Energy Update - Live from our Living Room

In this episode, Alex and Yell break down the energetic climate since the beginning of 2022. They explore some of the life/artist hacks they’ve learnt over the years like avoiding the “starving artist” trap, as well as how to tune into a flow state through any creative process and especially with music production.

Show Notes:

• 1min FOMO energetically. Is Spontaneity missing from our culture? Going with feeling and spontaneity rather than scheduling. Overcoming indifference. Are your experiences feeling a little controlled? How does this influence you?
• 3:20 Control today v 10 years ago. Breaking out of control. Societies break away into solitude from sensory overload and phone culture.
• 5:15 Finding the magic through the mundane as we’ve created an online reality that isn’t real. Connecting back to magic and the present moment. Checking in with your body and asking it what it wants.
• 7:13 Flow processes as an artist. How we work in the studio and on creative projects. Yells flow purpose - bound by no rules and literally going with flow. Alex's flow purpose in the studio - Fight for the moment. Questioning flow/creative purposes. Fighting vs flowing in the creative process. Subtracting judgment from flow. The egotistical side of the starving artist and why it’s a block in today's world.
• 13:10 Tips for artists and musicians - understanding your flow state, your limits and an acceptance of skill level, so it doesn’t come from judgment. The difference between creative writing vs music flow state.
• 16:28 Our favorite musicians go listen to their mastery if you haven’t! OTT, Shpongle, Trentemoller, Tipper, Amon Tobin, Jon Hopkins, Stephan Bodzin.
• 17:00 Quality and Skill work in music. Perfecting balance in music tracks. Letting go of work when it's for a skill level from another time.
• 20:30 Analysing the energy from the start of this year to currently. How it’s affect us as a collective in Western Cultures. The revisit of 2019. Repurposing the energies we’ve been through. You can see where humanity can go energetically, but there is so much work that still needs to be done. It comes back to having high tastes and expectations but your skill level doesn’t meet that expectation just yet.
• 22:20 Dipping your toes in slowly. How to get over the hesitation of jumping. What’s causing the hesitation to move. Analyzing the mainstream media and control of movement within our society. Looking at safety within groups and its effect on your own circumstances.
• 25:48 Looking at jumping out of group values. Making small leaps rather than big. What can I do to make myself as free as possible. Letting go judgment. Work / Art balance and building that up over time. The pressure of money and being an artist. Slowly building a career in music.

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