UK
There are so many great things that have happened to me because of my music, mostly accidental, but like a lot of great adventures, an exciting beginning is often the seed to everything that follows. For me that was when I was 15 and designed and hand built the guitar of my dreams with my dad and brother. Creating that crazy instrument was undoubtedly the starting point of really making my own music.
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FRANCE
Anyway, i guess the best adventure I have had with my music is getting to meet a lot of new people who love the same thing as I do. And to play in well known venues of Paris with some of my best friends that I met thank’s to music!
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And that was the beginning of a great adventure…
USA
Being able to reach someones heart, dedicate a dance track to jam out, or simply give my best rendition of a song that I love is in itself the best and continuous adventure that I’ve had the honor to have with my music. Whether it be a lyric or a beat music is a universal language that I’ve found can connect people from all languages and places in the world and that’s what i want to accomplish with mine.
-AskOsv
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The best adventure I’ve had with music is being able to connect with people that I wouldn’t have connected with otherwise-staying true to myself while getting out of my comfort zone and resonating with the listeners. My first ever performance I felt the energy of the crowd, and ever since I’ve been hooked. It’s like that Christmas spirit that I felt as a young kid opening up my Nintendo 64 back in Christmas of ’98. When I play, that passion hits me like a bolt of lightning!
Whenever I share my best adventures with my music with some loved ones I tend to receive little to no support, and I notice they tend to support other people. There’s always attempts to talk me out of having a music career. It’s a shame that some loved ones always ask “When are you going to get a job.” Music is my job. Too many people would then take the negative feedback personally as if the doubtful comments are truth. These are definitely not truths.
I’ve found if you let people make your choices for you, the results can be horrible. Here’s the facts: People who are negative, overlook me, or mock me for doing what I love don’t actually understand my “why.” I live a life that they don’t understand. They don’t understand why music is important to me. And that’s OK. It’s perfectly OK to live a life that others don’t understand. Fact. My career in their eyes is not “normal” or “stable”. It would be too easy to get that stable job, make safe choices for job security. To live an extraordinary life, you have to make unconventional choices that appear risky and “unsafe” to others. I stay up at night working on my music craft everyday.
The only thing that would not be OK is giving up on my music, hiding my gifts or personality because somebody talked me into shrinking my potential. What isn’t OK is trying to fit in and go along with the crowd just to get along. All the disbelief I’ve experienced? Well. Since people tried to talk me out of it so much, I figure it’s the direction I should drive full speed ahead on. It takes nothing to follow the crowd and fit in with everyone else, but it takes true courage to take the road less traveled and live your most authentic self.
So my fellow musicians, go out and live life on your own way and your own terms. All the hate you’ll receive along the way is just others seeing you as a reflection of what they wish they could be or do. In time, all the people who make fun of you will go from mocking you to asking, “Hey how in the world did you do that?” I’ve seen it happen.
No one is taking my adventures with me and Blu Blu away from me. Who is Blu Blu, you ask? That’s my spoiled blue guitar, my road running sidekick!
To those who support me. I appreciate you and the love doesn’t go unnoticed.
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Hello, my name is Jenny or you could also call me ‘Jennie’ which is my alias I go by on YouTube. I am currently a 16 year old girl, I’ll be 17 in April, who lives in Fresno, USA. I am what is considered a Youtaite, a YouTube cover artist. The term ‘Youtaite’ is a coined term combining the words YouTube and Utaite. Utaite means “cover artist” in Japanese which is why the term is considered You-taite. What a Youtaite mainly does covers of Japanese content from JPOP to Vocaloid to Anime. Some even do translations of Japanese content into English to appeal all types of viewers.Now, what is the best adventure I have had with my music? Well that’s an easy answer. The best adventure I’ve had with my music is when I am able to work with other talented people who have the same interest as me. The best part about music is being able to work and collaborate with amazing and talented people because truly I believe that music is about connecting with one other. Getting to be part of a team and being able to really connect and make new friends is really the best adventure you could ever want. The best adventures always need companions to venture with you!
– Jenny Ly
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My best adventure in music has been attending the Music and Game Festival (MAGFest) in 2016, after pursuing video game and covering music on Youtube (SwigglesRP) for 4 years. Meeting so many friends, talented musicians, and jamming in hotel rooms was unreal and inspirational. I highly suggest that anyone interested in creating and sharing music online collaborate, listen to as much music as they can, and find a convention nearby to both network and enjoy themselves.
