Why I'm stopping Two Years Before
I'm fully aware that nobody will care about this, but that in itself is a big part of the reason I'm going to stop working on original material as Two Years Before.
Two Years Before started as an accident really. I download various music programs so that I could start recording my metal music on my computer, but then problems came up like my computer being unable to handle the needed hardware etc so I started producing music just to see how far I could go with it. I then created my first song: October (named as such because it's the month I started going out with my then girlfriend Suze).
I let a few friends hear at and got a few got responses so got to work on October part 2 ( Later to be renamed "November". This then led me to making a 12 track album with each track being the name of a month, which then in turn became the concept album "2012" based on the Mayan Prophecies. I then named myself Two Years Before (I started in 2010; Two years before the world is supposed to end).
I spent a lot of time working on my music as Two Years Before. Sometimes as a release for me feeling depressed (The widely experimental One Day Remains mixtape is a very clear indication of letting low emotions take over), but even then I worked for days on most tracks doing silly things that I felt were like inside jokes between me and the songs for example beatboxing over songs then distorting it so it sounded like real drums/giving out my mobile number and email address in the middle of Rid:Choke/Not telling my friends if the solo in September was a woman screaming or a guitar.
I'm fully aware that there are much better producers than me in the world, in fact in this town, but I think I did some pretty cool things that some people perhaps wouldn't have thought of. Regardless whenever I finished Contiguous Ambiguous I was really proud of it, but it got virtually zero attention. Even people telling me it sucked would have been good because then I would have at least had some kind of feedback to work on, but it was essentially ignored. So that leads me to what I'm doing now;
I'm going to release three music video/singles from Contiguous Ambiguous;
[a]Gain : Music video to be produced by me
Fa[r]ther: Music video to be produced by myself
XX: Music video to be produced by Jimmy Elliott
Then I'm going to work on this Vocal album to be titled "A New BigEnding".
If anyone actually reads this; I really appreciate it. If you liked my music I appreciate it even more, and I'm not saying I will never ever make a new song again because never say never. I just don't see it happening for a long time. It's a style I'm not fully in love with anymore and when I have so much else going on musically, it's not fair to keep making music my heart just isn't in anymore.
I'll continue to produce and mix other people's songs etc so I guess there'll be a little 2YB flourish here and there (I'll post anything I work on here too), but for now I'm going to focus on Cassette and my solo album.
Thanks for reading and possibly listening,
theartofmadeline
annaxmalina
titsay
jacobvanloon
dededos
tangentwithtanner
janainaart
