(t)I’m(e) OUT !
It was pending for months. Time consuming. Less useful. Spending hours on Instagram since like 2018 or so. That’s a whopping 7 years. Let’s say, most people are sucked up to their phone for like 2 hours a day,.. fast math and it brings you to a 200 full days of sucking binary digits… Ok ok, that’s maybe cutting corners again, but you get my point. I’m not gonna wank again on how much I hate social apps but I’m talking about time management here. Honestly, as a producer. Seeing these numbers makes me think: Skov, that’s not ok. That’s about 200 days in 7 years that I could have made music, learned new knowledge, watched tutorials, having mixed or mastered and so on and so forth. When you see no (more) progress in what you’re about to achieve using these kind of platforms, I think a man must look into a mirror and say to himself: cut the crap and take the blow. So here I am. Maybe still trying to seek attention through another medium. No, actually not. This isn’t a cry for help. This is what I want. This is exactly what I need. A platform to share and promote what I want. No filters, no control, no influence, … nothing.
What do I mean with ‘I’m Out’? I unfollowed everyone. Am I not interested in other people’s work or lives? No, on the contrary, I support fellow producers/dj’s my way. This means, buying music/art. Will I miss out on some releases when they’re hot? Sure. Does this matter? No. I'll find the content I want, at my tempo fitting my schedule. No fear of missing out here.
The techgiants are big spoilers when it comes down to ‘follow’ people you have interest in. Throwing all kinds of content at users to distract everyone. Very low if you’ld ask me.
Maybe it felt like a big purge. I have been thinking to delete my ‘following’ too but that’s maybe not my decision to make. Of course ‘the follow for a follow’ wankers will ditch me whenever they discover this, and that’s just fine. I’m not sure to ever share content again on that platform. There will be situations I’ld rather have to but I doubt I will do it. That might be a hypocritical thing to do…
These last two weeks I have made so much music, focused insanely on my mixing skills and felt so relieved by doing this. Not constantly thinking about some stupid app, whether or not I should put ‘content’ online to please everyone.. , or worse: a stupid algorithm… This all might sound very egocentric but for me, this is a better way of working. You can’t focus when there’s always some little voice in your head, saying you should post content, share this, share that..
Skov, you idiot.. => What about the connections and contacts you made? Well, if they’re human, they’ll understand. If they don’t, that’s cool.
=> What about future releases and collabs? They’ll pop up. Don’t worry, it’s not because the majority is focused on Beatport, I can’t drop new tunes on Bandcamp. All good.
So what’s my plan? I don’t know. I’ll be making music, keep doing the Youtube videos when time permits. Mixing some tracks here and there… By the way: all of a sudden, I just made myself a wonderful whopping 200 days of extra time the next 7 years.
Mix:ON !
