The Rec Show Podcast
David “Gldnmnd” Hicks is a Beatmaker and Hip Hop culture participant/supporter based in the United States. On The Rec Show Podcast, Gldnmnd interviews Beatmakers/Music Producers/Composers from around the world, hearing stories of beat culture, musical journeys (past and present), musical exposures and music technology. Topics include music genesis, inspirations, music superheroes, Digital Audio Workstations vs. Analog gear, Discographies, Local Beat Scene/community views and more while listening to each guest’s instrumental music compositions. Tap In!
The Rec Show Podcast
Jetlag Trav
“Be a homie & let us know what you think”
Ever pondered the creative spark behind an electrifying bass line or the texture of a well-crafted beat? Jetlag Trav, the gifted bass guitarist and Beatmaker, joins me for a no-holds-barred conversation. We navigate Trav's artistic voyage from his formative albums to the live gigs that have crowds buzzing throughout California. He unfolds tales of his youthful escapades, his synergy with the A Love Supreme CA collective, and the raw energy he injects into every rhythm. Meanwhile emphasizing the sheer delight of musical exploration and the significance of fun in the artistic process.
Strap in for a ride through the symbiotic world of creativity and community as Jetlag Trav and I spotlight collaborators like Blkgod9, TeedotEinsof, Thxk U, Dom Cruz Enlightenment Pics, who've amplified our recent endeavors. We peel back the layers of our journeys, discussing the careful balance between savoring the creative journey and pursuing triumph, while dishing out pearls of wisdom to the next generation of artists. Our chat is a hearty mix of life lessons and laughter, as we recollect post-lockdown reunions and the simple joys that punctuate our lives, from ramen runs to record store raids.
Finally, Jetlag Trav shares a snapshot of his college days, his stint as a performer, and his nascent entrepreneurial endeavors, expressing a heartfelt thanks for the backing he's received and teasing what's brewing on the horizon. Together, we tackle talks of travel, self-improvement, and the compelling impact of positive self-talk. With an episode brimming with passion and the unifying language of music, this is your backstage pass to the minds and melodies of Jetlag Trav.
Intro Music: "Himothy" from THEN/NOW by purp (Available Here)
Featured Music: Music from JetlagTrav's Discography (Available Here)
Social for K'Luv aka THE GO: @JetlagTrav
Website: JetlagTrav.Bandcamp.com
Tap into A Love Supreme California: https://www.instagram.com/alovesupremeca/
Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Gldnmnd
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Speaker 5:Also, make sure you all tap into the beat makers corner, which is a new segment I started this year basically talking about and unboxing physical music, whether it be cassettes, whether it be CDs, whether it be vinyls, whether it be thumb drives. I mean, however you create it, get your music out, man. If I can support it, I'm always supported man. So tap into. I think we got five episodes up there right now. I skipped this week just to kind of record some more for the next few weeks. But yo, tap into the beat makers corner, but yo, enough of that, man. If you like what we're doing, man like subscribe, you know, hit the bell, all that jazz, but let's get into the shit, man. So listen, we are going all the way to California man. So this, this young gunner I'm going to call you a young gunner man because he's a bass guitarist right, he plays instruments, he's in college right.
Speaker 5:He's Lincoln. He's a crew member for Love Supreme, california. He's been featured on the motherfucking beat table with LA Y. Yeah, I mean, he's doing live sets all over the place Burger Beats, the Beat Cinema, flip, a Beat Club. I mean. Wherever this gentleman is, man, he's rocking the crowd. Man, and I love the way that he is coming into his music and just giving you his art. Man, he's not copying nobody, he's not like you know, just putting out Google. Man, this guy's got something. Man, he's got two albums on Bandcamp, man, baby Steps one, number one, and then Baby Steps number two and Baby Steps number two. Man, that's another level up man. So we definitely going to talk about that. But, man, listen, I want you all to welcome the one and only basses, beats and everything like that. Man, travis Vaughnville, aka Jetlag Trev. Welcome to the show, jetlag. How you doing, my guy?
Speaker 3:Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you First and foremost. First and foremost, thank you to my brother Goldamon. With the rep, you know podcast, man, you'll be doing some beautiful things for the community for real, but thank you all for having me. Man, this is a beautiful. I'm thankful for all the opportunities I've been blessed with, such as this one also, man.
Speaker 5:Thank you for having me. Hey, man, it's my pleasure. Man, yo, just to put that for the internet, man who might not know, like you are just getting started, man, you haven't even scratched the surface on your music abilities, man, your performance abilities. Like yo, man, I feel like you just tapping into a new superpower and you just learning how to like master them. Yeah man, yeah man. So okay, listen, man, jet. First of all, how did you even come with that name? You know, for the B heads that might not know who you are, man, Like what is that? What does jet lag Trev mean? How long have you been making beats and what associations and collectives are you a part of?
Speaker 3:Alrighty. So first and foremost, I got jet like Trev I got to, probably started going by that name or just had that name in mind circa like early 2000s, like before I even really started doing music on a serious, intentional, like note, and my brother and I back in the day I was most most of the homies and just about everyone that makes music or has been around music Just used to kick, you know freestyles, listening to beats back in the day after we listened to whoever was making stuff back in the day that we was messing with, and my brother and I, oh yo, like we got to have some names. You know if we're going to be kicking, kicking versus and you know your freestyle. So at first, like before all the beats and before I even had like a guitar in my hand, you know I had a bass in my hand Just my brother and I kicking and he was like yo, one by two different names that were, like you know, a little tacky and I was like you know I'm going to do no top hat, no high top, nothing like that. You're not going to play on words of you know high tech, nothing like that. So just some original my. I've been blessed to travel enough in my life. So I've experienced jet lag enough and I'm hoping this is well the way the music has touched me. I'm hoping to be able to have my music touch people all across the globe. And you know, so jet lag, you know, trag kind of just came, came in about with my brother and I just tie into words together and yeah, that's just stuff, and fast forward to like 10, you know, almost eight years after that, when I actually, you know, started picking up guitar and bass, I was like all right, this is cool, but I still didn't really have a reasoning for me to have that name be, you know, you know, intentionally used. Yet so it was still just, you know, travis, my name, my, you know my name, my birth name, travis Farnham, and eventually, you know, kicking it with T and you know, joshua and other other homies.
Speaker 3:Throughout like circa 2015, to like 17 heavily, right after high school, I was kind of like really emphasizing just like learning, like the fundamentals to an extent and how to get around with the guitar and like the base. And then I remember, like my first little income tax return I got, I copped my first base. Well, ivan, as, and yeah, started like just messing around with that. I used to originally start making cuts off of a garage band and then I really wasn't too comfortable with the flow. So I was all right, let's go, like start, you know, just making some stuff with like FL that was blessed to be around, like people like, like I said once again, t and black, god, you know all other homies that have been around that were able to give me a, at least a basis and run down on how to you know function to it, and then you know, so that you know. Then they said, just let the imagination, you know, take over. And from there I just started making beats. I'd say like trying to just find you know how to you know, first and foremost, function you know the programs I was messing with and then, yeah, just incorporate, you know the bass and guitar stuff that I enjoy and I was like developing over time and still just holding into. Like you said, I'm still just barely touching the surface and I'm thankful that people are enjoying and appreciating what I've put out so far and what I'm going to continue to put out. But, yeah, so still just tying in a jet lag and what I was originally doing, one of the make sure.
