Deorro signs deal w/ DOUBLE P RECORDS, EDC, Mexico National Team collab, Electro-Corridos

Deorro signs deal w/ DOUBLE P RECORDS, EDC, Mexico National Team collab, Electro-Corridos

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Making something on your laptop, what it can take, where
it can take you. You know, he y'are coming me
down on you know, me and my team Loki Celebrats, Like,
hell yeah, bro, we're doing Baja. You know. You know,
I come from doing the house parties and you know,
with my dad, we did a lot of like like
like you know, we did a lot of you know
that my collab with those kanas happened, and I remember
when I went up to them, I told him, I
was just like, you know, it's just like I know,

(00:21):
I'm a DJ, and I know you guys are a
group of you know, and like, I know this is
gonna sound crazy, but let's.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Collabse Bem Venias at the podcast. What's up, guys, Welcome
back to another I WOS podcast. We are here once
again at the Spotify students with a special guest.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Oh let's go.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Thank you so much for the inte big fan.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
At even trying to do the podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
But you're so busy, I know, you know, but but
but thank you for making this work. Man Like as
soon as he told me, I think I found out yesterday, right, Yes,
I think we found out yesterday. Or when did you.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh, bro, there's been eighty five.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, because you told me it's like you do tomorrow.
I was like, I'm in bro, I think I moved
some things around.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Are you from the link?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, you can't tell what the big tattoo right here?
Actually I see fam.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Oh yeah, next tattoo. Honestly, at that point I was
already taking care of them, so bettle the first tattoos,
he man.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Bro, we don't have any. I feel like maybe maybe
this year.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, I mean ye should have hell yeah, bro, every
tattoo her from me, but me. You know, I don't
believe anybody when they say no, no, no, leo. I'm my bro.
It's a needle, dragon, a crusher skin. I done id
F hours to for hours. Yeah, this one, this one
was the most painful one. Just puttle shading. Yeah we should.
You should get a tattoo here next time, just be like.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Imagine, I feel like we would start crying. Bro. It's
like when they make him fall as sleeps, like, no,
he's just passed on.

Speaker 6 (02:05):
To make him up, we wake up, you know, the tattoos.
But I feel like sometimes it's such a big deal
for people. But about her beach first, did you see
in the back.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
How do tattoos?

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, bro, you know what, you know what I think
it is. I think it's for people when people like
first get into them. Obviously, like the same time with me, Bro,
I wanted something meaningful. Now now it's just like I'll
get whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
You know, my friend never had a tattoo.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
He's supposed to a neck tattoo right here. He got
a big cross right here.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
It's a lower case tea.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
You know. But we got to well I got to
see you about her beach first. How was that experience
like for you?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It was great, bro? Honestly, like you know, playing something
like the beach first, you know, it's just like damn,
that's bad ass, bro. You know, like it's incredible. You
know what making something on your laptop, what it can take,
where it can take you. You know, yeah, come and
be down on you know, me and my team with
Loki celebrators like hell yeah bro doing Baja you know.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
And uh bro, if you see the picture that I posted,
I mean, bro, people endless, endless people. Yeah, and these
people you know, it's it's insane, bro. And you know,
I got the opportunity to bring out some homies and
you know, Alex Fabel Obama and it was cool. It
was interesting though. Some one thing that a lot of
people don't know is so obviously, you know, we use
monitors and stuff, but musica and I mixed. Sometimes I

(03:29):
mix my years. Sometimes I don't need to mix because
I see the bp MS battle. I had the main
stage to my left, and obviously, like the main stage
is cranking bro volume. I thought, I'm oldy bro so,
but it's at a distance. It's probably like I don't know,
like maybe like a football field the way or like
I don't know, and and there's a delay, and so

(03:49):
I have to make sure that if I'm clapping or
anything like that, or if I'm singing, I'm singing to
the stage, because that's what everybody's listening to, you know,
but even though I'm actually like one second or two
seconds ahead, you know. But for me, it wasn't much
of a big deal because I would just put my
headphones on, crank them and mix, and then take them off,
and then I listened to the main stage bat or

(04:10):
whenever I had my singers up, you know, they were okay.
You could tell they were just like, oh ship, what
the hell you know, and I just crank my monitors,
but the main stage, but uh but yeah, I mean
it's fun challenge, you know, and yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
That's it's cool getting that perspective because I didn't hear
none of that. I feel like people are like already.
What they really like though, from right there with your
set was that they had like a different stage, like
more in the middle.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Yeah, because I feel like it was cool for like
all the people in the back, like I don't know where,
like they're in the front.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, you know, and you know, something that Mexico does
a lot is they really separate GA from VP.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
All the way. It was so cool.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
And and that's why I liked, what was it that
he does that? Then you flow how he went out.
That's fire, but that's not that that's the kind of
things that like like people would appreciate, you know, like
that's fire. And yeah, you're right. I ended up right
in front of the GA and the VP was off
to my left, and like, you know, things like that,
you give people experienced stuff and then they they're great

(05:07):
for the like, oh, GA, it was actually pretty lit,
you know.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
No, definitely, I think, uh maybe it was one of
the times when people got the most hyped up.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
That's what I think because I was I.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
Was in the back and I was with Chris and
it was like, oh, let's go watch it likes and
people got that pretty.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Cool man to go. Like like, for me, I want
people like to come to my set. You know, I
come from doing the house parties and you know, with
my dad, we did a lot of like like like
you know, we did a lot of Olas sign pretty
America bullshit, you know, and you know, the whole point
is to is to to to start the party off.
You know, you start off with some more mellow stuff
with the comment and then at the end of the

(05:42):
night put up peak out, you know, peak out, and
there's different families.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Those families are like more med Anga, those families are
like more Randa, those families are like Moretania stuff. So
it's kind of like but then when you go to
a festival like that, it's just like it's a mix.
So it's kind of like you have to try to
get a little bit of everything. And then obviously I
come from the ADM world, so I tried that that's
what I try to bridge it with. And uh, you know,
that's my goal. Bro, for people to be like Dawn
that was low key, that was a party, you know. Yah,

(06:05):
So that's the goal, bro.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
So you always got to read the crowd one.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Hundred percent, one hundred percent, like no matter what. Like
you know, I've gotten you know, advice saying like oh,
just play whatever you want.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
It's just like, Bro, it's like I need to feed
off the crowd one hundred percent. And like for me,
it's like a challenge and it only makes me. It
keeps my it keeps my attention sharp if I just
always feed off the crowd, because if I stop feeding
off the crowd, then I could lose my touch, you know,
like you know you start. It's a practice. So like
for me, like I always read the crowd and and

(06:35):
sometimes like shows like Baha, Bro is just like Bro,
you can play whatever here. You know, people are getting down,
people are here just happy to be here. You have
those shows where people are just happy to be there.
It doesn't matter where you play, bro, people are gonna
be like yeah, go you know, and you know, you
get those shows, but then you get your more specific
shows where you know, sometimes vagas shows are each show
could be different than the last and something as simple

(06:57):
as like a convention. You know, there's like a there's there,
there's like a country convention, so there's a lot of
country fans in the crowd, you know, so it's kind
of like, Okay, I gotta gotta make this some Morgan
Walling or something.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
It's like but but it's good to have that knowledge
and our driver that picks us up. That's why I
always ask him what's happening this weekend? What's happening you know, yeah,
and he'll be like, oh, like oh, there's the fight.
You know, it's like hell hell mankind out here. You know.
So it's like it's good information. And then right before,
right before the cell like put my photo together and
you know, like that that's definitely the kind of DJ.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
So I feel like something also part of your job
is to see what's like popping at the moment, right
and every genre then.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, definitely bro And then you know, so music, so
it's like obviously I also I also produced my own stuff,
you know, like when when you know, like like Trono's
Dope and I felt like we needed a Toronto two
point zero, so like, you know, I worked really hard
to make my collab with because Kanas happened. And I
remember when I went up to I tote him. I
was just like, you know, it's just like I know
I'm a DJ, and I know you guys are a

(07:58):
group of you know, and like I know this is
gonna crazy, but let's collapse, you know. And yeah that
that that song, believe it or not, it was four
years in the making, bro, because you know, and and
he's a legend. Bro, He's a legend. Bro. When when
when he invited me to the studios right before I left,
he was like, let's go up to my office, you know.

(08:19):
So we all went upstairs. Bro, I sort of got
a wall longer than this wall. Budle Awards like being
my awards, psych lokey replexing on me. I think he's
just like, hey, this is who you're working with, you know,
and like it was good. Bro. It was like it's hell, yeah,
I hope ours ends up on there too, you know.
So like it was a lot of work, broid OVERO,
Like I care so much about music. I respect music

(08:40):
so much that like I'm going to put all the
work in until until you know, until music I get,
I get, I get what I'm looking for and yeah, Bro, Mediola, Confianza.
They were patient with me. And you know, the first
two years I was just studying a lot of the
kind of sounds you know them back in the day
and the newer stuff. And then I was finally confident
enough to be able to produce my own thing to

(09:00):
where I was. I was confident with the bass, I
was confident with about how sex do. I was competing
with the drums and everything.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, So then when I finally showed them the idea,
they were just like, Okay, let's let's do this. What's next?

Speaker 5 (09:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I was just like, get all the musicals together, let
let's go record it. And then you know, it happened
like that.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Bro, and had a oh go ahead ahead. During that time.
Was it hard for you to like work with all
those instruments? No, you know what?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Like again, Bro, like it's exciting to mess with new sounds.
You know, I was. I had no idea what about
how sexty was? You know, I was just like, how
the hell can I get that sound with the guitar? Bro,
I had a regular night long guitar and yeah, Bro,
I was going through things and obviously I would look
up his guitar, I'm like, his guitar looks like a
like it looks a little different, but like I don't
understand what's happening. Like yeah. And then so I was

(09:48):
supposed to remix lectron now, you know, but in the
back of my head, I was like, nah, I want
to do I want to make an original with these guys,
you know. But obviously I was saying I got a
look on Fianza start the relationship. I was like, okay,
I'll remix Toronto. And you know, they were sending me
the stems, and the stems helped me a lot because
I was able to hear just the guitar by itself,
sex by itself, and I was like, this doesn't sound
like guitar. This is something else. And I remember we

(10:12):
we had two studio sessions. The first day we sat
down and we worked on I was working on Latrona
all day in front of him Bro, literally with him
right next to me, and I told him, I was
just like, it's a whole sex And I was just
like that changed everything for me.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
You know, it is a huge learning curve, Bro.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
But like that, that's why it makes these kind of
collaborations so much fun for me, Bro, because it's not
like it's not like I could go online and be like,
what what a Toronto two point o sound like? You know,
it's like I have to pretty much learn how to
invent it and that that's that's like, you know, it's
like it's like you're you're you're stepping into new grounds
and how do you bridge em electronic music with with

(10:49):
you know, like that kind of style, and how do
you do it in a way where where the fans
of thos would accept it? You know, like how do
you how do you do it in a way where
where where where to them? No suscucca extra, you know,
like it sounds like, hey, this is to kandis this
is this is we love to about the same time
it's something.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
New, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I feel like that's so hard to pressure this generation,
like you can mess with ship and like we would
acaid it, but like the older crowd.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Especially especially that crowd.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
That was.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
And I told him right, it's when I when I
first sat down at the dinner, I was like, hell
and nervous, Bron, you know what the other you know,
Bro was a little buzz and I needed the confidence, Bro,
But I told him I was, look, I understand, I
understand your world. Not in a way where like I
I could do it easy, but I understand like that
that it ain't going to be easy, you know, Okay,

(11:43):
And obviously I'm not messing with this anymone. I'm messing
with the best of the best of that genre, you know,
pioneers of that genre. So I told him I understand,
and I won't come back to you until I feel ready.

