Professor Daytime

Back in 2015, I believed the work on this album would be the direction I would take with Professor Daytime. That is why I made it a self-titled album. The album was full of some of my most interesting work, but looking back on it now, I believe I could have made some better musical decisions rather than the experimental ones that I took. It starts with my attempt at making deep house: Band Trips, that I wrote while in a hotel room and while on a bus during a band trip in college. Band Trips ended up being more of a tropical house song. The album featured some African inspired sounds in the songs: Radiance of the Dawn, Loose Safari, and Don’t Kill People.

I voted for president in 2012, but that was just a reelection that I didn’t put too much thought into because I was only just turning 18 at the time and was ignorant. In early 2015 I tried to get more into politics and found Bernie Sanders. Feel the Bern and Koch Heads are two politically motivated songs that I am proud of. I only regret the use of using Michael Jackson vocal chops as percussion throughout the album. I thought it was funny, edgy, unique, and interesting, but now relistening to a lot of the songs, it just doesn’t sound that great. I might rerelease some of these songs one day without those samples… I don’t know. We’ve got a blues song: Phthalo Blues, an experimental, maybe ‘hardstyle’ song: Magic Missile, and a harp, violin, and guitar trio: Cure Moderate Wounds, thrown in there. Scorching Ray was actually pretty good, as my first attempt at anything resembling Ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ. Lastly, America’s Attention Span was my first attempt at making trap music.

Overall, I learned a lot making this album. Some of it was decent, and some of it was shit. I hope you can enjoy some of it, and understand Professor Daytime a little better.