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Breakthrough Album: Daniel- Anti Social
For information on the music look below: Daniel: Anti-Social "The album cover features Daniel leaning against a wall starring at the moon,
whilst his camera comes to life and snaps a pic."
Recorded: January 2010-June 2010
Genres: Experimental Pop, Rock
Album: 1st Studio album
"Anti-social" Album Track-listing:
1. Anti-social [5:22]
2. Love Isn’t A Sin [3:19]
3. ROARR! [3:58]
4. Danny Daniel [4:50]
5. Aliens [2:10]
6. Eternal Eargasm [8:00]
7. Ant pile [5:09]
8. I Pledge Allegiance to the Moon [2:34]
9. The Last trimester [4:09]
Dedicated to: This album is dedicated to Kevin (Rest in Peace man), Stephanie, all the anti-social, emos, loners, freaks in the world. Love your life and fuck everything else! Literally.
Art:
There is art and then there is gimmick art. When I was in school I studied and looked into gimmick art and it really opened my eyes when I saw what i saw. It disgusted me in many ways because I AM an artist. I'm not deep throating a banana because it looks cool. I'm not saying I became pregnant because it sounds cool. There's a message behind that. A deep message that will take time to understand. A reflection of what you see and what you feel are two very different things. This album is a reflection of what I feel and so is my artwork. I was inspired by outlook and what I felt. The moon was also a huge inspiration to me as well. The problem is that since I have the potential to sell, people tried to put me in that box, but I'm much thicker than that and fuck them for thinking that!
The album's artwork pretty much reflects the vision I had within the track and what i felt.
Writing:
I guess you can say this album is sort of self-inspirational in some ways. Writing theses songs just made ME feel good. Then I realized that many people can't relate to me and that drove me to record and finish writing the album.
You know there is a difference between writing for a pop record and writing for an experimental pop record. When you write for a pop record, whether is rock, alternative rock or whatever, you goal is to write a song that it's catchy and appealing. You might say that I'm no one to talk but fact is I am one to talk. I have written pop records and it's a whole different ball game, because you're trying to make sure the masses love it. I absolutely have nothing wrong with that, because everyone has a different purpose with their music. However, I want to demonstrate that with this record experimental pop can be appealing on it's own, just like any other record that is truly written from the heart, without worrying if it's a hit or not but making sure that is something new and something self created. That's what pop experimental is all about in my opinion.
I wrote a hit single called "Banana Boy" but I wrote it for experimental purposes. Which was a big risk because I was fairly unknown and no one knew my true work. When the song took off, that's when i said I need to go back to my stuff and hopefully it will take off as well. If it doesn't, oh well. On with life.
While writing for this album, I was most of the time in my room. I will be in my house for days, since I went to school online. My social life was pushed away. My friends would call and invite me to certain places and with one hand I can count the times I went out. I also took time to write in by the lake close to my home. It's very abandoned and no one really went there, so it was a really great outdoor place and I had the privacy to express myself, sing and even run around like I was some retard. I took advantage of that, because not many people can do that. Especially when they are known everywhere.
Production:
The production for this album was very complicated because I wanted to take part on every bit of it. I can honestly say that this album's overall production isn't that great. But without sounding too cocky, it's fucking outstanding. I am so proud, creating my own sounds on certain tracks was really fun and really the first time I gave it the full shot. I experimented with my voice as well. I listen to a lot of variety types of music, so that has a lot of influence on how I sing my songs. Really overall, the sound is pretty much realistic and raw, not much synthesizers. The production phase of this album was pretty much the “try to creative phase”. But on certain song it wasn’t that hard because I had ideas written down already.
Album Overview:
1. Anti-Social
The album opener. The track initially opens up with a more "louder than usual" tubular bell solo, which is then followed by whispery vocals all throughout.
The song mainly talks about Daniel’s recent personal life as a an anti-social freak. In his free time, he is 25 Hours of the day (yes 25 hours; In Daniel's word there are 25 hours in a day) inside a dark room. Daniel talks about how he rather listen to music alone than go out and interact with people. The only thing he interacts with is music. The song also opens up about Daniel’s addiction with looking at the moon, therefore not being able to sleep. The song's whispering chimes might give you a chill.
Daniel: "This was the last song I wrote and recorded for the album. It's crazy because the album took nearly 9 months to make, and during the last three months was when I really starting recording and mixing almost all of it . So the album was going to be called "The Last Trimester", it was like going through pregnancy of some sort. However, then I realized all this time I had been pushing society away. I feel like to really express yourself and to really demonstrate what you're really feeling, you have to do that. People have an influence on your feelings. So that's where the inspiration for this song came from. It pretty much summarizes my whole experience of making this album.
