![]() ![]() I know when I was going through it no one could tell me shit. It’s an epidemic and a lot of musicians are out here glorifying the worst impulses in us. As far as I can tell, kids go even harder than we did. Everyone around me was doing Ox圜ontin, Xanax, Percs, Clonapines, Soma, Vicodins, Lean, etc. Then maybe two or three years later they were everywhere. I know when I first started going heavy on opiates, it seemed like pharmaceuticals had really just started coming in a few years prior. ![]() Do you think your generation–-the early millennials (born between the mid ’80s and early ’90s)-have experienced its struggles with opioids differently the late/post-milennials born 1994-2002? If yes, what would you say is the main generational difference? ![]() Even if you’re not able to make a living off of it, do it anyway.Ġ9. I think if you do things for the right reasons and with the right intentions, opportunity will knock eventually and people will catch on. What advice would you have for other producers in your genre looking to take their passion and turn it into their means of living?įind the thing that’s uniquely yours and cultivate it. Before that I was doing construction and working as a freelance carpenter, doing odd jobs and building sets for events here in New York. I’ve been able to live off music for about two years now. What does your daily life look like right now? Are you working as a musician full-time or do you work side hustles? I got a job delivering pizzas in the valley and started working on what eventually became my album, The Veil.Ġ7. I started going to a methadone clinic and slowly weened myself off over the course of about three months. But at the time I moved to LA, I was in a relationship with a girl that got me a plane ticket out there and basically nursed me back to health. The hardest part was starting to deal with the issues that led to my addiction in the first place, and even all these years later that’s still something I’m in the process of doing. In my head I thought, I’m gonna get clean and everything will fall into place, but that definitely wasn’t the case. Yeah, I moved from Denver to LA in ’08, and then to NYC around 2010. What was your daily routine like in those early years, and what was music’s place in your recovery? You’ve spoken in past interviews about your struggles with addiction, and relocating from Denver to LA to move past that part of your life back in 2008. The OP-1 is the most recent addition which has been huge. I have a MPC2000 XL, an OP-1 synthesizer, a Rode NTK microphone, and I use Pro Tools to record and sequence. ![]() What hardware/software/microphones are the most important part of your creative process? Depending on the beat, you’re taking disparate little pieces from a handful of different sources and turning them into something cohesive.Ġ5. Sample based music is a lot like collage. There’s definitely a collage element to sample based music so I think it fits well. It’s hard to tell but a lot of the paper I used are cut up photographs of the Zip disks I use to save beats on. I did the cover for this one and my last three albums The Way Through, Forest Agates and The Ocean. Who designed it? And why did you feel it fit your project so well? The cover art for Flux is bright, vibrant, and kaleidoscopic, to say the least. I just like the feel of the beat and the spoken word chops.Ġ4. Is there a song off the project that means the most to you? If yes, which one/why? Then I reached out to producers Neon Brown, Felix Fast4word, and Man Mantis for a couple of remixes of songs from, The Way Through. It was mostly songs that didn’t have a home that I thought were good enough to put out there. I went through the archives, compiled my favorites, and then reworked and fine tuned everything over the course of four months. To be honest, the bulk of the music on Flux consist of beats that didn’t make it on other albums for one reason or another. Yeah, I think my music always reflects what’s going on in my life at the time I’m making it. Was it influenced by events going on in your life? Who were some of the other artists you felt most inspired by while creating it? And how did you know that it was right as an instrumental project as opposed to one where you use vocals? Music that reminds you of a place you’ve been, but can’t quite place exactly when or where. But I like sounds that have a dreamlike quality. I would leave it to someone else to say why it’s important. You’ve been producing and on the beat scene for quite some time, but for listeners who are new to your sound, how would you describe your music and why your style/voice are important? ![]()
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