It's 2021. I'm back writing on Publish!
We're going into autumn, still in a pandemic. I just bought my first NFT (shout out FELT ZINE 4 life!) and I'm in LA living in a sublet with a crying baby that I've come to resent.
The summer that led to all this was my first one living in Indianapolis as an adult, I realized.
Though it was pandemic induced, I'm grateful for the time I got to spend there. The scene is doing really cool things. Shoutout Aïssa Agave for all she does for the scene in Indianapolis, truly the red thread that brings it all together. We got close and she took me to my first Sweetgarbij and Club Plex events. Cool things happening for queer folx and electronic music in Indy right now - I pray that scene finds a way to sustain itself.
I didn't write a lot of music during the summer, but I did start to conceptualize a new project that I hope to finish now that I'm in LA. Time time time things. I think the best piece of music that I was ready to share from that period was Blue Not Sad (pls stream and dance!). It's dedicated to Aïssa and a product of all the time spent around electronic DJs.
Last time I felt like that is when I had first moved to Brooklyn and started clubbing there, at Elsewhere and Bossa. Made a few tracks that were loosies on the 'Cloud, but didn't lead to anything. Just fun to make. The dance shit is always so refreshing. It feels unpretentious, at least in the creation of it. I'm not a DJ/producer, nor am I student of dance music, as much as sound designer, so it always feels like I'm in foreign territory when I put out these tracks. Nothing but respect for the history, but I I just like to be transparent in what I don't know.
In any case, I'm in LA again. Barring another force of nature that poses existential threat to humanity, I'll be here for the foreseeable future. ngl I miss Indiana, but I know I can't be there right now. Something for the music that I need is here, I feel. I could be horribly wrong and end up somewhere totally different in a months time. Like I said, foreseeable future!