I feel like the song can relate to so many people. Because people paint this picture of what a good life is for you. But not everyone wants to be that popular kid at school, not everyone wants to be that popular employee at work, not everyone wants to be captain of the football team or the one who is applauded for having the most friends at school. Not everyone likes to party, not everyone likes to get drunk, smoke weed, have threesomes, watch sports, go to strip clubs, go to the mall, be in groups. "
2. Love Isn't a Sin
The first real "real experimental" pop track and the only love song on the album. The track talks about about the freedom to love and contradiction Christians constantly make. It's first line "I'm not looking for controversy, I am looking for approval" is spoken in Spanish. The song has a much quicker pace and the sound is produced by small rocks that make a distinct tubular sound. It almost sounds as if the instruments were given a "caveman music" touch.
Daniel: This song was written out of fury. My friend who helped me mixed the track was worried that this song was going to be pushing the buttons a little too hard but it thought it was perfect. What is love? is what came to my mind. When you kiss your friend on the cheek, you do it out of "LOVE". So is love a sin? You can't "LOVE" to someone who makes love to someone in the same sex because it's an abomination? Um i don't think so..................
Quote: "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another "-1 John 4:7–11
A lot of Christians then go on to contradict themselves by "JUDGING" others as if they were god or something. You can't say someone is going to hell because they are sinning. You can't say anything period.
3. Roarr!
The lead single off the album. The song talks about Daniel's determination, vengeance and domination in life. Daniel talks about the 2 sides of him without coming off as bi-polar. Daniel also takes shot at people who shamelessly steal music and record labels. In the song Daniel claims that no one is a saint and that is normal to act human because of the evolution of society. Towards the end of the song Daniel's transformation is clearly described, and suddenly he becomes a pregnant man. The song shifts from pop to hard rock.
Daniel: "This whole concept of this amazing and is something I'm proud of, because these are the types of songs that I write when my creative juices are flowing. This song pretty much sums up the reason why I'm here and the process it took to get here. The industry has evolved me, has pretty much molded me but I broke out of that. ROARR!"
4. Danny Daniel
In the next track after "ROAAR", things are tamed down a bit as Daniel talks about the two sides of him. While not being specific about what the two sides are, this can easily be a song that has multiple meanings. The song is also dedicated to his sister, who helped Daniel with his identity crisis. The song is a bit more hard sounding and various tools and power drills were used to create the hard sound which were inspired when Daniel build his sister a table.
Daniel: "My younger sister, was very supportive of me and I honestly don't know where I would be without her. She helped me a lot. She was way more mature than me on so many levels and that's what is funny about it.
5. Aliens
The song talks about adapting to a new a place. Daniel opens up about his experience leaving his hometown in Puerto Rico and moving to a whole new place where he felt like an alien. This experience effected Daniel's behavior towards many people. The track opens up the lyrics "I Come in Peace". The sound is futuristic and it's the only track on the album to have avant-garde and electronic influences.
Daniel: "This is one of my favorite tracks on the album because it perfectly describes the feeling of being a foreigner. Growing up that had a huge effect on my attitude and my immaturity."
6. Eternal Eargasm
Not everything in the album is "serious". This groovy track basically its a trippy 8 minute instrumental-like song that will live lost for words. No doubt. Packed with wild moaning sounds and echoes, you might go "WTF" and then "Ahhh" all throughout. You'll come to realize the song is absolutely about nothing but sex. However, you'll wonder why Daniel shouts out "SOLD!" at the very end.
Daniel: This is how a filler track on a pop album should sound like!
7. Ant Pile
After a disturbing 8 minutes, the album jumps back on board. Life of the underground. Ant Pile is basically about breaking free from what society has molded us to become. The sound in "Danny Daniel" I sort of carried over to this track, but has more depth in the choruses.
Daniel: "I wrote this song about a year ago when I went to the lake. I was looking at a colony of ants. Seeing how they work together and how they depend on each other to make the ant pile. And I thought to myself that's exactly how the world works. Cheesy but true. However, then thought, I'm pretty sure one of those ants wants to break free and not be molded by the colony."
8. I Pledge Allegiance to The Moon
A spoken poem track, about how the moon inspired Daniel during his Insomnia days. The poem talks about people wanting what they can't have, but we always fight for it anyways. It's only animal instinct to do so.
Daniel: I'm not some crazy space nerd who is obsessed with planets and moons. But I just find it crazy that it looks so present, yet we can't even touch it. That inspires me in so many crazy ways. Call me weird or whatever but I could stare at it for hours, even without a telescope.
9. The Last Trimester
The last song on the album. The song talks about a period of time were everything becomes hard and unbearable. You want be all lone, not talk to no one. This really ties everything together. Everything Daniel has been fighting for, has been trying to tell you and just when you think everything is done and you are ready to throw in the towel, a new outlook pops out of nowhere and your life changes.
Edited by user 20 September 2010 07:53:26(UTC)
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