Phobic

Hey, I'm Phobic, thanks for reading my first blog post. To kick it off I'll start by telling you some things about me and why I have this blog up here.

I'm a young music producer/artist (whichever one you understand as a person who makes music), I have been at it since about the end of 2006 and am not exactly a professional yet but am managing to get somewhere. I am currently planning on going to a Music/Sound College in 2009 to get a degree in Sound Engineering. Also somewhat planning to start DJ-ing once I get enough money. So as you can tell I am very much into music, which is one of the reasons I have this blog up here. I have been fascinated by music ever since I was a kid, thanks to my dad playing a wide selection of great music (Portis Head, Thievery Corporation, LTJ Bukem, The Orb, ...) from my birth on. My Genre taste was very open when I was younger but I have now become extremely selective in the kind and quality of music I listen to; something I find positive for me, but negative for others.
Around 2004 I got deeply into Electronica, Electro and House; ever since I have not steered away from it and continue to enjoy it more every day. This is also the type of music I (try to) produce, which I must say isn't the most easy of types to master.

I was born in Kortrijk, West Vlaanderen, Belgium in 1991. My childhood was like any other European and lasted me until I became 14 when my parents got divorced. The separation of my parents didn't harm me at all on an emotional level but what it physically meant was monumental. My mother is an American and my father a Belgian, so when the divorce came my mother decided to move back to the US with me and my sister. I have been here for the last 3 years now. This is one thing that makes music hard for me here, that being the fact that this country doesn't have much of an Electronica influence on the world; most of that all comes from Europe where all the clubs, parties and festivals are still heavily dominated by it. So one of the reasons I started this blog is to see if anyone from outside of the country is at all interested in the survival of Electronica in the West Coast of the US, or if there are already a lot of other Americans who are deeply into the Electro Life. Here in Monterey, Electronica is as good as dead, which is very sad for me to see.

Well that's about it really, currently those are the things that are happening. I just go to my Independent Study class, the Junior College, Work (part-time) and a Youth Arts Collective. I am possibly planning on moving back to Belgium in 2009 after I graduate to study Sound Engineering; and I am looking into DJ-ing once I get myself enough money to do so.

In my next Post I will go over a few artist I find worth mentioning and start getting into what this blog is really for, discussing and reviewing music. Thank you all for reading.

(Picture above taken by Michael Meert at Tercaemer-Meert Contemporary Art Gallery, Veemarkt, Kortrijk, Belgium)