Speaker 3:When I first started having my name tied into jetlight travels, the beach I was doing I'm a heavy like record collector. I have like a stupid collection so I try to incorporate you know random, you know cuts and you know loops here and there and having fun with that and I love the human like expression at times, so we'll have them like just conversations. I picked up whenever I've obviously had to consent to friends with conversations we'll have just shooting the shit or in jam sessions and just taking stuff and plugging it in here and there with whatever the record, with going for and you know, just having stuff like that so I make sure of all that type of stuff eventually led to me wanting to create the series of baby steps talking to the homies like, all right, you know you're not really just do the homies remind me and I just not intentionally making you know, you know sounds you kind of got something going so you should do something. And then, yeah, picked up off the people around me so I probably drop something to get people idea of what I've been working on. And yeah, just decided baby steps because as we all are doing, you know, taking baby steps towards where we want to grow and be at.
Speaker 3:So this, the series is a series of like, fully, you know, thought out ideas as well as have thought out ideas as a means of whatever the feeling and whatever my mind and I was at consciously at that time. So, time that stuff into, yeah, that was the series and I'm thankful to have experienced, you know, the birth of it around like, uh, I'd say like the beginning of lockdown really created me to like catapult me to want to, you know, do that intentionally. You know, you know, craft all the sounds towards that and yeah, uh, continuing with that stuff. Uh, to now just eventually drop. I wanted to drop more stuff because I have a lot this is unfortunate. I have a lot of sounds that just like kind of in the vaults, but it's just kind of grouping the thoughts and the feelings together and continuing to release it with the baby steps in mind, as well as other projects I have. Uh, I wanted to release over time and um and then time another conversation you're saying with, uh, uh, collectives I'm a part of, as of right now.
Speaker 3:Uh, just a love supreme. Uh, bang them. Yeah, love my guys, all the homies, uh, just deep, you got. You know packs christian. You know black guy Frank. You got you know my guy Splash. You know Dom. We got, yeah, everybody black guys in this.
Speaker 3:We got so many people on the roster many, so many new ones delente, like all the homies are crazy, you know, I mean, uh, my guys are longer like crazy with it. Everyone's doing the thing T like, uh, I'm proud of everyone and they inspire me on the daily like burn the tophery, just come on, um. So all the homies around me just remind me to like, just level up. I need to. You know, get on my shit. Uh, I was also reminding myself like I'm also like, uh, you know, a full-time student, a full-time you know. You know personal life as we all are balancing, you know school work and all that shit we all are, and just, you know, reminding myself, all right, I need to continue to level up and get this shit going over time, over 9000 over 9000.
Speaker 5:Rex Mason. You shout the Rex Mason man, but you know, shout out the. What's that? Dragon Ball Z. Right, is that?
Speaker 5:that's what I'm from yeah, shout to my my you know my Dragon Ball fans, y'all there, you know yo, man, yeah, your first of all shout out to you and your brother for coming up with a dope name, um, but then also you linking with, uh, you know, you know, just coming up, I think lockdown for a lot of us, man, was really like a nudge to really just you know what, man, this thing I've been thinking about doing, yo, let me just do it, man, I ain't got nothing else to do, let me just go forward and do it.
Speaker 5:You know, I'm saying I think that was a nudge for a lot of us literally literally yeah, man and um, I'm glad you did, man, because I really enjoy your music, um, I enjoy what y'all put out um from the crew as well, and you know seeing y'all live performances. Now, when he's talking about when, uh, when jet lag is talking about internets he's talking about I love Supreme California man. This is the crew of like the Avengers of beat making yo, like yo, man, like yo you. All right, let me see, let me, let me make sure I got this right. You got Bernatopia, you got you got tine soft. You got black god nine. You got jet lag trap. You got um. You got splashy is. You got ze lente, you got um. You got um low tech, I mean one dollar tech is.
Speaker 5:Thank you now thank you happy birthday, thank you. Yeah, yeah, I say that, thank you also.
Speaker 3:I saw packs, so it's crazy. All right, I'm gonna cut you up, brother. So it's always. I got reminded we had crazy birthdays this past week, slash month, we had packs, it's a longer and uh, thank you all in the same week. As long as you have to duck, girl. You know all the homies. There's a few other homies that had birthdays around there, slipping my mind, but yeah, it's crazy birthdays around there wow, man, yo, so many yo.
Speaker 5:Happy birthday everybody, man, I'm aquariums. Yeah, yeah, man, and um, oh wait, uh, rex Mason had a birthday. I think Jay Hershey had a birthday. Uh, man, who else had a birthday? Man, it's so many, yo, it's so many of y'all, man, but yo, man, yeah, um, but, yeah, man, that's that's the crew man, I think was drive to herce, a part of y'all crew too. One more time drive to hers. I don't, I don't think.
Speaker 3:So that might be, I don't think so I have to hop the head and I don't think so. I know, uh, when we, first we're starting, shout out to brother who knows young JT, ill, ill, ill cat. He was originally going to be a part of it but through your life he wasn't able to be uh like able to commit, but he's super ill a shot, so everything he's doing, but that's another member. That kind of like for conversation was possibly brought up. Um, and then we got obviously brother and Nightmare Pictures productions with all this crazy camera work too, who was, uh, not on the music tip but he plays guitar and is nice with it too, but he's more focused, from my perspective, on the uh, just directing tip. He got his degree and it just been going crazy with doing work with all the hummies yeah, focus on the visuals.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, but don't don't, don't, let him.
Speaker 3:Don't let him downplay him. Though he's crazy with the guitar, he'll say. He'll say a lady, he'll lady. I'm like. Yo say no, bro, you can't. Don't pull up the guitar yeah, okay is.
Speaker 5:Is Enlightenment picks the one that's doing y'all's like um y'all videos that y'all are putting out right now for Love Supreme California.
Speaker 3:So as of right now, the most recent ones that have been seen as um brother, joshua, he's also been tapping in with his uh visual arts, uh tip, I believe he's been, yeah, he's been. I don't know that camera, but his camera's nice. He's been using but that's who's been uh getting the caption, everything that in that shit. Recently too, he's been, he's been doing that thing.
Speaker 5:Shots of the brother black guy wow man, black guy, nine man you in the BTS, all, the, all that wow, man, yo, I love, I love the videos, man, I know everybody's like coming in y'all kind of like putting it together as well as like this um, you know y'all discovering new mutants out there and he's breaking the mentally the school of the same. Yo, yo, I love it, man, I love it.
Speaker 3:That's what the expert 97 man.
