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Please tell our readers who you are and what you do?
Hey! I was born in Poland in the year 2000 and moved to Iceland when I was 7 or 8 and have been there ever since. I've started taking music production a bit more seriously since like half a year ago or so, outside of that I've always just been on and off making little snips of music here and there. I'm not really that locked onto a specific genre but I guess that It's fair to say that I enjoy making down-tempo melodic music in my free-time quite a bit. I released a track with my friend dariann which I felt like was sortof difficult to make for me as I was really straying off the beaten path at that point and I feel like it really sounds so, even though it was posted a month ago I wish that I could go back and apply my current knowledge to that track to make it sound better, more powerful and less messy than it currently is.
https://soundcloud.com/lostballoonmusic/a-walk-in-the-woods
How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years?
Ugh that's a hard question to answer, first of all I gotta give a shoutout to one of my all-time favorite artists Lorde who I've been listening to ever since she released her Pure Heroine album in 2013, she's amazing and everyone should check her out if you haven't done so yet. I've always listened to a lot of rap, R&B, pop and EDM, some notable names being Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Chance The Rapper, Childish Gambino, Coldplay, Porter Robinson and a LOT more (the list could go on for ages).
I also have a last.fm account which will be linked at the bottom of my interview so feel free to check that out!
What´s new right now?
I recently started a little music collective with a bunch of friends titled "Human Error", we're a team of 6 producers that aims to bring a lot of different and unique music out to the world, I guess we're in a way a big bag of skittles when it comes to the kind of music all of us make! We all "specialize" in different genres and we hope to bring all that knowledge together to make something that we can all be proud of in the end.
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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?
Spending too much time trying to sound like one artist or another, and especially relying too hard on presets to save my life. I'm not saying that presets are bad but when I was starting out all I did was plop down presets into my VST and I never got around to learning how to actually use the VST synth. I've now moved past that and I feel like I have way more freedom and a bigger creative field to play around on. I also spent too much time getting into music production, I guess it has been a "dream" of mine since 2014 but I only got around to starting sometime in 2017. It might have been the fear of making terrible sounding music but we all had to start somewhere in the end, right?
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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?
I often browse Soundcloud throughout the week and discover new music that way, I found the Spotify related artist feature to work really well for discovering new music as well!
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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?
I hope to get better at music production and I hope to see the Human Error collective become something that me and dariann could one day look back to and be proud of.
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https://www.instagram.com/peterinogreenerinoo/
https://soundcloud.com/lostballoonmusic
https://twitter.com/TheLostBalloon
https://www.last.fm/user/PeterTheGreen
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