This year, I will have been producing music for 7 years. My journey through music has been a strange one. As a kid, I never really showed much interest in anything musical. With many of my friends around me enjoying various bands and singers, I was always more fascinated by creating things, and looking back, I never even considered music to be something that fascinated me.

I didn't enjoy any bands, groups, rock bands, red hot chilli peppers, whatever, it just seemed mostly boring from my standpoint.

Towards the end of high school that started to change as I found some genres that I actually liked, Old School Hip-Hop, UK Grime, and from that, Dubstep, and even some Drum & Bass. None of my other friends cared much for it, but I'd found some that I enjoyed.

Leaving school, I was deeply fascinated by Drum & Bass. I remember cruising home listening to tracks like Dub Motion's Illuminati. Over everything, this weird electronic stuff seemed to resonate with me the most in music. Why? There are no lyrics. No deep or complex melodies. I did not know its history. I didn't know much about the people behind the music. All this, yet it fascinated me way more than the stuff other people my age listened to.

I think this ultimately came down to a few things: