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Ok, first off- just for curious reasons-about how long have you been growing your beard? Since October or so. Over a year now, but i’ve had a beard in some variation or the other. Well you know, for the last 5 years or so. its been a constant in my life. Its been strange to watch the beard, I mean when I first moved to eattle, it was a very disturbing aesthetic to some people. And within the last year or so, people have been really into them. Its been strange to watch the tides turn so drastically.
(Source: titlemagazine.net)
“Hype can be scary.” Oliver tells us, “I know I’ve reacted badly to it when it’s happened to other bands in the past. If I feel a band has been forced on me in any way I kind of don’t want to listen to them, just to prove I can think for myself.”
It’s a familiar phenomena, band’s being disregarded purely because they’re ‘the next big thing.’ But this reaction is something that Oliver, and his band The xx are going to have to get used to quick. Only recently they were virtually unknown (and subsequently very cool) and now they are receiving rave reviews for the eponymous new album and are embarking on a world tour. If they are relying on their underground kudos, they’re not going to have much left when they get back home. Hopefully they are going to prove to the world they have more to offer.
(Source: titlemagazine.net)
I read somewhere that you were already messing around with recording software at age 13. Mhm.
What got you into music so early? I was always in the music program. I was in band since 4th grade playing the saxophone and clarinet. And then in high school I joined the drum line. But I actually got into dj’ing, when I was 13 and I was spinning hip-hop and drum n’ bass. I had a friend that had an older brother who was into dj’ing and I would always go to their house and mess around with the turntables and thought that was pretty cool. I think it was just natural progression for someone who was into dj’ing/production. I had a lot of older friends in freshman year of high school, and one of them gave me a bootleg copy of this production software, so I installed it on my dads computer and just didn’t go to sleep after that.
(Source: titlemagazine.net)
