Jake Morse

My album, Can’t Complain dropped February 17, 2023. It feels like I made exactly what I’ve been trying to make since I started making music. My musical journey began at a young age, when my parents' love for Aerosmith and my own interest in bands like Green Day and Blink 182 led me to start playing the drums, resulting in several attempts at forming a band with my twin brother as early as elementary school. In middle school, I found myself playing the drums while listening to songs by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, and 2Pac that I found on my older brother’s iPod. In the summer of 2011, right before high school, I started writing and recording raps and making beats on an iPod Touch. Around this time, I discovered artists like Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller, and A$AP Rocky on Datpiff, and saw the potential in musicians surrounded by a creative and ambitious group of people. The DIY nature of this era of hip-hop influenced me to start releasing mixtapes, rapping on other artists' instrumentals, as well as on some of my own beats. Throughout high school, I frequently released low-quality mixtapes recorded on an iPad, learning the basics of making music videos and producing music along the way. In 2014, I took all of this experimentation off the internet in hopes of starting fresh. After saving up for my first computer and microphone, and collaborating with a few friends, I put together my first collection of decently recorded songs during my final year of high school. We released a few singles and music videos in the summer of 2015, leading up to the October release of a short EP called Smile, my first official project released on major platforms. I performed live for the first time in 2016 at a small bar called Maggy’s Lounge in Quincy, and later that year, opened for Prof at the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge (194 capacity). With local buzz from these performances and our creative music videos, I put together and released my first full-length album, Untainted, in 2016, with the help of my closest friends. This period of creation would begin to solidify the core members of the Morse Code Records team. This small and ever-evolving team of creative and ambitious friends helped me to create a world around my 2017 album, Morse Code, and the follow up EPs, Life is Crazy and Love is Weird. With momentum from these projects and music videos, I started off 2018 at full speed, releasing frequent singles and working on building the Morse Code Records family. This effort led to more performance opportunities including opening for Felly at the Middle East Upstairs, DDG at the Middle East Downstairs (575 capacity), and some local hip-hop showcases. Continuing this momentum into the summer, the Morse Code Records family would come together to celebrate my first show as the headlining act, selling out the Lilypad in Cambridge (80 capacity) with alé and Nique Rose as opening acts, and Chucky Slick as a special guest. By the end of the summer we booked a headlining show at the Middle East Upstairs, this time with Nique Rose, Chi, and Luke Bar$ as opening acts. That fall I was asked to headline a local showcase, and invited Chi and Kleo to be my main support, with several acts from around the state having the chance to perform as well. I capped off 2018 with the release of a short project called Less than Three. After building a name and relationships within the local music community, 2019 was when we really started to focus on making content online in an attempt to showcase our efforts and build a world around what we were doing. While I continued releasing a consistent stream of singles, the Morse Code Records team helped me to release more music videos, vlogs, Youtube videos about the making of the music, and even start a podcast. Consistency and growth as an online music brand would be our focus for the next year and a half. In August of 2020, I announced that we would be stepping back from the public eye for a little while following construction of the newest chapter of Morse Code Records; a brand new studio. The soundproofed and upgraded space is small and mighty; quintessentially Morse Code Records. I was ready to focus on the music for a while, but I was also at a point where things were changing pretty quickly in my own life, on top of the stress and uncertainty of the world as a whole. So through personal, national, and global hardships, I kept myself in a silent and usually dark room in an attempt to channel this energy into the music. One year after this step back, in August of 2021 I returned briefly to release a single called Life is Good (ft. alè and Najee Janey), the first glimpse at what could come out of the new and improved Morse Code Records studio. I quickly returned to the studio to continue working on the album that was beginning to form around this song. In 2022 I released a 7 track project called The Promise, featuring a few music videos and some content surrounding the creation of the music. This project was a little bit outside the box of what I had been releasing to this point, and was really my way of taking a break from the album process I had been so deeply involved in. After hearing some feedback and reconnecting with my most patient fans, I would escape to the studio one last time to lock in on the final phase of the album I had been working so diligently on. Finally, on February 17, 2023 I would release my album, Can’t Complain.

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Number of songs Jake Morse has created by producer

Singles

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