Today it’s a rainy fall/winter day in SoCal. We get rain so rarely here I really enjoy when it happens. I don’t necessarily enjoy driving in it, because people here act like they are stuck on stupid when it starts raining. They either speed and won’t slow down or they drive so slow you’d think they have Ms. Daisy in the backseat.
However today, I’m sitting here with a cup of nice coffee and messing around with my music gear. I can hear the pitter patter of the rain outside and it’s very therapeutic. I look forward to times like these, and it’s the reason I refuse to believe anymore that we are in some type of “hell realm”. Yes, life can be rough sometimes. We live dull workaday lives and slave away every day, but there are times where we get to enjoy time with our families and have fun doing our hobbies. There is peace amidst the storm, and you just have to be able to find it and hold onto it.
I have the TE EP-40 Riddim and Ting devices, and they are pretty good. It has a reggae vibe to it and it’s a lot of fun to play around with. I have a pretty good Jamaican accent, so I use that when I’m talking into the Ting. All together, my music equipment is the MPC Key 61 at the center, the Roland SP 404 mk2, the Teenage Engineering KO II & EP-40 w/ Ting FX device, as well as the Roland GAIA 1 synthesizer. I think that between all those devices, I should be good to make whatever type or music, wherever I want to. I will stop buying music gear and just hold onto my dough to pay my debts off. I can keep my Splice.com and Tracklib.com subscriptions and just use the samples/sounds I get on there to make my music.
I don’t really have aspirations of trying to become notorious for my music, but I would like to share it with more people. Perhaps I need to put a bit more effort into it, then market it on social media. I want to make sure it’s at least listenable, and not something that would be annoying for someone to listen to at least one time through. I’ll move towards doing that, but I would like to incorporate some other people into it as well. My friend Aaron in Chicago is a good emcee, so I’d like to make beats for him to rhyme over and put those out as a emcee w/ producer/DJ, ala Eric B. and Rakim. I’ll talk to him this weekend and see what would be the best way for us to pull that off.
Anyway, let me get back to my chill weekend. I’m about to run to the bud dispensary and pick up some Indica weed to help me chill through this weekend. I hope it’s a good strain I’m getting, and that it doesn’t make me feel weird or anything. I have a pretty good tolerance, and I know that meditation and respect for the plant always leads to a good experience. Til next time reader! Have a good one!