Hey everyone,

I’ve been really curious lately about how people found their way into music and what the turning point was that pulled them in. Everyone’s story is different, sometimes it’s a slow burn, sometimes it hits like a lightning bolt and I’d love to hear how your journey started.

I actually came into music pretty late in life. I’m 33 now, but I didn’t start producing until 2021, when I was already 29. Before that, I spent nine years in the military, and music wasn’t really part of my world in a serious way. But something shifted during the pandemic. Maybe it was the extra time, maybe it was the need for a creative outlet, but I found myself buying my first step sequencer and a couple of analog synths just out of curiosity.

That curiosity exploded into a passion.

What started as experimenting with hardware led me into full-on production. DAWs, sound design, mixing, the whole rabbit hole. I recently finished my service commitment in the military, and for the first time in my adult life, I have the time and mental space to fully dive into music. Right now I’m studying, learning the business side, improving my workflow, and trying to get better every single day.

Even though I started later than most people, I’ve realized it’s never too late to build something meaningful if you’re committed. I’m genuinely excited to see where this path leads.

So that’s my story, now I’d love to hear yours.
What sparked your journey into music or production?
Was it a person, a moment, a crisis, a random accident or something else entirely?

Looking forward to reading your stories.

 

In my early teens was given a mixtape of electronic music, played at illegal parties, by an older relative who DJed at those parties. Ten years later, discovered that the style of music I was into, could be produced on a PC without any additional hardware. Nonetheless went to a store and bought some shitty alesis monitors, a crappy m-audio sound card and a small midi controller and started writing tunes in "fruityloops".

 

It's pretty simple for me: I started taking piano lessons at 3. My teacher was an 82 year old lady, just a minute from my school on my way home, so I'd stop there, climb the stairs, sit on the bench. It was awful: she was born in the 19th century, so she taught me accordingly.

But at five, my parents moved, and I joined an after school complex nearby: downstairs was Ken-do (samurai sword martial art - exhausting), and upstairs were piano classes. The teacher was a guy in his mid-twenties, and his passion for music was infectious.

Then, at maybe 10 years old, I discovered Stevie Wonder's "Songs In The Key Of Life." That was a revelation for me: way cooler than the stupid, boring classical pieces I had to learn and practice.

This discovery and revelation coincided with puberty, and being neurodivergent, I sought social refuge and emotional comfort in the piano, in music. It helped make me make sense of my projection of the world: I couldn't envisage a future where I didn't have music in my life, where I didn't live and breathe music daily.

I had excellent grades then, I suppose I could've gone into engineering or physics, diplomacy or economics like my cousins, but they were not neurodivergent, and I was, so I reckon music was comfort air and water to me.

Also, I was very, very naturally good at it, and (very pretty) girls had started to notice, and guy musicians too. I found my tribe.

 

Near where I grew up there was a forest and way out in the middle of nowhere there was an abandoned circus truck. I used to go out there after school and drum on it with sticks. All the different pieces of the truck had different metallic sounds and I would spend hours climbing all over that truck serenading the animals with majestic clangs and bangs.

 

It started as a school thing, music class in my school was basically "do whatever you want, i don't get paid enough for this shit", so we did just that. A friend of mine played guitar, and i picked up bass because the alternative was a fucking recorder. Never did much with it aside from playing a few gigs, but it helped me discover music and overall develop a personal taste. It also got me curious about amp sims and later on DAWs and working with sound.

Years went by, picked up a few more instruments, grew an interest in music production and hated it, had a bit of an existential crisis (for unrelated reasons) and began to use music as a therapy of sorts.

And that's it, i've been a bit of a musical hermit ever since, seeing music as a personal necessity than anything else.