Speaker 7 (11:53):
Yeah, I think it's really cool that you managed to
get your like get out of your comfort zone and
put yourself in their world and be like, Okay, I
need to understand all these elements to make a good song.
And I want to congratulate you because I feel like
you did that successfully, man, and I feel like, thank you.
So that's what you managed to mix an iconic song
and bring your own d M sound to it.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
So probably for that.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Man, honestly, and thanks to thanks to you know, Mariokin
Tho Bro and and the comprossessor that is the marketing
guy case, he's the one that made you know, like
him and my boy Ray they made that happen. And yeah, bro, again,
like when it comes to that, like Bro, I'm willing
to do that over and over again. You know, Like
if I'm going to collaborate with my now like guess
what I'm gonna go do, I'm gonna listen to nothing,
but not for the rest of for the rest of

(12:37):
the year, you know, Like I want to make sure
that these collaborations make sense where like it's a little
bit of me and a little bit of them. It's
right in the middle where both of our crowds can
can digest it.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
One of the biggest things for me was when those
tu kinda learned the song and they started performing it,
and you know, the drummer came up to me. I mean,
the bassis came up to me. He's like, Bro, like
that one like some places like you didn't mascula try not,
you know. I'm just like, that's that's crazy, bro. So
what they used to do is at the end of
the show, they used to be cause obviously my version
is an electronic version, they used to just play it,

(13:08):
you know, but then they ended up learning it. So
now they put it into the set and then not
only that, bro, Like, to me, that was that was
that was a milestone, bro for me. I was like, Wow,
but what was even greater? I didn't think nothing could
beat that? Bro? What was even greater than that?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (13:25):
They're like, we're playing the show here in Ontario. We
want you to come out. I was just like what
I was thinking. I was like, damn, what am I
gonna do? Because you say exactly exactly if I were
to invite them to mine, you know, like obviously I
have my setup and then they'll have their instruments stats.
But it's like I'm going to there. It's just like
he was just like you do whatever, Bro, you know,

(13:45):
like everybody was telling me. He's like, Bro, just go
up there and buy Bro. You know, like they're just
happy to have you here, you know, like you're part
of the song. And Bro, it was it was incredible
surreal Bro, to be invited to that world. Obviously, I
was in front of those fans and it was like,
oh yeah, you know it. It reminds me that the
Lokate looky okay, he said, all the hard work Bro.
That song that I sent him, it was it was

(14:07):
like the fifth attempt, right, So all the other four
songs I still have them and they kind of sound okay.
Maybe I can turn them nowadays, I can turn them
into something that sounds acceptable. But like, it took a lot, Bro,
It took a lot, but it was all worth it.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
You know you get to go on stage with toukanas
and you know the song's doing amazing. Still I still
get tiktoks and still get videos of people playing it.
I still get, Like, my favorite videos are the ones
where like you know, you see like we're not only
have an indow lote on the street in Mexico and
she's bumping it. You know, like those kinds of videos
are like or like by the so oppressa taking signa
Like you know that those kinds of videos are my favorite. Bro,
Like the streets accepted it exactly. I'm part of like

(14:42):
you embed yourself into the culture, bro, and I'm a
man of culture, you know. Big yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
I think sobody that you took it so serious, like
you know what you were up against, you know, the
crowd that you were trying to please. But you know,
I think it's so bad that you know it turned
out well, and I think it wasn't just random, you know,
like it showed how much effort.

Speaker 7 (14:59):
You and kind of taking a bag growing up in
Los Angeles.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
How was that EDM scene?

Speaker 7 (15:05):
How was it, you know, trying to make yourself like
notable in this market.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
So so obviously when I got into it, it was
very European influenced, right. I grew up here, you know,
so I went to school. I spoke English at school obviously,
Like I said, we were along spianol pedal at school.
My friends, we all spoke English. So I lost touch.
I lost touch with with where I came from obviously.
You know. I got into the scene, em scene, you know,

(15:30):
I don't know back in like I started getting into
like nine and ten and and and I started you know,
being a part of it by like DJing and stuff
like that, and and and I got you know, I
got lucky. I was I was bested with some success,
and I got to travel. I got to go out
of the country, you know. I got to play like
Tomorrow Land Needcs, like the big festivals.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I got to go around the world, and and I
got to do it for a couple of years. And
I even got you know, DJ mag the highest new entry.
I was like nineteen in the world. And it was amazing, bro,
it was amazing. I think it happened really young for
me to where you know, I'm just like, okay, I'm
on like my third year already, Like what else? What
else can I keep doing? You know, come up to

(16:09):
like I felt. I felt like I was running out
of ideas and you know, the pressures. It's like, well,
now you got to keep going, Bro, Because I had
a really big song with Chris Brown that blew up,
and it's kind of like, you know, I can sense that,
like management and label, the label everyone was just like
we need another one. Bro. It's just like, how can
I go into the studio and do that again the

(16:29):
way I did it the first time? But the way
I did it the first time, I didn't know I
was going to go in there and make the song
I was gonna change my life. You know, I was
in love, Bro, was in love. I was like, oh yeah,
you know, I just want to go visit my girl,
and I was like, I was in love. I made
the song I'm Boom changed my life. How do I
do that now? Because now every time I go into
the studio, it's just like in the back of my head,
it's just like I need to keep my career alive.
And that taints it. Bro, That gods pressure, and it

(16:52):
really doesn't let me flow the way the best way
you want to flow like that. So yeah, bro, I
kind of I took a break, but that break allowed
me to go home and reconnect with my family. You know,
I'll reconnect with my culture because I was going back
to you know, like I was home for for a
good minute, probably a couple of months, and you know,
my tea had birthday and I remember like me and

(17:13):
my dad were like behind the you know, behind the speakers,
and like I was like, damn, this sound is tie,
you know, and like damn this one like and then
he has a damn it's looky reminds me of some
of the stuff I do right now. And then that's
when I clicked.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
I was like, damn, I still have a lot more
to offer, Like I just got to get reconnected with
my culture. I can bring in the Latin sounds I can,
you know. And that happened like in like twenty sixteen.
And then my first attempt was with Elvis S. Crespol By.
You know, I was like I wanted to solve it
mine and but the Edium version of it, like, so
I meant to two point zero and yeah, bro, So
I started and it worked.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
I was just like, oh man, this is gonna be
so much fun. I fell in love with music all
over again. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:52):
So you think like all that pressure that you know,
like you said, I wanted to keep my career life.
You think that pressure pushed the love of music away.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
For me, yes, one hundred percent. And don't get me wrong, bro,
there's producers out there that can handle it. They could
be like bring it on. They can go into a
studio with like a Beyonce and make a beat like fire.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Me, I'm like too much pressure, you know, like a
freeze bro. And there's some people that could do it,
obviously unfortunately not me. But thankfully I could do it
on my own and and and and yeah. Bro, you know,
being expected to do something over and over again, it's
like anything you love doing. You know, if I start
telling you we do it, go do it again, go
do it again, You're not You're gonna fall in love?

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
You like fuck this, bro, Like you know, it's not
the same no more. It's like with anything you know.
So so so yeah, I did one hundred percent, and
it's no one's fault, you know, it's not it's not
my management at the time, it's not their fault, it's
not the label's fault. They're just doing their job. They
obviously want another one for me because they want my
success to continue. So I hold no grudges, I hold
nothing anything. I'm more grateful than anything, because I wouldn't

(18:54):
have gone down this path if if if I wouldn't
have been kind of like lost right there. You know,
I do A lot of it was luck, but I
got lucky to get you know, but it was it
was It was incredible, bro. And one of the things
I like to flash back to is going to like
tomorrow Land for the first year, and I remember I
was a lonely lonely there, you know, I don't know,

(19:18):
probably like seventeen seventeen. Yeah, and yeah, bro, and it's
so cool New Mexico. I remember I was back there
and I was just like damn. And I remember there
was one dude that was spoke Spanish, but you know,
it was just like it's cool, you know, give the father,
you know, this is that and uh yeah, you know,
so so yeah, bro, Like it was cool man, And

(19:41):
now you know, now to see a lot more Latinos involved,
and like it's just especially with all this happening and
you know, seeing how reccoon has become no longer now
it's global, you know, like how that has opened so
many doors. You know, now you have people like Drake
signing Gino. You know, like there's so much happening that
has allowed us to shine. And there's more plas firms,
more stages, more more areas where we can show like yo,

(20:03):
this is what we got to offer, bro. And like
I feel like Mexico and then even in general like Latinos,
we have so much to offer, bro, And it's like
I feel like we're not going to just stop here, Bro.
It's like it's just going to evolve, and I want
to be a part of that evolve.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Like it really blew up.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
And as as you said, I feel like you're the
only DJs that's really toughed in like that.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah. Luck luckily bro, again, like you know, like uh again,
I feel I feel lucky to be able to do that.
And I remember the first time, Bro. I remember when
I was it was playing E DC and I was like,
you know what, I'm just gonna drop, you know, just
see what happens, you know, and at a rave. You know,
they're like, there's got to be some Mexicans out there,

(20:40):
you know, And and I did it, and I can
hear there was energy. Bro was like, there was energy.
I was just like, you know what I should I
should keep doing this, I should keep playing it, you know.
And then I remember one year I dropped main stage,
main stage at ABC, you know, and then I was
just like, Bro, it was. It was one of the
highlights of my And then I remember the next year.

