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Mike my creation process is

You know

I like to I like to deprive myself of sleep

I like to

And work

From 9 p.m. to

7 a.m. and then the idea sometimes doesn't hit me or more often then I'll actually does hit me around 3 to 4 a.m.

Immuno and then

You know this is weird it's like egg because I'm my brain is in this weird euphoric

State I guess

Love no sleep that you know

I start thinking of

Or not

Nnn start you know kind of getting more experimental things done and writing

Melodies Inn in just becoming more efficient at

Being not so critical

God because I guess

That's why you're not supposed to dry

At like 3 or 4 in the morning after you don't having been up 24 hours prior because

Do judgements not there you know you need in your

Do not

Critical thinking

About you don't driving so you know he might doze off or you might just like kind of

Falls out and do a thing so it's like

But when you apply that to making music it's you know year

You're not

Inhibited by you know

Some kind of stress that's going on that day or something like that or the stress of why this track isn't really working and

You just kind of just doing it

And

Not

Contriving anything you know

And then sometimes that's just like kind of the flood gate opens and ideas come out and you get him down

And you're like wow you know looking out at school and then you get excited about that and you start working on it now whether it's it's going to

Turn into one of those things where you like

Banging your head off the desk trying to get it finished but

That doesn't matter it's just

So rewarding ticket to come up with something that

Doesn't sound like the same

Punching your head off the desk ATM kind of stuff

I I disassociate music from almost everything

Which is kind of strange

Because a lot of people are like

A lot of other artists I know what you do music

Feeling and it's this and that and then and to me it's not you know it's it's so disassociated from scenes

So disassociated from

People's personal habits

And it's disassociated from body movement II disassociated from

Everything I just emotionally

Cut the head off a music

They're going to go at it from a

Let's just do it kind of

A Bible you know that is so but that that's just me other guys need that connection they need the personal

And I don't even think about s*** like that

I get to ask that question a lot and you know it's like

When you were making this how did you feel or how do you expect people to feel and it's like

Did that wasn't even in the neighborhood you know I wasn't even in the on the planet

I don't I don't think songs

Unless you're

Neil Young

That storytelling with a music and and and stuff like that but but he DM

I think it's

Is pretty subjective I mean I could

Say that it was

Telling a story and then I could impose that story on everyone and

And then that would be the

You know the global opinion is a thing but I like

I like that people can take away different things from the same body of work

I'm so

That's the way I go about making music

Because I'm just

Completely

I've never found myself humming a tune on the couch

In my head and picking up I got it and I'm going to go in the studio and then do it I just kind of

Just go and

Start doing it and then the ideas form as I'm doing it as opposed to

Me trying to form a pre-existing idea in my head

For me I can't sit down and say

I'm work on the beginning intro of a song and polish it and then have it all good and great and then work after that

And then do the middle section and then go to the end I can't work in a linear fashion

When I start making music

You know I sit down at the computer and just start plotting out Melody

I mean cuz that's number one for me making a song as you know the

Melodic structure the whole thing whether it's going to be like another

The main

Fraser Hall

If you will

You just go in and create don't worry about the sound don't worry about

Yeah the mag so that's an an all these things cuz you know you want to hear this thing in all its Glory as your starting at which is never

Going to happen

It's just laying down all the face except maybe some minor rhythmic patterns or something like that

Ijust 2

You know keep the tempo or something for me to hear while I'm working on the melody so none of that stuff's really important

Yeah maybe

Like three-quarters through

And then the last quarter the process would be you know refining everything and then I actually using the sounds I want to use

Susan and the instruments that I want to use in that

The drums and

All all that stuff I want to use and then the last part is you know

Coherently gluing it all together

Mix it properly,

So that's that's

Pretty much

The process

90% of my time is just

Goofing around and Eminem trying to come up with something then it is polishing the something that I came up with

Mr. Potato Head

I think I meant that like well a lot of

Music software today is

Widely accessible and available and you know cheapest not free

So you know in and of course you can go in and grab

Bstock libraries

Basically pre-made music

And

Literally take you know

234 bars this and then

Some bars of that and then just

Mix and match

Stuff you know and then

Get imprinted

Call it a day and say hey I mean

So that that's what I think I meant by that but then there's another way doing that too is if you're creating those

Parts you could

Kind of use that

For your own good and you know

You create all these ideas and then you create a folder or whatever

Archival sister

Start throwing all your bits and there's like

When you're working on something and you do star Pasha

Thinking wall

Oh

You know when you can grab this whole little recording or

Hair clipper

Whatever it is and then

Just stick it in there and then

There it is see you knowing if you have a large enough collection of

Stockton over 10 years

Making music

Have a lot

You can

Just go into that

Solar system and grab what you want

The repetition and idioms important if you want to get the thing done

On time and on budget

That's a big one

I mean

Repetition is good

In the sense that I can

I can write a whole song and less than 16 bars

It really truly I can do a whole track and less than 16 bars and then

Once those 16 bars which is like what

23 seconds

Of music

Is done

And then it's all about arrangement

I am to ranging that that 60 more even ate

Or s*** if your Praises for

You know it it's all about just you know lengthening a duplicating that whole thing across the board and then arranging it saying

What comes in what goes out what gets modified what gets on modified

But it's all the same thing

Dad is so much easier than

Then

Starting you know your track and then trying to plot it all the way through and you know and then having cons

Some changes cool that would be I am don't really hear that that much because

Take a long time

To wrap your head around

It only takes me like

Two or three days to write a track because I don't

Even though it took me

10 to 12 hours to come up with this stupid malady that

Starting on a nail and then went up and down into this thing and then enzyme like a kind of resolve and then

