At some point during my last semester of grad school, I started feeling nostalgic about high school (lol) and started listening to all of the music that I listened to back then. This mostly consisted of Hieroglyphics and Living Legends,… Read More »11) 2084 (Ronin)
The summer of 2010 was easily one of the worst summers of my life. Coincidentally, it was also the most creative summer I’ve ever had. I won’t go into too much detail about my life story here but basically, the… Read More »10) Trance
Sometime at the end of elementary school or beginning of middle school, my dad told me and my brother a story about how he was almost killed by the police. This story took place in 1981 while he was heading… Read More »9) Bacon
At the beginning of 2014, I was working as a lifty at a ski area called Copper Mountain. I was unable to find a job before I finished undergrad so I had to move back in with my parents in… Read More »8) No Place Left
Sometime immediately after I released “Midnight Metropolis” in September 2016, I was at work trying to decide what music I should listen to while working. In particular, I was looking for something that would provide ideas for a new instrumental.… Read More »7) Le Rêve
Sometime during my senior year at Stanford, I got into a debate with a friend of mine over whether or not the overall effects of technology were positive. His argument was that technology is slowly making everyone free due to… Read More »6) Profit
Anyone who’s ever been in a free-form jam session with me knows that I like to create noise by taking single shot drum samples, adding a ton of reverb, and compressing them as much a possible. I then manipulate this… Read More »5) Belligerent
A couple of months before I started working on “Hope for the Best,” a massive blizzard hit the east coast, shut down New York City, and ruined plans that me and a singer/ friend/ ex of mine had to hang… Read More »4) Midnight Metropolis
After the success that was “Assembly Line,” I ended up going through a noise-making phase where I tried to create new sounds that I had never worked with before. As a result, the instrumental for “Live In Fear” is the… Read More »3) Live in fear
Once upon a time when I was still an undergrad at Stanford going by Ry-Man, I came up with this idea for a song called “Assembly Line” that would describe humans in the education system as if they were robots… Read More »2) Assembly Line