(21:01):
I remember I TWETED. I was like, all right, guys,
this year I'm doing fifty percent like Mexican music and
fifty percent I'm sorry, you know, and uh but Bro,
it was the people welcomed it. And now this last
time I played DC, it was the most Mexican flags
I've ever seen.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Yeah, I feel like I recently went to my first
rave and something that I noticed is how much Hispanics
actually attend, you know, these these EDM concerts, and there's
all types of races. You know, there's why there's Americans,
there's geene know, there's.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Everything, everything, everything, Bro, And that's especially you know what
I love, BRO, Like, like I love when I see
different flags and I'll be like, yo, put your flag up,
you know. Like it's it's amazing to see all the
cultures come together bro, you know, and it's like obviously
like for me, I'm gonna give them a little bit
of my culture, you know, and I feel like we
could all. I mean, bro, Mexican music is a party bro,
so you know it's great to do that. And then sometimes,

(21:53):
especially like in Vegas, like I'll play a little bit
of this culture, a little bit of that culture, you know,
and I'll try to do the very best to play
it like the right things, you know, or like I'll
do coo and then I'll do like what the what
what what white people consider they're you know, and like
and then I'll dabble into some hip hop and then
go back to my sound and I'll try I'll try
my best to kind of go into a little bit

(22:13):
of everything. Yeah, but then kind of like also try
my best to make it flow. You don't want to
just be like damn needs to make up his mind.
But but yeah, bro, And then also not only that,
but reserve some of my mentality for the people that
are in front of me, like make sure they know
that I'm I'm I'm looking at them that I know

(22:34):
they're there, you know, and you know, I'll try to
interact as much as possible. I give out roses like
led roses at my shows, you know, because I feel
like that's a really great way for me to stay engaged.
It's like, I need to give these roses up. But
at the same time, it's like and I don't even
see it like that. I'm just like, I want to
give these roses.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
That's a great point that you're making, because I think
that Mexicans, like you know, maybe before like this whole
like most boom and stuff, I feel like, you know,
they love party, they love music, and I'm appreciate. I
feel like I don't really know much about that scene.
You know, he's the one that's been telling us about it.
But I think that whenever they like like we're underserved.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
And then when they see like, oh, you know, you know,
maybe about half of the half of the tickets for
the whole place, and they hear like the one song,
it's like like this one was for us.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know, they're very proud one hundred percent. One thing
about message size. When we love, we love, we love,
whether it's a soccer team or whether it's it's like
your person or or a moment bro like and and
but me one one of the one of the most
beautiful things that has resulted from all this is, uh,
when I do my own shows, you know, like to
see people like dress up in the flag, you know,

(23:40):
and like that. I still has been dinas it's a
pen Danny doll By.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Hell yeah, I have that passion.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
It's a beautiful celebration, you know. And then one other
amazing thing that has resulted from this is that now
I'm doing how he Pales, you know, where it's hiss
like I was doing Raves. Now I'm doing how He Pales?
You know, They're having me close out how he Pales
where it's like the I remember my first one. I
was like, damn, was gonna leave bro people, what is this?

Speaker 5 (24:02):
You know?

Speaker 4 (24:02):
You remember which one was?

Speaker 1 (24:04):
The first one I did was right here? Well, technically
I don't know which one first one because I did
one with m I guess you could. It's not really
I get My first one was impresno, and then it
was it was a bunch of one that was marking.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
I think you were there, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Was it the one?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Getos were there, Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
I did. Those were the two and Pres It was like, yeah, yeah,
I think I saw you. It was at the end
of the night.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
I was at the end. I've seen like the second
or third. No, but I was gonna bring that up
to like, I think it's super wild that, like let's
say you're you know, you were doing you know, those
big festivals to Warland whatever, and now you're also on
a flower with like Loos like on the Corona, Like yeah, bro.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's so cool man and like to be to be
you know, and that's not something that I really like,
Like I'm not really trying to force that, you know.
I don't want to force myself upon a whole different world.
You know. When we first when I first saw that
it could work, it was the Maico when we had
that that that that event here in Atu at the Colosseum,

(25:20):
at the torch. It was me and and I remember
they went before me, and I was a little nervous.
I was like, damn, you know, like all those people
are gonna leave, you know whatever, because it's DJ is
probably gonna think it's just like playback music. There's no
life on downstage, but they're probably gonna think it's over
and I'm just there to play the music while they
go to the cars. But people stayed behind exactly.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
I'm like, I catastrophize a lot.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
I wish I you know, And I always have my
teams like trust me, you're gonna be good, Bronna be good.
And I always forget. I always forget what it's like
to be on the other side of the speakers. I
try to remind myself, but it's like, Bro, some people
are just happy to be there.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
What was on the other side of the speakers? Uh?
I was? I was there and then I was going to.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Heard you really okay?

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Yeah, I went to the restroom and then I just
came out and I think I was waiting for one
of them.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
And then like I saw you walk by.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
I was like, I was out there, You're right.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
Like you looked and I feel like you look I
said it wrong, no, no, but there was like hell
of people and then like after you left, and you know,
people are mobbing you and like there's people that went
just to see you, Like there's people that showed up
after one.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Was honestly for me. For me, one of the one
of the cool things, bro was I did a remix
to Tola, you know, and I asked, you know, a compet.
I was like, hey, by any chance, if you're gonna
stick around, like feel free to come up when I
play that, you know. And he's like, oh, I cool,
let you know, you know, and I think my team
told me. He's like, it's this is just birthday. They're
probably gonna take off, you know. I was like, okay,

(26:46):
cool whatever, you know, I'm not stressing whatever. And yeah,
legit thought like they took off whatever. So I was like, okay, cool,
I'm not even gonna that's not even gonna. That's not possible,
you know. So but then and then eating my turn
manager comes out to me. He's just like, oh, they're here, Bro,
They're here, They're they're they're gonna come on stage. They
want to like they want to party. I was like what.
I was like, hell yeah, bro. And I saw them

(27:06):
come on stage and I invited Battles to come up.
I put the headphones on him. I was like, bro,
protect your DJ.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
It was dope, bro, And uh no, man that that
that kid's a legend. Man, he's a he's talented as fuck.
But he's like super chill lit backstage, you know, like
he's just like you could if. I felt like he
was so grateful that he was there to meet me, bro,
and it was just like, damn, Bro, it's like vice versa,
Like I'm grateful to meet someone like him, and you know,
like that's cool with hell. And And when I saw that,

(27:34):
when I saw that the audience didn't change, like it
was the same size, and and and and and people
stayed and people sang their songs and then people danced
to my songs, I was just like, damn, like this
could work, you know, could we take this on the road,
you know, something like that, and then like have a
DJ close out the night. And we tried it out
at you know, we did Fresno where I played after
Marca Metpe you know ma Pe and then myself and

(27:58):
uh bro, it was a party.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Bro.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
I think.

Speaker 7 (28:03):
It's a different thing, but I feel like it's that
you know, little We were talking about how like older
Mexicans they're a little bit more traditional, very strict about oh,
if you're gonna do you have to play this, insurmit.
But now, as you know, music is progressing, they're more
open to stuff like this, you know. And I feel
like that that cross genre is getting more normal.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
Yeah, nothing is about us.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
I feel like your visionary you saw that, you saw
that little like opportunity, you know.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, And you know what, sometimes sometimes you know, like
I'll have ideas and I'll stop myself. Okay, that's a
little too crazy for you know, But sometimes, you know,
I tell myself the idea enough times, we'll all say
it out loud, and I'll tell my team, you know what,
let's try this, you know. And and and you know,
one of the coolest things, bro was was when when

(28:50):
when I explained it enough times where I was able
to word it right, I explained it to someone like Insomniac.
You guys, Somniac they're one of the big promoters, and
not just still in California, but even more on the
West coast. Uh. They do EDC, they do Nocturnal, they
do the massives one hundred and fifty thousand people through
three hundred thousand in Vegas, like Massive DC Mexico. They're

(29:12):
the biggest. If you're gonna play raves there, there's some
of the biggest raves you can play in the world.
And to let them know. It's like, hey, like I
want to start doing these you know, and but to
let them know, it's like, I want to start doing
this with you guys, you know, like and for them
to be like, we're down, we get it because they

(29:32):
pay attention to Like my set in Vegas, they saw
all the Mexican flags, and I remember I told my agency.
I was like, hey, we're gonna change things up. You know,
I told them to stop touring, but I'm gonna get
back into the studio. I'm gonna make some music. But
the way I want to tour now is I want
to do it like this now, you know, where we
have more of this this genre in my lineup. And

(29:54):
and they were like, we're down. You know, we're down.
Like they believe, they believe in the vision, and you know,
I'm so grateful to have that. I took I took
Insomniac and and Uta and my new manager. We took
took him out to dinner and we all sat down
and we're also excited, bro. Like we were passing on
the phone looking at how Hotty Bales look and how
my linco Is look, you know, like the three sixties
stuff because that's what a lot of DJs are doing now,

(30:14):
you know. And it's like, bro, like it's like it
just for them to get so excited about it. Down again, Bro,
I feel like a lot of it's luck. I feel
like I'm lucky to be here, you know, and uh,
to be part of such an amazing culture, and not
only that, but for the culture to be killing it
right now. You know, it's like it's exciting.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
It's like, you know, it's like, oh yeah, like every
time there's a show I want by everybody.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
It's cool crazy because like this year.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Last year's like when we started getting the boom, and
I feel like, now there's like no rules everyone's using
putting the trombone with the guitar, with the everything.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, I'm telling this guy's the limits like a playground, bro,
and it's it's like a new playground.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah. You know.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
It was just like whoa, Like how does this sound?
How does that sound? And uh, you know, I was
in the studio all last week and I was with
an engineer, and uh, it wasn't just any engineer. He
was one of the first that kind of started adding
trombone to to He told me the story. Well, he
didn't talk to me, but I was. He was like yeah,

(31:16):
he was just like it was him and and and uh.
Someone had told him just use the trombone, and he
was a little nervous to use it because he was like,
they're gonna they're gonna beat me up for this, you know.
But then it ended up working. You know that he
wanted to do like a couple of trombones make and
then the guy told him not just do one. It
was back in the day, so I felt comfortable telling him.

(31:36):
I was like, cool, are you doing to try something
new again? Because I want to try something where where
you know, the trachetas are gonna sound a little bit fast,
the guitar is gonna sound a little bit fast. But
because I'm mixed blending with the d M music, you know.
And I know he was struggling when he was recording,
but I told him. I was just like, I promise you,
Bro's gonna sound fires and sound fire and yeah, Bro,
once the guitarist came in like he killed it, Bro,

(32:02):
and he was just like, Yo, this is tied. This
could be something. I was like, thank you for trusting me, Bro,
thank you for trusting me. You know. Again, I know
some of my ideas are crazy, but I promise you
I won't tell you the really crazy ones. I don't
want to look I don't want to be looked at
as like this was delusional, you know. But but yeah,
there's a lot of exciting things. And also I have

(32:23):
a lot of respect for the culture. So I'm not
gonna just no, no, no, I'm not gonna do something
just for the fun of it, you know, I'm gonna
do something because I really I believe it.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
Yeah, I mean so because I mean, like I said,
you you studied like what thes were doing and you
really like mattered to understand.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
So yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
I think that shows the respect, you know, going into
sort of a different space and you took it that serious.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
I think that's cool.

