Check out and share our Retraction Music Interview. This interview is part of our new Producer & Engineer Q&A Series. In this interview series we feature exciting producers, mixing and mastering engineers from all walks of life. As always: Share & Support!
Please introduce yourself real quick. Tell our audience about your background and how you go into doing what you´re doing right now.
I am from Cape Town, South Africa and started producing and making music about 7 years ago, specifically electronic music. I started off as a duo with my best mate Emil Wissink and we focused heavily on dubstep and powerful bass music, I then took the Retraction project into a solo project and started expanding on not only electronic music, but also infusing different genres and recording and producing hiphop style music for artists and rappers as well, after which I became the mixing engineer for an awesome collective known as Atori Grove, connecting like-minded creatives around the world and creating unique productions, through this a lot was learnt and over the years the name Retraction is relatively well known through some prominent South African artists.
Please tell our audience what projects have you been working on in the last years?
Over the last years, I have been focusing on joining hip-hop elements with electronic elements and trying to create unique bass music which does not specifically fit to one genre per say.
What are you currently working on? Do you accept clients and and what kind of projects/work fits your profile?
At the moment I am currently rebuilding my database, as my work got stolen a few months ago, so a refresh was had to be had, and definitely accept clients, my preference in projects, is doing final masters on any genre, and mixing and analysing electronic music and hip-hop/rap music as well. I am always happy to expand on my knowledge and my OCD makes my mixes and final touches a super clean polish, boom!
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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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http://www.soundcloud.com/retractionmusic
https://www.facebook.com/retractionmusic/
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