Speaker 5:So yo, I gotta ask this man um, you said you you played bass, man, how did you, when did you decide, like you know what man, I want, to pick up bass and start learning it? Um, and how long have you been playing that instrument?
Speaker 3:I'd say I first wanted to pick it up. Just hearing a lot of stuff like growing up, like for a conversation I've been digging since before even like really picked up an instrument. So having a lot of instruments but any of the ill basics you know, I mean uh, and inspired me to want to pick up eventually, you know, like a upright obviously I'm out there yet but initially I immediately fell for the basic fundamentals and I was a happy guitar, have a, have fun with that. But let me pick that up. And this is both uh circle. Around 2015, I was gifted a guitar from one of my ex-girlfriends and then a nice microphone I still use to this day, and then with another, yeah, I would say with my tax return, my first tax return I caught like after high school. I was like, let me pick up a bass. And also, I want to. I'm a heavy connoisseur games, let me buy you the game.
Speaker 3:So I bought xbox too and so, uh, so I got the bass and then didn't really intentionally have the what I'm doing now and still working towards the way I want to be in mind yet, but I wanted to have that my arsenal to. I have the tools around me and I can still build with it and, you know, work with whatever. And then, just after this is while I'm over on um, on campus, in the dorms over in Cal State, san Marco, so I'm like, all right, let me on my downtime, let me, let me see what's good with it. And then my roommates like yo, I gotta get tired too. So they're always trying to mess around with the sounds and then, after all, you know whatever type of drum loop in the background. And then, well, I started picking up the bass and then just trying to get funky with it and then, yeah, eventually, it's all right, let me once again.
Speaker 3:Circa 2015-17, I was like, let me really focus and kind of like get a better understanding. And I'm still trying to get the best understanding. I'm not the best with theory, but I want to get a lot better with it. Uh, just with how to work around it, um, and have fun with it. You know, if someone asks like I need a bass line. How can I work on it and then get that going and that's.
Speaker 3:That's been a lot of the fun just over the years, just evolving and getting a better ear, understanding, you know how to, you know where's what you know. I mean, uh, work on my way around everything and just having fun with it. And also, yeah, just just that part, just when I'm trying to grow around myself, just have fun with it because I'm not having fun and you take a step back and, like yo, I'm not doing what I initially, you know, picked up the bass for you know, I picked it up to have fun and then eventually, when I have a the best understanding as I'm still growing, inspire folks the way I've been inspired. I've all the illicit that I've been blessed to hear or be around, which is, yeah, that's the pretty much all that man, have fun everybody.
Speaker 5:Y'all hear my man, yo have fun, yo, you gotta like, you gotta have fun, man. That's a major component when it comes to your uh, your expression, man, whether it be in music, art or writing, or you know visuals, whatever it is, whatever it's going to be, man, you gotta have fun.
Speaker 3:You know, that's major, major key you just dropped right there, man facts, man if you know, have a fun, take a step back, go read a book, go spend some time with your family, love ones. We're blessed to have them go outside. You know, do something. We drink some water do something man.
Speaker 5:So okay, speaking of families, right? So, um you, well, let's, let's ask this question. When you were growing up, what was being played like, what types of music are being played, and you know who was who was playing this music and exposing you to these different variations of musical geniuses that we have now?
Speaker 3:man, oh, dang, both my parents have been blessed. I have, you know both them. You know, raised me around a very like various, like wild, you know, genre of selection, a little palette I guess you'd say um grew up, you know, anywhere from like Anita Baker to you know the stylistics, to, uh, you know, sam Cook, to some Chopin, some lists, some, uh, you know, hubbard, uh, lonnie Liston Smith, um, both okay, I come from like a diverse background like black, mexican, native American and French, uh split between both my parents. So having, um, like both of them have their elements like a lot of Latin stuff on my mom's side. So, like I still have some of the first records that actually inspired me to dig was like a handful of like Latin records, some old like R&B records, uh, like some Peter Frampton uh random stuff on my parents gifted me and I was like you know what, let me, let me start this actually like, uh, how do you say this? I'll be and take it as like eventually, one day, you know I mean in the homies, whoever are myself, uh, you know Craig, like uh, you know, uh, the business side of me, you know, exporting the collection I have or some type of stuff like that, um, yeah, both, both my parents honestly blessed me. Everything like you know, know what Jones like, uh, anything like every yeah, I can't even think of anything I rush like I haven't really like was exposed to the basics not so like that, because I know some people really exposed to it like everything you could imagine for like the various hits from all the various genres I would say I was thankful to be exposed to and it was like a very biased like you can't listen to this or that. It's like if you like this rock with it and I was blessed to like if you know you, you know, you know, yeah, you want to do something you like, do what you got to work towards it and then, you know, you know, get it like.
Speaker 3:I've been always had that mentality. Like all the equipment I have, the vinyl I have, other than like the handful I've been blessed with my parents like a few over the years I caught myself heavy equipment I caught and with the intention of like yo, it's the intention, it's an investment and there's just so much stuff with it. It's like it's a piece of history and I'm really trying to get to break it down, like whether it's digging with the homies at record shops and just reading, spending hours just having them out. Can you throw this on so I can hear it? And then just reading the linings liner notes and just like, oh, this is who's on that. Let me go check out other shit from Reggie Workman or some Mon Carter like what are they doing? And that kind of like helped me to get a better like taste of all of me.
Speaker 3:Take some crazy ass riff from like I don't know some David Newman on some like fucking, I'm over digging through my shit. That we'll do Like some Ron Carter David Newman makes with some Paul Desmond I don't know. Throw on some I don't know Jaws Giants, like the young Jaws Giants chefs out to that too. That also inspired me at a young age Like hearing, even though I was older than they were obviously older, like a young Kamasi Washington and thunder cat and like all these cats going to school and high school killing it and like yo, even though I mean they had a lot of like history and family behind. That was like influence.
Speaker 3:But the homies they wanted to rock with and like build with, solidify. This is what we want to do when we run with it. That's what they did intentionally and committed to, and that's what they've been doing. As we see, all of them have a beautiful thing and that's what I'm thankful to be around with all the many votes, not just immediately. It loves to paint, mother, but like all the collectives that around this are so many of them in like for real burgers and beets. You know LDC, ll. You know what I mean.
Speaker 5:Like they're shooting JDC records. Excuse me.
Speaker 3:JDC. You know what I mean. We got beat cinema. Like there's this dummy of them Ladies love loops, like everything around this duck world. All the homies over here, this is my beats over in San Diego doing for crazy shit. Like there's a bunch of stuff and then shots out to the homies that like Matt EJ and them that allowed us to mainly specifically to have my first show over and lockdown to be with yeah, you have that name, that should be dope, be able to rock and be on the platform for that Cause. That helped me to be like all right, people actually want to hear this.
