Shotguns is a musician who hangs out on IDM Forums. His interview has been split into four installments.
Obscure Robot: Tell me about a particularly difficult track?
Shotguns: On the studio tip. I've got a few consecutive riffs and melodies that quite a few people have heard in at least 15 different forms. People only know it by the working name and it's actually one of my most appreciated tunes - but it didn’t exist in final recorded form. I couldn’t seem to get it right. I've tried it in every single way I could imagine.
But you know what happened yesterday? I had a decent draft of a track going. It was alright, but it was more of an album track, if you catch my drift? Well, I realized that it was in the key of F minor, so I casually tried to freestyle that one melody on top. It sounded pretty damn good, so I kept going with the other riffs and melodies and ended up bouncing it down. I played it to a few people today and they were over the moon.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Why Does Guns & Roses Suck So Much? - Shotguns Part Two of Four
Shotguns is a musician who hangs out on IDM Forums. His interview has been split into four installments.
Obscure Robot: Taking a step back - who do you consider to be your biggest influences?
Shotguns: Oh, wow.. That is a tough one to answer, but ultimately I am a sum of what I like. As asinine as it might sounds - I basically took what I liked as a kid and ran with it. I grew up playing a lot of old school game consoles. I also grew up listening to hip hop tapes, so I guess that's where sampling and the appreciation of our musical roots came from. Then when I figured out that my guitar pedals would work with any input - that was another ground breaking thing in my life... Then later in my life, I found out that people actually exploit all these things in their musical endeavors. I already did these things, but the 8-bit music scene, more alternative hip hop producers and the noise scene showed me that there were people out there already doing what I did and I found not one, but several places to belong.
Obscure Robot: Taking a step back - who do you consider to be your biggest influences?
Shotguns: Oh, wow.. That is a tough one to answer, but ultimately I am a sum of what I like. As asinine as it might sounds - I basically took what I liked as a kid and ran with it. I grew up playing a lot of old school game consoles. I also grew up listening to hip hop tapes, so I guess that's where sampling and the appreciation of our musical roots came from. Then when I figured out that my guitar pedals would work with any input - that was another ground breaking thing in my life... Then later in my life, I found out that people actually exploit all these things in their musical endeavors. I already did these things, but the 8-bit music scene, more alternative hip hop producers and the noise scene showed me that there were people out there already doing what I did and I found not one, but several places to belong.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Music is his Day Job - Shotguns Part One of Four
Shotguns is a musician who hangs out on IDM Forums. His interview has been split into four installments.
Obscure Robot: Do you define yourself more by your music or your day job?
Shotguns: This is an interesting one for me, since I've chosen since day one to make music "my everything". It's not just simply a case of me figuring out something that I can exploit to make my day job - I genuinely don't want to do anything else with my life. However, since my interest in production is legit, I also do it on my "spare time" (if such even actually exists) and then I tend to explore genres and learn things from scenes and eras in music that are now "forgotten". So in one sense I define myself as a musician, but in another sense I am always going to be about exploring and interpreting things - so this is a tough one to answer. I am going to tackle it like this; If someone works a day job and still practices with their go-nowhere-band 4 days a night, they're a still musician, right? Well, I would most certainly do that even if I spent my days working at Mickey D's. While trying my best to not sound pretentious - I'm a musician.
Obscure Robot: Do you define yourself more by your music or your day job?
Shotguns: This is an interesting one for me, since I've chosen since day one to make music "my everything". It's not just simply a case of me figuring out something that I can exploit to make my day job - I genuinely don't want to do anything else with my life. However, since my interest in production is legit, I also do it on my "spare time" (if such even actually exists) and then I tend to explore genres and learn things from scenes and eras in music that are now "forgotten". So in one sense I define myself as a musician, but in another sense I am always going to be about exploring and interpreting things - so this is a tough one to answer. I am going to tackle it like this; If someone works a day job and still practices with their go-nowhere-band 4 days a night, they're a still musician, right? Well, I would most certainly do that even if I spent my days working at Mickey D's. While trying my best to not sound pretentious - I'm a musician.
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