Speaker 6 (32:46):
And also, like how we're talking earlier that there's a
lot of Mexicans that go to these raves and there's
like a whole the world that don't. I feel like
personally me like I've never been to one. He's the
one that's been telling us a little bit about that,
that there's like so big that you can have a
flag and ship total yeah, total, yeah, yeah, because I

(33:07):
feel like we're pretty closed off.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
It's just like but it's like you see how we
can sit here and have a conversation still, but but
see like there's again I understand that there's a whole
group of people that will probably would have never heard
of me if I would have just stayed in in
E d M. You know, but now that like, you know,
for example, when I when I when I got a
lot of fans from opening up for Bad Bunny, you know,
it was just like stepping into that world or even

(33:32):
doing like these shows like in Fresno or or Sacramento
where I'm the only DJ, was like some people were
like I could tell they were just like what what
the hell's about to happen? You know, like and they
hear the music and it was just like, hey, you know,
like I think Sacramento was the one that that that
I got the best result when it came to because
it was like an older crowd in Sacramento, a little
older than fres because had a younger lineup, but it

(33:53):
was a little older Sombrero. So but to see Lo
Sombrero's moviendo there bro like to E d M. But okay,
idiom Mexa, you know, Mexica idem and like so it's
kind of like I know, and a lot of people
were just like yo, I was never into this kind
of music, but this is dope, you know, to see that,
to see that kind of feedback, which just like that's that,
that's that's one of that's another great result of this,

(34:13):
where it's like I'm introducing people to that in a
way where they can digest it, you know, and it's
not really all of a sudden very extras. It's like
get like I don't listen to this, but it's kind
of like in a way where it's where it's transformed
to where it's catered to them specifically.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
I know.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
That's that's lit that you're like trying to cater to
that market. Because us we went to I think the
first time that we were ever exposed to that was Coachella,
and we saw like it was such a cool vibe,
like everybody went hard for three days, and honestly like
that story of us going to Coachella, like it was
pretty well too, Like you just want to come to Corchella.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
He's like, no, we're kind of busy right now. We
have a party going on like and and they're like, oh,
that's not how it went.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
But it was like storted like that, you know, short
oh they no, no, this is not.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
About yeah, you know, and then like hey, you know,
like you guys should come, like we watched the podcast
and stuff like that, and then we were like, oh,
we'll go, you know, like besil Ploma's playing, like let's
go watch that. And then you know, we showed up
a little bit that day. We just showed up for him.
But we thought it was such a cool vibe, like, oh,
let's go back on Sunday on Sunday. And we had
no idea who those people were. We didn't know, but
it was a cool vibe. And I feel like if

(35:22):
Mexicans get exposed to that, like its fucking game over.
I think like beachz well, the ones that are closed
off like this, you know, no know I'm talking about,
like the ones that we don't know about that yet
it's a I already do. But like like you know,
beach Fast, like if people get the chance to go
to a Coachella like that, like it's we're gonna go.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
To festival, We're gonna sell all the tickets out, will
be first.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yeah, imagine like a sorry, we're gonna do it all right, guys,
we're back from the break.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
And something that I wanted to ask you is that
you mentioned that you had a collaboration with the Mexico
national team. How has that experience been so far?

Speaker 1 (35:56):
My god, Bro, it's incredible. I remember, you know, obviously,
my dad every Sunday to put on the partillo, you know,
and obviously when Mexico played, it was, uh, you know,
it was special. And I remember I went, I got
to go to a game here and at the Coliseum,
and that's probably one of the most vivid memories I
have at such a young age, and I remember, like

(36:18):
till this day, bro, like that that was so monumental
for me. I was like, man, it was my first
time being at something that big, and you know, it's Mexico,
so so it was big for me. And if I
would have known that I would end up being involved somehow,
uh damn. But I wouldn't believe it. You know, it's
been it's been, honestly, bro like, and it's it's it's

(36:39):
it's completely different from the shows, you know, completely different obviously,
Like I'm going on the decks and it looks the same,
but it's completely different, bro, because I do they do
give me like I think they give me like the
pre warm up and then they'll give me the halftime.
But each show, each set is like this one's like
ten minutes, this one's like six minutes, right, but I'll
still play like for the hour and a half before
warm ups and stuf. But this kind of like I

(37:01):
get to play. It reminds me of being back at
the house parties, you know. But it's not only that,
but I also get to play like what the music
that our parents listen to, you know, I'll play I'll
play like the really old school ship, you know, like
I'll play some challino like and like as soon as
I soon music starts start starts playing. You can hear
the entire stadium and I'm just like, oh my god, chills. Bro.

(37:24):
It's just like, you know, and I could play the
whole song, you know, because if you have to rape,
you know, play half of it, you know, you gotta
get back to you know. But it's like but like
you know, like out there, it's just like, bro, like
I could just do a whole set, you know, like
like and I can switch it up for like five minutes.
I'll do five minutes, I'll do the kind OF's biggest hits,

(37:45):
you know, and then I'll switch it to a liver
bit of that and Cumbia and all that, and it's
like it's dope.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
It's like it's it's so much fun. And and and
obviously you know, like I have like they they they
provide like a production, you know, like on the stage show.
It makes me look really cool, you know, just like
you over here in the corner.

Speaker 6 (38:02):
I think it's so crazy how like, well we work
with we have a little partnership with them as well.
I think it's like crazy, like the Mexico team like
knows we exist, you know.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yea, And it's so cool. It's so cool, how like
you know, like I feel like that's really important. It's
important to also like reach you know, like our ready
you know, our generation and uh exactly bro and uh
and and and bro, and I see I see so
many of my fans of the games, Bro, Like like
I didn't expect this part right where I would play

(38:32):
the shows and while I'm playing, I didn't expect around me,
you know, like I didn't expect that. But it's like cool.
It's just like it is kind of like a show.
My fans are right here, you know, I get to
interact with them. After I'll go out and I'll take
pictures with everybody. Bro, I'll stick around until ye.

Speaker 6 (38:47):
People take it serious because you said people go around
here because we were there one time and then they're like, oh,
like guys like stand here and there we go. We
stood right there, and then the guy behind met and.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Me actually.

Speaker 8 (39:02):
Say something like that, and I was like, the.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Two people told me at the same time, that's a.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Mexican Yeah, Mexican ship.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
That's funny, bro.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
And like I was like, that was personal on the clip.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
That's funny, bro.

Speaker 7 (39:38):
I think it's cool that people are so passionate about,
you know, the soccer games and the music.

Speaker 5 (39:43):
You know, everyone's hype.

Speaker 7 (39:45):
And something that we notice is like when they score
a goal, you know, you're.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Oh, yeah, brou because I remember I remember Okay, so
the first game that we did, you know, they scored
a goal and they started playing you know this song
that was like in English and stuff, and it was lit.
It was it was dope. I was like, damn. But
I told him. I was like, this should be some Mexicans.
You know, we should play some like something Mexican when
they score a goal. And uh, as a joke, I
was just like, y'all want me to make something. I

(40:11):
could go make something and they're like that'd be great.
You know, that'd be dope, And obviously I didn't actually
like I was like, you know what, I'm gonnad. I'm
gonna do something because maybe see miss chin On that's
like wow, they love it and they're like, hell, yeah,
we're going to use it, right, And I made something
and I was like, this is dope. This is dope,
like and I even made a little video, like a
hype video, using that song to show them, Look, this

(40:31):
is what it will kind of be like they score
a goal. This is what the audience sounds like when
they're screaming, and this is my music playing underneath to
give them a visualization, not just so they can have
to imagine it, but it's like so they can see
it and feel it.

Speaker 7 (40:42):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
They said that they got chills and now whenever they
score a goal they play it. Yeah it's insane, bro. Yeah,
whenever they are bro. And that's cool.

Speaker 7 (40:53):
Bro, it's really dope that they give you, like that
creative freedom and that yes, I feel like that's really
important when working like with these types of.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
I didn't think I didn't think they were obviously you know,
now I take them serious, but I thought they were
just kind of just like yeah, yeah, sure, we'll use it. No, bro,
they were just of course. And not only that, they
also had me do like the they play like this
video like the Someone's Locals, you know, like where where
they wanted me to voice it, you know, And I
also I did the music for that as well.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
You know.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
So it's like I'm now I didn't expect to be
so much a part of it, but you know, it's like,
damn bro. When I'm there, I was just like, damn
this this is beautiful.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
And whenever I play here around here like the rose
bul Or, like, you know, I invite my dad, you know,
because it's like it's crazy to be able to take
him to the game. It's just like cool, you know,
like we're gonna we're gonna be in the you know,
in the suites and everything, and it's just so happy.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
It's like a full circle.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
Moment from watching it like on a TV.

Speaker 6 (41:48):
Now you get a sweet This is just I think
that's what our parents have been, like we at least
my dad I got to take him to a game
and like the sweet and everything.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
I had no idea that was like sweet. Bro. First
of all, we're don't.

Speaker 6 (42:00):
Even sell them, you know, the ones up there. Bro,
you know that that was super super sick. It's crazy
how it could be like such a cool memory.

Speaker 7 (42:12):
Yeah, I feel like at the end of the day,
our parents want to see his win and I and
I feel like you've been doing it, you know, with
with your music and how you've progressed and now with
this collaboration with the Mexico team.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
It's it's sick.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Damn, bro, thank you so much. And I'm grateful. Bro,
I'm grateful and and honestly, like I'm glad. I'm so
glad that you know, I feel like we're finally getting
you know, Likeicanos. And then also we're shining, you know exactly, bro,
And it was amazing to to you know, like even
though the Olympics just passed, you know, but it was

(42:44):
dope to see like even even that, you know, like
we're okay, like we're starting to get a little more
shined there too. You know. I feel like it's mutuals anymore,
you know, like and also like to show our people
that he's like, legit, he's a bro. Like you know,
when I go on stage, I hope I hope someone's like,
ohh's sing what the funk we could do that, we
could do that, you know, like you know, like and

(43:04):
then it give him some hope. And then that sparked something,
because that's all it took for me. When I saw
someone on stage, I was like, damn, like this was
just like a normal person, you know, because I got
to meet I got to meet him, and and it
gave me hope. I was like, damn, I could probably
do this, you know. And that was just one person
and look for that and ended up landing me. And
I hope that I could do the same, bro, and

(43:25):
and and especially for my culture and my people, bro,
because I feel like a lot of us come okay
and almost like damn for someone he kind of like,
you know, like we were so limited, and you know
a lot of us are limited. But I feel like
that's he's a buyer, you know, that that there's a way,
that there's a way.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
Because who knows, who knows, like what the next generation
is gonna do.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
They're gonna kill it.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Hell yeah. And I'm telling you the way we're going
right now is it's exciting, man, it's exciting. We're going
straight up.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
And what do your parents tell you? You know, like
with everything you've done, you know, having that partnership.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
But it's not just my prayers. Like my family, bro,
they're just like you know, being come. You know, like everything, Bro,
it's exciting to to you know, when I'm when I'm
gonna go to this city and I have family there,
you know, and then they invite them out to see
the show, and like, you know, at first, I would
have my family come backstage, but I was like, now,
I'm just like, you guys have to watch it from
the fun not because I want to. Trust me, the

(44:20):
show is better from the final you know. It's like
you got the visuals, you got the speakers pointing that way,
and you're in the crowd. You know, it's completely different.
And now a lot of my family like they're just
like oh man, like you know, they they're just happy
to be there. And then they'll be in the crowd
and and you know, like I've had I had some
family at the Gorge and the Gorge is one of
the most beautiful venues. Is one of my favorite venues
in Washington, where it's just like it's nature. It's like

(44:42):
a canyon, the sunset behind you. And I got to
I got to I got to do the sunset stage
where the sun came down and it got dark, and
that was special because I need my family was down
there somewhere, you know, and they got to see it.
And I actually got to see them last minute because
we had a two hour drive back, but as I
was leaving the stage, I got to see them. They
were just like they come attention, you know. But it's
so cool to to to not only be able to

(45:03):
perform for the audience, but to also be able to
perform for family, you know. And uh but yeah, bro,
like for me, for me like that that that again,
that makes it so much more special. It's more than
just me going up there and just doing my job,
you know. It's it's like it's like I get to
also kind of like show families like hey, like you
know this is you know what what what what the movement?

