I get inspired by a lot of things. Reading, movies, games, conversations, even my dreams can light a spark. I value my friends deeply, and everyone I’ve shared ideas with online over the years. The internet and the people on it has been my number one teacher when it comes to music.

My interest in creating music came pretty late, to be honest. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested earlier, I was, but growing up, money was tight, and there wasn’t really anyone around me who was into music in any serious way. The only exception was my sister. She had a guitar at one point, but that was kind of it.

I’m actually trying to nudge her back into music now. She’s a talented singer, extremely creative, and really strong with lyrics. She helped write The Mare, and the core idea was hers. I love working with her.

As a kid, all I really did was sing to myself. I remember loving school plays, being on stage was fun. I was also constantly clowning around, singing in deliberately bad or funny ways. I got told over and over that I was tone-deaf, and that stuck. So I leaned into it. Being the clown became the only way I felt noticed for something I cared about.

I remember asking for a guitar at some point, but it was too expensive. I didn’t nag much, so that was that. I stayed a kitchen-and-living-room family clown performer, doing stupid little performances to myself.

Let's fast forward a bit.

I was visiting my sister and her boyfriend, and they had this program, I think it was magix music maker 2000 or some shit like that. Some early, barebones DAW. It completely blew my mind. I could make music without expensive instruments. No pressure. No fear of doing things “wrong.” Who was going to judge me, the computer?

I sat with that thing every chance I got. Later, I installed it on my own PC at my dad’s place and made an insane amount of absolutely terrible techno tracks. It was amazing.

Later on, hip-hop and rap exploded out of nowhere, and of course me and my friends had to try rapping too.
(It was ass — but a lot of fun, not gonna lie.)

Up until that point I had zero interest in rap or hip-hop. I honestly kinda hated it. My thing was metal and EDM.

But as the scene grew, smaller Swedish underground artists started spreading fast, and some even crossed into the mainstream. I’ve always had a hard time vibing with Swedish music in general, I don’t really know why, but there were a few rappers in that growing scene that I actually liked.

That led me to digging deeper, especially into US underground rap. I found a lot of stuff I genuinely fell in love with. Three 6 Mafia, Evil Pimp, and other artists and groups who were doing things far removed from the mainstream and what swedish rappers where doing.

That period completely opened me up to rap and hip-hop in a way I didn’t expect.

Eventually I found FL Studio, probably thanks to Skrillex. EDM was exploding at the time, and there was so much exciting stuff coming out. Every producer had their own sound, their own identity. It felt limitless.

I started uploading my music online.

There was also a lot of judgment back then.
“This isn’t real music.”
“You just press a button.”
“You have no talent.”
“Pick up a real instrument.”

Yeah, I’d love to. You paying for it?

Not gonna lie, some of that got to me early on. I was new, inexperienced, and got hit with a lot of that negativity right out of the gate. But I’d already grown up with the terms that the world is pretty harsh, So it did not bother me too much.

Along the way, I’ve met so many incredible people and formed real friendships. I’m genuinely lucky to have so many talented people I get to call friends and fans.

World of Warcraft Machinima & Songs

One of my earlier and big inspirations came from a phenomenon within World of Warcraft: machinima. People were creating videos using in-game characters and environments, telling stories inside the game world.

Within that space, some creators went even further. They didn’t just make videos, they made music. Full songs and music videos performed by their WoW characters. I found that really creative and fun.

These projects were fun, silly, serious, sad, sometimes all at once. Some were deeply rooted in the game’s lore and world, while others were only loosely inspired by it. In many cases, if you listened to the song without the video, you wouldn’t even realize it came from a game at all.

That level of creativity left a huge mark on me.

The machinima community as a whole was incredibly influential, but a few creators stood out and helped shape my creative path in a lasting way:

Gigi (Pvpgurl)
Nyhm
The Druidboyz
Oxhorn
WoPairs
Sharm
Nation 
Asiko
Cranius (CraniusPresents)
LoneScrapbot

Their work showed me that music didn’t need to follow rules, formats, or expectations, it just needed heart, creativity, and the courage to make something because you wanted to.

Some of their channels are now gone :,(
But here are some of their songs that i listened to alot, that i managed to find that are still up and avavable.
WoPairs Gigi & Nation - Cool Story Breh (feat. Asiko)
Trippin' On Da Voodoo (Gigi & DruidBoyZ)
Pwnage Like Us - (Featuring Nyhm, Gigi, & Druidboyz)
CraniusPresents - Wrought   (This is my favorite)
An Oxhorn Brand Medley - World of Warcraft