Speaker 3:And then, like I'm gonna get the shit going to drop in that conversation you're asking earlier the intentional time so from around 2015 to 17 was like let me get jiggy with understanding the guitar bass. And then 2018 to like 20 was getting nice with the bass, and then from then on was all right, this is like beats with bass and then beats adding bass, and also I don't do too crazy but I fiddle with the facts and like the aerophone and stuff and incorporate that here and there and then, oh, there's a lot of random stuff around the house, like you know, try to have if I can add into it some crazy shit, but yeah, just not, not. I'm not even limiting your, your, your sandbox. You know what I mean? Right, there's this endless stuff around you Like there's cars just driving by me right now. If I have my outdoor mic, I have that money for I sit here and just catch that and just yeah, I don't know, it's beautiful man.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man, yo yo yo, yo, yo yo yo yo, yo yo yo. That's great, yo, first of all just doing research, man, yes, your, your dad or your mom? I think your dad is a veteran, right, A Navy veteran, yes, sir.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir, shuss up to my father, you know.
Speaker 5:Yo shout out to your pops, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I did a lot of traveling. All traveling as a kid. All over.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I was personally born. I was born in Corpus Christi, texas, lived there for a bit. You lived through some tornado little floods, moved to North Carolina for a little bit, then went to Virginia, stayed in Virginia for a minute you know they had like a little hurricane out that way and then we moved to, we drove from Virginia to here and on like like Riverside, like San Bernardino area, lived there for a minute and then eventually came to like where we're at now, like Menacea, between you know, temecula and Marietta, all that stuff for people that know the area. And then, from like then on, I've been here and then I was exposed to a handful of homies that I was able to grow with, to have solidified the friendship, to know that the fuck is up and then continue to have fun. It's dope.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man, yeah, shout out yo, yo shout out to your dad, man, for and you and your mom and your other siblings that may have been a part of this whole military journey. Man, we know it's crazy on families. You know what I mean. We got to start all over often and you know what I mean. But just the experiences that y'all get, man you know, just traveling around the world and stuff like that man, it's priceless, yo Shout out to him he did 20 plus years, I believe.
Speaker 3:Shout out to him he did his time.
Speaker 5:So I'm thankful for him and, yeah, yeah, enjoy that retirement man, yeah, I said chill out, yeah, enjoy your time off.
Speaker 3:Man, yeah, man.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so okay, I gotta ask you this, man, because you know you having a crazy vinyl collection. You know what I mean you being exposed to all of these different genres of music, man, and it's opening up your mind and expanding your musical palette. Well, first of all, what are you using these days in order to create music?
Speaker 3:I'm usually running through. Just FL equipment-wise I have like my little Mac was like I just recently was invested in a new Mac because, well, m1, because my old one just bit the dust. So we got that. Got my little new Mac, I run it through for the records, got the SP I need to get comfortable with and learn how to really make in the box and outside the box with. But all channel stuff is that for when I'm recording in-house, you know, exporting through my JBLs.
Speaker 3:I got my Ibanez. I have little jazz series. I got the little basic, the first one, I got the white one, then I got my 16. I got a few little guitars. I got a let's see, I'm messing with it. I have two sacks. I have a Alto and then I have a broken soprano that the homie gave me through a good build. I need to fix that. And then the Aerophone. So just that's the main stuff you'll hear like incorporated. And then you got like the M-Audio little keyboard for my MIDI. If I'm just messing around with dragging and dropping and cutting and all that stuff, let's see. Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 3:You should just, really should be simple, nothing too crazy.
Speaker 5:Nothing too crazy, yeah, yo, but what you do with it, man? You make these tracks like sing man. So, man, I mean, the number one thing I keep hearing you say is you've invested. You're investing in yourself, man. You invested in, you know, learning the bass guitar, learning the sax, learning music theory, investing in new laptop you know what I mean so you can create. You know what I mean. Investing in music and like, where did who gave you that mindset in order to just invest in yourself, man?
Speaker 3:First of all, obviously, my parents. You know God for blessing me with all the random individuals around me that I've either been how do you say a lesson for me to observe, or a lesson that I've experienced with or myself, but mainly just yeah, my parents really placed a great foundation. I give so much thanks God for blessing them to have like investment in different you know how do you say different allocations in life, not just in like one specific place, like, oh, wealth and financially, but you know, with like health, with you know longevity wise, like with family, like how you invest in your time. You don't want to just be a record-holic, obviously money's dope, but you don't want to commit to not even nine to five, like a five to like 10, I don't know and not be able to have time to actually be physically there, mentally there with you know, your loved ones while you have them. So invest in stuff like that. And then, obviously, the conversation of what you do spend your money on. Hopefully, you're making sure that it's something that you don't have to. You know, flip.
Speaker 3:You know there's a lot of records I have that could easily flip for crazy, but it's just like it's not for that. It's like what, what do you want from it? Like, what are you gonna do with it? Like you sit here and you know I collect manga, collect, you know, figurines, like stuff like that, like that's personal, like investments, like it makes me happy. So stuff like that remind me not just to do stuff for like external reasons, like I have to live, make sure I have investments that you know, support myself and stuff like that and have, you know, hopefully, uh, you know, backup savings for any day, stuff like that.
Speaker 3:But understand, I'm investing in like my you know, happiness, like I could die tomorrow. So not be too worked up in the future but have a balance. So I didn't thankful to be. You know well, well verse have. I don't read too too much all the time now, but I I try to read as much as I used to. So Just reading, being around people watching stuff, you know, just learning from my older, the family and loved ones is what helps me learn and kind of Help gauge where I want to be and what I want to do with my life.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so I'm blessed.
Speaker 3:I'm thankful.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yo shout out to your mom and dad, man for, and the people you've been a blessed to be around, man, just instilling that, that mindset in you, man, because that's super important. And and I want the internet to know something man like um, you are allowed to, like, do what makes you happy. Yeah, you got to take your business, especially if you, an adult like you, got to do the adult thing Pay your bills on time, you know, go to. You know if you got a job, you know do you do your best at your job. You know, um, feed the family, stuff like that. But then also you're allowed to create another world outside of um, work, you know I'm saying, and enjoy life, um, because that was another thing that was major when we had the pandemic too. Man is, you know like, what is working all of these hours and having money, what's it? What's what the fuck is it for then?
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean, you can't enjoy it, you know so yeah um, but yo I gotta ask this question, um, because you know you're, you know a young gun and you're also, you know, in college and you know, I'm not sure if you have you're in full-time or have a job or anything like that. But yes, sir, what would be some advice you would give to somebody that's, you know, going through that right, they may be in high school, um, you know making beats, or you know, get ready to go to college, or you know, get ready to get a job and Stuff like that. What would be your advice to them, um, in order for them to Stay on the path and keep, keep creating, because you know jobs, job, school it takes a lot of energy, man, so majority of the time it's after school, it's after work, it's after, you know, studying and stuff like that, and where you get to create what you want to create, you know.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir. So for that I'd say, first and foremost, learn to just accept failure early as a given basic, like messages I was given. And also, you know, don't be in a rush to like Grow or also to get whatever it is you want, because obviously the cliche should, the journey is all what it's all about. But it is so mainly tying into balancing life, college school, all that type of stuff, and uh, so I'm full-time student. I tested some I close, working towards my business entrepreneurship degree. Um, yeah, we got like what? Six classes I'm taking this semester. I got a few more semesters for I get my bachelor's. I got a? Uh, associates and sociology. Uh, business, business ethics I wanted to teach originally but switched over to business and we doing that to tap it in with the music side.
