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hmmm. this is a tricky question lemme just say this though, both of us have a similar stance on drugs, if u wanna do drugs, just be careful to not let the drugs do you.

yes sir! we're workin on it!

dude send me ur soundcloud! i remember talking to you about that!

yo miles, 1. man hanging out with some new friends in the studio has helped me "hear" things differently. I've spent a lot of time working on stuff with Madsonik (who is on the album!) he is also known for his film composition as Brian Tyler. We've become great friends over this past year, and we've learned a lot from each other. Mostly just listening to music and talking about it. Talking about space in a mix. Where things go sonically. How music makes you feel. Getting philosophical with your friends about why you make music and how it makes you feel makes you better. Learning your tools makes you better. Above all listening to music deeply... makes you better. Our long talks makes me realize making music for film isn't so much different than making dance music. It's all about making people feel emotion! That's the most important bit right there!

1. Making music shouldn't be a formula. Making a synth patch or mixing a song shouldn't be like putting together a ikea table. Or completing a video game. Watching tutorials is awesome but they should always be a starting point. All of the cool stuff comes from stepping outside of the boundaries and discovering ideas that may be unconventional, stuff that people might consider wrong. I've been in the studio with lots of amazing producers and have seen them do things and I've said "hey why are you doing that?" "that seems WRONG to me". Over time I've learned to be quiet and watch when I'm working with someone cause some of the crazy stuff they've discovered is so bizarre. Its just stuff you wouldn't think of doing if you are following the rules!

2. energy is good! energy is life. shrek is life.

3. Now some people wont agree with me, but something I learned from skrillex. once you have a song in a good place where you are feeling it but start getting stuck. Bounce it out! Listen to it in the car, listen to it on your phone. Bring the .wav into your sequencer and play with different arrangements chopping the song into pieces. Try looping different sections, put stuff in different orders. When your project becomes this huge mess with 50 tracks and automation and all this shit everywhere, it becomes overwhelming. You start hearing things differently when you chop it up you cant go in and fiddle with the details your brain starts focusing on the bigger picture and you kinda refresh your perspective! once you've got your destination back in focus open the project back up and get back on it! Try it out! ;)

it kinda happened gradually. 2004 i was in community college just dicking around really, taking a bunch of random courses writing, philosophy, some art classes. I spent most of my time DJing and making tunes. I started hanging out on a messageboard called "dogs on acid" interacting with other guys like me and i met some guys from atlanta: mayhem, evol intent, and some others really early on. They were the first guys that listened to my stuff and started giving me feedback on my work. They were a couple steps ahead of me with some record releases and a bit of a international reputation. I stepped my game up big time trying to impress those guys haha. There was a 5 year period or so that I still worked a day job and tried to spend as much time as possible making tunes. Just taking a year at a time asking myself "am i making progress?". Little by little i got better released more records. All the way up till 2010 when i started a new project called "Kill The Noise". It's been a slower more steady growth over a decade. Which kinda seems rare in our environment now. It wasn't an over night thing that got me to where im at now.. where ever that is.