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I’ve been on so many adventures because of music… From attending festivals and conferences to playing in subways and parks, from playing private AND public shows to recording in professional studios. Sure, I’ve played to a few empty bars, but I’ve made friends and had experiences I wouldn’t trade for anything. I’m lucky enough to be a full time musician, and I’m even luckier to have the opportunity to travel regularly for my music. My very best adventure (so far!) is definitely my first tour. In August of 2015, I set out for 3 weeks and 13 shows on the road. Of course it had it’s ups and downs (I got lost more than a few times) but overall it was AMAZING. I played in cities I’d never even been to before, I met other bands and musicians that I still talk to regularly, and I found and shared inspiration all over the country. On the days without shows, I explored new places, went hiking, visited downtown, relaxed on the beach… But performing was the best part, hands down. Even playing to the smallest audience in a new place is exhilarating – and to know they like your music is even better. I’ve always dreamt of seeing the world, but I never imagined I’d be doing it BECAUSE of the thing I love the most. Music has opened more doors for me than I knew possible, and it makes me love it even more. I can’t wait to get back on the road and share more music with YOU.
– Fiona
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Hello! My name is Tyler Kimball and I am a 16 year old musician in Atlanta Georgia! Ever since I was in middle school, I have been playing French Horn and I had a surprising talent for it, and so as I got into highschool, which I’m in now, I somehow got an interest in sound recording and sound design, and I just started to get an extreme interest in synthesizers and recording and I’ve come a far way as I’ve been teaching myself all of these techniques! Especially at a young age, it’s easy to get distracted by other things, but music has captured my heart and soul and I can’t stress enough how great it has impacted my life~
-Tyler Kimball
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Singing improv on stage with the great Betty Carter, singing “Our Love is Here To Stay” with the great Nancy Wilson during her performance at Blues Alley, playing one of my songs for the great Shirley Horn during a rehearsal in her studio.
In 1991 I was hired by The Jets [a 1980’s pop band] to play guitar, drums, and keyboards at their LIVE performances; During this time Katherine “Kathi” Wolfgramm [keyboardist for The Jets] as married to Al Noga [Alapati Noga] who played for the Minnesota Vikings (NFL) football team. It was a fun experience working with the Jets, hanging out with them in Lahina, Maui, Hawaii, at their houses and at recording studios.
I also got to spend some time with Al Noga jogging, working out at health clubs, playing tennis, and seeing Jim Carrey’s film titled The Mask. After the Jets, I was hired to play guitar for Ingrid Julia) Chavez [a Mexican-American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer] and we got to practice in Prince’s private practice studio at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
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My best adventure is my current role in music. I used to be a metal guitarist in a melodic death metal band in Guatemala. However, once I moved to Boston, I discovered my passion for classical/orchestral composition and film/video game scoring. Recently, I’ve been writing short pieces (>1 min) for video intro skits for a youtube channel called “Top Hats and Champagne”. The reason I like this so much is the mere pressure I am subject to every time I write a piece for him. The way it works is he live streams himself while editing a video, showing me the clip to make a piece for once, and sometimes making requests for specific genres. I then have to write, record, produce, mix, and upload the piece for him in under 5 hours. The pieces vary from classical/orchestral to latin to aleatoric music. I do this almost every week. Each of them is a unique musical adventure, which pushes me to my limits every time.
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He’s photographed Clapton and Hendrix and now he’s photographing me! At 17, I received an email from renowned rock photographer Robert Knight asking me to join the “Brotherhood of the Guitar” website. The Brotherhood is a showcase of young and upcoming musicians supported by Guitar Center, Ernie Ball and many other industry leaders. Robert said that he came across some videos of my guitar playing on YouTube. Skeptical, I messaged the Brotherhood Facebook page to be sure the email was real. I just couldn’t believe that Robert Knight was watching my YouTube videos! Robert assured me it was legit, so we scheduled a video interview to be filmed at the Boston Guitar Center. Sitting in front of the man who has taken acclaimed photographs of my guitar heroes was humbling and unreal!
