![]() When you first got started, did you just use GarageBand? It can be whatever I’m playing with at the time. But actually for a lot of the parts of my new stuff I haven’t released yet, I’ve actually been creating my own beats and some of my own riffs. If I’m just mixing stuff I usually stick with Ableton or Logic for the time stretching and all that. ![]() When I’m actually creating my songs I use a whole bunch- everything from GarageBand to Logic to Soundtrack Pro. When I’m doing my actual shows, live, I use Ableton because it’s just a great live performance utility. What kind of software do you use when you mix? You know, “Oh, I really like this so I’m going to take an idea from this song and mix it with this song,” and from there it just kind of builds off of itself. So when I hear something new that’s really what gives me an idea for a new song. I mean, I’m a sample-based artist so everything that I do is based off other people’s musical creations. I hold my phone out, tag it, and then I go back and re-listen to it. No matter where I am, I have my phone on me, so I’ll hear something that I’ve never heard before and it instantly sparks some creativity. You know the funny thing is that now with the iPhone, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of that app Shazam, but you basically just open it up and put your iPhone next to the speaker and it tells you what song is playing. Its just putting in a lot of time and seeing really what sounds the best together. That’s why one of the first songs that I actually created on my first album was called “Trial and Error.” And that’s pretty much how I create a lot of my songs. The biggest part of it is I bring in a huge collection of songs into my program, line them all up, and splice them all into the parts that I would want to use, and from there its kind of a trial and error type of thing, kind of mixing and matching. I’m pretty good with the matching of the beats in my head. So many different songs from previous decades and what have you, and I just listen to them all, and in my mind I can kind of have a feel for what would work together. And I basically just go through my iTunes library and I go through and I listen to whatever I’m listening to at that time. Well basically what I do when I’m going to create a song is first I Kind of think of the feel I want it to be, you know, if it’s a higher tempo or if its going to be a slower more kickback, relaxed kind of song. So you know, there are so many songs and so many combinations how do you decide what to put together? It just kind of fell right into place for me and basically fell in love. ![]() And I’ve always been into computers, you know, a little techy. I mean, as I’ve always said I have huge music ADD, so to just hear a song that incorporated 10, 15, or 20 of my favorite songs in one just blew my mind. It was Freshman year of college, actually, in my dorm room, one of my buddies showed me a few other glitch-pop remix artists, sample based, and I just instantly fell in love. Lets hear about that album, origins, and milk preference from the man himself: Those are just two of the samples in his second amazing album. Are you a musical theater fan? Check out “Phantom of the Opera” in “Lovehate,” #13. Are you a classical fan? Check out Pachabel’s Canon in “Keep Talking,” #3 on Circle of Fifths. He literally has something for everyone in his music. Last year DJ Forum awarded him “Hottest Mashup DJ of 2008,” “DJ to watch out for in 2009,” as well as “#2 Mashup Album of All Time” for his first album Lactose and THC. Last weekend, I had the great experience of interviewing Milkman, one of the musicians playing on Friday, October 16th here at USD. ![]()
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