How did I write so many tracks? Easy: I gave up the idea of idle time. I do spend a lot of my free time on working on music; and there is free time left; but I don't - or very rarely - idle. I know I can't work on music using all my free time without burning out (or rather, burning out more than usual 😉) so in order to balance this a bit I plan to have free time to watch a movie or read a book, but it's all planned. For examples, two hours working on tracks then two hours watching a movie. My days unfold according to a specific order. I rarely arrive at a point where I have nothing planned or don't know what to do. Because that was the major time eater until recently. For example, in the evening I would chat a bit and listen to music and do this and that, just getting dragged along by activities and just losing minute after minute, even hour after hour. Stopping this "lazy behavior" gave me time to properly work on music.
In the past I used to really work on music all weekend basically, but nowadays I'm more balanced and often the "planned recreation time" outdoes the art activity time.
But idleness has been banned to most part and my activities are more ordered now, with, I think, a better output.
Why did I do all this? Well, if you want to start a revolution by art, you gotta show some dedication. :)
Do Away With The Modern World
When one is voicing any revolutionary intent, this often gets quickly subverted by the "agents of order", whoever they might be. For example, you say you want to abolish Capitalism. They will say: "...but some people profit from Capitalism, and not only the ruling class. Also, people in medieval times, even in the stone age, showed Capitalist behavior, so there is no escape from Capitalism. And what exactly is Capitalism anyway? And is Socialism any better?" and so on.
But there is one point, one goal, that cannot be easily "put aside" this way. And this is:
The modern world needs to be destroyed.
There can be no arguing about it, no second thoughts, no games of definitions and sidestepping, no fake pluralism about it. Is is a pure, total ideal and thought, one hundred percent the truth, a goal, a way, an ambition. You cannot talk and debate it away or your way out of it.
It also defines that the source of the misery the world is in right now is "modernism". It's not all of humanity that is the problem, not even all of the world - it's just its modern(ist) aspects.
Now lets get further on to this, our enemy, modernism. It's not just the obvious aspects of modernity - modern technology etc. - even though a lot of modern technology, such as social networks and smartphones and so on are very much part of the problem. It's the modern mindset that we should fight againt.
Technology in itself is not necessarily modern, ancient people used technology too, and as a good example: Techno music resurrected tribal and traditional drum and percussion focused music by *using technology* and was in this way, in the end, a lot more traditional than 19th century classical compositions - even though it used "modern equipment"!
Is terrorism the way, like the Unabomber etc. did? No, because as I said, we are fighting a mindset, and you can't blow up a mindset with bombs.
We need to employ art, theory, ideology, debates, poems, books, to fight the modern world.
So, this is our cry: do away with the modern world, and this is the path we should follow, and the ideal we aspire to.
But there is one point, one goal, that cannot be easily "put aside" this way. And this is:
The modern world needs to be destroyed.
There can be no arguing about it, no second thoughts, no games of definitions and sidestepping, no fake pluralism about it. Is is a pure, total ideal and thought, one hundred percent the truth, a goal, a way, an ambition. You cannot talk and debate it away or your way out of it.
It also defines that the source of the misery the world is in right now is "modernism". It's not all of humanity that is the problem, not even all of the world - it's just its modern(ist) aspects.
Now lets get further on to this, our enemy, modernism. It's not just the obvious aspects of modernity - modern technology etc. - even though a lot of modern technology, such as social networks and smartphones and so on are very much part of the problem. It's the modern mindset that we should fight againt.
Technology in itself is not necessarily modern, ancient people used technology too, and as a good example: Techno music resurrected tribal and traditional drum and percussion focused music by *using technology* and was in this way, in the end, a lot more traditional than 19th century classical compositions - even though it used "modern equipment"!
Is terrorism the way, like the Unabomber etc. did? No, because as I said, we are fighting a mindset, and you can't blow up a mindset with bombs.
We need to employ art, theory, ideology, debates, poems, books, to fight the modern world.
So, this is our cry: do away with the modern world, and this is the path we should follow, and the ideal we aspire to.
Truth
It's strange that people are trying so hard to look for the big answers, or worse, are entirely convinced they could never be found, when the same eternal, unchanging truths are always right in front of you, being spread in this world by millions of movies, songs, books. Truths such as: good will always win against evil, if you follow your dream it will come true for you, if you believe in yourself you can overcome every obstacle; and much, much more.
Now, some might say, these are mere fairytales, made up things, illusions, that only fools and dreamers still believe in these; well, then we should prefer to remain amongst the fools and dreamers.
Now, some might say, these are mere fairytales, made up things, illusions, that only fools and dreamers still believe in these; well, then we should prefer to remain amongst the fools and dreamers.
