My music is known to some people, but there are a lot of musicians in our realms of sound that came after me, or before, or started at the same time, that are much more known. Maybe it's better that some music stays more "secret", or my music is just not that interesting. But the truth is that I also always took great pains and effort to keep my music from becoming to widely known to people. For example, while I indeed released on some "larger" labels, I generally keep away from "large" labels, to this day. Or for some years I didn't properly master my tracks (for example adding a lot of hard master clipping - even on pads) and this kept a lot of people away from music. I let a of chances to become "more known" pass me by, on purpose.
Why did I do this?
One reason is I'm not particularly interested in "fame", "success", "career". But there is also another reason that is more important to me. It's that I produce, and always produced psychedelic music. And this music can have a psychedelic effect on people. Isn't this a lot of responsibility for a person? How I can be sure of the consequences and effects of this music production?
Wouldn't spreading psychedelic music to a lot of people be like the plans of some 60s hippies to put LSD in the water supply to get everyone to an "altered state if consciousness" - with its horrible consequences?
To this day I have no answers to these questions.
That's why I rather keep it "under the cover". I assume that people who listen to the specific brand of Doomcore or Speedcore I make are mostly "psychonauts" who have experience with mind altering drugs or trance through meditation etc. and therefore are able to handle psychedelic music well, and positively, and responsible.
Oh you might add that I indeed spread my music outside my circles in the last years. This is true, I have become more bold and sure of myself in that regard. But I try my best to not - spread it to "too many".
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