Even if you love your passion and career, there are times when negative emotions surpass. You start feeling rejected, worthless, pissed off, or challenged while making a track or a remix by putting together a mix.
While it’s easy to fall into a slump based on one of the negative experiences, it can be just as easy to redirect your mind and, instead, focus on the — hopefully more — positive experiences. Read more
There are so many interviews that we have done via 6AM group over the years where we ask the music artists what inspires and motivates them to do what they are currently doing or what they want to achieve, and we appreciate all of the answers that come back to us that seem to be authentic. For instance, the answers we get are they are doing it for the love of the music, for the fans, for their family, for the community, or doing it to help the scene grow. Whatever the motive behind it is, those are actually great reasons why they should be doing this. But there are not enough artists that actually boldly say, “Hey look, I’m doing this for myself,” which is more important in actuality.
In this article, we discuss the mindset of ‘doing for yourself!’
Success reveals everything about a person, especially on the artist journey in the electronic music industry.
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same” — Colin R. Davis
In the Summer of 2013, my team and I launched the first-ever electronic music festival on the island of Guam (called Electric Island Festival aka EIF) nearly 6,100 miles away from our headquarters in Los Angeles. We beat the odds of all the naysayers telling us we couldn’t do it and that our pipe dream was simply that… a dream.
