Behind The Music
Posted on March 8th, 2011
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:14 am
As I’ve said before, my making first HipHop album was a long process. I started it in late 2001, and the final album wasn’t released until 2004. There was a lot of trial and error and a lot of concepts and approaches that were ultimately abandoned. This resulted in a few years of constant re-recording, re-mixing and re-engineering. It was a slow burn getting it all together, and the initial work was definitely awkward, demo-quality music that was even much rougher than the admittedly rough and mediocre Revision 4920. It was even worse relative to the electronic music I was making at that time. However, for the first time ever, I’m making the demos, including previously unheard remixes and songs ultimately omitted from Revision 4920, available in one place:
Ultraklystron – In Need Of Revision: The Nerdcore Demos
Let it make clear to aspiring MCs and producers, that yes, you don’t start out good. You bust your hump for a long time, and you eventually get good. That said, unless you’re a completist, there is nothing really good to listen to hear. It’s not like the demo CD included with the Velvet Underground boxset where you hear talented musicians who just happen to be in the middle of their composition process. Everything here is horrendously rough, and there are a lot of bad ideas and bad takes on this. However, you start with nothing and build up.