Hey dude it's a pleasure to speak with you. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how G-ODYSSEY came to be?

Hey man! Thank you for chatting with me! So, the G-ODYSSEY project first started while in college studying music technology. I was a trained piano player and novice producer surrounded by incredible artists all doing their thing, but I felt like I had not really developed a voice as an artist yet. I was very inspired but wasn’t sure what direction to take my own music in so I just started making tracks nonstop, from dubstep to future bass to chillwave and straight-up noise made entirely on modular synths. I was super into experimental sound design but also loved traditional EDM song structures and tropes, so I knew I wanted to combine the two.

I was also a part of a club in college where music producers would get together and share what they were working on and gather feedback from their peers. At first, I was too intimidated to share anything, so I would just go to listen, but I quickly realized sharing music was vital to my success. Lots of the people who helped me with my music early on have gone on to become wildly successful artists in the scene. Soon after I wrote my first piece of “successful” music as part of my senior project in school titled Coeptus, which I still play in live sets today.

Dream Killer dropped a few weeks back with the title track receiving some overwhelming support and delivering with it some truly inspired production. How does it feel to see your work being received in this way? Is there a particular track you are personally most proud of?

It definitely feels great to have a larger number of people enjoy my music and huge thanks to Wavecraft Collective for believing in this EP. Dream Killer, the title track, would have to be my favorite on it. It was a track that took many re-writes to reach its final form and I rarely write music as low as the 60-65 bpm range so that was definitely a first for me. Overall I am very pleased with the final result.

I am extremely excited that this track is released as I have been sitting on it for quite some time. It's also on the biggest label I have released on to date, so I am super happy with that as well. For those who haven't heard, you can expect lots of breaks, dope basslines, and atmospheric breakdowns, so very consistent with other G-ODYSSEY tracks, but I still feel like it’s something fresh which is nice.

Who or what has been inspiring your sound of late?

There are so many incredible artists who I have been looking up to these days. Lately, I have been really digging the sounds of Suahn, A. Fruit, Guilt Chip, Zack Hersh, Rob Clouth, and Little Snake to name a few. All of these artists have such unique styles in their own rights, so I try not to follow a single artist’s style too closely, but they have definitely been in heavy rotation for me these days, so I can’t say I haven’t drawn any inspiration.

Other than musical influences, I am also very inspired by “raw” photography/video, if that makes sense. You may or may not be able to see it in my music, but I try very hard to strike a balance between raw emotion and the digital world of electronics. Slowly, I am trying to move my branding more in that direction and want to include more of that nostalgic feel mixed with the digital world into my artistic style/brand.

Give us one production tip that you have found to be invaluable?

Just make a ton of music, and finish what you started. It’s definitely something I wish was told to me early on in my music production career. When you’re first starting out, it’s super easy to get bogged down because you are not inspired by what you are making. But all you have to do is to trust the process and finish whatever you are working on. Even if you don’t really like what you did in the end, it doesn’t matter because you can just start something new which you will hopefully like better. Even in my process today, I often find myself not liking where a song is going, but I always must remind myself that I can always change what I don’t like until the track sounds how I want It to.

I know you said just one tip, but also, and this may be somewhat of a controversial one, but I would highly recommend people to experiment with analog gear. It is very popular to say that you don’t need expensive gear to make a good track, which is true, but ever since I started really diving into the world of analog, I feel like new life has been brought to my tracks that weren’t there when my whole production was done from the comfort of my laptop. Even if you can’t afford your own gear at the moment, borrow some from a friend, hit record, and just start jamming. Some of my best and most inspired sound design has come out of modular synthesis and some of my best leads or arps have come from my Sub37.

I just got back from a gig in Portland ME, where I played my first show in over a year. I threw down a heavy experimental set of all originals to a room of kids who mostly wanted to hear club bangers. Although I know I did reach through to some more niche people in the crowd which felt good.

Also, I have another set planned in September on Labor Day weekend at Sub.Cul.Ture Music and Arts Festival in Afton NY, where a ton of my friends in the scene will be playing as well from all over so I am super excited for that.

A recent hobby of mine that I have recently been getting into, is drone photography. There is something about the possibilities of recording video from 400 feet in the air that has given me endless inspiration. And who knows, maybe we’ll see some of it in future visuals later on down the road.

Of course! Other than to stream Hivemind, I think that about wraps things up!

Be sure to follow G-ODYSSEY and stream his latest single, Hivemind.