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, specializing in massively distorted bassdrums and not much else.
Before I Started Making Music / First Steps
Not many tracks I used to listen to pre 2017/18 correlate with my music tastes today. Most of the music I enjoyed listening to was trap, mainly stuff on Trap Nation. The first song that got me into music in general, not just radio shit, 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 music 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 work (amazing shit btw, give it a listen if you like melodic frenchcore stuff)
After that I had a gabber phase, my favorite compilation still being Thunderdome 12.I enjoy making music because it's a really fun way to be creative. I remember loving making stupid shit on GarageBand on my middle school iPad in around 2017. Anything from recreations of gabber tracks to like, sample mishmash hell, using 10 or so loop samples all played at once, without the volume changed lmaooh yeah so before fl studio i tried using Audacity
dont do that
How My Logo Was Created
I made the original logo fucking off 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 ye olde 2019. These two original logos can be found in thumbnails of old stuff released on YouTube.The term was coined by me being bored out of my mind during a stream because nobody was engaging with it, and I decided to change it on the spot. lolThe fox/coyote/wolf looking thing was made during a furry phase I had back in 2018 to 2019. I still am one, got a fursona and everything, but I try to not make it the main part of myself. 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 on this two-tone fox thing. I liked yellow and eventually landed on yellow and red.I rounded the edges of my logo on April 13, 2021. dont ask me 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. I've already been out to europe twice in the same month, and I love it out there, and I equally love seeing fans of my shit music. Only issue is, the price to fly me out from the US to Europe. That's why the first time I was out there was April 2024 and not earlier lol
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.