(45:25):
And like come on Mahicanos, you know, like because we
all come from the same place. And like I remember
you know, we weren't. We weren't like so lucky. But
now to to see this, bro, like it's it's given
my family life and like it's connecting my family like
they always ask about me and stuff, and it's dope.
It's amazing.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
Day one.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Huh Yeah, yeah, bro. And I remember even my dad,
but I feel like my dad I stressed them out
a lot when went back in the day. He'd wake
up to go to work, like at four thirty am,
and I'd still be on my computer making music, you
know day you know, like because I got to go
to school and I was just like damn, you know,
like I thought I was a bad kid, bro, But honestly,
I was just I was just, you know, naturally curious

(46:02):
and I was just chasing something that I really fell
in love with. And yeah, I think my dad all
the time, because you know, he did allow me to
continue doing that.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
How did you fall in love with music?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
I grew into it, you know, I grew into it
since I was little, like I don't like ever since
even before I can remember. Uh. I remember my parents
they they made an a choir. They used to sing
in a quoto regleicia and you know, they had me,
and and I would always go when they would have
the anxiety or whatever they would rehearse, I would go
chill in the music room and I would kind of

(46:32):
just mess around with the instruments, you know. And then
and I kind of just grew into it. I always
had that around me, and you know, I got lucky
to to to naturally have a curiosity there because there
was other kids, and you know, during MESA, like there
was a place where all the kids would go. I
was at the church. There was like a bunch of
salons and stuff and like the kids will go there
and learn about you know, the original all that battle.

(46:53):
For me, I want to just stay in the music room,
you know. And I just naturally had the curiosity. And
maybe it was because you know, I understood something about it,
and like you know, when it comes to other things
in life, it's like I don't I don't. I don't
really know how to do that that well. But I
know music, you know. Thankfully I know music and I
understand it, and I'm able to communicate with music. You know,

(47:14):
like if I feel a type of way, like I
won't be able to put it into words, but I'll
make a song about it, you know, like and you'll
be like, Okay, I get it.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
I think something that's really cool about music is like
the theory of it. If one person understands the theory,
like whatever instruments you're playing on, you're able to make
a song with them, Like all, let's just say we're
going to make a song, and don't everybody lines up
and then make the song. Which I feel like that
doesn't like connect with anything else besides that.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
It's it's synchronicity, bro. And like for me getting into
this world, especially with like with like seeing live Vanda's
perform Bro, it's obviously like I've been as a DJ,
you show up, push play, bro, you know, you push
play on my work. I'm going to the studio up
there like I do mix, you know, and then yeah,
there's a whole reason the crowd stuff and like you know,
knowing the music and mixing and all that stuff. Battle

(48:02):
you know, starting to play these shows where like I
see Banda's doing sound check and I'm just like, damn, bro,
Like this sounds it'd be like for mother fuckers on stage,
but it sounds like there's ten like damn, this is badass.
It makes me want to pick up a guitar, get
up there with them, you know, and it really is.
It's it's incredible, especially with these young kids and all
this talent. Bro, Like hearing a guitar live and just

(48:24):
hearing how it sounds on the other side on the
speakers and you're just like, fuck, it sounds fire.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
I remember I went to the first uh the one
here at BMO and they were doing sound check and
it was the first time I heard that music on
the system like that, and I was just like, fuck yeah, bro.
It was like hell yeah, bro, this is fire, you know,
like it gives it gives our music a whole nother
like I guess level where it's just like, you know,

(48:49):
this is different than hearing in your car speakers or
like on headphones. Now you're hearing it on a system
or just you know, it's like thirty subs. You know.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
It's like I feel like.

Speaker 6 (48:59):
That's a very DJ thing to say to every place,
like what kind of speakers are they?

Speaker 4 (49:03):
You know?

Speaker 6 (49:03):
But obviously like the like the moment, the corners like
they don't know that I speakers.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
They don't know that they don't know that the speakers
are like like like cool because obviously like if you
can feel it's like you can hear it. But then
if you can feel it, sometimes it will get people moving.

Speaker 5 (49:20):
You know.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
You're just damn that like you could feel it, you
know sometimes if you're too close it with the air like.

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Remember remember you guys for the.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
No but we ended up being like running from the speakers.
I don't know what speakers they were, you know, like
the clothes was like this, like not.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
A little bit like a lot.

Speaker 8 (49:47):
Yeah, that's what I can't hear from this. Yeah, but
I'm telling you we're not gonna it's a whole different
vibe be hearing it live.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
You must not have to adapted with like instruments. It
wasn't like your regular exactly.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Yeah. And you know, lately I've been I've been doing
a lot more live recording where it's like I will
need a guitar start to come in, you know, because
there's just nothing like like like that live sound, you know.
And to add that to E d M, which is
very very analog, very like digital where a lot of
people they're synthesized and stuff, but a lot of it's
like me, you draw it in, you know, like a
lot of a lot of the things I would do

(50:25):
back then. I would just draw in these notes and
I would find something that sounds like a trumpet or something,
and they would try my best to make it sound real.
But there's nothing like the real thing.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yeah, beautiful thing about like Mexican music, you know, live instruments.

Speaker 6 (50:37):
You remember that one time, because I feel like I
have I don't know anything about music. They're the ones
I know. I remember that one time Obi came out
with a song or something and then you guys were
like arguing, I think it was a trumpet or.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
It was always sounded so bad because you could tell
it was like with the just straight up keys.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Oh yeah, you can samples and stuff.

Speaker 7 (50:59):
Well, I mean I feel like maybe at that time
he didn't have someone to play it.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
So it's a way exactly.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
That's exactly how I was, you know back then, Bro,
I would spend three days trying to get a certain
sound to sound real. Bro, sound real. A lot of
my brass, a lot of my trumpets, a lot of
my like trompones were my voice. You know. I would
add I would add distortion, I would add saturation, like
I would I would I would design it in a

(51:24):
way where it sounded super real, where I didn't want
anyone to question because that sounds like a voice. I
didn't even tell anybody, you know, like that's where now, yes,
we now I have access to if I want a
trum bump player, I know, like.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
That's you would do that because you don't really like.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Know trum bump player, you know, exactly exactly, so like
if you hear like if you hear like by lad
of the song, I have a scresspa, A lot of
that brass is not real brass. It's my voice, you know.
So it's like butt like I did it because I
didn't know anybody that played brass, you know, and I
would look for sounds and samples. It's like, damn, bro,
I need this, you know. But so I would just
ended up doing myself, and it yet added more time.

(52:00):
I think it took me like a week to do
a lot of that brass. But you know, we're now thankfully,
you know, I got the connections now and the resources
to be able to hit up. You know, I could
hit on my boy Taka Fool. He's dope. He I
think he plays he plays for his la. He's been
on tour with g and all that, you know. But
he's like the coolest, coolst motherfucker. And and he'll give
us some sasson too, he'll add flavor to it, you know.

(52:21):
And but yeah, bro, you know, I'm really lucky to
have those resources.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
And that's cool.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
I would have never thought it was it was like that.
And because you don't really know like any players.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yeah even too, because you know the song, Yeah, yeah,
for sure. The guy did it on like a coke can.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
Right though.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
I was about to say that I think that's so wild,
like yeah, yeah, because he said and he said, because.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, that's sick. Bro. Yeah. Bro, that's one thing that
that's one of the things I love about EM is
you could experiment like crazy.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
I remember one time I wanted like a stand up
based sound, so what I used to have long hair
and I had a headband, so I would stretch that
out and the more he stretch up like so like,
and I would just tune it, bro. Like you can
get creative with you know like that.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
That's really cool school, right yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Obviously you can't do it live, like you know, you
record it and then you can you can fix it
up and then boom if.

Speaker 6 (53:12):
Legal, Jason, I can't do this real because I need
the attack of mine and I need these speakers and.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
Intone.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
There are some Bro, There's some people that I'm telling you, like,
there's levels to it, bro, where it's just like, to me,
i'll have something, I'll need a type of guitar, and
pretty much any guitar will do. But then there's people
just like, nah, it needs to be this specific guitar,
these specific string, needs to be this specific mic, and
I need these kind of filters these tubes just compressed
her like the people.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Bro, there's levels.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Yeah, I don't know, but but but bro, you are
to these studios and people have all these they have
all these mics, and sometimes I'll go in They'll be like,
what kind of mike do you need? I was like, Bro,
I just need a mic, you know. They're like, yeah, Bro,
which one? We were like, we're like eight of them,
and I was just like the first one you read like.
But there are some people that, like, you know, there's
they really get into it one hundred percent, and there

(54:02):
is a difference. There is a difference, and I've yet
to be able to hear I was able to hear
the difference between two mics this last week, and I
was just like, actually, you know what, the other mic
does sound better? You know, because because because I was
I was recording a female vocal. There's some mics that
are very bright that the males prefer that one because
it brings out the brightness and a male vocal where

(54:24):
female vocals are already bright, you know. So it's like, yeah,
things like that, you know. So it's like I'm learning, bro,
I'm learning. But like you know, especially this genre has
taught me a lot. It's taught me so much, bro,
and it's it's it's amazing, bro. It adds to my
knowledge and experience to what I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
You know. I feel like the.

Speaker 7 (54:42):
Cool thing is that we get to learn from, you know,
all these other types of genres you mentioned that you
had like a lot of cool collaboration, Like what's next
for you?

Speaker 4 (54:50):
What?

Speaker 7 (54:50):
What are some of your dream collaboration.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
Something that you could show us that you might have
on your phone already.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Now, next, my next one, my next one. You know,
I met him right here at Aclandia was a Polana
was No, it wasn't people, it was there. It was there.
It was at the same place. Yeah and and yeah, bro,
like I didn't. He was a fan, you know. And
I was just like damn, like that's dope. You want

(55:15):
to see what's up? Like I'm down. So I went
into the green room and like he saw me, I
was like, you're not party, you know, like hey bro,
like you know, he was asking me if I heard
any of his like electronics. I was like, of course, bro,
Like hell yeah, like that's what I'm here.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Bro, is what you need?

Speaker 5 (55:29):
You know?

Speaker 1 (55:30):
It put like bro moves and I was just like, say,
let's bro, I'll go home right now. I'll start an idea,
you know. And and I met him obviously for me,
I prefer meeting people like not at a show because
everyone everyone, you know. And and I told him, I
was like meet upart, like I'm gonna step off the side,
you know.

