thank you all for being along for this journey!
an end to an adventure in sampling, mashups, laughing my ass off at 3 am, and serious legitimate improvement.
i remember making the cover art for Music Is In Danger, adding the pjw sample to the intro track, listening to it after releasing it and being so proud. in retrospect it was not very good, but im still glad i released it. i hope you all are too.
i think this is the first album i am fully proud of. i love all of the tracks, i have heightened my quality floor, and i have made actual improvements in mixing and producing. i started this in march of 2021, with an early version of mario got a new car. i didnt plan to make this record at the time, but around the time i had made weeble wobble in late june, i knew i had to release something.
i was /there/. the place where i knew i was making music i would want to listen to. aside from /sanctuary.safe, i dont think an album has been a catalyst of my artistic development as much as this is. this is what i want people to think of when they hear about me.
this entry is definitely more remix focused than the preceding titles. ive always been better at remixes than original music. taking someone elses creation and putting my own wacky spin on it just motivates me more than coming up with my own idea. too much self doubt, cringing at old .als files, voice dysphoria, mayonaise etc. involved.
ive also always been fascinated by covers, remixes, alternate takes, or even just rerecordings of material. the way a song can be altered and shaped by different people over time will never fail to make me grin ear to ear. ever since i heard will toledo mumbling about mary shelleys frankenstein and how he connects it to the song he is currently recording ive known that seeing the self in the other is the best part of being human.
am i thinking too hard about this remix/mashup album?
yes.
special thanks to:
chorus, for keeping my spirits up
ayla, for inspiring
raine, for teaching me to think right
brick, for reminding me to have fun
arbok, for arbokfest
and the specialest thanks to:
you! the listener. i literally wouldnt be here without you.
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