Modern Defect
Contemporary Breakcore, Industrial Techno, partying at Berghain are examples of things that have the same defect as Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis and many similar things: they re-introduce "traditionalist" and "archaic" concepts, ideas and themes into the modern world - the same concepts this very modern world tried to wipe out for several centuries now. But they do so in a warped, fragmented, crooked and ultimately dangerous way. The result is that these things have an extreme appeal to people who do not like the modern world very much; but instead of freeing them from the chains of this modern world, they only lead them down a road of misery and decay.
Anti-Intellectual
When I came into contact with "anarchist" anti-intellectualism, by the likes of Hakim Bey, John Zerzan, Bob Black... I became an anti-intellectual myself and was so from age 16 to 33. I thoroughly hated everything that had to do with reason, intellect, abstraction, logic, symbolism, language, philosophy, academia... and so on. When I finally grew out of it, I was very glad that my "rational capabilities" where at least still somewhat intact.
The only thing I couldn't agree on with the anti-intellectuals was the hostility towards "art"; I kept following and clinging to art, even in those years.
The only thing I couldn't agree on with the anti-intellectuals was the hostility towards "art"; I kept following and clinging to art, even in those years.
Isolation
I lived 20 years of my life in near total social isolation (minus the internet), with my family and some "assorted persons" more or less being my only close real world contacts.
Subculture And Vision
John Lilly wrote that the entire point of the developement of "psych-meds", something he witnessed first hand, was to find and create substances that would have the effects that drugs have on humans, but without putting them "on a trip". To make people feel happy or relax them, or make them feel more energetic, or more relieved, just like users of Speed, Coke, Heroin and all the other drugs - but not make them "really" high, make them have "hallucinations", visions, make them go off into "inner space", find deep and meaningful insights...
This is a very deep concept and it goes to the very foundation of western society. Generally speaking, everything is designed to make you high - but not to get you too far, onto a real trip. This just not happens in the development of "meds" but also is the very base of the subcultural struggle, of the fight of the originators of cultural movements against those that capitalise on them or otherwise take them over and suck them dry.
For example, Punk originally moved you far, made you challenge society, the government, rules, morals... decades later, "Pop-Punk" was devoid of that effect and just put money in the pockets of those major label executives that sold it. The same happened to Rap, to 60s Rock, virtually every music genre... at first, it is something novel, dangerous, challenging, that changed peoples mind and pushed them far... then years later the same genre still has remains of this very first euphoric buzz, but now it's safe, pre-defined, enclosed... not really make you break all the boundaries.
With Techno and Hardcore it must be said that the modern clubber who dances to Techno or Core all night and takes drugs likely will go on a "trip", and hallucinate, and so on, unlike the users of the aforementioned meds... but it won't be a trip that really gets you somewhere, that leads you to the final anwers, that makes you change your life on a profound and euphoric and positive level (it might change your life in various negative ways though)... this trip stays safe and pre-regulated... it's not a trip that really puts you into the far away dangerous zones beyond all limits... a limited, castrated trip.
90s Hardcore still had that power to push people's minds into the forbidden zone, the majority of Core does not have it now... Techno neither... but there is a new generation of producers that took up this mission again and sent you into surreal ecstacy and the feral realm. The fight goes on... so beware of things that have the trace of euphoria, but that in the end don't feed your head.
This is a very deep concept and it goes to the very foundation of western society. Generally speaking, everything is designed to make you high - but not to get you too far, onto a real trip. This just not happens in the development of "meds" but also is the very base of the subcultural struggle, of the fight of the originators of cultural movements against those that capitalise on them or otherwise take them over and suck them dry.
For example, Punk originally moved you far, made you challenge society, the government, rules, morals... decades later, "Pop-Punk" was devoid of that effect and just put money in the pockets of those major label executives that sold it. The same happened to Rap, to 60s Rock, virtually every music genre... at first, it is something novel, dangerous, challenging, that changed peoples mind and pushed them far... then years later the same genre still has remains of this very first euphoric buzz, but now it's safe, pre-defined, enclosed... not really make you break all the boundaries.
With Techno and Hardcore it must be said that the modern clubber who dances to Techno or Core all night and takes drugs likely will go on a "trip", and hallucinate, and so on, unlike the users of the aforementioned meds... but it won't be a trip that really gets you somewhere, that leads you to the final anwers, that makes you change your life on a profound and euphoric and positive level (it might change your life in various negative ways though)... this trip stays safe and pre-regulated... it's not a trip that really puts you into the far away dangerous zones beyond all limits... a limited, castrated trip.
90s Hardcore still had that power to push people's minds into the forbidden zone, the majority of Core does not have it now... Techno neither... but there is a new generation of producers that took up this mission again and sent you into surreal ecstacy and the feral realm. The fight goes on... so beware of things that have the trace of euphoria, but that in the end don't feed your head.
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