Designed for emerging and professional singers, songwriters, and music producers in pop and electronic music, SupremeSound.Life's newsletter offers practical tips, motivation, and inspiration to elevate your craft. Gain insights into the artist's journey and receive updates on Alarke's latest music.
Do this before January 1
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Hi Reader, Before the year closes out, do this: Open your hard drive. Check your project files. Count how many tracks you've worked on this year. Scroll through your calendar. Count the shows you played. The sessions you booked. The collaborations you finished. The rehearsal sessions where you showed up. Look at your voice memos. Your demos. Your ideas folder. You did more than you think. Artist tip: audit your year in 30 minutes Grab a notebook. Write these down:
That's it. 3 questions. 30 minutes. This isn't about gratitude journaling. It's about seeing what actually happened so you know what to build on. What this tells you: If you finished 10 tracks, you know you can finish. Do it again. If you learned Ableton, you can learn the next thing. Keep going. If you played 5 shows, you can book 10 next year. Start reaching out in January. Progress compounds when you actually track it. Next week: One final sale to close out the year—December 30-31 only. More on that soon. For now? Take the 30 minutes. Write it down. Use it. Love, |
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Designed for emerging and professional singers, songwriters, and music producers in pop and electronic music, SupremeSound.Life's newsletter offers practical tips, motivation, and inspiration to elevate your craft. Gain insights into the artist's journey and receive updates on Alarke's latest music.
Hi Reader, Straight Signal has two versions now. I didn't plan it that way. The first one has a 2-step feel. Syncopated, a little restless, the groove doing more work than the melody. Vocals dry and close. It wants to move but it doesn't announce it. The second version is house. Wider. Warmer. Same topline sitting differently over the kick. I started it thinking it would be a remix. It became its own thing. I'm finishing both. The 2-step version keeps asking me to leave space where I want to...
Hi Reader, I just got back from a weeklong vacation in Oaxaca, Mexico, and it was incredible: the food, culture, history, crafts, everything. I went with my parents, and we ventured with local Zapotec guides into small artisan villages and visited pottery workshops, woodcarving villages, textile weaving homes, quesillo artisans (delicious cheese, and the place where they recently won the Guinness World Record for largest quesillo (cheeseball of this style) in the world, markets, the Tule tree...
Hi Reader, It's been a powerful start to the year so far, this year of the fire horse! I had a live performance during Art Week here in Mexico City. Friday night at The Vault, an intimate art gallery in Roma Norte. A full live electronic set of unreleased and existing original music I prepared with DiVinci, Miss Lauryn Hill's controllerist, who'd just played the Grammys that weekend. The set was tighter because of it. The city filled up with artists, designers, and creatives from all over the...