Those who wanted to keep your music as hobby, what are your musical hobby goals?

[MFXxx]

Get better, sound better and if someone outside my circle appreciates it - then I have achieved.

[BONES]

Not to mention half my friends are professional full-timers and their relationship with music seems less satisfying.

Yeah, I realised that from supporting touring acts whose fulltime gig seems like an absolute punish to me. All but the most successful handful of acts in my genre could never afford the relaitvely modest life I have.

Since there's this idea that people who make music, yet aren't musically successful, must be failures. So I always fire off about DJ residencies I had and helping this or that artist along the way, studio work making samples for sample packs, etc.

There are definitely levels of success. Usually telling people that even though we make pretty much zero money from music, we've played at festivals in Europe or topped the German Alternative Chart is enough to shut them up.

A modest resume; but I make it clear: my music is for me.

The thing for me is I never had any goals and what we have managed to achieve is something I coudl never have envisaged in my wildest dreams, even when I had thoughts about doing it full-time. The world has changed so much since I started out in 1981. Back then, getting to play two or three nights a week and maybe releasing an album somewhere down the line would have made me feel like a total success. But in those days getting gigs was easy, recording an album was really hard. These days it's the complete opposite. I can sit at home and record to a standard I couldn't have conceived of 30 years ago but we can't get a gig for love nor money.