EQUAL2
MEDIOCRE HARDCORE SINCE 2018
About This About Page
hey x
welcome to my about page. I'm a 20 year old hardcore producer from southern California, currently living in the Netherlands, specializing in massively distorted kickdrums and not much else.
Before I Started Making Music
Not many tracks I used to listen to pre 2017/18 correlate with my music tastes today. Around that time, most of the music I enjoyed listening to came from TrapNation. The first song that really got me into music was Aero Chord- Surface, back in 2015. That was when I started making this big ass music playlist that I still have to this day, full of all sorts of genres from trap to hardbass to speedcore/terror.Around 2017, I started to get more into the harder styles after YouTube decided to auto-play me Warface- Show Me Your Warface 2.0. Lord Almighty YouTube AutoPlay then gifted me with hardtek, mainly Venom and Billx's stuff like Psycannalise and Eclipse.
After that I had a gabber phase, mostly listening to Thunderdome compilations.I really enjoy making music because it's my way of getting my stupid creativity out. I loved making dumb shit on GarageBand on my middle school iPad in around 2017. Anything from recreations of gabber tracks to what I can only describe as sample mishmash hell, using 10 or so loop samples all played at once, without the volume changed lmaooh yeah also before fl studio i tried using audacity
would not reccomend
Why EQUAL2?
I made the original logo whilst bored in robotics class in freshman year. The original consisted of the EQUAL2 lettering, and a couple square bars above and below the name to symbolize a long = sign. The first detail to be added after this was the 'Mediocre Hardcore Since 2018'. This was added during a gaming stream in 2019. These two original logos can be found in thumbnails of old stuff released on YouTube.The fox/coyote/wolf looking thing was made during a furry phase I had back in 2018 to 2019. I still am one, but it's not the main part of my personality anymore. To be honest though, I wish I could DJ in a fursuit head. That'd be fucking awesome. I feel like id be able to express myself more.The colors of my logo I came up with while I was testing out different colors for it. I liked yellow and eventually landed on yellow and red.I rounded the edges of my logo on April 13, 2021. i dont know how i know thisok bye <3
FAQ
Q: When are you going to europe? When are you coming to France? Come to (insert club/rave here)
A: If you know any, talk to promoters about booking me. I currently live in the Netherlands, so flights aren't as expensive anymore (compared to an international flight from US to EU), and because of this, it's now a lot more viable of an option.
Downloads
Here's some of my downloadable stuff, two kick packs. lol
The first pack has a bunch of terrible kicks from 2018, but you can redistort them and make them better.
The second pack is also old, from April 2020. Feel free to resample and redistort these as well.