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10 Tracks 10 Weeks – The Plan

10 Tracks 10 Weeks – The Plan

6th July 2010




After about a month of soul searching and head scratching I finally have a plan:

Every Monday from July 19th to September 20th 2010 I’ll write and release a completely new track for free. All the music will remain free to download for the 10 weeks of the project and as I write the music I’ll talk about how its going in this studio diary.

Why am I doing this? Its an experiment I’m conducting on my music, my creative process and internet music distribution. And if it works well it’ll help me (force me?) to find a distinct musical voice, something which I believe has largely eluded me for the last 16 years.

Releasing music from my web site will stop me from getting distracted by other people’s expectations. Without a label I don’t have to conform to a specific scene or sound and the only person I have to please with the music is myself (except possibly my wife).

Making it free will allow me to concentrate on writing music without worrying about how many of you lot will buy it. It would be a lovely bonus if someone digs it, but removing commercial considerations will allow me to be more creative.

Writing and releasing a track every week will give me continual challenging deadlines which will avoid the endless head scratching I fear my newfound creative freedom might bring. I have a theory that my best ideas are usually the first and having to complete a 10 tracks in 10 weeks will force me to get on with it.

I’m doing it for 10 weeks because I believe that 10 tracks makes a nice length for an album, and one of my aims is to make a body of work which will hang together as an album.

I don’t know how this 10 tracks 10 weeks idea will pan out, other than a few vaguely sketched out ideas and starting points I haven’t a clue what I’m going to produce. It could end in an album of exciting and interesting music of which I’m proud, or in creative despair and abject failure. But whatever happens it’s going to be a trip.

You Might Also Enjoy:

  • Week 1 “Hello Hello”
  • Week 2 “Robot Go Disco”
  • Week 3 “Contains Nuts”
  • Week 4 “Crush”
  • How I Finished “Crush”
  • Week 5 “Lullaby”
  • Week 6 “Old Joanna”
  • Week 7 “Tiny Talk”
  • Week 8 “Weird Beard”
  • Week 9 “Do Be Do” (I didn’t write much this week!)
  • Week 10 “Moov”
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Claude VonStroke (Dirty Bird, USA)

Mike Monday’s process has helped me enormously. I have two record labels, a heavy touring schedule, a wife and two children, and a music production career all running in tandem. There are times when it seems unmanageable and i get lost in a downward spiral that limits my effectiveness as a leader and my ability to be creative in the studio.

Whenever i have a session with Mike we talk it all out and a sense of calm comes over me. i get back to basics and work out all the things in my head that need to get worked out. His process is both calming and therapeutic.

I would also like to add that the additional fact that Mike is a music producer himself and a veteran DJ lends itself to an extra level of trust. I don’t think i would take advice or listen to someone in the same way who was from outside the music industry. In an nutshell I find Mike Monday’s process to be an extremely valuable way to organize and free my chaotic brain to do what it is supposed to be doing.

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Radical is a good word for it! The most unexpected thing I’ve found about the course is the impact it has had on other areas of my life – I was quite surprised about that…

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Vernon McCarthy (Wellington, New Zealand)

“I just felt inspired to send you a really quick message to say hello and let you know that I am going great guns at the moment.

Managing to get a average of two hours every day producing. This is a huge turn around for me and am loving it. It hasn’t been easy though but I have kept at it.

And much of it has been due to the help and inspiration from yourself, the group and me now actually putting in the work. The online community is such a good thing. Everytime I have gone to have a look I have found something relevant to my thoughts and that has helped me.”

Joe Roberts (London, UK)

“Mike has helped me to start living the truism that it’s not what you use to make music, it’s your ideas.

Those ideas only mean anything when you start putting them down though and that’s what this course has already helped me to start do regularly.

I’ve made more headway in two weeks than I’d managed in a couple of years on my own starting projects, then giving up and starting something new but never seeing them through till completion.”

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