New interview up with the talented producer / composer / songwriter Hudson Mohawke (@hudmo) who in addition to releasing his own music has worked with countless legendary artists like Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Four Tet, Drake and more. Here’s an excerpt (I always like asking artists this question and I really enjoyed this answer especially): [Synth History: Do you have any tips for getting over writer's block? Hud Mo: I mean, I've had periods where I've gone years without making anything and just being permanently stuck with a bunch of half finished things and I don't know where to go with them. It sounds very cliché, but the only thing that ever got me out of it was to stop thinking that I was waiting for some lightning bolt of inspiration and realizing that anything I've done that I've been happy with in the past has almost exclusively been by accident. It's never been done by a crazy thought process. So I think getting into the habit of just making a few ideas a couple of times a week, whenever you have time, and just exporting them. The amount of times that I've been working on something and been like, “Oh, yeah! This riff from this thing might work in that thing.” But for years and years, I wasn't exporting everything, I would just make things and I would just forget about them. Then I wouldn't know what they were called because all my files are just named randomly, so I got into the habit of exporting everything. Then, I’ll always have this batch of “Oh, this is just a drum loop”, or “This is just like a synth line” and it always seems to come in useful, even if I was like “this is garbage” at the time. Then I listen to it a couple of weeks later and have another idea for something. So I think exporting things. It’s the same with any art. It's not sitting around, or not expecting inspiration to strike you but just doing it, and doing it sort of methodically, as much as you can afford to spend the time on it.] References: Read the whole thing over on SynthHistory.com.