Intro: Hello, my name is Andy, also known as MR4, and this is a background summary starting from the first moment I became interested in music composition up to the release of my first album, Electric Shock.
The pretentious beginnings of MR4: I got my first guitar in 2003, I was twelve or thirteen years of age and this was my first stepping stone into becoming a creative fart. Skip forward to 2008, It’s my senior year in high school, In a computer systems class, it’s sunny out, the teacher has a digital piano sitting near me, I’m not interested in whatever it was we were supposed to be doing that day, I plugged the piano into the laptop… fate took the wheel that day. I fired up Anvil Studio in conjunction with the digital piano to compose some of the worst musically tone def garbage on this side of the Mississippi. After I realized Anvil Studio was shit I stumbled upon REASON. I was having a blast making terrible music and a classmate recommended FL Studio so I gave it a try. I would jump back and fourth between the two programs making some real ear piercing bangers. Some of these tracks would eventually end up on the Electric Shock album.
MRANDY.net 2008: Around the same time I was learning how to use DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software I was also learning some basic web design, I’m talking very basic. Using this entry level web design knowledge I created my own website called mrandy.net. "Mr Andy" was the alias that I used (and still use) for online gaming and decided to use it for all my creative projects such as music. Mrandy.net acted as a main portal for all my digital hobbies; videos, stick figure animations, photoshop projects, and the most pointless of them all… reviewing video game soundtracks. mrandy.net was first created in July of 2008 and by the end of 2009 I abandoned all projects except for Music production and Youtube Videos.
TLDR: I did other creative stuff outside of music
Music Progress 2009/2010: The year was 2009 and I had just completed a demo version of the Electric Shock album that would later be revisited in 2011. It came to my realization that none of the songs had guitar tracks in them even though I was a guitarist. I did not have the physical tools at my disposal to merge my instrument with my music. I decided to invest some real money into my musical abominations. I "obtained" a copy of Pro Tools 7 along with other basic studio equipment. Now that I had Industry standard software and the ability to record analogue audio I could take it to the next level (Level 2). I learnded me real good about the Pro Tools and what with the recordin and all. The result was a collection of demo music I called Social Phobia.
The year was 2011: Throughout the year of 2011 I had made some major upgrades to my website, mrandy.net. My youtube hobby was starting to pick up momentum and had racked in a small audience. This took some of my focus off of my music projects but I had plenty of time to handle both music and videos because I was 100% unemployed. Electric Shock was officially completed in November and it was a big pile of shit.