Speaker 7 (55:50):
You know.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
We got a picture and everything, and I posted it
on my story. He said about I know, like it's
gonna happen. And uh I even told them. I was
just like fun, then I'm going home. Bro, I'm gonna
go home, Go home, Bro, I'm gonna start something, you know.
And uh, you know, so I went home, bro, and
and and and we were exchanging ideas he sent me.
He sent me like a like a makita of one

(56:12):
idea and and then I, you know, I added all
my flavor to it, and I put a drop under it.
I remember, like it was also kind of like one
thing I loved about him is that like he's he's
he's not brutally honest, but he's honest.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
He's honest, like the right kind of honest, where like
he's doing it so that the track could be better,
you know. And if he didn't feel something, he'd be like,
oh no, bro, like like no, no, no, no, no,
you know, and and and and and even I would
tell him too that what we ended up coming up with.
I remember totals was like a promise you this is
gonna work, bro. Let me just let me just I
just need to work it a little bit longer. I
just wanted to show it to you now so you

(56:46):
wouldn't think because I hadn't sent him anything in a
couple of days. So I want to show you that
I am working on something, but just give me a
couple more days. And then he's like, okay, okay, let's
try out. Let's see you to see how it sounds
and bro, like I sent it to him, he was
just like, hell, yeah, bro, this is it. I was like, boom,
let me finish it. I sent it to him, and yeah, bro,
how can I play it? All right? All right, but

(57:10):
they're gonna on the whole original version, okay, no ripping, like.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
Yeah, right when it's like the best person.

Speaker 6 (57:27):
No, bro, Like my dad watches those all the time,
at least one of those videos a day, like other ones,
Like but I think it isn't it crazy?

Speaker 4 (57:37):
Like half of the more than half the time?

Speaker 5 (57:40):
Yeah, one, And it was like right on the best
part where you were waiting, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
So yeah, this is I don't mean to interrupt. Hm, hey,

(58:24):
I'm gonna skip to the drop. And I wanted a
live instrument for the drop, bro, you know, with hopes,

(58:46):
thank you brother, come by perfect body that he killed
it bro, and and and yeah, you know, my my
goal is to is to still be on the decks,
but have live instrumentation, right because you know musicos there
they're used to hearing a live click where where you know,
the stuff I play is technically a life click. It's

(59:07):
a metronome, it's it's it's it's quantized, right know, some
people like there's the difference between someone playing you know, live,
to where me playing, because obviously mine is like perfectly
timed because I make it digitally. I don't know if
you're understanding that. The metronome so you know. So, but
like now now I want to start experimenting with like okay,
what if I play this song but I have an

(59:28):
actual trombone player, Well, I'll take the trombone out of
the song because he's gonna actually play live.

Speaker 6 (59:33):
You guys have those plans Because I was about to say,
like you know, like the beat drops and then just
like the guy comes up and.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
Exactly if we come down from the ceiling like SpongeBob,
you know exactly. You know what I'm saying, Like where
we're now it's not electro buto celementals and you know,
like everything bro, it's like all live, but now it's
like now you have thees under it, you know, So
it's like it's exciting, bro. And like that's what I'm saying,

(59:59):
like in some and everybody are down to make that happens.

Speaker 6 (01:00:02):
Super super sick because I feel like a lot of
people really appreciate the life influence to hell yeah, bro,
Like I.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Told you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Yeah, It's it's like when you hear I remember when
I first heard it, like in the music, I was like, damn,
these kids are like I'm just like damn. And then
to see it in person, it's just like, oh ship,
this was really doing it. Like it's not edited. I'm
used to like editing, you know, editing, production all that,
but to see these kids not needed, you know, and
I'm just like wow, bro, Like at the level of talent,

(01:00:34):
it's it's gone to a whole nother level. Now yeah,
you know exactly, bro. Like, but now like even though
the Kintos are like insane, and how these kids come
up with it. Bro, in the studio, bro, I would
think like, damn, you hear something like like like like
you know I say about Sola, you know, like those
kind of the king Thos, I was like, damn sure
it took them like a week to come up with Hey, bro,

(01:00:55):
coming put it on the spot, Shit, let me do
one more time. Boom got that part done, like and
then and then they learn it and then they can
play it live. Insane, bro, Like, that's that's a whole
other level of talent. And you know it makes me also, Bro,
it's like, yeah, fools like Mexicans are doing this watching it,
and then I've seen other people from different races be like, damn,

(01:01:15):
this kid's making that guitar sing bro, Like it's like
and it's dope. You see it on TikTok. You know
you have kids on the guitars and they start sucking,
you know, doing the game doesn't ship or covering like
certain big songs, and you see other people like damn
this this is crazy, Like Mexican music is taking it
to a whole other level as bad ass.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
Bro.

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
I was imagine that song with the life trombone player
and everything, its own dedicated stage, uh stage at Coachella, That's.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
What I'm saying. But we're working there. You know it's possible.

Speaker 6 (01:01:43):
They watch it like, uh, Golden Voice, Okay, we're gonna
put that right there, Golden Voice.

Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
I know you guys watched the podcast. I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
It changed our life. We need our own dedicated stage
for gotta know whore everybody else was.

Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
But also another thing too, we want to congratulate you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Signed with yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you, and
honestly like yeah, it's again. It's not just anybody. You know,
it's it's incredible to you know, to to have the
even just the attention. You know, it's just like wow.
Like again, you know I exist, you know, and uh,
you know my my my partner, Y Bogazzo, like he

(01:02:28):
he helped put that together. And you know, when I
first sat with Braheen, you know, I was expecting a
lot of business, a lot of business obviously, right, But nah, Bro,
there was more music than business with him, you know.
He he he did a lot of the things that
I'm trying to do now when I wasn't even old
enough to to you know, like when I was little, bro.

(01:02:50):
You know, obviously it was different times, different software is
back in the day, it was different, Bro, a lot
of a lot of hard worship that you had to
record on and stuff. And like for him to for
me to sit down with someone like that, and and
and again I expected business, but nah, he was just
like check this out, Bro, check that out, showing me
songs this that creative.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
I was just like, no, wonder if he's successful. Bro,
Like he's got a passion for it. And you know
him and Bessel like they they they changed the game,
you know, like and and and uh, just to be
able to be a part of that, you know. And uh,
not only that, bro, but like I remember I was
gonna go to the studio the other day and you know,
they text me there like, hey, best's up the studio.
I was like, oh, ship, Like let me.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
Know when he leaves.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
I don't want to botherw like obviously, like I don't
want to like obviously you know you are in the
same management. Yes, there is access to someone like that,
you know. And and I know a lot of people
are like, oh, it comes up bel collab, you know,
client collab, you know, And yes, that's the goal, bro,
that's the goal. But you know what, I feel like
it will happen when it's meant to happen, you know,
Like right now. If I were if I would have

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shown up, and if you would have said, like, what's up?
What you got from me? I would have been like,
I don't got nothing, bro, Like no, I want to
be prepared, you know. But I said, I'm not gonna again.
If I'm gonna collaborate with someone, it has to be
done right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
I got a lot of respect for what they do.
At the same time, of course, I'm a fan girl,
and I'm like, what the best, so you know, but
obviously I'll keep a professional and if it's gonna happen,
it's gonna happen because it's meant to happen, and I'm
not gonna force it, you know. And it's great, bro.
Like I was in the studio with something fit line
the other night, but it wasn't because we were working
on anything, you know. It was like the goal was
to like, you know, he was gonna listen to some

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things and stuff and like, you know, and he wants
to work.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
He told me he wants to work, and I was
just like dope, bro, and like, uh, they were gonna
leave early. So it was like, bro, we'll set something up,
we'll dedicate something, but let me prepare something, you know.
And uh that's how that's how I am.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
BRO.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Like, you know, I don't want to. I don't want
all of a sudden O I'm probab the same meagream
let's make It's like I don't want to. I don't
want to come off like that, you know. I want
them to be like let's sucking make it happen, you know. Yeah,
and uh, you know, but I so, you know, maybe
I have to put in a lot more work, you know,
but what I'm down.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
To do it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
And something that I noticed a lot about musicians that
they say when they're in the studio, they're always talking
about like all the energy gotta feel right and then
the timing is almost perfect, like things got to flow.
And I feel like it really reflects on the music
because when it comes out like it's super bad as
you know, like it's it's like something magical that two
people were able to put together, you know, or like

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the whole.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Team and a lot of that, Bro, a lot of
that has to be done naturally.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
Yah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Again, there are some talented motherfuckers out there that they
can fucking make it up.

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
It's like you want to got you class, you know,
but like from someone like me, like again, it has
to yes, it has to be right, you know. And
I know for a lot of the especially best of Bro,
like I've learned, I've learned how how how not picky.
But he's very like he's very specific with what he
wants and like he he and that's but that's why
he's as his music is as big as it is

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because you know, He's very picky and he makes sure
that only what he loves, absolutely loves, comes out, you know.
And that's the kind of that that's what you want, Bro.
And And to be able to make something that you
end up loving, you know, for me, it has to
have to flow. And collaborating with someone, you also have
to give room for that person's nature in music, you know,

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like you can't just be you. You have to be
a little open minded because now you're allowing a whole
other artist to come in and what he like might
be something that you might not like, or that something
you might not even understand, you know, but because he
likes it, like you have to give way for it,
you know, Like like me collaborating with some if that happens,
guess what Bro like his sounds, that's a whole different world,
you know. The beauty is it's still it's still Makano,

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you know, and that's where we can connect. But uh,
there's something possible there, you know. And and and and
I've already found him some ideas. And there's an idea
he's been holding on to for like a year. I
remember his team was just like, please don't give that
song to nobody. Else we want that song, And it's
so cool to you know, to to to see that
there's a middle ground possible with someone like Santa Fe,
that it's a whole different world, you know. And yeah again,

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you know, for me always be grateful to even be
in their presence, but you know, for them to want
to work, it's even even it's a cherry on top.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:07:01):
Yeah, I think something that really stands out for me,
like of your career is how versatile you are. And
I feel like I get to see why that's kind
of like the case because you really dive into their world,
you know, like you can really tell that it's like
really different. You try to like cater to them. It's
not like, oh, you know, like we're gonna do this
electronic song and like this how it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Goes m Yeah, you know, you know, I'm a I'm
a fan of all music, you know, like when like
I've thought about it, bro, I've thought about it, like
if I'm gonna make a song with Santa Fe, like
I you know, I've yet to sit in a studio
with him where it's like, okay, let's make something like
because then it comes a question where do you want
this collapse to land. Do you want it to land

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right in the middle between us or do you want
to land in your world? Or do you want to
land in my world lands of mine? Then it'll be
electronic lands in his world, and it'll be more. I mean,
he does Koombia, he'es hip hop, he does all that,
you know, like it'll be something like that or right
in the middle where it's a little bit of everything
you know, and and and and and you know. So
I've had artists like like with Fidel, he wanted to

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make something that is electronic, you know. I was like, dope,
you know, and I asked him, can we add some
some tromonis and stuff like that. He's like, yeah, yeah, Bro.
It's like hell yeah cool.

