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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nEvery so often I like to pause the madness and check in. Do a state of the onion - talk about what layers have been peeled away and which ones are yet to come. I\u2019m not going to add my voice to the thousands of others who need to reiterate what a year it\u2019s been - unexpected suffering discovery triumph etc. All true and all blah blah. I\u2019m just gonna get right to the meat. The onion meat. \xa0\n\nNothing gets the fire burning like clarity. And nothing creates clarity like constantly working. In the last 12 months I\u2019ve done nearly 70 podcasts, over 75 gigs, and released five albums with my band REC amounting to over 30 songs. It felt awesome, but what was it supposed to add up to? I\u2019m a firm believer in the best way to learn how to swim is to jump in the pool. I mean, have a few basic survival skills down first. Then frickin\u2019 get to it. And once you\u2019re in, keep swimming until you figure out where you\u2019re headed. It\u2019s exhausting, but all that muscle you build will make the next leg of the journey that much stronger and easier to map out. \xa0\n\nToward the end of my 2020 laps - and here\u2019s where I\u2019ll end the swimming metaphor (you\u2019re welcome) - a few things came clear. One is that I love talking as much as I love creating and performing music. And that there\u2019s no reason for them to be separate. Another is that there\u2019s nothing I\u2019d rather spend my work time doing. All this work IS exhausting, but agar it\u2019s resulted in is a world of music I wouldn\u2019t trade for anything. My performances solo, with REC, and with C+N. The completion of Volume One of the Weird Objective. MUSIC is not a GENRE. MUSIC is EVERYTHING. It\u2019s all here. and it\u2019s all staying. \xa0\n\nBut it\u2019s not all staying here. In 2021, I\u2019ll be shifting my focus from YouTube to Patreon. What exactly does that mean? Well first, lots of what you see here on YouTube will still be here. And I\u2019ll still be releasing new podcasts monthly and live shows occasionally. Except for the C+N shows, which will all be migrating to our upcoming C+N YouTube channel - more on that soon! You can still find all the REC music on my REC YouTube channel - get it right here on my Channels page. \xa0\n\nIf you\u2019re looking for everything else, visit MUSIC is not a GENRE on Patreon. And what is everything else? Oh man, get ready. Aside from many of the playlists and special podcasts & performances you see here moving over to Patreon, most of my new podcasts will be released exclusively for Patreon Patrons. And it won\u2019t be just the podcasts series you\u2019ve seen here. I\u2019ll be spinning off several new series, including live interviews, deep-dive genre deconstructions, artist spotlights, special performances, and I\u2019ll even take some of your requests. \xa0\n\nIn the next few weeks, look for me to start posting select clips and highlights from this year\u2019s shows - songs from artists you love spanning nearly 100 years, including REC. And I\u2019ll keep you posted regularly on who I\u2019m interviewing and what else I\u2019m talking about that you might be missing if you\u2019re not a Patron yet. \xa0As I do that, I\u2019ll be migrating much of my YouTube material to Patreon as well. \xa0It\u2019s very soon going to be the best place to find me. \xa0\n\nIn the meantime, stay healthy, find happy, enjoy the rest of this year however you can, and never stop the music.\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices