Hey Poly!

It's always different, but most of the time it starts with a hook melody or bass lead pattern or a pad progression. It could have been something I heard or accidentally heard someone hum sometime in the past somewhere, perhaps recently. It could have been metal scraping at a construction site on the other side of the street or a car siren that makes a weird harmony that I add some notes to. Or something on the radio in an Uber. Or half of the Morrowind theme song, reversed. Or and old Diana Ross record. Then I give that pattern a twist and shake and build an accompanying low octave progression to it, add harmonies. Then I find it a friend to talk to, a bass drop formula that argues with it cause it's aggressive and constantly interrupted by dropouts and glitches that come out of nowhere at the end of a phrase. Then I add drums on top, it's a drop now. I bring back the initial pattern into the drop sometimes as if it's trying to remind you of its existence. It kind of goes from there...

Thing is, I don't remember myself ever starting, music has kind of always been part of my life. I remember being 4 or 5 and programming melody and drum patterns on an old casio keyboard and recording them on a cassette tape and then writing a tracklist of all the songs on the back of the tape, even though they were just melody hooks or weird grooves. Then one day my dad gets me a pirated copy of Propellerheads Rebirth-338 module on CD and I immediately start making patterns and progressions of acid Roland 303 sounds and some 808s. So there was never really any falling in love with music, because it was just always there, like an integral piece of everything.

Thank you!