Meniscus Reboot: How an Injury Changed My Music

There is a project that I haven't released yet, but it already means a great deal to me. It's called Meniscus Reboot.

In 2025, I suffered a grade-three meniscus tear. The strange thing is that it didn't happen during some dramatic sporting moment or while attempting something extraordinary—I was simply walking. In an instant, my life changed. Suddenly, I couldn't move as freely as I once had.

Faced with the possibility of surgery, I was afraid. Instead of going down that path immediately, I decided to take time off and focus on healing. What followed was eight or nine months of limited mobility, stretching from March all the way to the end of the year.

When movement was taken away from me, I found myself obsessed with it.

Because I couldn't move, I wanted to create music that would make other people want to move. That became the central idea behind Meniscus Reboot. Every beat, every melody, and every arrangement was born from a desire to capture the energy and freedom that I desperately missed.

During those months, I wrote an enormous amount of music. In fact, every song I have released so far was written during this period, and there are still many more waiting to be shared. Looking back, that era became one of the most creative periods of my life.

Shortly after my injury, I attended my cousin's birthday party. While I was there, I played an unreleased track called Mbele for some friends. The reactions were mixed, but there was one criticism that kept coming up: the song felt too repetitive.

My first instinct was to defend it. "That's the genre," I thought. But criticism, even when it's difficult to hear, can be valuable. When I got home, I decided to experiment and explore an entirely different direction.

That's when I returned to one of my greatest musical influences: Daft Punk.

I've always admired Daft Punk because they refused to sound like everyone else. Their music felt unconventional, innovative, and unafraid to break the rules. Listening again to tracks like Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, I became fascinated by the way they approached arrangement. Their songs didn't always follow the structures people expected, and yet they worked brilliantly.

That inspired a question: what if I created my own music that borrowed some of that spirit while still sounding uniquely mine?

The result was a collection of songs inspired by French house, synthwave, and chillwave. Some of those tracks are already out in the world, while others are still on the way. Songs such as Journey, Neon Pulse, Sunset Drive, Stay, and Lamai all belong to this creative chapter.

For about two weeks, I immersed myself completely in this sound. More than anything, I wanted to make music that felt different—music that surprised people. With tracks like Journey, Neon Pulse, and All at Once, I deliberately pushed the boundaries of arrangement, experimenting with structure and seeing how far I could bend the rules to create something unexpected.

Interestingly, after taking this new direction, nobody complained that the music was repetitive anymore.

Meniscus Reboot became more than just a collection of songs. It became a record of a difficult chapter in my life—a reminder that creativity can emerge from frustration, limitation, and uncertainty. It represents the period when I couldn't move but spent every day imagining movement.

One day, I intend to release Meniscus Reboot as an EP and share the full story behind these songs.

Until then, watch this space. In the meantime, you can hear where this chapter has led so far on the Music page, stream it on Spotify, or support the catalog directly on Bandcamp.