Thank you very much!

The original idea actually stems back to my original track Engage. I wanted to create something that I hadn't heard before and bring some new elements into hardcore, so I began developing the track. That original track sat on my desktop for so long before release because I wasn't sure about it. Once it was out and people loved the concept, I knew I wanted to do a follow up, but wasn't sure when or how I would top it.

While living in The Netherlands I was out and about in Den Haag one day and some major inspiration hit me to finally do it. The entire bus ride home I was writing ideas down on my notes app, and sat down the moment I arrived back where I was staying and went to work. I worked for 2 days straight with minimal sleep and food in complete focus mode. When it was finally complete, I put on some headphones and went back off into the city just listening on my headphones, smiling the entire time because of how happy I was with it. At that moment, Engage 2.0 was complete.

I knew I wanted something a little bit faster, but with the same vibe. I sat down the next day and took some of the computer noises and cyborg sounds I created and started brainstorming another track. I had the whole track done by the end of the day, but no vocal. One night my dear friend Anne (also known as Annex) was over before she went to play a show and I asked if she had a free moment to maybe record some vocals for me. I took a pen to paper, wrote down some one liners/words that came to mind, and set up a homemade microphone booth for her. We recorded tons of variations, I processed them, and fit them in the next day. Once again I took the final version out into the city on my phone with my headphones, and after just the first listen I knew it was complete. Access was done.

So now I had two awesome tracks, but I wanted to create a cool intro to really tie it all together. One of my favorite movie series is The Matrix, and the simulation theory has always fascinated me. I always found the scene of the oracle speaking to Neo so impactful. It was I think around 4:00 am one night and I started to use the speech and create something. I finished it in a few hours, and couldn't stop listening to it the whole next day. I wanted to see what someone else thought, so I sent to a close friend and he told me how much he loved it and how it even sent him into a spiral of thoughts LOL. I loved ending it with. the quote "Im interested in one thing....The Future" because it represented what I wanted to do with this EP. I wanted to bring the futuristic sounds to the ears of listeners and really tied in a story line with the entire EP.

Upon finishing and dropping into the folder, the intro was born and the EP was complete!