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One of the more memorable experiences I had was traveling from Washington DC to Houston Texas, at the age of 16, to visit a relative of mine. My flight stopped at an airport in New Jersey, during Christmas and I had 3 hours before my next flight arrived, so I went for a stroll around the place. Eventually I came across a Yamaha grand piano, that some else had brought in. I asked the man who set it up if it was okay if I could practice on it, while I waited for my flight. He said it was fine, so I sat down.
It wasn’t easy growing up the way I did. No father, an unfit drug addict mother in a rundown neighborhood. Everyday, anything I wanted to do, was shut down by my mother who believed it wasn’t “catholic”, despite her own drug use. Music in the house was limited, only the music she enjoyed was allowed. Anything new I wanted to try and listen to was rejected in an instant. It wasn’t until October 13th, 2013, when it was the last straw and I ran away from home, did I find music. It wasn’t until my aunt and her wife took me in to their home despite not having much themselves and told me “You can be who you like, you can do what you like, you can experience what you like”, did I explore my love for music. But listening wasn’t enough. I couldn’t just listen to it, I wanted to try it. Believe me, the first hundred or so times I tried it out, it was royally awful. But I continued. I continued to try until I felt what I was listening to was right. Almost 2 years ago, it hit me. Yes, recording these rap battles I did and also the occasional cover and song was great fun and enjoyable, but bringing a character to life is what got me going. Looking at a character I have to portray and thinking, “Well he is this way and acts like this, so I’ll do it like this and this”. Not only that, but specific characters who haven’t been explored or have no established personality, that is the most fun I could ever have. Breathing life into a character who in turn, rubs off on me a little, building the character I couldn’t have as a child. Trying on all these masks, this makeup, will mimicking this character’s voice, with plenty of room for me to do my own songs and have my own unique style and flavor. To this day, I don’t think I can see myself doing anything different. Music is a part of me now, it’s something that gives me meaning. So to answer the question, my greatest adventure with music, was being able to discover it all on my own. Be one, with my music.
The best adventure I’ve had with my music so far is the connection I’ve made with my fans and the friends I have made along the way because of it. I started making YouTube videos because of my love for singing and now it’s turned into something much more. It has changed my life for the better and has given me confidence and brought me out of really hard times. I recently had the privilege of going to a YouTube convention called VidCon where I got to share my talent with others and meet a lot of fans and friends!
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I haven’t performed my music and really been on an adventure or travelled anywhere. But I do love and enjoy the fact that people all around the world are listening to my instrumentals. The feeling I get when I know people are listening to and using my music is a great feeling and it keeps me motivated to keep on creating and inspiring.
NORWAY
The best adventure I’ve experienced with my own music is to record as much as I can and publish my music on the Internet for free. This will help me to live forever.
MK
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There are two things that comes to mind when i read this question. The first thing is the road from idea to finished song, the other is releasing it to the public via live shows, streaming and all that. New singel ut now. LYNCH
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Jason Maek & Zaena answer: The best adventure we have had is working together to create an idea having it materialize. It has also been awesome seeing the reaction fans have giving us around the world. We are so appreciative of all the people who have taken the time to watch Fashion Week: The Visual Album.
COLOMBIA
CANADA
Whenever I get to show up at a place I’ve never been and make something with a lot of new people it feels like an adventure. Before I shot the music video for my song 9th Madder Dream (The Bangladesh Song), I’d only met with the director Jason Romolo (of Big Shave Productions). We went over the storyboards, scripts and budgets by ourselves. He hired the actors and chose the location because I lived outside Toronto so he knew the city better.
When I showed up at Loft 404 that morning for the shoot everything was new to me. I was introduced to 15 lovely people with whom I’d be working in close proximity for the following 20 hours. A long day, right? I love that pressure. It felt more like theatre or filmmaking than something to do with music. Since I’m a musician and not an actress, this experience was a taste of a different kind of creativity. Please subscribe to the youtube channel “nicoleaubeofficial” for upcoming videos, and you can see 9th Madder Dream here:
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Every time I play a note, it’s a whole new adventure altogether. Most would agree that it can never be defined as one best adventure but rather more of an ongoing voyage as every time a note is played, it leads to a multi-dimensional musical journey. Some of my personal unforgettable moments from those adventures include several improv jamming sessions with friends and recreating & playing music inspired by Yanni. I really hope that more and more people can embark on this journey and experience this musical elixir themselves. An example of one such adventure is my latest Single titled ‘Olivia’ where I envisioned a relaxed environment… away from all stress and worries.
