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LIKE BOOM
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2015-03-12
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2014-07-29
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2014-07-25
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The ideas behind The Dominion EP
My music has always picked up on themes of utopia and dystopia. Tracks like Totalitaria, Rise Up, Soma, Rebirth and Worlds Collide from my most recent EPs are all very direct references to the works of Orwell, Huxley, Wells and other similar authors whose themes of class warfare, consumerism and propaganda resonate with me and how I understand the world. With this EP I wanted to take those themes further, and the tune Our Rules was borne directly out of that. It is an open letter to those who maintain Dominion over us, by forcing us to play their game of work, buy, live in debt, and die. The references are pointed and intentional, and the acutely directed anger is very real.
The other tune with a featured vocal, Crumbling Down again it picks up on ideas that individual relationships often mirror the way we interact in communities. Sometimes Dominion is taken forcibly and sometimes it is given willingly. I’ve always loved ambiguous lyrics too. Ones that you can understand in a certain context, but can be just as powerful when put in a different light. Is this song about a romantic relationship, or a formerly infallible world leader who has proved as impotent as his predecessors?
Inertia has a quote, an alien sample if you like, at the end, that echoes the cry of the Easter Islanders, and I fear will be the cry of humanity if we don’t honour our responsibility to exercise dominion (in this context ‘stewardship’) of our home.
Even the sample in Drop That can be taken two ways. A club context or, as is more often the case, as an act of aggression, of desire for Dominion.
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2014-07-20
No big deal. Just @mrtommyland using my track Like Boom as part of the Cruecifly drum solo during the Mötley show. #kindofabigdeal #reallybigdealforme #becausemylifeisdopeandidodopeshit
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2014-07-15
Inertia // Dominion EP
http://soundcloud.com/nick-thayer/inertia-teaser/s-G2CaU
Inertia was a tune borne from experimentation; sometimes in the studio I just see what happens when you plug this into that into the other thing over there, and sometimes I just try playing with every parameter on a synth and save anything that sounds cool. In this instance, everything really fell into place. I’d had the middle section done for another tune, and the intro is my unashamed homage to Queen’s ‘One Vision’ and Dire Straits’ ‘Money For Nothing’. I love the way both of those tunes have huge intros that burst into big guitar riffs, and I wanted to emulate that with a crazy synth sound instead.
Often when writing music it seems as if the song is in control, not me, and my job is to just get out of the way and let things run their course - this is where the title comes from. The vocal right at the end talks about another kind of Inertia: as a society, our demand for things to consume, from food to possessions to lives, is driving us headlong towards extinction. But how can you turn it around, something so amorphous, with so much energy driving it?
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And then, as we grew in number, our resources diminished.
Then we were too many, with too little.
Our will for dominion had overtaken our ability to survive.
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2014-07-09
Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice (2001)
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Reposting ‘cause this clip is 100% amaze.
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Source: music-video-s
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Crumbling Down // Dominion EP
I absolutely loved the experience of writing Crumbling Down. About a year ago I made a Facebook post asking for recommendations for singers, and somebody (I can’t remember who, but THANK YOU) suggested I check out Zoe Phillips. I found her Road Sign EP on Bandcamp and bought it immediately, then I contacted her to see if she might be interested in working together, and, thankfully, she was. I went over to London in November with about fifteen ideas for songs, with the intention of doing a whole bunch of vocal sessions with different singers to see what came out. Zoe and I found a flow straight away, sharing common ground musically and lyrically. The basis of Crumbling Down came together very quickly. Lyrically we wanted something that, on face value, could be about a personal relationship, but upon reflection could be about something quite different. Musically, the sound design and the ‘drop’ actually took a while to get right. I wanted to make it reflect what was going on lyrically. Put simply, the chord progression and melody are essentially major, representing the hope that could have been, and the drop is minor, representing the reality.
Crumbling Down is about that space of disillusionment between hope and reality, which, in today’s world, we all know too well.
Lyrics:
We turn and we catch a glimpse, but the moment’s gone,
It falls beneath our reach.
Embrace the change as we step away,
Shadows fade as night turns to day.I watch as the fear escapes and it starts to break as it pour out of my skin.
We watch as the walls shake and come crumbling down,
From all that we’ve been.————————————
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realistablaze24-deactivated2017 asked: hii your post was very insightful! How many hours work u put in vs how much money u get.. Also can u manage yourself is the manager also responsible to get you gigs? Is this why many Producers have oopted to have their own labels? There is money in the industry but seems like the artist gets the short end of the stick thank u for being humbke and down to earthnI will def check put ur music and make some purchases!!
Thank you. A manager can be very helpful when it comes to finalising deals, keeping things organised and focussing on a big picture. Generally managers are not responsible for organising shows, though they are responsible for liaising with booking agents.
I just released a new, for FREE (trying a new model) via nickthayer.com if you’d like to check it out.