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What is it like years later producing a track that your influence Snoop Dogg was featured on called “The Weekend”? I can only imagine it must be quite surreal things coming together full circle like that. You mentioned in a previous interview it was the likes of Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre that made you begin your production journey in the 9th grade. Coming through that helped me to create and hold a bigger vision for my life and art. Because of it, I am definitely more focused. This hiatus from music turned out to be revelatory. I hardly made any music during that time. I dropped everything in my life to experience who I was on a deeper level. Out of this came the project ‘Omnilove’ which you have said “embodies the essence of what you are trying to communicate” Explain this process of taking a hiatus from music and how it has served you both personally and musically since your return in 2011?

You took three years out of music between 2009-2011 to find yourself through spirituality and meditation. Like anything, the more you practice, the better you get. I partnered with Melodics to put this lesson together because I feel its a great tool for artists to step up their performance skills and have a great time. If you want to learn or get better at finger drumming and performing live, practice is the key. What can Melodics users expect from this lesson? How will it help their skills?

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You’re first ever Melodics lesson teaches “Feeling” and how to perform it like you did in the Ableton video. Ableton picked up the video on their site, and our relationship has continued to grow. It was a lot of pressure, but I definitely grew from it.īack in 2013 I did a YouTube video collaborating with Ski Beatz, while showing him Push. There was no quantization in my performance and the video was shot in one take, so I was forced to nail it all the way through with no mistakes. I wasn’t used to finger drumming with two hands. Push’s 64 pad mode was in beta at the time so coming from the 16, I had to learn a new skill before shooting.

Explain the process of performing that video and how your relationship with Ableton began? You performed an amazing video of your single “Feeling” for Ableton back in 2015. As I expand as an artist, I continuously discover new ways to create in Ableton.

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This setup allows me to work in the studio, and have a portable setup I can take anywhere with a backpack. Now my setup is really simple: Ableton Live 9, Push 2, NI Komplete Kontrol… and my newest addition – the Dave Smith Tetra. My main setup for a while was the MPC 4000 with some hardware sound modules. After years of making beats this way, I got into Reason for a bit, then the MPC 4000 which was a game changer at the time. People thought I was crazy for making beats this odd, complicated way, but I made some bangers and was able to capture the sound I wanted. I would sequence the drums in Tuareg, load the drum stems into Cool Edit Pro, then copy and paste samples in time with the drums.

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I started using Cool Edit Pro with a program called Tuareg (by Hammerhead). Once I started getting into the power of desktop computers for production, everything really changed. There was no looping on my 4 track tape deck, so I had to make the whole beat in one take, part by part. I was 13, just starting out, and didn’t really understand MIDI at the time, so there was no quantization and everything had a really raw feel. How does the BOSS SP-202 Sampler, a Tape Deck and a HR16 Drum Machine fit in your production story? How have you grown equipment and sound wise since then?Īt the time, my workflow was to sequence drums on the HR-16, loop it, then trigger samples in realtime on the SP-202. Avoid people, situations and career paths that influence you to conform so much you lose your authentic voice. Make the music that moves your soul, and avoid trying to force your art to fit a mold. One thing I would add to that is: be yourself and create authentically. When asked in the past about what advice you would give to upcoming producers you said “Create something new every day, and release new material frequently to build a momentum and a following.” Are you able to give a bit more depth into these steps or add anything you’ve learned since?

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