Speaker 3:Um, so, full-time student, I Work full-time over at target. I'm like pay setting and like running different apartments at times or running the floor as well, as you know, maybe helping in specific departments in the Indian. So I'm from out at school doing homework or going to school to go straight to work. I'm doing that or that and then when I finally get some time, you know, eat, kicks, kick a little bit with the fan and all that. So that's love. But Learn how to balance your time wisely. You know, don't be too focused on once again, like all I need to have this right now. Um, like focus, like it's okay to like Not get what you want when you want it, if that makes sense, because, um, that's something I had, a how to get past, and definitely nothing. No, there's so many little lessons I want now I'm just turning 27 a few months ago and then not the time with so many lessons like Get rid of comparison out your mind, like there's no race. Just like, whatever it is you want to do, it's never too late to do something like if you Like, if you picked up an instrument, you picked up, uh, uh, how do you say a trade of talent? Um, you went to school and you dropped out or whatever. There's no issue with you know restart, I mean picking up and learning what you know, reevaluating, reevaluating. Well, what happened? How can I work from the past to where you are now? And, you know, get to where you want. Just take the time. You know, really, like I've learned over the time I've been reminded to family friends write this shit out, like physically, like Write it out. That kinesthetic energy helps get that like that stuff really manifested.
Speaker 3:Speak it aloud, you know, um, cut out a lot of the bullshit. Focus on what you're listening to and watching, because that plays a good mind of what you're feeding yourself outside, what you're physically feeding yourself. Read a book, go exercise, drink water. So that that's the main things I can say. Spend time with your loved ones like you have them and your friends and they don't. Don't take every day you have for granted, even if you know you're tired or something and someone says yo, let's go do something. Or you know fan wants to go see a movie and you know you're like man, I gotta do this or that. There's just balance your priorities. There's so much lessons in life. But yeah, that's that's, that's that's that can give you that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man, yo shot it. Yo, let me, let me snap that up, man, I got snapped that. You just gave them crazy gems right now, man, um. So, um, let's, let's talk about your music, man, because, um, you've been a part of some some pretty dope Um projects and this is just. I probably just scratched the surface doing research. Um, on you, jet lag, uh, drive man. But, yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5:You've been a part of um, man, you've been a part of the resonance uh external by uh, black and soft, which is like the collab between black guy nine and and tdot. I'm soft man. Um, you did a. It's called a solar chamber techniques man. That during was fire. Um, you see. And then you were also a part of um a nap in portland by black guy nine on a track called life. That was dope Um. And then you got you know baby steps one. You also did Um. You also did uh a track for you know release to grow to the beat tape by uh, by you and tdot, um, that was like 2020. I think y'all came out with that one, um, that was dope. And then I just see keep, keep growing, man, you man did the number one track. I mean, this is just right now, man, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have a number one favorite of yours Come, you know, soon.
Speaker 3:But yeah, definitely that's.
Speaker 5:but but the track you did for uh, and that's the force from the tree, ep. Oh yeah, tdot and the love ones, the soul's stature, that's shit, it's fine, I was right, that was a fun way.
Speaker 3:That was a fun one.
Speaker 5:Tell me, tell me about that track, man, because that track is Wow, yo, that's one of my favorites off that.
Speaker 3:I Appreciate, appreciate man as one of the main people I uh, you you will hear him get brought up often because he is a person just like the homie christian enlightenment pictures I grew up with since I was a kid when I first grew up and moved to menophe, I had christian was my first like kid, as a, as a little elementary grade school, and then I met t and around that time. So I have a lot of these like Memories spent with them and this is beautiful for conversation. I tie that in there because this is the first project I believe the three of us actually had been up like put ship shit together and you know, released it, uh, and yeah, it was the session, was Lily, just us kicking it at t's just you know, uh, uh, a lot of the time is we're just jamming. A lot of herb is being puffed, no spliffing tins and uh, you know having fun and maybe you know some wine or something, something, something classy, and yeah, just Going through a session and they're like yo, let's, let's jam, all right, we're jamming. And then you know we flipped one of the. That's just like.
Speaker 3:I think it was a freddy hugger like Ron Carter. Who else?
Speaker 3:is on that, john, you had just this stack. Yeah, uh, hubert law, it's like it was a heavy one and he was like all right, it was good with that that. Uh, I think it was a sax or that, uh, the flute that kind of led it. And then we just, you know, we're jamming and played the strings behind it, it just on some faded shit and it like all right, that shit sounds cool. And then you know, you know, to tea, don't just stay with the drums and then get crazy, as you always be doing, and then just helping to piece together the cuts. And then the mix was beautiful. And then, yeah, I forget who it's on the mix. I believe is either joshua or patch, from not mistaken shots of the your boy pecs crazy engineer. Um, I for the who was be a whoever did, whoever was fake. The shit Sounded nice.
Speaker 5:Roboto, yeah, roboto stooped, the kid stoop.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm wrong, she's me. Yeah, my bad, that's it yeah yeah, stoop kid Nick Roboto.
Speaker 5:And then track four was a deal. I'm on some ice shit. The other soul yeah.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, my polys family butchering that one. No, it's good, yo, that's about all the homies too. They killed that shit.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man cuz the oldest soul, roberto Lou nae, travis fun, travis Farnville, and then I think, yes, just y'all want on that that first track, man, but that first track of Emmett the force from the trees EP is it just says the rest of the the EP off, man, it's forward tracks. But I was like yo man, like we need more of this, because it's definitely don't you know, mean like that? I didn't get a cassette before man, so hopefully I can get a cassette when y'all we up.
Speaker 3:But no and that no, appreciate you for running me in that conversation. I forgot to after for the full conversation of how it got, you know, jammed out. That got jammed out and then it got sent and Bounced around all throughout, motherfucking us, all the homies. And that's what's another beautiful thing with how Everyone be doing. It's happening with all parts of the coast and you got the east coast, got the Midwest, you got the south west coast, you got homies over in like Tanzania and like the UK Tapping in for these, this project and then other projects and that song specifically. It's crazy to think about that. I mean, really think about that. Like that damn. This is a lot of like outside of the conversation of like love supreme Avengers, like there's so many other, like Like justice league type shit, like other type of conglomerates that are already by been sub-sub-drawn, love fucking suicide. I don't know any type of you know squad. You got the, the Illuminati and not not level, but on the intelligent ones, the smart ones, right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that was yo, that's in the crazy one, but yo. And then you know you coming into, you know baby steps, the very first Baby steps, and then baby steps to. You came out with January 2023, right. So the evolution of your, your sound, man, between from the very first baby steps, the baby steps to, and the way you start off with your mind, is the weapon. Like that, that conversation with the music man is like man, I'm you. It's definitely like a hook, like you hook somebody with that first track and then you just enjoy the rest of this, it's, it's, it goes so fast, like but, but, but the but. The album goes so fat, like you don't even know, like cuz you just enjoying the music. You know I'm saying like it's so good man. So what? What do you attribute your, your evolution of your sound from baby steps, the first one, to baby steps to?
