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Lo-Fiction Interview

Q: Over the last couple of years you have evolved as an artist. It seems pretty evident to me. Can you talk a little bit about your creative growth over from your very early releases?


A: Yeah! I started out just playing with VST plug-ins and a free host to chain all the plug-ins together and mess with audio that was incoming, usually from just an IPod or turntable haha. “Purgatory," "Fields" and "Andromeda" were all experiments using these tools. When I worked on Downtown Peaceful I had just found out about the DAW reaper so I sampled a lot of youtube videos and vinyl for that release. A year after I started making music my parents had built me a small studio in their backyard to include my other instruments as well as an MPC2000xl I had bought. This all led to the half live half electronic sounds of "Sweater Music" and "Lion Says Dance.” Further on I started working more with a rapper and thus "When You're Ready" was a compilation of beats not used in our album and I decided to master them and release them.

Q: Lets talk about your latest release When You're Ready. What was the creative process like for this album?

A: Pretty simple, I'd just make a beat in Ableton, add synth sounds, bass guitar and samples from records then master In Logic.

Q: Your music is in the same zeitgeist of artists like Four Tet and Prefuse 73. Can you talk about some of your influences?

A: It's funny you say that because Four Tet was a HUGE influence on sweater music haha. My influences now days range from Flying Lotus, BadBadNotGood, Shigeto and Bonobo to Thelonious Monk, Art Pepper, Gil-Scott Heron and Sun Ra.\

Q: Are you currently playing live as a DJ or any kind of live setting in general?

A: Hopefully soon I can find a way to use Ableton to perform live with my drums on stage but, right now I just reside as a studio producer.

Q: Can you talk about your current setup? What tools are using and how do you formulate ideas for songs?

A: Right now I'm back home so my gear is back in the studio. I have my drum set, bongos, a djemba, orchestra bells, a Yamaha PSR-6, MPC2000xl, a guitar, a bass guitar, 2 Mac computers (one for mixing one for live), a Mackie mixer, a turntable, an Alesis Interface, Logic and Ableton!

Q: You have had a steady stream of music since 2013. What else can we expect in 2017?

A: By the end of this summer hopefully Im planning on releasing my new album Genetics.

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