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-- well, maybe I'll tell you guys after all

well, maybe I'll tell you guys after all

Lappy got jacked bout month ago. Ouch. 3 yrs.

Going to get bent over by some of you for I didn't back up.

I'm over it though, strangely, I always would have imagined being so much more upset.

I may or may not have been hoarding tracks and tracks and tracks. Okay I was. Lol what a sensation

Someone i know Possibly having way more homicidal thoughts since lololol

I would of freaked out 4 years ago. But now, its actually not so bad. Fresh starts are great, and therapeutic. What is some shitty stored 010101's compared to your consciousness; its nothing.

Thats stinks man.

Re: well, maybe I'll tell you guys after all

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Originally posted by Evolve140 I didn't back up.

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have been hoarding tracks and tracks and tracks.

how could you even sleep at night

I really had a hard time make sense of the OP this morning. But MSZ fixed that . It's far from the end of the world. The internet knows no bounds and you'll be up and running in no time if you just shelf the $ . I have in plenty of data-loss myself due to negligence but it never really held me back, you shouldn't let it either!

Dude, that sucks. Oh well, fresh starts can be great.

Now there's room for new stuff. I get sick of worrying about back ups, just makes me want to say fuck it.

Re: well, maybe I'll tell you guys after all

Mine blew up a while back and I had an enforced break and had to start over. Probably for the good anyway, out with all the clutter.

Sorry to hear, I'd be gutted. Like others have said though it could be a blessing in disguise

i only work on one track at a time these days so if my shit hits the fan so what only lost one project.

sometimes it takes a disaster like this to force you into backing up regularly

but as others have said, a fresh start is exactly whats required sometimes

yeah thanks guys. since it happened my mindset has been that it's going to be a good thing. i had a bad habit of just hoarding stuff, getting tracks 50%, 75% 90% done but never finishing them, and consciously telling myself oh yeah i'll go back and finish this or that, but it never really happened like that. to be honest all those tracks had me feeling kind of guilty and instead of focusing on forward motion, lots of my energy would be concentrated on those old projects.

now a totally fresh start with all the incredible things i've learned, when i jump back in the game i'm going to be so ready to just annihilate. a chance to reconcile my entire work flow toward finishing tracks. if you ask people who have made it solid like justin martin they'll tell you just finish tracks. finish them, finish finish finish.

so that's what i'm going to do, anything i start i'm going to try and finish, for better or worse, just for the sake of finishing stuff and moving forward.

i'm a bit sentimental so i'll miss some of the compositions and ideas because there were a lot of beautiful ones, but the break has me at over a month without working on any music. the first week i stopped i got to see the dirtybird stage with my music making friend, the other half of my new duo, who's already signed to dirtybird, and our duo project moves full steam ahead this year, anyway even after that first week i had so much inspiration for new music i was ready to start making shit right then and there, fast forward over a month and the inspiration is brimming, i know for a fact when i come back i'm going to be going hard, and it's going to be pretty amazing.

some of you know me better than others but those of you who have noticed me over the years know i've been doing this for a LONG time, and shit is coming together pretty well.

so fuck it, the theft will ultimately end up being something that helped spin me into the right direction with a fresh start and fresh ambition, compounded by 10 years of production experience.

anywho thanks again for the support gents

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Originally posted by MSZ I would of freaked out 4 years ago. But now, its actually not so bad. Fresh starts are great, and therapeutic. What is some shitty stored 010101's compared to your consciousness; its nothing.

This. I had a hard drive die due to physical damage when I cleaned my PC, there were my first two years of production on it, all projects, all samples and plugs, gone. I freaked out a lot, but really it was the best thing that could happen to me. I started out fresh, gathered dramatically less bullshit then before and started again far more focused than before.


This year I managed to fix the HDD thanks to a friend, I booted the old system on and everything was there. It was almost shocking how unorganized, random and filled with bullshit and useless crap it all was. I really grew thanks to that HDD fail.


Now I'm ready to ditch another system, I am building a new one. I will transport what I considered essential for work, and of course will continue to use my workhorse plugs, but other than that it will be a fresh start again, to let me breathe again and not to mention the really needed performance boost.

Yep been a nice break. Will be savage when I get back to it.

Anytime I have ever had stuff stolen from me I know how shit it can be.

Just FYI: Dropbox is $20 a month for a terabyte of versioned storage. Small price to pay for peace of mind.

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