These posts are written from experience. Read them in any order, or if you’re not sure where to start, here’s a good entry point.
The Producer Who Doesn’t Exist
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 [...]
Artist Spotlight: Laszlow – Emergency Landing EP (LF001)
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 [...]
If You Love Something, You’ll Learn It
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 [...]
What’s a Link?
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 [...]
The Biggest Distraction Is You
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 [...]
Doubt Will Kill Your Music Before You Do
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 [...]
Two Things Can Be True At Once
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 [...]
The Weight of Self-Doubt as a Producer
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 [...]
The Missing Key to Finishing Tracks
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 [...]
A Short History of My Production Journey
Growing up in Puerto Rico, music wasn't something I 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 [...]
The Psychology of Being a Producer
Before I jumped head first into music production in the late 90s, I had been working as a professional illustrator for close to 7 years. I was hired out of high school to work [...]
Why Most Producers Never Finish Tracks
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 [...]
