I recently just wrapped up streaming and am working on posting all the stuff for the Episode 50 Special. Normally I usually have a bit of creative block after major streams, milestones, etc. but during the stream of this one I felt a weird wave of dread.
I'm very proud of how far Warehouse Radio has come in just a couple of years but I feel like the formula is hitting some sort of wall. Like there's this always-known idea that Warehouse as a media source is always around, always doing the same thing, so people tend to interact less and less with the livestreams.
I try not to take livestream numbers to heart because I know it's not the lockdown stream event boom anymore and people are actually doing other things now. And the whole point of VODS and the soundcloud archive is so people can go back at any time and my & others' performances, but maybe it's too predictable ?
Idk, maybe it's just post-event feelings of complacency but even with the progress the project has made over the years I still feel like it's not anywhere within the scope/timeline I want. I constantly feel like i'm chasing the train and running out of time. Warehouse Radio is absolutely my baby in terms of projects/hobbies, and is ultimately one of the only consistent creative outlets I have anymore considering the job search is still a bust over a year later. But idk, I guess there was a part of me that was hoping I could get the name more engrained in the culture when everything was so up in the air because of covid and the wild west of internet events as a whole.
At the end of the day i just wanna make fun mixes that people enjoy, both URL and IRL now that i've started branching into live events. I just don't want Warehouse Radio to go stale or suffer in the long-term.
I think Season 5 will bring some sort of creative goal changes, i just don't know what.
tl;dr - imposter syndrome lol
Creative blocks after milestones
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AshtonSimeon
Warehouse Radio is definitely a part of this final wave of episodic URL twitch music events it feels like,
and I don't see that as a bad thing; MS is definitely riding that wave aswell.
a creative shake up would not only do you some good creatively and emotionally,
but also re-spark some interest in yourself and maybe rediscover what you were looking for when you initially started this project.
Millennium Strike is never leaving twitch so you'll always have us as a sister show, but perhaps branching out into new horizons with the brand isn't such a bad idea.
regardless,
your show is important to me and many others, and i'm excited to see where you end up taking it in Season 5.
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