My name is Marco Harris and I’m your advisor.
I’m 24 years old and was born and raised in Seattle Washington.
Early Years
From when I was born music has been a part of my life, my dad and I sang along to the radio while gardening or driving, my catholic private school had required music class, and I even had a walkman that played Cassettes. I had a Micheal Jackson VHS that I played on loop and would dance like him at school throwing my jacket off, moonwalking, and sliding around the gym. (My mom got salty because there were always holes in my pants and we always got secondhand uniform pants because we didn’t have a lot of extra money.)
I also had a backstreet boys phase. . .but so did every other 90s kid
Gradeschool
I started playing guitar around the time I was 10 first taking lessons from a Jewish lady down the street before graduating to a music store in Puyallup Washington. At this time my favorite type of music was rock and I liked a variety of things ranging from 70s/80s classic rock, 90s alternative, funk, disco, hip hop. . . I was really all over the place.
We did a musical. . .Mulan. . . I was the lame writer dude T-T
During This Time My Favorite Bands where
- Rise Against
- Nirvana
- Greenday
- Linkin’ Park
Highschool
High school was kinda hard for me and I didn’t do anything but stack up a bunch of regrets. I didn’t have that good of an attitude, I wanted to join the band but I didn’t think I was good enough. Instead of looking at better guitarists and thinking “wow I have so much room to grow” it made me feel like I would never reach those heights. I did manage to go to my first open mics and perform two songs
“Glycerine” by bush
“I Will Follow You Into the Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie.
If I could tell you to do anything it would be to live life with fewer regrets.
- Blue Scholars
- Eminem
- Kid Cudi
- Mac Miller
- 107.7 the End Radio Station
College
You can imagine what happened when an unsocialized awkward kid ended up moving away and tried semi-adulting for a little. Although your image of American College might be warped due to movies. . . my college life consisted of not going out much and sitting behind my computer all day. . .mostly playing league of legends… .but because I played league with music I got into EDM for the first time listening Glitch Hop, Melodic Dubstep, and Chillstep.
My favorite artists shifted to EDM DJs
One day I thought maybe I could start to produce music. . . so I went to my favorite place behind my computer and started pouring over tutorials and videos settling with FL studio here’s one of my earlier tracks. . ewww
- MiTiS
- Blackmill
- avicii
- Martin Garrix
- Zedd
- Nujabes
Weaboo
I was also able to watch an ungodly amount of anime. . . I don’t even know how I got through as many shows as I did, but there was a soft spot in my heart for anime OPs and Endings. Thanks to OSU! a rhythm game I played, also I became obsessed with Hatsune Miku. . .don’t wanna focus on this too much it’s a little embarrassing.
It’s become part of my producing to throw anime samples in to tracks or make anime remixes.
My Life Changed when I saw a Tweet. . .
College had been a tough time for me. . . I had almost committed suicide…was close to dropping out twice, and wasn’t doing too well in any area of my life. I’d been browsing twitter. . . which is something I usually only use to look at anime art when I saw one particular tweet.
Right before I had to go back to school. . . the guy who’s music was stuck in my head because of a free rhythm game was coming to my city to play. So I went and during the night I forgot about all my problems and just danced and enjoyed life. . .I thought hey I want to be able to do that for other people so for my next birthday I picked up one of these.
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I also went to my first rave after graduation
- Marshmello
- Slushii
- Illenium
- Seven Lions
- The Chainsmokers
- Yunomi
Since Then
Still my best DJ mix above!!
I’ve really gotten into music production, autotune rap, going to open mics, and DJing. My old boss introduced me to hard industrial trap and dubstep and taught me how to DJ better. I couldn’t stay there forever so when I went to Matsumoto I DJed at my first bar. I still sit behind my computer producing remixes.
Here are two I’m most proud of
I also started putting my original tracks on Spotify!
https://open.spotify.com/track/724gYKYYWCirjDlYXReBlS
I still have a long way to go and am learning new things all the time.
- J Dilla
- Excision
- 9tails(Not Me some other weeb)
- Juice wrld
- Random Lofi
