By aymat | Oct 27, 2026 | Artist Spotlight

Earlier this year, Glasgow hip-hop producer Jay-Lee opened up his impressive debut album All or Nothing to remixers. Always up for a remix, I went through the album and one track grabbed my [...]

By aymat | Sep 24, 2026 | Artist Spotlight

When I originally put out a call for producers to join me on this coaching journey back in May, I naively expected most of the people who responded to be middle-aged producers like [...]

By aymat | Jul 11, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity

There's this threshold every producer crosses when they stop listening to music purely for enjoyment and start listening to it with critical ears. It's a bittersweet moment. You learn to appreciate music on a [...]

By aymat | Jun 29, 2026 | Artist Spotlight

The first release on Latent : Forms comes from one of the earliest people to dive into the sessions... and it feels like the right way to kick things off. Laszlow, aka Val, has [...]

By aymat | Jun 24, 2026 | Life & Reflection

The icy cold arrival of middle age has a way of making you reflect more than any other period in your life. It's a time that comes with a palpable realization of your own mortality [...]

By aymat | Jun 15, 2026 | Life & Reflection

When I look back over the past 30 years, it's still hard to wrap my head around how I got here. Nearly three decades later, I'm still wondering how a chance occurrence sparked a [...]

By aymat | Jun 9, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity, Workflow & Productivity

As producers, we walk a fine line between our responsibilities and distractions. We're creatives with a constant need to express ourselves. However, since this is such a vital part of who we are, we [...]

By aymat | May 30, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity

I recently watched a video of a man who spoke about doing Ayahuasca over 100 times. I've never done it but have always been curious. It speaks to me as someone who does a [...]

By aymat | May 17, 2026 | Workflow & Productivity, Mindset & Creativity

My wife and I have a saying that gets repeated often at home... "Two things can be true at once." It's usually mentioned when referring to something that has no absolute answer, or can't [...]

By aymat | May 6, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity

I've been active for most of my adult life. I started hitting the gym in my teens as a way to get stronger and avoid getting my ass kicked by bullies. I went from powerlifting [...]

By aymat | Apr 23, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity

By now, if you've made it through the previous articles, you've probably noticed a pattern. Finishing tracks has less to do with gear or plugins and more to do with the abstract stuff... the [...]

By aymat | Apr 15, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity

Growing up as a kid in Puerto Rico, music wasn't something I really thought about... it was just there. Salsa, merengue, cumbia, latin jazz... I never thought of it in terms of genres or styles. It was just [...]

By aymat | Apr 8, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity

Before I jumped head first into music production in the late 90s, I'd been working as a professional illustrator for close to 7 years. I was hired out of high school to work [...]

By aymat | Apr 1, 2026 | Mindset & Creativity

After more than two decades of making music, I still remember the familiar sting of watching another track fade away unfinished. What started as a promising idea ended up buried in a folder, left [...]