What keeps your current audience listening and why should people start listening?
Also stranded by babebee, which also has an incredible music video. Other than that, I’d say marionette by miind, SOS by cybertrash and reef, and NAUSEOUS with liza, blaise, kurtis, and aftrr from my album. And I was really happy to finally get a song out with IKTL and alt and IAMDEAD, we’ve been friends for a while and we’re all really happy with how insane the song turned out. Is there any one song that you’ve made that stands out from the rest? Any songs that people should listen to that will get people hooked? I just hope the people who like the song recognize that it was born out of obtuse pessimism and that you really shouldn’t think like this. I played it in a set I did for Goop House last year and people were saying in the chat that they loved the song and especially the lyrics, which was really cool to me. But it did better than anything I had done before and I got a lot of new listeners because of it.
I wanted to release it just to put it out there, I didn’t even make a post about it. And I was scared to release it both because I personally don’t like my own vocals and because it’s a pretty ugly and toxic song, and it also happened to be insanely personal. It was a song I wrote as part of an album I scrapped, and I didn’t realize it when dropping it but it was the first time I had released a solo song that was entirely written by me, as everything else I had on my page was remixes. I dropped a song called “settle” on SoundCloud last summer. I had to cut some musician friends off recently because they were being really weird to my manager on Instagram.ĭo you have an outstanding moment since you got into the music industry that makes you realize how important it is to make music like this? If so what would that be? I’ve met some truly amazing people like Keelan, Kurtis, Cricket, Branden, and Alisynn but it’s always a gamble associating with people cause you never know who’s morally bankrupt. Also, let’s be real here, the SoundCloud scene is a really scary place to be a part of a lot of the time. I’ve worked with Lauren Records on a project, and they’ve been fantastic and extremely considerate. A lot of label execs and non-musical creatives in the scene spend more time romanticizing their own success and what it means for their self-image than actually working and I think that’s an extremely toxic and narcissistic mindset. I wouldn’t say I’m in the music industry cause I haven’t interacted with labels or distributors that much, but the one time I was in talks with one was very strange. How has your experience in the industry been thus far? He released a tape called 109 900 earlier last year and it really opened my brain to how to make an album live inside its own world diegetically. Also, JC Foster’s music was a really big influence on the album specifically. In composition and texture, I’m definitely inspired by the 2010s electro-pop/EDM I grew up on, especially old deadmau5, everything he tapped into melodically I see as super influential. I was raised on the internet, as a lot of us were, my attention span isn’t the greatest, and my goal is always to make something I would enjoy listening to, so I often revel in excess.įrequently adding elements, changing progressions, and structuring beats in an off-kilter way. I’ve been told by Jerome ( my manager and good friend that has supervised my creative decisions since we were in high school) that my music is ‘eclectic’ and I feel like that’s a good descriptor. I released an album called “ ” late last year, which I directed, produced, mixed, and got some of my amazing artist friends to do vocals on. The main artists I currently work with are Babebee, DPF, and Kurtis, but I’ve also got some really interesting placements coming up. I work on my own music as a creative director and producer, and on other artists’ records as just a producer.
Hello! I’m Simon, I’m a music producer/composer/songwriter from Canada. What cultures and experiences cultivate this persona or identity of yours? Give us a general description of you as an artist.