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My Best musical adventure is the recent release of my Ti Amo album under the Centaur Records label. This CD containing all of the very Best tracks I’ve done for film in almost a decade. Plus 4 supplementary unreleased original tracks produced with the help of my dear friend from Greece, the Great singer Natassa Mare. From the brightest to the strangest, it is an odyssey!
– Eric
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The best adventure i had was when i recorded my first demo. it was straight 19 days of non stop recording from waking up to the point of falling down. it was the best time i have ever had and i have never experienced creative release like that.Even though i ended up re-doing the demo and working it into my latest album, “clockwork symphony”, it was still the best experience to make the demo for my song ‘space concierto’.
–Raza
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My YouTube channel explores the relation between the visual, music and nostalgia. I like how they can combine together to create an immersive and exotic place that carries away the viewer. Each new video I make is in some way a new best adventure because I am getting better at editing and selecting the video samples. The producers for which I make the videos and the viewers play a big role in this renewed positive vibe with their appreciation comments. I am really grateful for the opportunities they give me.
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RUSSIA
MÉXICO
Since I started this musical project I have found out how music can influence positively or negatively on people’s Life. I’d never written songs about God and I’d never done electronic dance music about him, but I did it obeying his plans and now when people tell me “your Music has touched me in an incredible way” I know it’s not “my music”, but God himself through music, because music can influence you physically, emotionally and spiritually. Knowing God is using me for his plans has been an incredible adventure.
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I think, no I am sure I didn’t have my best adventure yet, but what I know with certain, It would be when my music could be heard all around the world. When that happens i will know, I am living my best adventure making music ♥
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I have had a lot of adventures with music, it is kind of a hard question. But I will tell you the last experience I had. For me, an adventure in music is to discover new things, to be open and to learn new staff or new instruments. Last year, I discovered Jack Garrat, I loved it!, it had been a while since I was not motivated by another artist, but this one is new, it is fresh, he is a great musician and he has great songs with amazing lyrics. I´m learning his staff, learning to use Ableton Live, using sequencers, and learning to play drum pads. I see the future in his music, I gotta have it too.
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My best adventure being a musician is collaborate with other musicians via youtube like a family without any discrimination. You can interact with musicians like human beings as we are. I’ve learned a lot playing whit talented people that pushed me to the limit to improve my techniques. The best adventure that a musician can have is making people happy with their art.
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AUSTRALIA
Composing and recording my first album at the end of last year would be my best adventure so far, as it has let me make my musical and artistic ideas come together and come to life, as well as share my creations with everyone.
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ITALY
The best adventure of being a musician and making music it is been the challenging production of “Masses and Sea Motions” short music movie shot and performed live in the amazing location of theatre of silence.
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SWEDEN
A gopro camera was attached to the package and the video is reversed but you can just see in the beginning how dark it was and what the CD went through.
SPAIN
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The fact of creating a whole new legendarium just to compose music about it. Most bands of my style inspire themselves with the work of Tolkien. I wanted to do something different, so I created my own legendarium, The Lays of Assiriand. It is a very hard work, two years have passed and well, I have done a lot, but to finish the project will take me years, but the important thing is that I have lore for years to inspire myself for composing music!
NETHERLANDS
The best adventure I’ve had in making music is one I have all the time. When I’m writing a song and I know it’s going to be good and I’m recording it and it turns out beautiful. That is the best feeling in the world. And the greatest adventure! To find out which instruments will work, what lines work and which don’t, all of that combined is a great journey that leads to a beautiful product. A song or piece that comes from my heart to the world.
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Music is always an adventure. The best adventure is always the last.Every adventure brings new knowledge which helps on our next adventure. Music can disperse rage and induce sadness. Emotions from someone else created through play. Messages are obvious or non-obvious for everyone differently. Altough everybody can hear; not all do understand music. Music talks, ven without singing. Mind and heart are the real instruments.Infinite streams of idea and inspiration awaits creative souls and minds. Sadness or bitterness can almost extinguish that drive.
I trapped myself in Poisonous pyramids of thoughts.
My music helped me overcome those patterns by creating new ones.
