Thoughts on ‘Meeting of Minds’

Every song for the album is recorded and mixed. I am now entering the fixing and mastering stage. I just put every song in position so I could listen to the flow of the album. I’m so close now! It’s been a while since I listened to all the songs so I had a fresher ear when I played it through. It was a strange experience. It made me realize that I’m a strange person. The genre is all over the place. When it’s released I guess I’ll just have to call it ‘electronic’ because there are too many subcategories that it touches. It kind of reflects my personality. I’m into a lot of things that some people wouldn’t normally put together.

I wonder how this will affect how people see me as an artist. When Lauryn Hill did an album with mostly singing, a lot of people were disappointed. It was a great album, but they wanted to hear her rap. Hopefully this album will get me some fans. If it does, will they be disappointed when my next album is hip-hop? Will they be upset that my next electronic project will probably be predominantly house music? Will people that like me as an MC wonder what the hell is wrong with me when they hear this album?

At some point I want to get a laptop and put together a live set that includes some improvisational elements. I hope to be able to combine every kind of music I make when I do that. I’m not sure what the audience for that type of thing would be. Every now and then I wonder if I should have another name for myself to separate the electronic music producer from the MC. Maybe that would be the best marketing move. I don’t want to do that though. I already spread myself thin. It would be so much harder if I had to maintain and promote two personas.

Ahh well, I guess time will tell. Enough work for today, I’m going to play. (And I really did not mean for that to rhyme)