Andiety Perspective on Fish With Legs

I am an independent music producer who loves making music in their free time. I used to make dubstep, but have grown to love the process of making edm-rock genre blends a lot more recently.

The first time I remember actually paying attention was when I was going to school in my parents car one day, and Tom Petty's Free Fallin' came up on the radio.

I don't know every single genre, but I'd say it's a mix of Progressive Rock/Metal, Electronic, Ambient, and Chill. ig Probably a little Orchestral influence in there as well.

The only thing I can think of would be the music Chris Christodoulou makes; especially in the Risk of Rain 2 OST. That's where it mostly takes inspiration from.

As soon as I got into high school I had to choose a career path. Nothing really interested me at the time besides video games, but I couldn't sit still and learn how to code cause of how much stuff there was to wrap my head around learning. Music was much more clear to understand for me.

It's changed dramatically ever since I've met a lot of really cool people in a community called MPA, (or Music Production Arena). When they used to do live streams making all this collaborative music, I'd watch how exactly they were mixing things, and kind of learned to get better mixes myself, all just by watching someone else doing it, and of course with a little flare of my creativity.

I'm currently making a 3-part concept album (more specifically, 3 small albums, which will become 1 larger album), which includes this song in it, that's exploring Dystopian themes, and I can promise a lot of cool stuff is on the way.

Definitely Fish With Legs honestly, I spent nearly a year on this song, and a bunch of others (on the way), I just love the whole idea of one half of the song sounding entirely different from the second half, but it still makes sense, and transitions more cleanly than I could've ever imagined. I wouldn't have known that to be possible until I tried something new.

Probably Sullivan King, Excision, or PhaseOne. They have all meddled with Rock/Metal + Electronic Fusions, and I also used to dream about touring with all my favorite artists when I was still listening to mainly dubstep + drum and bass music.

Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington (and the rest of the band) are amazing at what they do, but I've always been interested in Mr. Hahn. Cure For the Itch was the first time I heard LP and that turntable was the coolest thing back then. 

I have so many favorites, but if I had to, it'd probably be: In Flames, Manafest, and SiM. All these artists implement Rock or Metal in a way, but In Flames is just a mood for me, Manafest is for more chillaxed + cool rap, & finally, SiM is just a super fun band altogether, they're a huge inspiration for me.

SiM (a.k.a Silence iz Mine)

Through Soundcloud. I'm usually super lazy when it comes to promoting music to random people Idk, so I usually just post and hope people who will like it find their way there.

Depends on my mood when making the music, but it usually comes randomly. But lately it's been a sort of melancholy feeling, that abruptly takes you outta that state of mind. Like, when you get goosebumps watching a movie or anime.

This is gonna be a sad one, but when I originally made the song Fire Gun, (which I made during my Senior year of high school), one of my good music producer friends said they liked how creative it was and that he'd never heard anything like it before, (the comment he made sorta started our friendship). That friend was a music producer who went by the name ALT3R, and had sadly passed away before I graduated.

Positive comments. I don't usually mind the low follower count, but seeing positive messages about my work has always brightened up my day, especially when there have been much less positive ones in the past, not counting constructive criticism of course (that's the reason most people imo improve).

Moving house with my desktop computer. I've lost a few projects I actually couldn't wait to finish because my computer decided it needed to factory reset itself because it was in a new town.

I guess, but at the same time I've met people who are just like me, in the sense that they just want to collaborate and have fun fusing ideas together, or just straight up having a jam sesh. I'd rather be around a few people that understand me and my humor besides a ton of people that don't understand me or my humor.

I worked at a Mickey Dees during COVID, and now I work in a warehouse unloading trucks and playing tetris irl.

I don't think I would change anything, there's so much music about the industry itself that gives you a rebellious feeling, for example, Sum 41, RATM, NOFX, and Sueco, just to name a couple, have made songs that sort of have that theme. And they're all awesome songs. I don't think it would be nearly as exciting music to jam out to if there weren't an upper rich tyrant to rebel to. But then again, there's always other tyrants to make rebellious music to.

Chris Christodoulou, Dream Theatre, and Linkin Park. (it's a long stretch, but eventually it may or may not make more sense as I release newer stuff)

I just get random spurts of ideas that pop in my head, sometimes it happens afk, other times I can draw out the entirety of a song idea in about 2-5 hours.

I just want to make music that people in this niche category of random bs that I make can listen to, cause there's honestly not a lot of it.

All Eyes On Me by Bo Burnham, it sorta describes the "why" itself.

Music can be found everywhere, but video games will always inspire me in all sorts of different ways. Risk of Rain 2 was the main reason I switched up my style and genre and made me want to just build a world with nothing but music to hold up the idea.

I have too many favorites, but if I had to choose one, it would be Architects Doomsday. It's such a beautiful and catchy song. "They say the good die young" is such a good hook as well.

Taking your time fleshing out an idea and sharing wips with people for constructive criticism will more likely turn out much better than rushing a project out.