EQUAL2
Mediocre Hardcore since 2018.
About This About Page
hey x, welcome to my about page. I'm a 18-year-old hardcore producer from Southern California, specializing in down-right disgusting distorted bassdrums.
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 either festival trap or bass trap. A good example of festival trap would be Aero Chord- Surface, especially because that's the first song that got me actually interested in music, 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 festival trap to hardbass to straight up speedcore/terror. A good example of bass trap would probably be massala- not a saint pt.2.Around 2017, I started to get more into the harder styles. I'm not exactly sure what got me into them in the first place, but I do remember knowing what hardtek was before frenchcore, as well as a few times where I was auto-played something by YouTube that I actually enjoyed, which first happened back in 2017 with Warface- Show Me Your Warface 2.0. I also had a hardbass phase, probably around the time I started to watch Life of Boris... aand a gabber phase, which I'm glad is over. This is where Raw Monkey comes in, which I believe was one of my first outlets for downloading anything from rawstyle to terror. This is where half of the music in my 'big ass playlist' comes from.I'm unsure of what originally motivated me to make music. I remember loving making basic stupid shit on GarageBand on my middle school iPad in around 2017, which you can find in the downloads below. Anything from recreations of gabber tracks to like, straight-up sample mishmash hell, using 10 or so loop samples all played at once, without the volume changed lmaoOk, so I made it seem like GarageBand was my first DAW. To be honest, it wasn't, because for a VERY brief time, I used, out of everything, Audacity, back in 2017. After I realized this was a horrible, horrible mistake, I ended up choosing FL Studio as my first DAW after middle school was over, and I ended up where I am now in around 4 years.
How My Logo Was Created
I literally 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 Mediocre Hardcore Since 2018. This was added during a gaming stream (yeah I did like 5 of those, didn't last long on account of my audience of like two people, back when I had 40 subs or something). These two original logos can be found in thumbnails of old stuff released on YouTube.I don't know how I got to this slogan, I believe I was schizoposting in real life, talking to myself about my music to make up for the fact that there was nearly no engagement. This is when I added the slogan, and I put it in the bottom right because basic graphic design.The fox/coyote/wolf looking thing was made during a furry phase I had back in 2018 to 2019. Back then in was real bad, and I'm glad to say that it was just a phase. And yes, what you've been looking at this entire time is my fursona, that I still use to this day for art. You have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led up the garden path, even.The colors came from when I used to decorate my cars in Forza and Gran Turismo so that the rims were gold and the body was red. I'm unsure why I ever thought this looked good, but it ended up paying off when testing out colors for my logo. Those just happened to stick the most.I rounded the edges of my logo on April 13, 2021. I vaguely remember messing with this earlier, but either I closed the document or it's a false memory from a dream or some shit. Either way, it's here now.
FAQ
Q: Are you going to make another kick pack?
A: Now that I've released a tutorial on how to make kicks using this new.. well, now old method of mine (as of June 6, 2022), there's a higher chance, although I'm unsure if it will be free or not. I don't make much money off of music, and money can help so much right now.Q: When are you going to make another EP?
A: I'm getting one done right now. It's gonna feature people like Angernoizer, MBK, Lekkerfaces, and Vieze Asbak. yeahQ: Are you going to make a snapchat?
A: no
Downloads
Here's some of my downloadable stuff, two kick packs and some oooold-old stuff I made.
The first kick pack has a bunch of terrible kicks from 2018, but you could probably resample them.
The second pack is much newer, coming from April of 2020. Still old though.