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.
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 skate a fine line between obligations and distractions. We're creatives, so there's a constant need for expression. But because it's such a powerful part of who we are, we also need [...]
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 [...]