Speaker 3:Mainly Just exposing myself to more life, literally taking the time to not just for music, for conversation They'll do some other stuff like for comp, like there's a lot of times where those ideas were for conversation, the end of lockdown and like the end of the reopening into like will, will for conversation and All right, like if I'm getting like beat block, which is, you know, to an extent, something I'm gonna just take a step from whatever I have in this, go outside and maybe go smoke or go go for a hike with the homie and you know, I'll maybe just happen to have like for that conversation. Really, that I recorded, have us this, what we normally to record, conversation, and just that happened to be a random thing, that I was like all this on fire and then, alright, piecing it back together and just, yeah, being able to be in the world, reading, taking the time to really understand the equipment more and the, the program I'm using, fl. I don't use anything else other than FL. And yeah, learning from the homies around me, they, they don't, they don't, daddy say they don't Breastfeed me. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta find your own sound in the old name and that's the beautiful thing, like I, I personally, from my opinion, everyone has their own opinion. I don't think Any of us really have, and I love supreme having like oh, everyone sounds the same, like. Everyone has their own feeling vibe and I'm thankful to have. I still continue to find my own sound and hone into it.
Speaker 3:But, yeah, just Build off of like as anyone, they're all like to an extent, we learn from our environment, so a lot of that mainly play to him. Just, are you telling me how to help make this better? Aren't perfect? Oh, this is like how. Like this is a plug and that would be nice for the base. I'll build off of that. And then that better stuff like that. It is beautiful. And then, yeah, literally just taking the time to just a kid in a sandbox is experimenting.
Speaker 3:So when I do have breaks outside of school work, taking the time to, you know, have hiccups and you know mess up and like oh, that mess up actually might be what I want to use now for like a song a month later. And yeah, just learning stuff like that, not once they're not being too serious, even though like obviously always can get worked up. They're like yo, what, what is like what? I'm just gonna have fun and then eventually, like, when I'm intentionally trying to do something, don't limit whatever, wherever that feel is going if it's not going from. You know, if I have to say, if I wanted to go one way, obviously learning to not, you know, just limit it to where it could go. Like, no, I can go anywhere If I want to have this thing that I didn't expect to like, maybe we have the progress out differently and then may smash nice, but some keys or something or some flute, i'ma let that play out more as opposed to introducing the base or something like. Like that would have been not something I would have initially wanted to do, like a year ago or two years ago, but I understand in like spacing and just like still learning, like gaining and stuff like that, so like getting getting a Better Feel of what the hell I want to do. And then just, yeah, just remind myself, right, this is my sound, it's okay. Obviously, don't compare yourself to nobody else, because it's your own sound, and just have you know, own it. Yeah, I mean, it's just have fun with it, like, if it's not, what not? No, remind myself.
Speaker 3:I've learned, especially From then to now, from then, from baby steps, one to two, and especially from two to three, and now have a little bit more my arsenal to release other projects. There's so much, there's so much to do and just don't, don't be focused, you know, don't, don't, don't, don't worry about it. Like, just do your own thing. It's not a race. And when you want to release your stuff, you know, release it. It does not to be a monthly thing. It's beautiful. I'm inspired. All the homies getting crazy every fucking week, little techy crazy with that shit. I've inspired by that shit. I know it's like obviously everyone an understanding yourself, I'm on that right now with my timing, with my life. So it's like Understanding what I wanted to do and understanding like not everyone's going, like it was shit at the end of the day. So getting past that from at the first year to like now was a big curve, which I'm very thankful for.
Speaker 3:Women now, like I'm gonna play what I'm gonna play and it's not my fault, you know I got invited to play something somewhere. Or you know you happen to be here, I'm playing. If you don't like it, you know that's, that's on you. And if someone else is bumping it and they fuck with it, that's. I'm sorry you don't like my music, but I'm not making it to, you know, for anyone else other than myself. And then hopefully, if it does inspire someone, I'm dope, but I, I make some shit, that I have some fun late and just like yo, this is fun. And show my parents, like, what y'all think about this. Or hit my Nana up like it was good Nana, what do you think about this me? It's beautiful man, it's just fun.
Speaker 5:Yo, do you, do you play? Did you play baby steps for your parents and your Nana?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it was. They actually Sotted out because they be maybe tapping on my, my social media when they see me post us. I could even I could even tell them like, oh, I already listened to it and oh, like I don't like the vulgarity, but but, yeah, but. So like I like it was good, like the bees, like you know, the music sounded nice and sounding like you know you. I was like, oh, that's nice. So that's what you're doing. You know, whenever I'm, you know, at home, you know it's just, you know, in the lab and they're hearing some weird shit, it's like, or if I'm having night, I'll think I'm having my talking to someone else and just me like messing with some sounds I recorded and talking about it. This is like that, that's just funny. Oh, yes, I played it for them and they, they liked it. I'm thankful for that Support.
Speaker 5:Man like my standoff tracks. Man like your mind is the weapon. That's the first one. Um, negative is positive. Now, um, you got some change. Have fun with yourself. Um, what else? Um, conversations with my conscious, uh, what else? Uh, rise and shine, man. I wanted more perspective too, man, because that's your own inspire. How you ended it. You know it's crazy, man, but um, man, so okay, I'm let me, let me kind of round this out, man, yeah, do you think, though? So you, you know I love supreme man, you performing. I don't know how many years you've been performing live, um, but when I seen, well, I saw you one of your performances on um, when I love supreme california's twitch channel, um, and I think it was you starting off. Yeah, the spacey like raw esque, like Yo, what you was doing? I was yo blowing my mind over here in the in texas man, I was like yo, what the hell? Yo, so I? That's one of the reasons why I definitely got a tap in with y'all Um soon, man, I'm only four states away, so we need you.
Speaker 3:We'll be dope to have you get funky out here bro.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man, um, um. But yo like what, what goes into your, your thought process when you know you got up a beat show or beat performance coming up.
Speaker 3:Well, you talking to me like right now, I got a show tomorrow, that's the 24 hours. But uh, yeah, for rooster realms again. Um, for conversation, what goes into mine is one, first and foremost, get a good understanding of like what I want to do, like as a means of what feel I want, because, um, I get reminded, because I get in my head up to a lot of times by, like the homie, josh waterley. He's like bro, you, you have a lot of cuts, like you know. Just there's some. Not, you don't have to play like a 10 hour set, like you know, play like whatever. So you know, just remind myself, what do I intentionally want to go for for the day. So that's, that's one of the conversations I think about. All right, what, what vibe I want to go for.
