Music Producer, DJ

Q: Can you share one music production tip?

A: Don't worry about the technical things, just try to finish your song first, and then learn the rest. Nowadays is the era of technology, everything becomes easy than before, but remember, technology is just a tool. The main ingredient is you. You have to fill up your knowledge more and more.

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: I make hardstyle music for my own releases, and I still make some dance-pop for my alter-ego. Some commercial electronic music for some brands and events.

Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

A: When I was 8, I start to learn music (guitar). And I completed formal music education Sound Design Major, in 2013. A guitarist, sound engineer, sound designer, music producer, and DJ, my passion for creating beats drives him more towards being an electronic music producer and DJ. I start to produce electronic music in 2011 for other artists and brands. Finally, in 2017, I released my first records on all digital platforms and doing this until now.

Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

A: Nowadays, I make hardstyle music for my own releases. But for other music production, I still make pop music, dance-pop, hip-hop, r&b, electro house, bass house, psytrance, etc.

Q: What's your strongest skill?

A: Because I studied Sound Design and Music Production, I can say that my strongest skill is to produce music from start to end with using all the knowledge that I have, and I still learning and learning until now.

Q: What do you bring to a song?

A: For me, music is about messages. I bring messages to my listeners. When I produce music, I try to bring the message through my beats, melodies, and lyrics of course. And when I mixing and mastering for other artists, I try to become tools that help the artist to deliver the song as good as they want.

Q: What's your typical work process?

A: Before I enter my studio, I tried to get the idea of what song I will make, get the inspirations, get the references as many as I can. I start to make some beats first and the other like melody and any other stuff will pop-up in my mind.

Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

A: I have a home studio with full acoustic treatments. MacBook Pro 15", KRK Rokit 8" Gen 3, Ableton as my DAW, some plugins like Waves, Fab-Filter, Ozone 9, Soundtoys, etc. For synthesizer, I use soft-synth like Sylenth1, Spire, Serum, Nexus, Kontakt.

Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

A: So many musicians and producers inspire me a lot. Laidback Luke, Frontliner, Bass Modulators, Afrojack are my biggest inspiration for me. And not forget to mention, CLA, Dave Pensado. These two people are my role models for mixing and mastering engineers. I learn a lot from them. And many more producers that make some tutorials on youtube, I learn from them too.

Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

A: The common type of works lately is making music for some brands and events. And besides that, I produce music with some new artists, make a collaboration with DJ and Producers.