We Lie Awake, by Teddy Robinson

We Lie Awake

by Teddy Robinson

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1.	Intro 00:32	buy track
2.	Continue 02:02	buy track
3.	All Things Music 04:21	buy track
4.	Okay 01:01	buy track
5.	Teddyrobz N Em 03:22	buy track
6.	Intermission 02:13	buy track
7.	I Wake Up Alone 03:01	buy track
8.	Through Life (feat Ron of The Arbees) 03:28	buy track
9.	Evolution - And Let The Ending Credits Roll 03:44	buy track
10.	Outro 01:08

about

My very first album. This was way way way back. One of the beats (guess which.) is literally over a decade old, among the first fourty beats I ever made.

Growing up I never thought I could actually be a musician. If you looked at interviews with Dr. Dre and the likes they would always be in HUGE studios with intimidating amounts of buttons, looking like mad scientists. As a kid I just figured I would never be able to, so I only entertained the thought as some kind of wild distant dream.

Then one day I came over to my friend Thimo's house to play video games, and he was sitting there making a beat on FL Studio. He let me make a beat and I was hooked in an instant. He burnt it to a DVD for me and I took it home that night and didn't leave my house for three entire weeks.

I scoured the internet and found forums of likeminded people making music from home and pestered them with a million questions, I took to my local record store to discover new and weird music to listen to and to sample, I sat at home late nights playing piano until my wrists hurt.

After all of that, I decided to make an album all on my own. I had little experience as a rapper, but I liked reading, so I took from books to make lyrics. At that time I was heavy into Elzhi's Elmatic, Coldplay's Viva La Vida, Charles Bukowski's Post Office, Earl Sweatshirt's Doris and Supertramp's Crime of the Century. I wanted to make a grandiose rock-operaesque rap album centered around a poetic recluse. I felt so inspired and hopeful and lonely.

When I finished it and listened to it it was the first time I ever felt like I might actually have something to offer to the world. And the years of record store trips and long nights alone in my room were possibly the happiest time of my life, though my right now is a strong contender.

I take great pride in this album, and no matter what kind of musical critiques I'll get thrown at me one day, I'll know that I made this, so there's nothing anybody can tell me.

credits

released October 30, 2017

Additional Production:
Chris Lock ('Intro' & 'Outro')

Cover Art: F. Veldmeijer

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