It sounds naturally being cycle that that takes time

But once I've done that

I feel so much better I'm like a lady I'm like the track is done and then was like everyone's like what you like

Like maybe

16 beats long and I'm like I do but it's done it's done in my head

If I had any advice for you know the upcoming producers would be you know like

You get on the map Honestly by Leading her by following

Do you really do

You get on the mat fight you know taking

Pieces of stuff that are out there and I'm not talking about

Sampling but ideas

Structures in and stuff like that

Drawing on what

Doing it right now and then

And then once you're up there

That put you in a position of

Power if you will too

Going make changes

I copied from everyone I copied from you know

Melodically I copied

It's from Nine Inch Nails

Slii

They copied from a bit of that and then and I think

That was kind of

A smart move on my part because

I knew

That a lot of this house in electronic music at the time when I started was very euphoric

Very

Pump Up the Jam really you know really like

All major stuff

Miami majors and key you know it was all very uplifting and

How come no one's really done anything more you know

Minor sustains kind of stuff minor

16 seven notes

And stuff like that

I hear a lot of this

Quick appreciation

Pistachio

I wanted to try and make something a little more melancholic and in terms of Melody that was more

Like a downer kind of feel but keep that same tempo and then

And instead of going so quick and

Sharpen fast with my

Appreciation song chord structures

I'll just tell them down to like slower eighth notes and make them a little more Lush and brooding kind of thing

And I did that with a number of tracks in those were the tracks I put me you know on the on the map to start

Now

Like I said out I wasn't doing anything as

Sonically

Amazing as you know some of the other artists that were like to do in their Prime at that time that I was trying to be like it

It wasn't even close

If I put the two mix

Two side-by-side my first stuff that broke me out

Versus the stuff I listen to it the time it was like night and day

I don't know what I'm f****** doing and

Disguise

He's got a really good engineer something

But melodically they were

Night that because this was more kind of

Bummed out shitting this was like the super happy

Yay

Electro kind of thing and then I thought

I calculated that hit my head that like whoa

Here's that

Sounds like it should be

A different style and

Lo and behold a kind of wasn't

The time and then

And then I was able to

To release you know

Maybe up to one album of that kind of stuff and get away with it without

Oversaturating my s*** and then defining that as me because

Again I had to be put on the map right so I got to do these things may have to do a set of them maybe like 4-5 track

So the people can kind of get an idea right

Not

Messerli who I am in its entirety but hey I'm here

Moving back to my point

Is that borrowing this you know kind of melodic structure from Nine Inch Nails and then

Growing some of this

Drum structure from

Well no one really

The Keg on every quarter now

I think that's everyone ever

You know taking that idea and applying it

To you know what was being played at the time

That's what worked

I'm not saying going to do that

Is already been done

So take the thing that hasn't been done before and then applied in there and then just try it out

See if it works

The nature of electronic music is that you know it's something that you could do very you know solitary and and have your own ID

Just do that so

You see that a lot in electronic music you don't see a lot of

I do also

And then when you do well

How much of that is

You know his drinking buddy that

Got in on the deal and doesn't do s*** you know

Then that happens to

I think electronic music

Now see no personality like mine because

I'm not I'm not a team player like

I can work with others on and you know and then that kind of thing but

Tamia just always ends in you no disagreement about like you know them both Discord than that cord and then you're kind of

You don't come straight into his ideas and you're constrained to are there

Constraint your ideas kind of thing so

For me it doesn't work for others works brilliantly

So collaborations with me usually

Result in me having finishing

Sending someone else's amen

What you could use keyboard

Sola wanted that I just know I

Couldn't program that you could play better because you're a keyboard as store and then we'll try that out and then I'll see if I can integrated

Dairy

Mildly

Manipulated myself afterwards or something like that but

Or

Or a top-line for a vocal or something like that I've never

You know

Written attract in tandem with a songwriter and and then being all you know the keychain should go here and there

Everything is just like no here's

Are the rules here's the whole thing and you make it work for that and then I'll

Massage your back and that's kind of how I work

Self-doubt could come from anywhere

You don't have to be a musician to know

What self-doubt is yum

Or anything of the sort or even creative

You either

Are content with

Do you are and what you're doing and how you're doing it are you or you're not or sometimes you are sometimes you want but

Yeah that definitely is going to affect the way they

You do things because

You might be

We over critical of your idea and then it's like

It sucks

But it is cool that I get that because then you know

I work at it more you know when I find that I know

When I'm doing something in the middle to Millie I spent 2 hours on something that doesn't work we'll know I'd saved 2 hours

Next time I try to start it again

So

The process

It's quicker and then I know what

Waze to Route audio signal online stuff to do and just writing nail at the way I want it as opposed to trying to learn

Learn to do it again you know

I know when an idea is good and I don't know I know when it's bad you know when I know when to cut it off when it's like okay

This is just not happening

Information so

Just like

Stop

Beating your head off the desk and

Ncarb

And be done with it or at least put it in that stupid

Bowlero

Ideas

Sometimes I

Kick the dead horse a little too long and then that sucks but

As part of the process and then

You can't just discounted this time wasted you discounted us you know time

Experience game

Nothing's ever really finished you know you just

Satisfied

With the result because I mean I could I could go back to

To any of my releases and make them better

Or or change something or you know her take something out or put something different in this is

They never done

So just

You know

Blink like goodnight

And then let it let it sit before you do anything with it before you

Upload it to your

SoundCloud or whatever just let it sit for a couple days and then go back at it like two or three more time

Maxine on ninja

Have a listen through ninjas

See if you can hear anything different

AR

You know you know

There's going to be a threshold of course we're just like all right