroots are a great example of this) and I'm not oging to knock them. It's just it would seem that these musicians are in the minority and it saddens me that the one thing on many bands minds is getting a record deal or making the top 20.

If anyone have ever head of Dub FX you will know that he is forging a career without having a record label. (As are Enter Shikari)

For those that don't know, a little description is in order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dub_FX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiInBOVHpO8

Dub FX is a street busker who uses nothing but his voice, a loop pedal and some effects to create music live on the street.

He uses a combination of beatboxing, singing and 'rapping' to create a melange of sounds that spand many different genres. He speaks from his heart and claims to be truly independant using only, live performance, word of mouth and internet social networking to self promote and create interest.

The work ethics of this guy are so fantastically awesome because he is basically doing music for subsistence. He is making music so he can eat food and sleep under a roof at night. He is not in it for the money, he is in it to create. And the stuff that he is creating is most definitely art. It is pure and unadulterated art because he has no record label telling him that he has to change his sound or sell more records or whatever. He could have a 'normal', boring job and he could be making lots of money and have a fancy car but he's chosen a simple life so that he can do what he wants.

I admire that a lot and plan on using that in my ethic in the near future as I try and forge myself a life creating and playing music.

With lyrics such as:

"I aint gonna spend my time wandering why I never made it
I’ve already made it
I aint gonna spend my days thinking about why I never made it
I've already made it"

I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to have a worth ethic like his.


Now, time to update on my musical plans:

Novoseven: I am currently in the process of writing an EBM/Aggrotech album for my university course. This will consist of hard heavy danceable beats with lots of distortion and screaming! I will also be trying to get some live gigs for this. It's going to take a while but in the not too distant future I will have an albums worth of songs to force into your ears and infect your mind with.

Random band: I am in the process of setting up and writing some songs for a random band that will consists of me and three of my university friends; Kate - vocals and guitar, Ollie - drums, Sam - bass, Me - guitar. It will be jump up and dance rock. I want it to be something like UnderOath mixed with The All American Rejects with less screaming, but seeing as this is a band the other members will get their say as well. We will hopefully be getting some gigs next year.

Cosmic Fallacies: At the moment this is a solo project but I'm hoping I can find someone who's up for collaborating . This will be a trancey, summery, spacey, 'chilled out but get up and dance' project. As of yet I only have a few half finished samples for this but I will be working on more stuff in the near future. This will be a production and dj project as opposed to a live thing.

Random drum and bass: This is my idea to do some heavy, distorted bass inspired drum and bass. Imagine if The Prodigy met Pendulum started a fight and then teamed together to fight Sub Focus and Chase & Status. It's going to be fast, hard, bass heavy and full of haunting melodies. Once again this is going to be a dj project as opposed to a live thing.

Phew, even writing that made me tired. I'm going to be one busy motherfucker!

To be honest though, I love music so much that I am really excited about everything I have planned. It's going to take lots of dedication but I have music running through my veins and if I could choose one thing to live on for the rest of my life it would have to be music.


I could live on music and love I'm sure.

I love being creative, from creating the first notes/beats of a song to finishing it right the way through to working out an album cover and "image" for that particular project.

Fuck yeah.

xx

Song of the day: Dub FX - Rude Boy

Quote of the day: "We're all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde & "It is very easy to dream, but is takes all the strength you have to reach out and grab them." - David Broadhurst