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Please tell our readers who you are and what you do?
Hello
Real name is Aaron Vizcarra, a sound experimenter or sound designer but secondly a DJ. Other avenues of artistry that I am into is Graphic Design and Fashion. I have been producing music for about 8 years. My tools are Ableton, a Roland SP 404 SX, and an Ipad. There are more equipments but these 3 are my main ones. The genre of music is like experimental ambient with Techno mixed together. Creating music gives me that zoned-in feeling like in meditation which I cannot replace. During the day I'm an Engineer for Vancouver International Airport, monitoring baggage systems. By Night I am either mixing music, creating music or DJing in Vancouver (more less than often). If neither, then I'm doing meditation and yoga. Cool? Cool.
How would you describe your influences and how have they changed over the years?
Some of my influence originated from early 90s hip-hop and rap like 2pac, Wu-Tang Clan and DAS EFX. Currently I'm enjoying sounds from Lapalux, Shigeto, Soulection and Burial. Definitely my taste have evolve overtime. It seems more than ever before, creating music is easy and accessible to all. To create music nowadays is through softwares or cool hardware synths. I like to generate Rhtythm through samples and synthesizers. I'm more into blending my influences by deconstructing it and adding something catchy and/ or improvising techniques. The rest will zone me in.
What´s new right now?
I am a constant experimenter. My set up has always evolve and never stayed the same. Right now I'm working with a 2nd-hand dual cassette mixer which will incorporate that classic cassette ‘hsss’ sound. My Bandcamp has some works from a year ago (2017), strictly underground, no promotion just putting it out into the world. My Soundcloud too, has most of the works I created since I started. I've collaborated with small artists, local and international (mostly hobby artists not major). But when its comes to music I like to find that unique quality of the sample or synthesizer that stands out and exploit it. And in some cases its a never ending search, constantly experimenting and constantly adding effects.
Links:
https://viccastreet.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/vicca-street
https://www.instagram.com/vicca.street/
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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/vicca-street
http://www.facebook.com/aaron.vizcarra
https://viccastreet.bandcamp.com/
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