-StG.cbr
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NEW ZEALAND
BRAZIL
Imagining building a great networking, becoming a professor in a college, plants gigs and doing tour with great people, traveling to different countries – A solid music career .. Then decide that all that is not enough and move to a new country, where you don’t know anyone and have to start again. I did it the I move from Brazil to the USA to pursuit my DMA in performance and I don’t regret. After little more than 2 years I can say that it worth, every tear dropped had a meaning and life and music is the closed thing that God has to offer to the human kind.
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Hello, my name is Jozias Junior, I am from Belém do Pará, Brazil, I’m just a boy of 18 years old, I started playing for a while, now entered the music college UFPA (Federal University of Pará).
I am passionate about music, so I set myself to learn how to play some instruments alone the internet, the internet has always been a tool that helped me a lot.
A while ago I attended a regional music project titled Polo St. Peter where I played percussion and flute, sometimes I sang, Here comes the story: One day we were playing on location here in town, but several things went wrong (laughs) just when we left we took a van and kombi that we put some instruments, it happens that the trunk opened, and some instruments have fallen (laughs) and I almost went along.
the same day we were doing a tour because it was a zoo, but I got lost and almost do not get the time to introduce myself, I was a walking time until you find the people, only got because of the sound of music, but the story does not end out there (laughs), at the time we announced I and two friends went up on stage before, so spoil a bit of input, but the worst was that I fumbled a bit of music in parts of the ground, but still was a cool day (laughs) at the end I managed to play well and mistakes were hidden in time I was 12, but I remember well that day on I just come evolving, stress me enough to be able to get to somewhere and hopefully arrive.
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I think the best adventure I ever had was during the production of the soundtrack of the game Toren. Which changed dramatically the way i dealt with music production, i remember receiving a call from my Studio colleague Vinicius Kleinsorgen saying that there would be a special cue featuring a song of our soundtrack in a concert 600km away of us both in that very weekend. We had two days to get tickets, gather our backpacks and head to Curitiba, Brazil. We never expected to see our music performed live so soon with barely 2 years of industry time and 20 years of life time.
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I believe my greatest adventure as a musician was participating in a clip festival which brought together musicians from all over Brazil , in which I was awarded the audience prize with the video clip “Lembranças de Uma Primavera ” from my album ” Nossa História ” . I say it was the most because it was through her I met many people who listened to my songs in various places, and that they were involved in any way with the work he was doing , and be invited to interviews on television, radios , and web sites , then I believe that through this article to adventure as a musician takes another level and continues around the world for those who are reading and listening to my music . Thank you for your attention and ask to know my music through my videos and my album in the various platforms it is like Spotify , Soundcloud , Rdio , iTunes, great rockers hug.
UKRAINE
GREECE
INDIA
Well best adventure i ever had was during the production of my Track “Mirage”(Original Mix) . Like i am huge fan of Enigma by Michael cretu and Moreover “Mirage” is a tribute to celebrate 25 years of MCMXC a.D.Album. It was Great experience while working on this Track. I have try to put all the elements of Enigma MCMXC a. D Album in this single Track. All in all it was great experience.
-Kawal Singh
HUNGARY
It’s a good question. I guess I never thought about it before. Only the joy of creation moves me. Of course I can imagine a huge concert with billboards says ‘Árvai Ábel’ but it is not a goal of mine. I just wanna have fun, but I suppose I don’t have the pre-qualifications to become a real musician. My routine is just sit down, listen a Jean Michel Jarre track inspires me and try to make a good ambient synth music. This genre deserves more attention! In my spare time before I also made stop motions, short movies, took photos, video clips so a guess the stuff I like is create something new. And the visual arts are my tools. My ‘studio’ contains not more than an average household. My computer, cameras, good speakers and that’s it. I have everything I need.
BULGARIA
JAPAN
Back at ACL 2015 I was talking to a licensing agency that wanted to license my music and we were trying to find a good time to meet. We were talking on the phone and Koo (licensing agent contact) asked me if I could skype when she returned from her trip down to Austin to which I replied that I was in Austin too! She told me that she was at ACL and coincidentally so was I. We ended up meeting backstage and she talked to me there instead of over skype!
ALGERIA
The best adventure is to tour in Europe.
VENEZUELA
I am Addy Villegas. Venezuelan. Almost 23 years to be exact. Music, without being so cliché, is everything to me. Move my life completely, it is my escape, my best and only way to express myself and feel free. The best decision I ever made in my life was to be a musician and although still do not consider myself a professional, fills me and feel free what I do and I learn.
