Final Release: November 26, 2011
Production Years: 2008-2011
Genre: Electronic, Amateur
Album Length: 36 Minutes
Availability: All streaming services
Summary
Electric Shock is my first attempt at creating music. This collection of music is a good example of amateur crap. Songs were created in a digital only environment using REASON and FL Studio, no audio recording or actual instruments of any kind were used in it’s creation. This is the project that started my musical journey.
Production
Production on the album began at the beginning of 2008 when I first stumbled into composing using DAW software. I was exposed to the concept of using a computer to create music while in high school. It’s one of those situations where a teacher had enabled a path in a young persons life without even knowing it. I was taking a computer systems class and there was a digital piano in the room that the teacher had laying around for whatever reason. So I plugged that piano into a laptop and just started wasting time with it in conjunction with Anvil Studio. I was really enjoying myself while making awful music compositions instead of doing class assignments. Eventually I decided to move on to some more capable applications. I acquired REASON and a classmate had recommended FL Studio so I went back and forth between the two programs. I had created a large amount of really bad tracks while learning music composition. The project was put on the shelf in 2009 due to a switch from REASON and FL Studio to Pro Tools. Although not used for this album, Pro Tools offered more capability and the ability to record guitars so I had abandoned REASON and FL Studio entirely. In 2011 I decided to select thirteen of the least crappiest songs out of my plethora of garbage tracks. I imported the songs into Pro Tools for final mixing and mastering if you even want to call it that. I really had no clue on what I was doing while creating this album. The final product was released on November 26, 2011 as Electric Shock.
Final Thoughts
I consider Electric Shock to be a lame duck but it served It's purpose as my gateway into Music Production. This is not an album that a bother promoting or advertising but I don’t mind that it exists and is available for people to hear. This is my beginning and I’m sure most musical acts didn’t do anything all that great in their very first attempts.