Speaker 3:And then to, am I playing new shit? Or oh shit. And then I'm playing strictly new stuff because I always want to play like, uh, I never want to play the same set I never have. So you're never hearing the same song and if you do hear, maybe it's a second time you're hearing it and yeah, that's, that's it. You're not gonna hear it every time. So I try to have, uh, how do you say like a nice cycle of the sounds I'm showing people like I've played a lot of baby steps three and then some jet black stuff and uh, uh, projects that I haven't even named yet but have a like a playlist of out for in mind, that I have played a lot of or, you know, shared a, whether at live shows or not. So it's like all right, do I want to play those and how am I going to go about that?
Speaker 3:And then I think, also other random human conversation when I'm getting anxious, like oh damn, I gotta you know the human side like I gotta play in front of some people like look like Um shout out to wave roof from beat cinema and um, him and I homies around them you know kobi and all them, and I remember this puffing before I think um, I performed there earlier, last mid, last year, I believe and Just like yo, like you're just playing music. You playing your sounds for, like your friends and then other people You're either never gonna see again or people once again. Who gives a fuck about? Like as a, as a means of opinion, because you plan it. You made this music for yourself and also for people that you Bop too. You know, you don't have to fall in love with you, so just have fun. So that same narrative tying to that, like don't get too in your head about it has to be perfect or I have to have my transitions blended.
Speaker 3:perfect Like no. Like I obviously plan ahead and trying to get it sounding, you know, nice, but if it's not perfect I'm not gonna, you know, you know, sit there and I'll stand at the world. I got to stop my set for five minutes now, like when I first like my first live set. I think I hooked up and then had like five minutes just trying to refix my program but it wasn't like the end of the world for conversation, thankfully. But from then to like now for conversation, it's like yo, you know, if you mess up, the crowd's thinking like you remix in the same song, like no one's gonna know until you make it known. So all that tied into, yeah, just try to approach it Like I'm just trying to play beach, like new sounds for the homies and people that whoever wants to hear it can enjoy it. If not, here's some sounds for you to hear in the background while you're talking with your friends and marker dozing.
Speaker 3:So that's the type of vibe like I come forward to for like live sets, because I didn't have my first live set for conversation in person until open ox somewhere. I forget. And then I love Supreme and then once again shouts out to Maddie J and it's slipping my mind. Right now I feel it's bad the Farsight TV for their lockdown. That first COVID like online set that was my first official set and that went well. I was thankful for it too. So from then to now, just yeah, be half one and understand like yo. Just not the end of the world. If you know people don't fuck with it, just go out there and play your sounds and enjoy your time.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's dope advice, man, that they're giving you Cause you're right, like nobody's going to know if you make a mistake unless you just let it be known and you just freak out and stuff like that. But if you keep it moving, you know they just they want to see what you do, like it's almost like they first time listeners, you know, trying to figure out like all right, who is this person playing this music? Do I want to support them? Do I want to follow them on socials and by their music and listen and you know stuff like that, man. But man, I'm glad that advice was given to just have fun. You got a lot of cuts, just you know what I mean. Pick a sound and just go play, man, and have fun. You know that part man. Yeah, what's been one of the most memorable, memorable or significant moments from your journey so far?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Damn, that's a big one. I'm thankful to have a lot to think of, so many memories with so many different times that were either lessons or super dope times, ah, damn, so, off the top, the one, my go-to. This has always just made me like, reminded me like yo, I appreciate. You know God, the universe, whatever you want to call it. I always said God telling me like yo, you're doing, you're on the right path and you know, especially towards the start of what I was, you know, you really see music, when we had the homies come down young Roberto, jay Hill and at the time, those low tech thank you, brother, thank you came down and they had Airbnb and we were just rocking before Left of Pain, we even created and we're just kicking it and, yeah, we're just having a great time like having them. And then they had an Airbnb, like about 10 minutes from my crib, like in T's crib, because we live up the street, not too far from each other. So we meet.
Speaker 3:So we all went to get Jay Hill ill, ill, ill, ill, ill. Let's do. You got Roberto, low tech. You got, I believe, job. Joshua. Brother Blackout was there. T Dot was there. Christian was getting flicks. You had myself. We had brother orc music killer with it. He pulled up and just a bunch of their, I believe, to key pulled up.
Speaker 3:I don't remember all the days because I remember I wasn't there for all of them. Brother soloist was there too and just having that vibe of like yo, we have so many dope heads, and this isn't all that he tapping into like the full, like all the heads of other events and other sessions, but that was like yo, this is dope, like take this and like enjoy this. Because this is like one of the first of like many like yo. Just vibes and reminders of like just keep going and have fun with it and, yeah, just building with a lot of been a loved one since then and just having fun with it. It's literally since I think that was one of my favorite because, yeah, we made dummy cuts through and then we had like dope, dope little memories going to the beach, you know, going to hit ramen spots I love ramen, one of my favorite things to do, Dick and ramen, you know, record shopping, just hiking, just little stuff, just getting to know each other more, because at that time a lot of us had either just towards the end of lockdown, when shit was first opening up.
Speaker 3:So our stuff wasn't fully opened up, so we were just getting to know each other outside of like how do you say outside of social media, because we would zoom like it's actually to the brothers, because I wasn't always able to make it because of school and shit, but almost like three times, four times a week the brothers were in a zoom just talking about life and obviously you know making music and you know getting other inside like how is this sound? How could I make some stuff like that? Or making you know, send me that, like let me add this stuff. Like that was handing like a lot of the time during lockdown to the end and then to like the opening of stuff. So we were officially meeting each other in person outside of, you know, just knowing each other through zoom, and it was dope. So that also cemented a lot of friendships and yeah, all the honeys are dope man.
Speaker 3:That time was probably one of my favorite moments that I can recall from like recent times. Outside of like all the you know shows or concerts is going to get food with some friends outside of like doing anything musically digging it's always fun Like, yeah, hidden pooba, I love just going to new becker shops with honeys. That's another experience that I always enjoy. Yeah, there's so many new things.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man, that was a crazy time. Yo, that was literally just three, four years ago, man, that we just went through that Right Time be, wow, you know time be flying man. Um, yo, so, so, um, jet lag man, as as we round this out. Um, that's very serious. These are my last, maybe last three questions. Yeah, go ahead First one is if there's one piece of advice that you can give to your future self where you are right now, what would it be?
Speaker 3:Oh, shh, shh, shh shh, be more patient and be more present. I would think this because just I know as much as I plan ahead I do that too much Sometimes recently with getting caught up with how things go with like your life. So just slow down and you know, like enjoy where you've come and then remind yourself you know, maybe you know every few years I might need to, you know, reach back myself what are my goals and you'll be thankful for how far I come. And then you know there's so much more to do and there's always something more to achieve and there's always something to learn. And I could always level up in some way, shape or form until there's never like I don't accomplish, just to remind myself that I guess, oh, this obviously accomplished things, but I mean I could always be nicer than you know what I mean. So that's kind of the conversation.
