The Adiophile 🎧

A Short Backstory

As of writing this page, it's been 11 years since I discovered that you could make music with a computer. In that time, I have not only made virtually everything I wanted to, but also burnt myself out trying to make this passion of mine a career reality. The more I have made, the more I have realised that music production is a lonely profession, and that, more than anything, what makes music fun is getting to see people's reactions in real time.

I took the decision in 2026 to shut my laptop and pick up my bass guitar again. Since then I have found solace in bringing cool arrangements to my favourite songs (i.e. - remixes) as a live bass guitarist. While I no longer write original music, I figured I'd at least make a page for my discography here on BearBlog. That's what you'll find below!

The adiophile Discography

I've made a total of four albums over the last decade, with a few singles sprinkled into the mix here and there. Some of it got lost while clearing old drives, but I've retained most of the important stuff. I've organised everything by year of release, for your chronological convenience:)

2020

  1. The Specified Module Could Not Be Found: The album that started it all! It's my first and only fully electronic album, and it draws heavily from a lot of the EDM I grew up listening to as a kid. I knew very little about production at this time, so it's not my most polished work, but some of the tracks on this are my all-time favourites!

  2. The Parkway: 'The Parkway' was made during the COVID pandemic, ya know - when we were all cooped up in our rooms. The track reflects me wanting to just have a nice night out with some friends. Ya feel me?

2021

  1. Throw Out The Bad Cake: Around late 2020 I had starting listening to a fair bit of prog and alt rock stuff. I even bought an audio interface and started recording rock covers of my favourite songs. Inspired by this new sonic direction, I decided to write my own prog rock tune. Thus was born 'Throw Out The Bad Cake' - a song about disposing what wasn't working anymore:).

2022

  1. I Just CantKreate Anymore: If I were to pinpoint where my creative burnout initially surfaced, it would be while writing the songs for this EP. 2022 saw yet another wave of COVID infections, and, coupled with the stress of graduating college and trying to find a job, I wasn't sure if I still wanted to make music my career. Content creation had become a requirement to get any sort of traction, and I just didn't have the mental bandwidth to look pretty on camera. So, to make things easier, I made a new artist moniker - CantKreate - and wrote the EP under it. The philosophy was simple - no content, just music - and what resulted was a collection of songs talking about perfectionism, burnout, and people-pleasing tendencies!

2024

  1. adiophilia_Volume 1: 2023 was a nothing burger of a year for me. After the stresses of 2022, I took a gap year to figure things out and eventually moved countries to study and find work. Once I shifted I decided to give music another shot but couldn't settle on a genre of music to make. Keen to just "make anything" I created the adiophile moniker to represent my varied creative interests. adiophilia_Volume 1 was eventually born in the summer of 2024, containing 5 tracks in 5 different genres! Interestingly, several of the songs were remakes of old unfinished releases:)

  2. adiophilia_Volume 2: Capitalising on the creative high I felt putting out 'Volume 1' (see above), I immediately started making new music, this time focusing on genres I had never explored before. This included some sample flipping stuff and music more focused on sound design! I also remade the first track I ever published, and it turned out to be a #certifiedbanger!

2025

  1. Let You Go | AnR: The creative high of 2024 was immediately followed by the worst creative slump I have ever had. Unable to find housing in the country I moved to for work, I shifted back home, only to move again within a month because of a new job. The next year after that turned out to be tumultuous with little mental bandwidth for creative endeavours. The irony was that I worked for a music institute! I eventually resigned due to severe burnout, and after moving home, I wrote a track with my best friend for the IFP 50-hour music challenge. Long-story short, we wrote it in a little under two days, and it's one of my best pieces of music to date:)

  2. The Last Song.: Speed-running the writing of Let You Go took a lot of mental effort. By the time I was done, I had very little motivation left to write original music. Still, I had left my old job to start afresh and figured that it was maybe time to carve out a new sound. Reworking an old song from my 2022 album (titled The Last Song), I decided to focus on blending electronic music with punk rock, and ended up with a more upbeat version of the original track. I took the effort to promote it a little and even performed it live! The outcome, unfortunately, was just more burnout, and so I finally decided that, after a decade, The Last Song. would really be my last...