Author Archive: Eric San Juan
Eric San Juan
February 1, 2021
It’s no exaggeration to say that Public Enemy helped change how I view the world. Much like George Orwell’s 1984, it helped me clarify thoughts I’d had and refine my overall worldview, putting to words an sounds the way I saw politicians, authority figures, media, justice, and more. I’ve extensively written about Public Enemy’s impact on me, so here I’m going to skip the formalities and get right to the song. I still remember the day I first saw the video for “Night of the Living Baseheads.” The blaring horns, pounding rhythm, thought-provoking lyrics, and insane multimedia assault of a music video was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Growing up as a sheltered white kid in a tiny New Jersey town (which I helped…
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Eric San Juan
January 27, 2021
https://unsplash.com/photos/8xYT5qT8t2Q You’ve probably delved into the world of film heaps of times up until this point. You will have been on the other side, though – the side that sits back and enjoys. The side that looks up the latest news in anticipation of the latest installment of their favorite franchise. It is a marvelous business and jumps into people’s imaginations and allows people to get away from real-life for a few hours. They have the power to make us feel emotions that have perhaps been locked away for years. But what if you want to enter this vertical and do it for a living? It’s not a bad universe to enter, after all. Well, it’s pretty similar to most industries – it takes…
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Eric San Juan
January 26, 2021
https://unsplash.com/photos/2UuhMZEChdc As a musician, your passion is making sounds and letting your creativity flow in many different ways. You’ll enjoy the feeling of learning a musical instrument and then creating noises that blend together in order to satisfy yourself and those around you. If you simply dabble in the art, then you’ll be content with playing for yourself and yourself only while you have free time. If you take it a little more seriously, however, then you’ll probably imagine yourself playing in front of thousands of people in huge stadiums. You’ll probably purchase everything you can in order to produce songs and distribute them accordingly. One issue a lot of up-and-comers have is the ability to get their music heard by more and more people….
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Eric San Juan
January 19, 2021
Broadening your horizons is something we hear a lot about these days. In a modern, multicultural world, that’s more connected than ever before, we have the chance to live with more knowledge than ever before. Taking the time to learn more and more is incredibly easy thanks to modern tech – you’ve really just got to grab the opportunity. Above all else, getting to know the world around you, and how full it is with art, music, and culture from all over the planet, is an amazing way to enrich your life. It ensures a lot of things about you, as a person, and it certainly gives you many more hobbies and activities to get involved in! So, to further shed a bit of light…
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Eric San Juan
December 18, 2020
When I first discovered the music of Miles Davis in the late 1990s, it was something of a musical awakening for me. It came during a time when I was setting aside the strident music “purity” of my youth — you know how some people will only listen to a specific kind of music and ONLY that kind of music? — and exploring new frontiers in sound. Miles Davis certainly provided that. His personal story was compelling, but he was more than an intriguing figure. He had the tunes to back it up. LOTS of them, an ever-shifting career filled with experimentation and attempts to push the boundaries of what he could do with his music. The man knew no rules. He CREATED rules, over…
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