The moment of my life

I've been a bit quiet on the blog front. My health ain't what it used to be and I've had to cut down some things. I haven't stopped making music, however, only severely limited my Internet presence.

Anyways...

Last night was the big night. Kerri was in town. I had tried my best to get through to him via some promotional channels I had available, with zero success. So my only shot was a long one, I had to hope he'd be hanging out in Kaiku before his gig and not just appear 2 minutes before his showtime. I'm polite enough to not bother DJ's while they're playing, so things weren't completely under my control. To make things worse, the club was full and loud, so things didn't look good from a friendly chat point of view.

However,  I was very lucky to spot him walking up the stairs where it was relatively quiet. I politely approached the man and he was living up to his friendly, down to earth reputation and talked to me for a little while, during which I gave him a memory stick containing the track I had been working hard for the last week. As a club environment isn't the best place to check out new music, I didn't have my hopes up but at least I made a contact, which was already more than I had dreamed of!

Kerri played for 2 hours and as he was playing disco in the end and my track wasn't played in the beginning when it was more housey I was just enjoying the music he was playing, almost forgotting I had given him my track. However, he switched it back to house near the end and to my surprise I suddenly heard some rather familiar drums and what the heck, my track started to play! It was a little bassy and I'm not entirely convinced that the chords in the intro and the breakdown are the best things I've ever written and if I had had  a few extra days I probably would've made them a bit better but it's no biggie. I'm just glad he played my track on the spot, without having the chance to get really familiar with it.

I'll make a separate post in a few days about all the people who've helped me during my journey, thanking them all. Meanwhile, I'm still  a bit high about this all, as it was definitely one of the finest achievements of my life. Definitely not easy, as I've lost all hope several time during these 4 months. Still, I've persevered, trying to learn from all the mistakes I've made. In the end, it all paid off. I reached my ultimate goal and had Kerri Chandler play my track. Did I become a world class house producer? Probably not, but I did learn enough new tricks to safely say I've reached a higher musical level. I had been kinda stagnating for a while, unable to lift myself from what was a very low level of producing. This project, as stressful it occasionally was, was very good at motivating me to really better myself.

Anyways, I've slept only for an hour and I'm out of words, so I'll just post the track I gave Kerri:




It's not perfect and some things bother me already, I'll see if I'm able to do something about those or do I just move on to the next project.