UNKNOWN
Honestly my best aventure probably wasn’t that much of a big deal. I could say, maybe, the first time I got in a live stage, even though I got to play something alot different than
what my channel is about, still is probably the best experience i had so far. As for what I do, I simply make the experiences that I face or imagine turn into something musical. Sometimes good, other times bad or sad or simply random, because for me, music is music, the rest is just taste and emotional situation.
CHILE
Well I have a lot of beautiful experiences about music in my life, but the best adventure I think it was when I played in Ibagué, Colombia at 2012 in “Artesano” cultural center. A house of art very punky and everyone there was very nice with me and my concert. That gave me the money to take the bus to Medellín, immediately after the concert. On that trip nothing it was planned so I felt much gratitude. Also I have very amazing memories with the musicians Omar Sosa in Quito, Ecuador and Deva Premal & Miten with Manose too, in Chile.
The best adventure i ever had with music, is just performing in anime events. I sing anisong and i whould like to work in original music in the future. I think, that for me, my adventure with music is beginning.
POLAND
MALASYA
Telling stories of my life thru songs, and people can connect to stories I’m telling. This is because, in life we will meet a drama queen or a tofu boy wherever we go.
PERU
I think it was meeting new people who support me in what I do, I also try to learn from them, I am not a professional but I try to improve every day. Music has no borders and is the best!
SERBIA
My music called to people who nowadays I consider to be my best friends.
GERMANY
Well there there’s actually a lot of adventures that I have lived with the music. But one of these adventures me deeply. A friend of mine wanted to commit suicide because nothing was going well for him. After several attempts to convince him not to do it, I decided to show him a piece of classical music. I never thought it would have such consequences. It was a miracle. He did not kill himself, and he decided to make his own music. Music can cause miracles and we can not imagine what power it can have.
-Knx Beats
Dj’s, Beatmaker & Electronic Music
I’ve been invited to DJ at a local venue in Sudbury, UK quite a few times. I managed to create some very creative tracklists and play them to a live audience. It seemed to go down well. But a little frustrating that I’ve never been given a later timeslot.
– Iceferno/ UK
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the best adventure I have had with making music is all about the collaborations and learning from other artists that I both admire and respect. I have had the pleasure of working with many artists, both in the UK and across the globe whether that be making music or discussing ideas for new tracks. I really appreciate the time spent with other creatives talking about my and their work and how we can improve and what makes a song great.
I haven’t been on tour with my solo stuff yet, but I have done a few concerts with a choir that I was in called Youthful Melodies. I would like to go on a UK tour soon with the artists that I will sign to my record label, Free-Light.
-Nades/UK
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The best adventure is meeting the best and worst people along the way, finding out what is wrong with the industry and what is right. I’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the most humble and unknown artists from around the world and I can’t wait to meet more!
–Jules Bridger/ UK
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My best adventure, Wich i have had with my music is my career as a DJ/Producer.
–DJ Miikaz/ FINDLAND
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But our own adventure is everything we will ever know. Satisfying our own personal wants and needs sculpt the future of our adventures. The ability to make Music is something that I have always had a longing for, even as a child. Since I got an electric piano for Christmas at 10 years old, my life feels empty If I can’t add colorful melody to the blank canvas of silence. My personal musical adventure is quite unique. Having served in the Military, life has taken me across the globe to experience many sights and cultures of the world. But no matter where I went, my guitar and FL Studio always came with me. Whether it be by campfire light, moonlight, daylight, or the glow of my computer screen, music allows me to connect with others. Whether it be large groups or one person, seeing someone smile while you play their favorite song for them is the greatest feeling in the world. The digital side of my adventure began in 2008 when I first bought FL Studio after joining the Military. I made tracks for aspiring hip-hop artists and a few projects of my own. [Enter Skrillex]. Upon hearing “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” for the first time, I was slapped with a harsh dose of reality that my own perspective on music was very limited. I wanted more. I began to open my eyes to the vast expansiveness of music that I had yet to discover. After a few failed music projects I started to develop a thorough understanding of the foundations and structure of music. My focus shifted from Hip-Hop to EDM. I also made game audio tracks for Game Dev friends of mine. I fell more in love with music production each day. Being military allows me to make hundreds of new connections, and the amount of people who serve alongside me and are musically talented is surprising. While serving in South Korea, I ran into others who produced EDM and had many collaboration sessions. I and a couple military buddies started a band. The space in my heart for music was filled to capacity. Now I’m back in the United States where my network of musicians continues to grow. I continue to make fun projects, hone my skills and collaborate with artists over the internet. I plan to make music an even-more-permanent part of my life in the near future. I’m looking forward to the journey ahead.
