u/phario_marelle

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It will be mostly cloud rap mixed with electronica with deep-rooted inspiration from retro games music (Genesis, SNES and n64 mostly).

The job consists in :

1- first listening to my demos as they are now while I walk you through the tracks’ meaning and intentions. If you like what you heard and are willing to work with me,

2- receive rough demos and progress updates a couple times a week, giving constructive criticisms on the music while still trying to maintain hype for the album lol.

The profile of the person I need :

1- You must love what you hear first, or at least see potential in it, ‘cause I really need the hype

2- It’ll be great if you loved Yung Lean/soundcloud rap, Koji Kondo (Nintendo’s in-house main composer, think Zelda, Mario, Starfox etc.), Rustie/Flying Lotus/Hudson Mohawke/Warp, bonus points for the Beach Boys and/or Bossa Nova (yes I know it’s kinda eclectic)

3- You gotta be someone who loves talking music and giving your opinion on every single details in everything you ever listen to. For instance, you should have a strong opinion on the hi hat used in every track you listen to

4- Be mostly available for receiving and discussing demos during work days from 10 P.M. to 3 A.M. UTC/GMT

5- technical proficiency and musical vocabulary would be really great, but less essential than the 4 aforementioned points

I unfortunately cannot seem to progress alone on my album anymore, because my own induced hype and confidence in the project is fading away with time. Also, I can’t do anything for myself alone, I’m able to work way more efficiently if I’m doing it for someone else. You’ll essentially be that person lol.

As for my curriculum, in 15 years of using FL, I only ever:

1- released an EP of french trap/drill in collaboration with a friend as the producer while he handled the vocals https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/0kuAplk7YmdfodhzkZHYsu?si=3ldg_lXyQBOe5S0Sh10tdA

2- overseen the production of another buddy’s french touch/indie/funk LP (the role you’ll have with mine) https://okaycactus.fanlink.tv/ideal

3- released a chiptune LP with a third friend with a 50/50 split in production https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/oyez/oyez

So I just reached 30 last week and my solo LP still isn’t out wtf. It contains 15 years worth of music, about 24 tracks, telling the story of my life while trying to draw universal experiences and lessons from it.

Roughly, it’s the story of a guy who actually thought he was dead twice, the first one because of a cannabis-induced psychosis that lead to an awful badtrip, then years later in a dream that was the polar opposite of the first « death ». It intertwines with love stories and struggles with depressive boredom from a kinda loser/loner type from France’s countryside who managed to somehow avoid harmful far-right pipelines and became quite happy all in all. There’s a mariage and a divorce in it.

The main message is « never forget that light is ahead when you’re at rock-bottom, and that even at peak happiness you’ll never be safe from reaching rock-bottom again in the future ; you gotta accept that and manage to be okay knowing it » (ofc that applies to people living in easy mode).

What you’ll gain from it ?

A coproducer credit and a 20 % split on all tracks you’ll help me with, hopefully a fun experience, and if you wish so the same service will be returned for your music/personnal project as I have strong constructive opinions on everything and love to hype people up with projects I like. I’m a very slow worker so it could very well last 3 more years lol.

Thx for having read all that. Regardless if you did, have a great week.

No AI was used in this writing and english isn’t my primary language so please excuse any mistake.

phario

Ex left me to go be with two other guys, leaving me to pay for $2500 a month apartment by myself while taking care of her two cats. Was dead broke by the time I moved out. Had nowhere to go, so I asked my boss if I could live at our warehouse until I had my stuff together. It was that or living on the streets. He said it was cool as long as our corporate managers never saw the room. Got to stay long enough to save money, do some cool things, and finally move back in with family to do some much needed healing.

1st pic was how it looked when I fully settled in. 2nd pic was how it started. 3rd pic was 5 hours later. Was pretty nice, until summer kicked in and with no ac it would get up to 95 degrees in the room lol

Sometimes I miss the privacy and the freedom to be as loud and crazy as I wanted to be. I think everyone needs a space to be a little unhinged.

Biggest advice to anyone who’s struggling.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help. You might be a bit surprised what people are willing to do for you to make sure you can make it to the other side okay as well.

EDIT:

This is really resonating with a lot of people and I’m really grateful for all the kindness here. I’ll do my best to respond to any more questions once I wake up later! I hope that my story gives you all a reminder that even the smallest things can be like a luxury when it’s taken away. My space was as close to an ideal space as I could make it given some compromises being had.

I’m getting asked a lot on what happened to my ex’s cats that I took care of when she moved out. I’ll just paste what I said in another comment below.

I never was a cat person until I took care of her cats. Fell in love with her cats the same time I fell in love with my ex. Losing the cats was just as awful as the breakup. I asked my ex to tell me when she was moving back to her home state as she couldn’t have cats where she was staying when she moved out. Reason why I asked was so I could spend my last days with her cats with a proper goodbye. I treated those cats like they were my own.

It wasn’t until one day I was about to leave for work and heard my ex trying to break into my apartment to take the cats back without telling me. This was around the time she was sneaking into my apartment to steal some of my things too.

I begged her to let me have just one more day to spend with them to have a real goodbye. She threatened to call the police, so I had to let them go right then and there. I still think about those cats to this day.

Last I heard they’re still doing okay.

You can find a pic of them that I posted in another comment. Hope you both are still doing great, Sylvester and Oscar.

why do fools fall in love is the hardest diss song in history, prove me wrong

time to cancel their homophobic asses tho