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Please tell our readers who you are and what you do?
My nickname is James Miller, but my real name is Konstantin Vityazev. I was born in Russia and living here now.
Music is my lifework.
How did I come to this? In adolescence I listened a lot of energetic and rave music. I decided to try to do something similar.
How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years?
Once I stumble onto program «Ejay»(program for musicians), but I had absolutely no idea about writing music. I download this just for fun, and I like it! I became interested how writing tracks, studied forums and site. On one of them I had founded out about Ableton and tried to make a track of their sounds in the program. The result, to say the least , was deplorable.
However I didn't want to throw and started to do a mash up (mixing tracks).
Later, I still came back to the idea to make something authorial tracks.
I listened tracks Deorro, Steve Aoki, Hardwell, Reece Low, Joel Fletcher, Will Sparks and other.
I liked their work .But I thought about improving the sound of these tracks. So I started making bootleg.
You can imagine my surprise, when my tracks was successful in Russian community!
When I started to do bootlegs, I listened to many tracks in different styles including and mixes. One day I saw Megamix in house style and wanted to try to do in the trap. This part of the mixes I called «TRVP Selection». After a couple of months, I decided to watch the activity of these mixes in Internet. As it turned out, it was spread not only in Russia but also in Europe.
Then I collaborated with such labels as Gysnoize Records (Italia), Azalia Recordings (Russia), Muz Flame (Russia), May Gold Records (USA)
What´s new right now?
In last time one of the most successful works are
AV & Lamborghini Gini ft. Juicy J “Cash” (over 10 000 000 listen in social network “VK”) https://soundcloud.com/djjamesmiller/av-lamborghini-gini-cash-feat-juicy-j-james-miller-remix
Galvanize & Kimera “House party” (support Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike) https://soundcloud.com/djjamesmiller/house-party-james-miller-bootleg
Basement Freaks & Sherly “Waking up” (Basement Freaks comment: “Neat fusion of some electro house with some future bass style elements!») https://soundcloud.com/djjamesmiller/waking-up-james-miller-remix-support-basement-freaks
Now l working on remixes in trap, edm trap, hip-hop styles and on author's work in house style.
If you interested my musical creativity, you can follow of my music news in socian networks: https://www.facebook.com/JamesMillerOfficial
https://soundcloud.com/djjamesmiller
https://vk.com/james_miller62
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmillerofficial/
jamendo.com/artist/493285/james-miller
https://mixupload.com/user418263
https://jamesmillerofficial.bandcamp.com/
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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?
I have press kit in which I point out their achievements to show to the administrators of the club, who I am.
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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?
I've been relistening to a lot of tracks, listen to various pieces of the artists from this to make something of their own
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Once you discovered new music, do you tell others about the new music/artist you discovered? If yes, how exactly?
“I try to share with acquaintances of musicians with their experience, if they are interested
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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/djjamesmiller
https://soundcloud.com/djjamesmiller
https://www.facebook.com/JamesMillerOfficial
https://twitter.com/JamesMillerReal
https://www.instagram.com/jamesmillerofficial/
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