The best adventure I have had with my music is actually a long, inner one. It’s an adventure inside my inner self, since I think of music as a way of story-telling and I always struggle to narrate whatever comes to my mind the best way I can. Aiming to that, I use every kind of music production tool that I have available, to narrate various concepts, some of which are mostly visualised in films, combined with electronic music. To mention a few: a desert battle, a fairytale, an ambient horror story etc. In short, my adventure is to try and mix music genres with soundtrack-like elements to make something unique, even if the outcome is sometimes weird. That’s what keeps my interest for music strong.
– Omen Ahead/ GREECE
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Being a musician is a crazy ride, that’s for sure. But for me the most rewarding thing is that I can honestly say I have friends all over the world because of music and the internet. I can travel from Europe to America to Africa to Asia and Australia and meet people I’ve connected with through making music together. Even though I’ve created music for nearly 10 years, I can say that my adventure is just beginning.
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The best adventure we as a network had is actually seeing that the producers who create music for our network, started helping other producers to improve their music. To me, it feels like our network is one big happy family who won’t hesitate to aid each other, and that makes me feel honoured, and makes me feel like I am fulfilling my job.
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Well there there’s actually a lot of adventures that I have lived with the music. But one of these adventures me deeply. A friend of mine wanted to commit suicide because nothing was going well for him. After several attempts to convince him not to do it, I decided to show him a piece of classical music. I never thought it would have such consequences. It was a miracle. He did not kill himself, and he decided to make his own music. Music can cause miracles and we can not imagine what power it can have.
-Knx Beats/ GERMANY
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I’m a producer since 2014, i think that my best adventure was when i discovered SuperstaarBeats, he’s the one that made me want to become a producer, i listened to a song that he produced then i started searching & learning how to make beats by listening to a lot of songs, since that day i kept improving my way to work and i still learn new things.
–UX-ForceBEATZ/ FRANCE
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But our own adventure is everything we will ever know. Satisfying our own personal wants and needs sculpt the future of our adventures. The ability to make Music is something that I have always had a longing for, even as a child. Since I got an electric piano for Christmas at 10 years old, my life feels empty If I can’t add colorful melody to the blank canvas of silence. My personal musical adventure is quite unique. Having served in the Military, life has taken me across the globe to experience many sights and cultures of the world. But no matter where I went, my guitar and FL Studio always came with me. Whether it be by campfire light, moonlight, daylight, or the glow of my computer screen, music allows me to connect with others. Whether it be large groups or one person, seeing someone smile while you play their favorite song for them is the greatest feeling in the world. The digital side of my adventure began in 2008 when I first bought FL Studio after joining the Military. I made tracks for aspiring hip-hop artists and a few projects of my own. [Enter Skrillex]. Upon hearing “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” for the first time, I was slapped with a harsh dose of reality that my own perspective on music was very limited. I wanted more. I began to open my eyes to the vast expansiveness of music that I had yet to discover. After a few failed music projects I started to develop a thorough understanding of the foundations and structure of music. My focus shifted from Hip-Hop to EDM. I also made game audio tracks for Game Dev friends of mine. I fell more in love with music production each day. Being military allows me to make hundreds of new connections, and the amount of people who serve alongside me and are musically talented is surprising. While serving in South Korea, I ran into others who produced EDM and had many collaboration sessions. I and a couple military buddies started a band. The space in my heart for music was filled to capacity. Now I’m back in the United States where my network of musicians continues to grow. I continue to make fun projects, hone my skills and collaborate with artists over the internet. I plan to make music an even-more-permanent part of my life in the near future. I’m looking forward to the journey ahead.
