11/13/2023 0 Comments Phlo finister interview![]() I met him a couple of weeks ago, really cool guy, has a very dynamic stage personality.ĭJing then production came first for you. Which hip-hop producers, rappers or producers turned rappers are you currently listening to? You were spinning hip-hop records back in the day. I’m very grateful that I went there it really honed my production skills. ![]() My professors and interacting with my peers gave me such great exposure to electronic music. ![]() It was here where I wrote the bulk of my tracks. Was it over there where you really understood and got a grasp on writing music? Tell us about your time at ICON Collective. It was after that night that I was pretty sure, that’s what I wanted to do after racecar driving. After his set, I went up to him and I had all these questions he took the time to answer them and advised me to get a pair of turntables if I was serious about DJing. The entire night, I was that ‘one weird dude’ who was watching the DJ all night. So while I was in China, a bunch of my friends and myself went to a club over there, and I saw this guy named Q bert spin. At the moment, I do not have any plans to do so, but you never know. It’s always a toss-up for me when considering making a track with a racecar sample. But then, I had to quit because… it’s a little embarrassing to say…but I just got too tall. So I ended up moving to Asia to pursue this career path, won some cool races and ended up racing for GP2, which is a two-steps below Formula One racing. This led to some really great opportunities to race overseas in Bahrain and China with a lot of international kids. By the time I was around fourteen or fifteen I got a chance to race professional for BMW junior-level formula racecars and won the championship here in the States. As I got better and older, I started entering more regional competitions and won some races. I started out racing go-karts when I was ten. What kind of cars did you race? How did you get into that? Will you ever sample racecar sounds for a track? So it’s kind of a trippy, foreshadowing, sort of coincidence, when you think about it. I should find a way to talk to a man named Jesse Waits- who as you know is one of the main people behind Las Vegas’s nightlife- Five years go by, and very recently, I was approached by Jesse Waits about doing a residency XS. One of the best memories I have of him was about five years ago, when we were just casually hanging out, he told me that if I wanted to become a DJ, and was serious about getting club residencies etc. I remember I would go see him play when I was younger and he would just smash it each time! A lot of the people he introduced me to such as Steve Aoki are still good friends of mine. Yes, he did mentor me in a way but it was more like life mentoring than production tips and scratching etc. You were mentored by DJ AM? Could you tell us about any memories or advice he had shared with you?ĪM was more of a friend to me than a mentor. Their reason being there releases have the ability to steer music in the right direction. They are honestly the ones that have a really great sense of timeline and are tactical with their releases. I feel like Revealed Recordings is such a well-run imprint. With ‘Countdown’ I want to be able to bring a new age of Un-bootleggable sound to the forefront. When you are playing anthemic, fast-paced kind of music, everyone, be it at a festival or a club, everyone will get bored of a track, if its played longer than a minute or two- it’s like they have ADD- so when I noticed this, I decided to make a track that had three different elements to it, as if to keep people guessing. Also playing shows on a daily basis, I’ve noticed that people’s attention span towards any track is very short. I was inspired to release a track of this sort because I’ve been making bootlegs and edits for a while now. We made this track over a year and a half ago. Why did Revealed Recordings decide to release the track now rather than earlier? It’s a great concept, very forward-thinking stuff. ‘Countdown’ is the ‘Un-bootleggable’ song, a track with three different drops. VIBE caught up with MAKJ to give us a peep into his life and upcoming projects. Police Searching For Boyfriend Of Dismembered Brooklyn Woman
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