The Couture Tape Co-Operative

I am probably the worst (harshest) critic on music. Especially my own music. EVERYTHING has to be PERFECT. I believe this feeling has led me to be proficient in the process of making music.

I always ask myself the question: “What are you proficient at?”

In answering this question I have to think deeply into what drives and motivates me. What makes me LOVE music? What makes me want to be the best artist?

Music in itself is never ending. There’s an infinite number of melodic notes that one can put together in four bars. I ask myself how deep are you willing to go??? Can you create an orchestra of a million voices singing in unison, and have that one…

just one…

That one that’s slightly singing the wrong note, a little off time…

will anyone hear it??

Or are we too accustomed to over-compressed, dynamic-less, 3 minutes of loudness, the thing we call RADIO music, which is in turn compressed even more for the airwaves.

Can we expand that… to its original truest form… an emersion of sound surrounding us… telling us stories of life… melodies portraying feelings of love, lust, pain, joy… harmonies bringing us back to our repressed memories of when life was pure.

Or purely simple enough where people enjoyed MUSIC.

People enjoyed music…

#ComplexComplex

#EATit

Inna Modja - Life

“If I could have it back, all the time that we wasted, I’d only waste it again” - Arcade Fire

I took an extended break in Ypsilanti to refocus and gain the motivation to make more music. I wanted to clear my mind of all the little problems in my workplace, home, and personal life. I wanted to just focus on what I want to do. I wanted peace.

Peace never came. 

I did get some rest. Much needed rest. Now I am ready to come back into the fray and find a way to create the peace. I have sooo many projects to finish. Sooo many relationships to mend. I have to be the leader that my peers are looking for to pull them out of their own demotivation. On this short vacation I wrote NO songs, I made NO beats, I spent time with my family and I rested. I saw everything on Facebook and Twitter and realized there is an abundance of people trying to do what I do. The difference between me and them is that I never force music. Songs come to me. If I have nothing to say, I say just that. I did write a lot on this vacation but just to jot down thoughts and philosophies. I’ve been stretching myself thin helping others realize their dreams and potiential. All at the cost of my own dreams.

Enough of that.

The time has been wasted, but it was needed to realize what I need to do. I need to create my own world. And in that world I’ll have my real friends and family. And we will show the world life. We will show the world love. We will show the world strength. Most importantly we will show the world a brighter future.

Dante Cope