QUARANTINE DREAMS
Bay Area rave producers on creation through isolation.
Story pitch, photography, and reporting by Brandon Tauszik.
Published in Generaiderz Magazine, which highlights the underground rave & electronic music scene.
Bastiengoat
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At the beginning of lockdown, I was actually looking forward to less parties. But one of my main goals with my music is to get people to dance, and without that dance floor, I’m missing a key component to my process.
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The time and space quarantine gave me to just be with music is hella irreplaceable. Is this ever going to be over? Lol, I don’t know.
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Quarantine has given me more time than I’ve known what to do with … to experiment and practice many new directions. It’s almost completely changing my artistic process.
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Being in quarantine really got me back into my introverted self, re-approaching the element of sound. All I gotta say is I appreciate the studio now more than ever.
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It honestly was the most productive time in my life music-wise. Without outside distraction, I had more days to spend entirely on writing and listening.
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