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undrgrnd mindset

  • Writer: nms 303
    nms 303
  • Jul 20, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Jul 21, 2023

My mindset hasn't changed, and neither has my approach.


3 years ago, I was using my time to finalize a process prefaced some 30 years ago... Simply wishing to do my own thing in my own corner, I set a framework, defined a roadmap and made choices: start humbly from the beginning with means similar to those of the 90s, be resourceful and cobble together low-cost solutions. In other words, to go back to basics, to encourage learning and research, to stimulate inspiration and motivate creativity without using the latest software, injecting money into the system or playing the sheep in the hope of standing out from the crowd... That wasn't my thing and it still isn't!


I love freedom, I cherish my independence and I cultivate autonomy at every level. I make my own way, I wander around, I enjoy the moment, the scenery... The destination doesn't matter to me, the journey is enough to keep me happy. I don't fantasize about the recognition of the milieu, the glitz and glamour of not-to-be-missed events or the staging of myself... My sole objective is to think and act with no other constraints than those I accept to integrate.


Although a neophyte and after 25 years of musical hibernation, I've never been fooled by a technoid movement (with the scent of "techno") fleshed out by various developments in society. The digitized music market, the "post-2000 bug" EDM industry falsifying everything in its path, power, computing speed and storage capacity offering both software and hardware solutions that are gradually erasing the spirit that prevailed in the days when means were rudimentary... A paradoxical observation: technologies at the source of the current are undermining the spirit of a movement that has subtracted its soul from the glory of its icons and the contracts it has signed with major brands. This observation corroborates, as in the case of artificial intelligence, the unconsciousness of the consequences and the fascination for this unreal that is becoming real... Achieving things that were difficult or even impossible in the past is just as fascinating as observing the birth of the "digital monster" on which we are increasingly dependent, enslaving us at the same time as it makes us forget the world before in the click of a finger...


In short, if I'm not spitting in the soup of a modernity of which I'm a pure product, like the rest of us, I'm making the radical choice to limit myself to what I have at my disposal, to operate outside the codes and behaviors that constrain ethics and freedom. In other words, I favor the human, the experiential, craftsmanship, discovery, sharing...



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