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Hey!
we're Alex and Max, I’m 20 and Max is 19 and we were born and raised in Athens, Greece.
I first started with DJing when i discovered DJ BL3ND when i was 12 years old. About 2 years later i started dabbling with producing and began working on tracks of my own. About the same time i met Max and we became friends instantly. Max is also completely into producing and was making beats of his own.
A couple of months later we released our first collaborated tracks and after a while i asked Max if he was interested in partnering up to form a duo and he accepted.
Max started getting even better at producing and didn’t focus all that much in enhancing is skills in DJing as for me, i adjudged even more to DJing as opposed to producing. In a jist i am the DJ and Max is the Producer, and we are interdependent on each other.
Last year we had our first opportunity to perform in front of a crowd at a local rave party organized by one of the best party groups and upcoming record label Level Up Athens. After that night everything changed, we started playing at even more gigs brought to the public by Level Up, until we became resident djs for them giving us even more opportunities to shine for instance playing as support acts for some huge names in the industry like Eptic and Yellow Claw.
How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years?
Personally since we started during the golden age of big room house i was influenced more by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and wanted to make big room. Max also enjoyed producing hyped up tracks so we went along with making big room but after a while we started to draw away from mainstream sound. Max then started dabbling with underground genres and today rides the phonk / wave darktrap while i still mainly play bass house.
Moreover i also like those two styles so we have a couple tracks like that but generally speaking we don’t really like making one specific type of music. Meaning we could release a trap track this month and a techno track next month so to speak.
What´s new right now?
These days we are dealing with many projects and we aren't that sure yet on upcoming releases but stay tuned.
Lastly on March 8th we a playing at Carnage's show in Athens and from now on we will be located often at a new underground club in Athens called "Shelter" .
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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/m-xim-2
http://www.facebook.com/WeAreBassFreaks/
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