Speaker 4 (01:08:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
So yeah, it's always that question, you know, where it's
like how how much do you want to collapse? You
want to come into my world? Do I go into
your world? Or do you want to right in the middle.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
You know that's cool.

Speaker 7 (01:08:21):
I like thinking about it like that, Like it makes
total sense because I feel like it's always going to
be more than the other, but then you could always
balance that out.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Yes exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
I think that's cool too, that like you just get
to choose.

Speaker 6 (01:08:32):
I feel like sometimes you see collapse that they seem
like very strategic or like yeah obviously.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
Yeah, and you know what, you know what I remember,
I used to kind of be like damn, like like
I was not against that, but I was kind of
like damn. I preferred to be like more more like
because like fans were really you know, I mean, artists
were really fans of each other and they wanted to work.
But now, Bro, one thing I learned is I feel
like one of the reasons why Mexican music shot up

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because because of a lot of collaborations, you know, And
I feel like that's how yeah, yeah, because of all
the collaborations, and I feel like it's it's it's artists
supporting each other, bro, supporting each other where instead of
like hating it or like we're that's where a lot
of like that's how a lot of especially in that
world like like North Corridos and all that, Like back

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then it was very like stay in your own namee
because you know, remember back then, bro, it was different,
you know, like you know, days of Valentine Days, it
was different. But now where you have a lot of
these kids collaborating it's like now it's like their audience
is going to you know, come together with this audience
and now it's just blowing up and I feel like
it has a lot to do with it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Yeah, I feel like that's amazing. I want to say
really that it's like the artist. I feel like it
was like the label who just wouldn't want to work
together and.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
One hundred definitely yes they're with this label. You know,
you know we don't with them, but bro, collaborations. Bro,
that's like we help each other, you know, we rise
as a as a you know together.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Yeah, like that was kind of you mentioned those like
six Dudes doing so remember that, Yeah, and then Mexican
Mexican music, like it was so hard to get Like
this person.

Speaker 6 (01:10:04):
In this reminds me of Luck. Remember we're in the
garage and we're like, hey, you know, like how can
this be bigger? And stuff like the boom hadn't happened yet,
you know, you know, so it's like, we's gonna do
more collabs, you know, like collapse, Like imagine like one
day there's a collab with more than two people and
we're like, I don't think.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
So it's pretty crazy created to see how far it went.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
The audience is. It's like this audience gets exposed to
your audience, and then your audience gets supposed to me.
It gets supposed to me, and like now we're just combined.
Now we just double the audience.

Speaker 5 (01:10:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
It's just like and then you do that over and
over again, and now it's just like he comes on
on his song, his he comes out in that song,
and it's like everybody knows, Oh, I remember him, he
came out of you know. It's like that's how it is, bro.
And like for me, that's why I always try to
tell a lot of like like artists, especially upcoming like
like DJs and artists like that, don't try to see
it as a competition.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
It's like if anything like throw this room for everybody,
especially if you're going to create your own ship. It's like, bro,
like it's you. There's no other you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
You're not gonna have competition, which you're the only person
create your own sound. And and bro, there's plenty of
room for everybody. You know, there's room for you to
be yourself and create your own sound. You'll have your
fans and and and if you stay connected with them,
they'll remain loyal to you and it doesn't matter where
you go, they'll be there, you know, And that's really important.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Like that's one thing that I feel like I got.
I got an understanding of pretty early that, like, don't
forget to connect with your fans. Let them know that,
like you know, you're you see them, that you're there
with them and you hear them because like a lot
of these people, like I remember when I was I
was on the SR speakers, Like there's a part that
I remember where it's like I felt like when I
saw DJ I was like, damn, motherfucker's god. You know,

(01:11:38):
he's inaccessible, like I can't like he's untouchable. Like I
don't want that. I don't want people to feel that
about me. I want them to know that like that
I see them, you know, and I have connected with
people when I'm on stage, Like I'll see someone and
I'll make contact with them, and I'll make sure they
know that I'm looking at them, like I'll do whatever
signs they're doing to me, and I'll do them back
to them, and then they'll freak out and they'll tell

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O their friends.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
I feel like that that goes a long way.

Speaker 6 (01:12:02):
Yeah, no, super long way. I saw it with I
actually saw with my dad, like I took him to
a concert and like he actually got super excited and
like I was like, I was like, you know thee
no it was, that's what he's saying, Oh the son
of John. Yeah, you know, like I've never seen him

(01:12:22):
so hyped up and like like I haven't been like
have been and everything.

Speaker 4 (01:12:26):
He was on the worst and I was I was like,
this is lit like and then I actually like said
high back and then he's likely and I was like
it really goes a long way.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
Yes, And like for me, bro, like let that for
next week. So that's fired. Like that see something like that,
bro like that. Like as for me to do no bro,
no to take to take even the thirty seconds out
of out of my set to like really interact with someone.

Speaker 5 (01:12:52):
But why do some artists like like liqu Stomach, I
don't know, Maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
It does, but for me it doesn't, you know, Like
I don't know, but but I meanes, but I know
that chances are it means everything to them. I mean
it means everything to them to take for me to
stop and and and and take twenty seconds out of
my day just to take that photo or to to
to record a video with them, Bro, it means everything
to them. To me, you know, it's just like just

(01:13:19):
what another twenty seconds, bro, just like yeah, unless I'm
made to my flight.

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
It's like you know, it's like it's like if I
like and for me, I got the time, Bro, I
got the time. I will wait. I mean, you guys
seen that the Mexico game over there, try to take everybody, anybody.
I think we're trying to have a conversation, and they
keep coming up to me, and I was like you thinking,
you know, it's like to me, you know, as long
as you're willing to wait for me, I'll wait for you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
And you you that you've got to perform at Tomorrowland
d C.

Speaker 7 (01:13:50):
Do you feel like it's normal for like an artist
to feel like like a superstar or like that adrenaline
like that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
When you get in front of look at that when
it becomes that many people. It's different than playing like
a small intimate club, because when you're playing a small
intimate club, it's just like okay, you have you have
this group of people here, the group people there, you know,
and like you could focus on groups and like this
group is a little bit bigger than that group, and
battle when you play a show that big, it's no
longer like that. Now it's like you're trying to make

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one whole thing dance rather than this group and that
group of that group or this person that persons. Now
it's just like there's a plane for one beast. The
goal is to make that beast dance, right, and if
you're able to control that. Bro, It's like, I'm sure
this is the same feeling that those pilots get when
they fly the big fucking planes that they have so
much control in the palm of their hands. Of course, Bro,
that can get to you. Yeah, you feel like, Bro,

(01:14:41):
you feel like got up there.

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
It's like I have control, you know, one hundred percent,
And but that feeling, bro, Like I know that with
that feeling, it's like with great power comes great responsibility,
you know. At the same time, like, don't let it
get to you, bro, Like for me at least, you know, Uh, yeah, Bro,
I hope I don't ever you know, I hope I
don't ever start feeling like that and I feel like

(01:15:04):
I'm above everyone and like hell yeah, like I do
this ship like this, you know, and let the power
get to my head because I feel like I'm gonna
lose touch.

Speaker 7 (01:15:11):
And you've seen that happen with other artists or other.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
I have, yeah, you know, And again like like, who knows,
I don't understand how they feel. Maybe maybe if I
was in their shoes, i'd feel the same. Who knows,
But I know how I feel, and I like it,
like this better because it makes the way I am.

Speaker 8 (01:15:31):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
I always get nervous before show. Still till this day,
I still get nervous. I still get nervous. You get
ask my team and they'll be like trying to calm
me down, and I'm just like, you know, and I've
asked myself, why do I still get nervous?

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Probably because I still love the ship and I don't
want to suck up, you know. I want to go
up there and I want to please. It still means
the world to me, Bro, And I'm glad I still
feel this way. I'm glad. I'm grateful, Bro. Like I
still it doesn't matter, Bro, it could be a small
little clubs. I just don't want to because there's probably
someone out there that's waited years to see me and
tonight it's going to be the night, and I don't
want to fuck up with that person.

Speaker 5 (01:16:03):
You know what I'm saying, What would you tell them?

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
Well, one of the best things that I did, bro,
was was reconnect with where I came from, right and uh,
because that's what made me me who I am. And
there's nothing easier than being yourself, especially on stage, because
I don't have to put on this fake persona or
character and pretend to be something else that I'm not

(01:16:30):
when I get off stage. That literally makes my job,
my career, what I do or walk in the park,
I just show up and just be myself, bro. And
and you know, and one of the best things that
I got to do was reconnect with my culture. But
because now it's a celebration, it's no longer just a gig.
Now it's like it's a celebration, bro, Like fucking Drasa

(01:16:53):
showed up tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:16:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
It's just like and I remember playing clubs the same
clubs I play now. I played them back then and
it was like it felt like more like a gig,
but now it's just like Rasta showing up. It's like, yeah,
you enjoy everything yeah, and it's like it's it's a
celebration with music culture and you know, dancing and and
you know, coming together and you know, sometimes I'll play
songs like and like people it's it's a moment. You know,

(01:17:17):
I'll think about Lonado. It's a moment.

Speaker 5 (01:17:19):
You know, there's like those little songs that you play
and like people just go stupid, like the Mexico games.
You know exactly, but people like it, right, and.

Speaker 6 (01:17:30):
Some asking a question and I was debating whether to
ask you now. I was like, this is my funck
of the conversation, but like you guys are going to
see that I don't know ship so do when DJs
go and like they have a set the like do
they do anything?

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
Like like there's some like just play and like they
moved on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
It's a great question. But that's a great question because
and I'm glad you're asking that question because some of
us don't know exactly right when I said, when I said,
you know, one of my biggest fears that some of
these hotey gels that I did was that I don't
want people to leave because they have no idea what
I'm about to do. They're like, oh, it's dj R
a show, you know, exactly. So one of the things

(01:18:09):
that like, especially okay, this is another cone to hole
I have for for someone that wants to be like
me and DJ and these festivals. The truth is, but
what I am before a DJ is I'm a producer. Right.
A lot of people that go and see me, they
go and see me because of this song that I made,
not because of my DJing skills, not because I can
mix really well, not because I look cool up there,
but because they like this song that I made in

(01:18:31):
the studio. So that's one thing. So a lot, like
I said earlier, a lot of my work is done
at the studio. There's there's two things that I do
that I produce music and then I also performed by DJing,
So DJing obviously there's an art to it. I'm not
gonna I don't really like to call myself a DJ,
because there's some DJs out there that fucking DJ right,
they fucking you know that fucking crazy shit and the

(01:18:53):
turntable ists bro so. So but what I do is
I go on stage and I yes, I do, I do.
We have the file, we performed, we push play and
all that stuff. But when it comes to that, it's
also about like song selection, creating moments and like how
you blend two things together and like you know, kind
of like tricking the audience into thinking, oh, you're about
to hear this because it's a hip hop it's ama bro,

(01:19:14):
like you know, like that where it's like it was like, oh, Dann,
this is lit. You know, So that's what I do
on stage, but you know, to be able to perform
my songs that I work in the studio and then
like to to play it for the people and they
get to hear on big speakers, Like that's really what
it is, you know, for for for for a performance,
for someone like me, you know, so that that's what

(01:19:36):
a DJ performance is. It's not like I'm bro trusting me.
What I do on there is nothing compared to what
the cats and guitar players like the fuckers are talented.
I feel like that's crazy talent, bro, you know, but
I feel like a lot of my work is done
in the studio.

