Music Mood Board

My music board consists of a synthesizer, Rubik’s Cube, NES controller, IBM PC, 80s brick phone, Q*bert arcade machine, VHS, gay sign, CRT television, the DeLorean Time Machine from Back to the Future, rabbits humping, an Optare Solo (type of bus), Eddy Wally winking (as part of the ‘wow’ Internet and montage parody meme), more rabbits humping, what looks like one of many front covers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, yet another rabbit humping a balloon, hitmarkers, pills, Doritos, Mountain Dew and the MLG logo.

That’s rather a lot for a music board. And the most interesting part of all this? Half of all this is actually relevant to the music I produce, while the rest is based around the music I listen to. The 80s stuff is relevant because the genres of music at that time still have an influence on listeners today, and it has certainly taken its toll on me. When I think of an arcade machine, old PC, gaming console or television and VHS, all being from the 80s, I think of 80s and 90s synthwave. When I listen to such music, I think of these things in operation, along with flashy laser grids and animations.

In regards to the humping rabbits and the MLG stuff, I think of these when I produce my awful glitch music. Off-beat samples and loops running to rabbit sex provides a unique insight into my imagination, and I feel that I am able to express my insanity this way so that I don’t have to draw attention to myself in reality. There is also the front cover for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is relevant because it clearly states that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. The only problem is that nobody knows what the question is… I don’t even know myself! The answer has simply been calculated over 7.5 million years by a supercomputer called Deep Thought. That is all we know.

I like to be different and wild. Not wild like I’m desperate for sex like a lot of contemporary British teenage boys are, but instead begging for hugs and cuddles while trying to avoid implying that I fondle myself to the thought of bed snuggles with the person in question of whom I am hugging or cuddling. The contents I have put in my mood board are just a fraction of what I think about when I am in these situations or circumstances, or when I am producing or listening to music.