What are your plans for this year?

[Críoch]

Don't believe in resolutions ( ) - but thought it would be interesting to see what people here are up to? or hoping to do this year?

Any planets aligning for you in 2013? or do you aim to make some shit happen that y've been thinking about for a lonnng time?

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Me?

I'm finished college this May. Can't wait. Can't wait to start working FT & get some good $£€'z. So looking forward to being able to save again.. and being a big of a consumer again. Looking forward to having more free time for the site / music / life & family.. as working nearly 30hrs a week, college & home last year was nuts & put me under a bit of pressure with the site too. Can't complain though. It's great to have all these things in your life. Always be grateful for what you have / grass is always greener et.al.

As always.. I'm closer than ever to being happy with the music I make & if nothing else, I'm looking forward to being even closer

I'd also like to do a bit of Techno tourism in the later part of 2013.. so hopefully that'll happen too.

Carpe Diem Motherfuckers!!!

[jordanneke]

Sweet plans dude.

Mine are much less interesting.

1 - Get more sleep - (two kids under the age of three)

2 - Get some kick ass results at work - Until music puts food on the table - which is probably a long way off.

3 - Chill on holiday in the summer (South of France - My techno toursim days are officially over, unless you count listening to techno on holiday)

4 - Aside from the above - Go nuts at the ADE for one day.

And 5 - Spend the maximum amount of time in the studio (that still allows me to have a family), further defining my sound AND getting my skill level up there with the likes of Speedy J

Rocknfuckinroll eh?

[Críoch]

Yeah man, I hear ya.

I've got a 4 year old & a wife, 2 mortgages & a cat. It always sounds like a cop out when you say y'd love more time, like you are using stuff as an excuse.. but its true haha.

I've got a ton of stuff I could be messing around with right now, but I've been wallpapering for the last couple of hours.

See!

hahaha

[Patriek]

My plans are to have another awesome kid-free year spend shitloads of cash on useless things. I might even sleep more then i did in 2012.

But, main goal is to make more music. Record some great mixes and just enjoy life as it is

[Mono-xID]

Me?

I'm finished college this May. Can't wait. Can't wait to start working FT & get some good $£€'z. So looking forward to being able to save again..

eerrrmmm....same here ..and the more sleep thing sounds good aswell!!!

[Críoch]

God sleep would be good. I had to get up 1.5hrs early today. It was a (shit) surprise hahaha

Can't stay mad at them for long.

The 2 Pat's!

@Pat #1 - "My goal is to keep breathing" hahaha

@Pat #2 - You in college too, yeah? What are you studying again? I can't remember Mate. I'm studying Social Care. Last year of 4 this year. Really cannot wait.

[brian]

no major plans, just want to keep cracking at trying to make some stuff that sounds half decent.

although toying with the idea of going back to college part time in september to get my degree, not sure if ive the head for that though, with work ontop as well.

[Barfunkel]

As I sold all my gear last year and haven't made any music in 6 months, my 2013 plan is to build a new home studio. Something really simple, like an octatrack, an A4 and a maybe drum machine.

I have no idea how to fund that though.

I'd also like to DJ a bit more, but DJ gigs are hard to come by without releases to market you.

[Mslwte]

Get married. Get a new job. Acoustic treatment for my studio. Get better at production. Buy a moog. Concentrate on my own label.

[ashley BORG]

Last year was a mixed bag; Music going fairly well (or at least progressing) and professional life, just getting by day to day despite changing job.

This year, professionally I still don't have a clue what that holds, Graphic Design industry has gone weird, and not helped by the fragile economy. Going to work is becoming a drag compared to music stuff

Planning on starting to do my own self commissioned design work though, it's gonna be connected in someway to Techno, hopefully I'll be putting some stuff out this year.

Music wise, hopefully a few decent DJ gigs like last year, and I'd finally like to finish a track. There's been toooooooo many excuses for not so far. I'm getting there slowly.... Hopefully... Maybe I'm rubbish

As with some of the guys above having a little devil child makes all of the above even more of a challenge. I need to get my skates on as we'll start trying for number 2 soon

[Kryo]

My part!:

1- Controlling my mind and thinkings (don't worry i'm not crazy)

2- Finish this computer engineering year with all goals, it takes me a lot of time studying and the next year is my last one

3- Start preparing my career project: maybe a MIDI controller made from 0

4- (Imposible) Having 48h a day.

5- Releasing a track. Don't care where, just an amazing track that people can hear. It's been since 2 years ago that I can't finish a project because of a creativity block, a "break up" for learning deeply in the basis of music, and not having a lot of time, so releasing something good would be really symbolic for me. (And no, I'm not into releasing something anything poor just for releasing)

[jordanneke]

Ha ha - all of us on this forum are so rocknroll

I was half expecting

1 - Listen to techno
2- Take a 'jam n spoon' amount of narcotics while doing the above.
3 - Make Techno
4 - Get laid
5 - Take less coke than last year.

[ashley BORG]

Haha that's 2014, always recharge on the odd year

[mainst09]

Nothing much,just keep doing what i love... MUSIC i don't expect to be famous,just want to be happy with the music i make.
I want to continue the work i've been doing on Reaktivate,we have big plans for this year,and things are starting to give some good results.
I finish school this year,i won't go to university,i was hoping to find a work in some record shop,in Berlin or London,or at any other great city in europe,don't know if this will be possible.

[Lost to the Void]

Well my plans

I`m considering going back to university to go for a degree or master in music composition/theory as I am really getting more and more into (contemporary) orchestral composition and am considering maybe shifting towards soundtrack work, or working with contemprary dance. I am doing a project this year with a London dance studio composing music for a contemporary ballet/dance and if this goes well I`d like to go further.

Keep building the mastering business.

Take the label and the artists on it, on tour, looks like a mid summer affair so far.

Experiment with a return to vinyl (pressing very soon)

Finish the damn album, work out some way of performing the album live, with may involve finding some way back into the conventional gig scene rather than club music scene.

Enjoy more time with the missus.

Make some attempt at putting out my own (techno) music again, slightly more regularly than last year, as I have found a direction I am happy with. Last year too much time was spent experimenting, stressing, wondering off into areas of musical folly.

Possibly serve some time ghosting a vinyl cutter with the idea of maybe adding vinyl cutting to my skill set, and maybe doing some contracted/part time work thereafter with a cutting house.

Read a lot more, my philosophy reading has fallen behind this year.

[brian]

Ha ha - all of us on this forum are so rocknroll

I was half expecting

1 - Listen to techno
2- Take a 'jam n spoon' amount of narcotics while doing the above.
3 - Make Techno
4 - Get laid
5 - Take less coke than last year.

sure they are normal day to day things, same as last year

[Mono-xID]

i was hoping to find a work in some record shop,in Berlin ,don't know if this will be possible.

Honestly,forget about that. This is only possible with good connections. And all the record stores i know in Berlin (and i know them all i think ) are pretty happy with their personal and offer no jobs afaik. A lot of mates been trying it for years but no chance. Another thing is,unless you're working at Hardwax or a store with similar reputation/size, it'll be hard to live from these earnings as living in Berlin isn't cheap anymore.

Oh,i forgot to mention another resolution in my first post:move away from this crap city (but i think it won't happen until 2014 )

[ashley BORG]

Come to the UK

[Random_Task]

1) enjoying life as is every day
2) make great music
3) some successful flyfishing trip(s) without getting wasted from 5 in the morning...
4) get a new job or challenge cause i'm bored as f*ck
5) donno, getting wasted while I'm not fishing I guess

that's about it!

[Mono-xID]

Come to the UK

no no m8 ...already got plans where to go he he....