Speaker 5:I get it. That's dope. Now the second question is how can people tap into you? I think I heard you say there's a Baby, Steps 3.
Speaker 3:Am I tripping right now, Cause I yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I so you got Baby Steps 3, it's been low key long away. I was supposed to drop it on my birthday. That's so bad. I was supposed to, you know, give the people some new sounds over a few months now, but it's about a year since the last time I dropped something. So I'm thinking about dropping something like I mean soon, like y'all might even see me in the next few weeks, if not the next month. So, yeah, I might see a little bit of a rollout. I'm gonna get some more stuff just solidified as me to track list. So Baby Steps 3 is definitely done. It's just a matter of testing my order of how I want that and exactly what I'd like to give y'all.
Speaker 3:We got Baby Steps 4 marinated, but that one is on the back burner cause I want to put a lot more instrumentation and, yeah, a lot, lot more. Like, all right, this is just fun, but it's like you're like yo, here's some bass shit, some shit that makes you like get that snake face. And then I got Jet Black Joshua, my brother, black God Joshua, and I got to finish the project. So he and I I feel so bad because my brother is, he's a workaholic, he kills it with the beats. He's not working his own stuff, he's mixing something or doing something else, so he's killing it. So I'll be having to flip and schedule cause I'm a busy bee, but I guess got to pull up and finish my part for, like the how do you say some of the instrumentation side, cause it's a collab projects between. So I'm not just doing bass, we both doing the, you bounce between who's doing drums or who's doing the sample, or we've playing some keys for this genre, since, like it's both of us like, oh, this is where you want to take it and I love that dude cause ever since I met him. So it could like before lockdown 2018, I should say in the 2017, we would just jam and not have to say shit and just, yeah, just we would take it there and it felt like church. I always loved jamming with him, so that type of shit. We just got to, I got to. We can disappoint myself this next few weeks to get Jet Black done on my end, cause he's always ready and cooking.
Speaker 3:So that's going to be coming out this next season. I'm not going to reveal too much. And then there is also, you know, we got monthly beat compilation is going to be coming out through a love supreme. So y'all going to be getting, if I'm not mistaken, monthly editions of all the hummies that I was able to pull up and you know it was good with the show, show what the hummies are doing for that month. And each of us has, you know, a track, if not multiple tracks.
Speaker 3:And, yeah, just give it a divide. Brother Pax is holding it down with the master and Nixon and all that fun stuff, the scientists, the wizard, yeah, so we're going to be getting that for other like projects when we're part of and then just a few other hummies I have I'm just trying to deal with. I've got projects as a means of like having hummies wrap on, but the titles and like full fleshed out stuff hasn't been solidified, so I'm not going to tease y'all too much, but there's a lot of stuff in the works this next month. Plus you don't have baby steps three and some other stuff, maybe some teasers for Jet Black and, yeah, keep on a lookout for visuals and all the hummies. You might just hear some bass lines or some other. You know Travis, little sprinkles here and there and that shit.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man, you got a lot of stuff happening Yo 2024, 20, yo it's about to be crazy. I'm excited for this man. I'm excited for these albums. Man, Yo baby steps three, baby steps four, or just say black.
Speaker 3:Jet.
Speaker 5:Black Jet. Black Travis. Black guy Jet.
Speaker 3:Black.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man. Then the love supreme compilations, man. Wow, yo man, yo listen intimacy. If y'all not tapping into, you know what I mean. Jet Black, travis man, and I love supreme what they doing.
Speaker 5:Man, y'all need to get hit like right now, man Cause, like Thank you bro, I love what y'all doing man, like that's man I wish, and I think we were about to start setting some things up for my Austin crew. But San Antonio I got a couple of people that I'm linking with right now, so I think we about to start building too. But, man, I'm excited for y'all man, I'm super excited for y'all man. We support you over here at the Red Show, thank you. Thank you, jet Black man. How can the internet follow you, man? And we're working a? You know, support your music and buy an album and you know stuff like that man.
Speaker 3:All right. So, first and foremost, I go by yeah, Once again, Jetlight Trive is the brother said, that's the ad. You can find me on just about everything, all the socials. I'm not on TikTok. You gonna catch me on predominantly just Bandcamp, and I'm gonna start uploading stuff that doesn't have a home on SoundCloud to just bring back that vibe but dropping stuff on there again. And so, yeah, mainly just Bandcamp. Jetlight Trive slash, Travis Farnville. You can find me on either of those Instagram all those same handle. I don't believe. Yeah, I'm not gonna have, I don't have anything else on Apple or any other like other, like external spots. Right now, for a reason I wanna have a good amount of the series done and then I wanna do a treat for y'all before I release stuff to the outer worlds on everything else. So, yeah, that's pretty much it, Just yeah, Jetlight Trive, if not Travis Farnville, that's me. I appreciate y'all for the time man Shout out to brother Goldamind he's the illest, Yo man you, the illest bro Like y'all, really killing it.
Speaker 5:Man Like yo, I'm really digging what y'all doing. Man Yo, once again, Internet's the one and only Jetlight Trive man, Travis Farnville, man he's a college student. He's a bassist. He's a beat maker, he's a instrumentalist. He's a what else you doing man? He's a live performer.
Speaker 3:Business entrepreneur, you gonna catch some businesses start popping off these next few years. Yeah, I mean, just keep your eyes out, man.
Speaker 5:Man, what else? What else you doing, man? He's a collaborator man. I'm a collaborator man, I'm a artist. He's a collector.
Speaker 3:I'm an anime fan, I love vinyl, I love cassettes. I'm over here looking at some new shirts I got from a grip of homies that are crazy. Yeah, shout out to, first and foremost, all the homies that are doing your art and doing your thing. Shout out to y'all. But even more, shout out to everyone doing merch, because y'all killing it, y'all pushing it, indie artists, for real. And if y'all have merch and y'all wanna tap in outside of this, you know feel free to hit me in the DMs. I'm open to you know, get a shout out or anything. It doesn't have to be about music. You know, if you wanna send me your link to merch, y'all tap in. I love collecting art, but even more we can talk about life, anime. You know what you gonna eat ramen, anything, man. I'm an open book. But, yeah, just feel free to hit me up y'all. I appreciate y'all for your time. If you don't wanna listen, enjoy any of the other people. Go to mine. There's so many crazy artists around me. I appreciate every year for real. Thank y'all.
Speaker 5:Yeah, man yo Travis Romville, AKA Jett Lag Travis. Any final thoughts? The internet.
Speaker 3:Ah, man, final thoughts. I love y'all, thank y'all for the patience. I know the people that be like yo, what's he doing? Got been, got been patient. So I appreciate y'all for real, for real. But, yeah, appreciate y'all. Just look forward to this more music, look forward to more love coming from all of all the loves of playing with myself and just, yeah, I'm trying to be tapping in with a lot more of everyone. You know, don't be surprised if you see me over in another country just digging and kicking it with your homies. You should be kicking it with us too. Ha ha ha.
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