Under Pressure by Qbical
Written and produced by Raymond van Baal.
Published by Seventeen Again Publishing (Cloud 9)
Tracklist
| 1. | Under Pressure | 8:34 |
Credits
released October 7, 2022
Being able to create and release music is a beautiful privilege to have. Keeping an eagle-eyed focus on the socials, the charts, and the artist dashboards to see how a release is doing can be highly energizing. However, I found over the last couple of months that it can also create a negative form of pressure. Even though I told myself not to let myself be influenced by the numbers, I still try to make the next release better than the last one. To get more streams, more chart positions, more views.
It doesn’t help that my social feed is filled with all these “get a million streams on Spotify” videos ;)
Anyway, it is the single reason I failed my promise to release a track every month of the year. I keep falling into a second-guessing mode that stops me from completing a song. Stupid, and I am stopping it right now!
So, I wrote a little song about it!
Under Pressure is a driving melodic techno track with the quirky synth parts you have come to expect from me. The vocal provides a bit of meaning to the matter above. What I take away from it is that there really is ‘no more time’ to second-guess oneself. Just get on with it. Let your creativity flow, and don’t mind the numbers. In the end, it’s an art form, and art can’t be quantified.
How’s that for a sales pitch? ;) Now go ahead and stream, like, subscribe, follow and download ;)
File under: Melodic Techno
Being able to create and release music is a beautiful privilege to have. Keeping an eagle-eyed focus on the socials, the charts, and the artist dashboards to see how a release is doing can be highly energizing. However, I found over the last couple of months that it can also create a negative form of pressure. Even though I told myself not to let myself be influenced by the numbers, I still try to make the next release better than the last one. To get more streams, more chart positions, more views.
It doesn’t help that my social feed is filled with all these “get a million streams on Spotify” videos ;)
Anyway, it is the single reason I failed my promise to release a track every month of the year. I keep falling into a second-guessing mode that stops me from completing a song. Stupid, and I am stopping it right now!
So, I wrote a little song about it!
Under Pressure is a driving melodic techno track with the quirky synth parts you have come to expect from me. The vocal provides a bit of meaning to the matter above. What I take away from it is that there really is ‘no more time’ to second-guess oneself. Just get on with it. Let your creativity flow, and don’t mind the numbers. In the end, it’s an art form, and art can’t be quantified.
How’s that for a sales pitch? ;) Now go ahead and stream, like, subscribe, follow and download ;)
File under: Melodic Techno
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Manual Music was started in 2005 by Dutch DJ/producer Paul Hazendonk.
Nowdays Manual Music is a company taking care of management, publishing, digital distribution and ofcourse releasing music on several (sub)labels in various genres within the electronic music scene.
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