How I make music: When I bought my first soundcard, a Digidesign M-box, and first launched Reason, I liked the program's virtual simplicity, the mixing desk, the cables, made it easy to understand what I did and I soon realised grooves could be made in any shape and sound if I just learned how to use the program. And now, four years later, I still try to make beats for the floating melodylines I make up. When I program I never think of a song as something made up by tracks, I think of it as a shape. I've always liked the way the British artist Tricky produces his co-singers and how they float within the beat, and I adore good countrysingers. So before I bought the soundcard, I said to myself I had to try and make a mix out of the things I like. I love to hear good vocals on strange beats, like the song Find A Way with Santogold.
But had I known how difficult it was to make things sound good, well, perhaps I'd changed my mind before buying the sound equipment. Anyway..sometimes I walk two steps forward and five back on my way to what I truly could say sounds good, so I'm not there yet. The saying: Noone is born a soundengineer...welll thats true. But the comfort is that I have no plans quitting making music or marrying a sound engineer. So for now, all the best, enjoy the music and bear in mind that the sound is on the way.