EP2 ■ What I Usually Do
Hello. This time, I’d like to talk about my workflow.
The basic process is:
**Writing lyrics → Generating the music → Post-production → Creating the artwork**
First, let me talk a little about my musical tastes.
I like J-pop, as well as American and Italian music.
The songs I make are basically a mixture and reinterpretation of these influences.
The storytelling of J-pop, the dynamism of American R&B, funk, and ’90s hip-hop, and the sheer brilliance of Italian club music.
I’m obsessed with all of it.
I make whatever I feel like making, so I don’t stick to any particular genre.
It’s not unusual for me to make hardcore hip-hop one day and a Japanese idol song the next.
Now, let’s get into the actual work.
I write my lyrics in my own words.
To do that, I keep making notes whenever something comes to mind.
Most of them start out as fragments, but I treat them as modules.
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Once I have enough of them, I start merging them together.
I organize modules that share a common theme and merge them, and that’s how the lyrics gradually take shape.
This usually takes about a month.
(When an idea suddenly hits me, I can sometimes finish a song in 30 minutes.)
Since I have a lot of modules, I work on multiple sets of lyrics in parallel.
I usually have three or four songs in progress at the same time.
Lately, I’ve been getting so many ideas that there are even more.
Next comes the music generation with AI.
I don’t treat music generation like a lottery, generating song after song and hoping to hit the jackpot.
Rather than generating a new piece of music from scratch every time, I choose lyrics that fit music I’ve already generated, and then combine the two to generate the song.
This usually gets me something pretty close to what I have in mind.
I plan the structure carefully, so in most cases, I can get a satisfactory result after generating it only two to four times.
The next episode will be about my workflow part2.
Originally published at https://boostbus11.substack.com on October 9, 2026.