Speaker 7 (01:19:51):
I had that question so good.

Speaker 5 (01:19:55):
Earlier. You mentioned too how there's like laptop DJs.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
You said to yeah, yeah, so so yes, it's it's
a term that nobody really uses anymore because a lot
of the stuff, a lot of the stuff now it
can be done on the CDJs. But yeah, when when
the reason I mentioned it earlier because I said, I
DJ by ear where a lot of people DJ bye
bye bye bye. They sometimes they have the laptop and

(01:20:18):
they can see the lines, you know, and like you
can also see it on the CDJs. But uh, but
that's why I said it. Like for me, it was
an issue at Baja because I was I needed my
ear and like the sound was a little fucked. But uh,
but yeah, that's why I mentioned it earlier. Laptop DJs
doesn't really it's not really much of a thing anymore
because now people are starting to use the same software
they come integrated in the CDJs that they use.

Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
Uh, there's things like Shirato that people use, and like
that's that. Back then it was kind of like you
would see a laptop and your library would be on
the laptop and you would just use the turntables to mix.
But every all the songs suction and everything was up here,
you know, and then like the wave files and everything
was up here. And then but now what I what
I use is the CDJs, and everything is basically like
internally it's I mean, that's where you kind of I'm

(01:21:02):
sure probably sound a confusing pop up just.

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
Make the face.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Yeah, I even I'm sure something I didn't even know.
I even messed that one up to. I know, I
know I could have explained that better. It's the first
time I ever had to really explain it.

Speaker 7 (01:21:18):
So other questions. This is like super random you So
you raised your hands me just for what's an interesting
fact about your career that nobody knows?

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Interesting fact? That's that's great. Damn well, I help, I help.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
I hope nobody knows it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
No, no, no, I hope you find it interesting, because
you know, what you find interesting might be different than
what I find interesting. Is hm hmm. That's a good question, Bob.
I hope that's the thing. I hope what I what
I ended up saying, is it actually interesting?

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
Well, that what kind of interesting? Like a fun factor
from fact?

Speaker 7 (01:22:07):
Maybe fact somebody that you were gonna work with and
then it happened, or reject someone that you rejected.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Going I think I think I think I might hold
the record. I think I might hold the record for
the biggest really. Uh well, you see Mexico was probably
the first, but I feel like even Baha Beach was
probably pretty big too.

Speaker 4 (01:22:28):
Bet.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
The reason why it's not gonna be official is because
there has we have to count everybody, and there's no.

Speaker 5 (01:22:33):
Way to count.

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
That was right there. I don't know I could keep it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
I remember, I remember the first time I decided to
do it, I was just sorry, damn if the way
I was visioning it, I was just like, damn, like,
if this is this works out, it's gonna look fucking
sick to see everybody move this way and like all
of them, you know, like, and uh, when I did it,
it was twice is better than what I was imagining
it was. It was unbelievable. It was insane, and uh again,

(01:23:02):
it was a whole nother. It was a special moment
where I was just like, damn, bro, like I grabbed
that moment that I remember at the house parties and
all that, and I brought it here.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
And here it is that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:13):
Yeah, you said that your goal was to make you
know the beast dance and and like, oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
God, it's it's and I've even tried the fast one too,
you know, And it happens, Bro, It happens and uh,
it's beautiful, bro And and you know, I try. I
tried to keep my sets as fresh as possible, but
then you know, obviously people are like play all, you know,
like and I know a lot of these people weren't
there the last year, but they want to be a
part of it now. And it's like there's certain moments

(01:23:40):
that I have to that I feel obligated to continue,
you know, like I know, like that all was probably
something that I'm probably always going to do every set
because people want to be a part of something like that,
especially at a festival, you know, and you know, I try,
I try. I try to keep it fresh, but there's
certain things that I I out of respect for the audience,
they want me to do this, and I want to

(01:24:00):
do that because I know they.

Speaker 5 (01:24:01):
Want to be a part of some imagine I know, the.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
You know what you know, it's it's actually like it's interesting.
People know it's interesting because I say, for example, I'll
do it in vegas right, and in Vegasy it's mixed
more mixed, and I'll see like a group of my
people guiding someone, you know, like it's like it's it's cool,
it's cool. As fu Bro, it's just like hell yeah,
and it doesn't matter the race. Everyone knows, oh ship,

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we're all supposed to be doing something when they want
to be a part of it immediately, and they'll learn it, bro,
They'll learning and once they get the hang of it,
you know, and and and towards the end of the song, yeah,
everyone kind of figured it out and it's.

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
Like it's the time for the Golden Horse tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
No, but I'm telling you, bro, Like, for me, one
of one of the things is like again whenever I want, Like,
it's so exciting with everything that's happening right now that
I want to invite everybody. And if you're ever to
come through, bro, let me let me host you come through,
Like you'll go, let's roll together. But we'll go on
the same you know.

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
We'll jet.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Almost four more seats on the jet.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
You know, it's experienced, bro, and like and like to
be able to see, if you know, to experience it
from you know, from my point of view, and to
see like you know, you see someone go on stage
and they play this Mexican music and all that, and
then to see like like my team is mostly like
meicanos and stuff, like that.

Speaker 4 (01:25:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
So it's like it's cool to see like Meicano's backstage
and you know in such a world like like E
d M. You know, definitely, and it's it's it's exciting
and a little by little brother. There's more latinos coming
up about and there's a lot of talent. There's a
lot of talent is coming. There's a lot of Mexican
talent that our DJs, you know, and uh, you know,
it's just again it's a matter of supporting them and
and like you know, pushing them learning.

Speaker 5 (01:25:48):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
Yeah, I think that's like what you said, like backstage,
you know, that representation because most of the time it's
you know, it's not really Mexicans back.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Yeah, it's so cool, bro, It's so cool. It's so cool,
Like you know, my my tour manager, bro, like the motherfucker,
Like you know, just the way Gilango, you know, and
it's like he pulls up and he's like talking to
the stage manager. You know, he's like he got talking.
I'm like, hell yeah, killing it right now.

Speaker 4 (01:26:17):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
But it's dope, bro, because it's like you know, it's
like and and and I'm sure if I were to
post him videos of him tour managing, like it'll probably
give our people like damn, Like I could do that,
you know I could. I could take care of some ship.
I can make sure like Onis is okay. You know,
let you got to let people know, hey, like our
people could do these things. You know, our people can

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stage manage. Our people can tour manage, road managed production,
managed lighting, lighting designer visual effects you know l D,
you know lighting like VJ visuals. Like, Bro, people could
do that ship.

Speaker 4 (01:26:49):
Bro, I want to see a Mexican with those biggest
the biggest headphones.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Right there, Bro, Like you know here, you know, it's amazing,
it's amazing, Like I got, I got like my team,
Like my wife she does a lot of the special effects.
She does like the fire and like the the co
two and like she'll cue the pyros and everything, and
like you know, she'll even do it at ADC where
she's queuing and she got the headphones in and you know,
and and I'll usually have a bigger team for something
like ADC. But uh, you know, like it's it's it's

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badass to see like the like to see our people
doing it, bro. And and I know I know that
there's so many of us out there that could do it,
but they just they're not even aware that they could
do it.

Speaker 4 (01:27:27):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:27:28):
Yeah, Well, we want to congratulate you on all your
success and everything that's coming. I think it's dope that
someone that started in the I guess the electric uh
like electric d M and then coming over here even
though you, like you said, you tapped into your roots
and then you managed to figure it out and you know,
get all these amazing collapse or congrats you thank.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
You guys so much. Ran honestly, like think, honestly, for me,
I'm very grateful because it's things like this, uh that
giving me a platform too, because you know, people just
know my music, but they don't know me.

Speaker 4 (01:27:59):
Ye was going to say that too. I feel like,
you know, you're kind of you know, you're names that
people know, but you know a little bit of.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
That story exactly, and like things like this, things like this,
you guys giving me this opportunity. It gives me an
opportunity to connect with my people on a personal level,
or they don't. It's no longer it's not just getting
to know the music, but also like this is these
are my intentions, These are my goals. This is what
I want for my people, and like you know, and
and I hope I get to connect with more people,
you know, And thank you guys for a lot of

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music to come on here.

Speaker 4 (01:28:25):
Thank you for a time, No, definitely, thank you for
coming on. It was it was work. We had a
we had to work behind the scenes a little bit.
You know, you're you're really busy.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
I'm sorry to you know what to like obviously as
a fan, you know, remember I told you I was like,
you know what, bro, I want to release I want
to release a little bit more Mexican music before I
go on there, because like obviously I watch you guys
ship and like it's it's like very very like Mexican
Mexican influence, you know. And I was just like, I
want to I want to be able to come on
here where you guys will recognize some more of the
music and stuff. And I remember I told you that,

(01:28:55):
I was like, give it a little bit more. Let
me put out the one with Louis else, let me
put that one out and then and then after you know,
so if we don't have to they talk about least
we could talk about.

Speaker 6 (01:29:04):
That, you know, and tend like, what would you like
to tell your fans and everybody that's watching, what message
you want to give to them, and what should they
be on on the lookout for.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
You know what, Thank you guys so much for for
allowing me to do what I do, especially now, not
right now.

Speaker 4 (01:29:18):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
Again, I have a lot of love, passion and and
respect for what I do and for my culture, and
and you know again, I hope I hope, you know,
I hope I hope that like whatever I do, that
that they know that I'm doing it with and respect
and and and and I and I hope to see
you guys that whatever show. I hope I come near you.

(01:29:42):
You know, I hope I'll come to the city near you.
And if you have an opportunity to come by and
let's celebrate the culture. Let's celebrate the sounds and music
and uh and yeah, there's a lot of there's a
lot of things coming, bro. You know, me signing to
the bed like open up. It opened up a lot.
It opened up a lot of doors. And there's I mean,
I got I gotta I gotta collaborate now with another

(01:30:02):
meet that broversatile And it's insane because I sent them
something and I was just like, someth meet that they're
probably gonna be Liken, you know, and the producers just like,
let's do it. You know, I gotta go over some
I gotta go to see that Mexican record them, you know.
So it's like it's it's a blessing, bro. And again
all all all, what I everything I do is with

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my people in mind, my culture in mind, and obviously
with love and respect.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Definitely there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
So to all the fans to watch watch till the end,
make sure you stay tuned for more music, more collapsed.

Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
I know there's more collabs coming. Something you didn't mention,
but I know there's coming.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
But think you watched them like com and subscribe and yeah,
I missed making