I Love The Process
I’m sitting here listening to Kid A for about the 500th time in my life and I still love it. Like, I really fucking love it. The album somehow still surprises me at times, and other times it feels like it’s from the future. That’s a quality I love in music, when something sounds fresh many years later. I love music because it’s puzzling and infinite. It’s this weird mix of something thats calculate but also spontaneously emotional. I don’t know, it’s hard to put into words, but I love it for so many reasons.
I guess music would be the perfect infinite game to me. A game that you don’t try to win, but rather just keep playing. I try hard to be protective of my process and do my best to ignore everything else. Because that’s all that I can really control. I don’t expect any sort of outcome when I make a new song (like this one that's out Friday)* because the infinite game is making the songs. I’ll always have more songs. Because of this my favourite thing to do on release day is go to the studio and write a new song.
This all sort of ties into the idea of patience. As I get older that’s another thing I think about. The comedians I love always take their time to get to a punchline. It’s a slow burn, it’s about control, it’s years of practice knowing how far you can bend the rules and get away with it. DJ sets are similar to this... too slow and it’s never exciting… too ADD and it feels hectic. (This is just my taste however, there’s honestly a place for everything… which is another thing I love about music). And with that patience, sometimes I think about how that applies to my whole career. When I started I never once thought… wow I cant wait till I have a body of work! How cool will that be? It’s not a milestone you think about when you start. And I guess now that it’s built up a bit, I think of it even less and focus on the only thing I can control. The process.
-felix
*One of the benefits of my blog is hearing about my new music before anyone else. I made Only One with Karen Harding for my last album and now we have a new song coming out this friday. You can pre-save now.