HOW ARE WE DOING Y’ALL. This is going to be a very long post, mostly because I’m excited to be here, and I just like to talk. I’m Dylan Ejay. (That’s also my music name. I know super original and creative) I’m originally from Hastings, Minnesota but I’m currently living in SD. And I don’t plan on leaving any time soon. Music has been a pretty big part of my life since I was a little kid. I started in band when I was in 5th grade and chose the Alto Saxophone. I played all the way through high school. I also joined marching band when I was in 8th grade. I loved it and hated it. I loved band but hated the 2.5 hour practices lmao. I’m a bit lazy sometimes. I always loved the late 2000’s and early 2010’s pop music, too. Whenever I would take tests or be in class I constantly had an earbud in (I would genuinely get into arguments with my teachers over it. I was kind of a bad kid and really hope my kids don’t act like I did lmao) I wasn’t really interested in music production throughout my early high school. I do remember the first track I “created”. We had an assignment in my band class to use an online software to write our own score. I really did NOT want to do this assignment but my band class was the only A that I had left, so I had to do something. I ended up learning that if you drag and drop a full MIDI into this software, it will just generate the track. The teacher was very impressed with my cover of this track https://youtu.be/3wHBOvkxtus?si=lERQH2U3nFs-10Zd. I never told her that I lowk cheated just to keep my letter grade 😂 Late in high school however I started to get interested in production and sound design. I had loved EDM for a while so I decided to give it a shot. At first I downloaded GarageBand and played with that around 2017. I stayed on mobile using different apps until I stumbled upon Auxy around mid 2018. Man I loved that app, and I still miss the community that we had. Auxy was easy enough to understand, but complex enough to create awesome music. I used it every day for a summer. 👀 Eventually though I decided it was time to move to more powerful software. I bought this awful little MacBook from Facebook marketplace and downloaded FL in 2019. I, like a lot of producers just starting out, thought it was going to be easy. I could just apply what I knew from band to create tracks, right? Hell no. Fruity Loops has humbled me every single day for the last 7 years.