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2023
Atlanta Trash Collective album cover
2023·Retro·Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Atlanta Trash Collective

Sun Soaked Sounds

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I am morphing more and more into surf directions, intentionally. It's a fun genre, more appropriate for my years and my friend set/interests (I help throw a tiki convention, Inuhele, in Atlanta and we love surf rock bands) and my voice is not getting any better, prob best to find a more instrumental style... unfortunately l like singing but my words are rushed and delivery not where it used to be so I am never satisfied with them. My mixes here are muddy but distilling the hundreds of hours of creative I do each February I am amazed I finished... just in time, as ever. The project will always expand in scope till the last second for me! I have stems for at least 60 songs and these are not the best necessarily at all, just the ones I managed to find that were furthest along, first, once I started feeling desperate to bounce them. Make sense? THANKS for continuing the RPM notion! Always almost kills me but so fun and creatively fulfilling to me. <3

Favourite Moment

Starting with an empty track page, knowing it would be full of a bunch of stuff soon... and hopefully going through all these questions to complete it within the time allotted!

Advice

No, except to not become desperate to "finish" all the songs at the expense of my health and my life balance. I never really finish anyway so it's irrelevant if I begin 50 songs or 100 songs, I still can't make any of them complete or pro level sound. So why let it break my heart, the more time I spend the worse the result as a function of the vastness of the recorded options when I start to realize I have to congeal some of this into actual more or less finished songs.

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