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Please tell our readers who you are and what you do?
I am Michael Dritto, better known as DRITTO. A North American DJ, artist & producer who currently resided in New York City. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY where at an early age I realized I loved listening and creating music; Electronic dance music became my passion with heavy emphasis in Electro, Big room, trap, house and the occasional hardstyle track. Along with creating bone tingling tracks thats can be found on the likes of ABC, IHeartRadio, Beatport, iTunes, Spotify and many other outlets. I have performed massive shows at Stage 48, Knitting Factory, Amazura and many more. Gracing the stage with some of the worlds biggest talents such as Psyko Punkz, Riggi & Piros, Wasted Penguins, Da Tweekaz and Juicy M just to name a few.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/drittoofficial
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0X6eBMbaN61u7CJPa5C3v7
How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years?
My taste in music has for sure changed but I take something from each and bring it with me so I feel I have a great mixture of music history telling in my music.
I stared out in metal, heavy metal… my first album ever was a Megadeath CD lol then moved into the Rob Zombies which I then fell into more of the Disturbed, Slipknot kind of metal. After that Eminem was a huge influence as well as Dr.Dre with his chronic 2000 album and I became really hooked on hip hop where Dr.Dre, Eminem and DMX I had on stream daily as well as other hip hop artist but those where the main 3 id stream. Around 2003 I had befriended a person from Belgium who put me onto this brand new style of music (EDM) called hardstyle which still till this day hasn't received its main stream acceptance. Id stream guys like Zany, Donkey Rollers and basically any hardstyle I could get my hands on because in the States it wasn't a known thing yet. Keeping a good rotation of EDM, Metal & hip hop years went by and slowly EDM started taking over the market when acts like Aviccii, Deadmou5 and Skrillex came along which really made me want to turn my passion into something more and so the journey began.
What´s new right now?
Honestly I have so much new music I'm sitting on because I am deciding if it would be better to release an EP or as singles. Its a tough thing to release music and have it well accepted, timing, cost to put it out and all of the logistics that go into making releases. Live gig wise I had just played Absorption Festival so nothing major lined up now but there is some awesome stuff in the works for Miami music week that I can't talk about just this second but keep an eye out on my socials for all coming shows and music (DRITTOofficial) ?
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Are you a superfan of anyone? How did you become a superfan? Do you remember how you become a fan and what turned you into super fan? Have you ever thought about why you´re such a fan?
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What was the biggest mistake you made when you started making music and what would be the number one tip you could give to a newcomer musician?
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How do you get gigs? Can you share any tips?
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Do you have good promotion tips for other musicians?
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Do you have insights on how to grow your audience on soundcloud that you want to share with our audience?
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What has been your biggest challenge right now? Have you been able to overcome that challenge? If so, how?
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How do you personally discover new music?
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Once you discovered new music, do you tell others about the new music/artist you discovered? If yes, how exactly?
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What is your number one tip to improve your music production or songwriting skills?
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What is your best tip for those who struggle with finishing their tracks?
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We meet again in one year. What has changed?
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https://soundcloud.com/drittoofficial
https://www.facebook.com/DRITTOofficial
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