best adventure I’ve had as a musician or making music was the chance to open the concert of Lorenzo Jovanotti Cherubini, one of the most famous Italian musicians EVER, during last summer 2015 in Florence’s stadium: it was something I’d never expected when I’ve decided to become a DJ…
–Rudeejay/ITALY
Well, it is every time some kind of adventure. I’m producing a track and I see a story, I imagine something. For example, when I was producing my “NewRetroWave” track, I imagined myself driving at night through the city in an expensive retro car, dressed in a jacket with a scorpio on the back of it. Like Ryan Gosling in the “Drive” movie”
–Elijah Dollaz/KAZAKHSTAN
Hip Hop & Rap
My best adventure that i took with my music was with my buddy Kenjii The Wise to the bahamas to shoot our video for “The Source” that was released on Roots Of Society Records! It was a week long trip that was self funded by myself and Kenjii. We went to Nassau in the Bahamas and Half Moon Cay which was another island we stayed on. In the video link below you can see all of those places and more as you watch the video. Being that Kenjii and I are heavily influenced by smooth jazzy and underground hip hop its no surprise that the video has some smooth vibes to go along with the equally smooth and lush surroundings!
– Kenji/ USA
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Music has help me meet different people from all walks of life i thought i would never meet. I learn you can be so different but share one bond, Music.
–Juice Up LA/USA
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My greatest adventure I’ve had in the music is getting live reactions of the people who are watching me perform my music. The music has the jamming and bobbing their heads the content either inspires them or causes them to think on life in a deeper manner. I like how the music entertains them but the content affects their lives.
–Cloak the Scribe/USA
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The best adventure I’ve had my music would be the first taste of what it means to go “viral”. After hearing MGKs “Wild Boy”, I was inspired to do a remix of my own with a different kind of message in relation to being a Pakistani. After doing the track we then decided we should shoot a fun video for it as well. After about 2-3 weeks of continuous work on the project, I remember being at my friends place who directed as we put the finishing touches. It was like 11:30ish late night and we finally got it done and proceeded to upload it. Not expecting much I left my friends back to my own place and about 15 min on the way he called me like “holy sh*t the video just got 1,000 views in about 10 min. I was shocked, I had no idea wtf was going and didn’t believe him. By the time I got home it was already at 4,000.
As an independent artist these kinda things are very special and new for us. Within a month the video cracked a solid 150K plus views and actually remained #1 on JadooTV Pakistani Music charts across North America. That probably was the most adventurous thing so far that I’ve experienced with my music with plenty more to come I’m sure.
–Osama Com Laude/USA
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My best adventure as a musician was being invited (along with many other artists) by BEHAVIOUR COLLECTIVE X EMOTIONS OPEN MIC to perform at their “UNHINGED” event in Ottawa, Ontario in Canada. A close friend and I went on a road trip to the Nation’s Capital. I got there and spent time with my videographer, the president of our “X10” brand as well as my best friends who created the brand with me. I visited an art gallery, where the event would be held, and was moved by the paintings and the story they told. It put everything into perspective and now that I think of it helped set a mentality of some sort. Sound check followed and already every artist was prepared, it made the opportunity so surreal, it was an honour.
We got to the venue, for the show, so many people were there, visual artists, composers, dancers, bloggers, emcees, it felt like I belonged there, it was the first time in a while where I felt as if everybody had the same heart, it was a vibe that could not be disturbed [laughing]. I was set to open the show and boy was I was overwhelmed by the love the crowd showed me. I just channelled all the love back and we had a dope time. I stayed to admire the rest of the performers, made contacts, relationships and an experience worth telling. God is good.
– Patrik // #X10/CANADA
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Well, the best adventure I have ever had with my music has been to discover, new things, new people,different ways of thinking and see the world. Music has given to me the chance to express myself without prejudices or fears.Music is for me more than a job, music is a way of life. It makes me feel free when I take a pencil and a notebook: every word, every rhyme are part of my life story. Every lirycs is a footprint to say everybody “I’m here ad this is me”. I don’ t make music just to be famous or earn money. I make music to say what I think and what I feel. With music I have cried, I’ve remained,l’ve loved, I’ve hated, and I have suffered but at the end, music has been the only one who has listened to me because after all;the notebook will never make a fun of my feelings. Finally, I consider my greatest adventure with music is to know how to live at the edge; dreaming, flying without move my feet from the ground and let me tell you this is just the begining of the adventure of my life and I hope it never ends.
–GM Yako Oficial Rap/ MÉXICO
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My best moment was all of them. None of them is not woth it. It´s like, you look for happiness within people and one of the songs I have talks about it. It is amazing.
–Alicante/SPAIN
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-Fratziman/ ROMANIA