projekt61

A few years ago, I tried my hand at making videos on YouTube. After a year of doing it, I felt bored, burnt out, and out of ideas. On top of that, I really wasn't happy with my work (a lot of this came

For my "start to finish" challenge, I decided to focus more on genres I don't really know how to make yet (like Future Bass & Bass House). I'm planning on focusing on genres both within and outside

Earlier today, I learned about the tragic, untimely death of EDM icon Avicii (whos real name is/was Tim Bergling). I had just finished wrapping up my music theory lessons for the day, when I stumbled upon

I'm not going to lie: I'm going through some growing pains - in regards to my music efforts - right now. What first started out as something that I wanted to dabble in, has now become something much bigger

Last month, Kyle Kulinski held a contest for a new logo for Secular Talk (an online news/political radio show on YouTube and Blog Talk Radio, of which he's the host of). The winners were announced just

I have to be honest here. Seeing other producers play to a crowd of hundreds and/or thousands of people, seeing them chart on Beatport and iTunes, seeing them get hundreds of thousands of plays on sites

When I first started producing, I started out by learning basic music theory and familiarizing myself with DAWs (this was in 2010). Then, I started learning the fundamentals of music production (2011 &

Troy, you really fucked this one up, man. I mean, how could you? I didn't want to believe it…I really didn't. It took me a while to finally come to terms with it and accept it: You are a sexual abuser.

NOTE (3/19/2018): A lot has happened since this story was originally posted. Scroll toward the end of this story for a quick update. I had originally planned to put up a post about my current - and past

On October 5, 2017, I self-released a song called "25", in honor of the 25th anniversary of my favorite computer brand in the world: the ThinkPad. This song was 2 years in the works (after the announcement

Earlier this year, I made an artpiece that I like to call “Roadkill”. I needed a new banner for Twitter and I wanted to make something that would serve as a sort of symbol of where I am right now and where

Hello everyone!  My name is Ryan, also known as PROJEKT61 and 61 Lives. I'm an aspiring electronic music artist/producer (PROJEKT61) and budding entrepreneur (or “artrepreneur”, to be more specific)