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Super Epic Intro

HOW ARE WE DOING Y’ALL. This is going to be a very long post, mostly because I’m excited to be here, and I just like to talk. I’m Dylan Ejay. (That’s also my music name. I know super original and creative) I’m originally from Hastings, Minnesota but I’m currently living in SD. And I don’t plan on leaving any time soon.

Music has been a pretty big part of my life since I was a little kid. I started in band when I was in 5th grade and chose the Alto Saxophone. I played all the way through high school. I also joined marching band when I was in 8th grade. I loved it and hated it. I loved band but hated the 2.5 hour practices lmao. I’m a bit lazy sometimes.

I always loved the late 2000’s and early 2010’s pop music, too. Whenever I would take tests or be in class I constantly had an earbud in (I would genuinely get into arguments with my teachers over it. I was kind of a bad kid and really hope my kids don’t act like I did lmao)

I wasn’t really interested in music production throughout my early high school. I do remember the first track I “created”. We had an assignment in my band class to use an online software to write our own score. I really did NOT want to do this assignment but my band class was the only A that I had left, so I had to do something. I ended up learning that if you drag and drop a full MIDI into this software, it will just generate the track. The teacher was very impressed with my cover of this track https://youtu.be/3wHBOvkxtus?si=lERQH2U3nFs-10Zd. I never told her that I lowk cheated just to keep my letter grade 😂

Late in high school however I started to get interested in production and sound design. I had loved EDM for a while so I decided to give it a shot. At first I downloaded GarageBand and played with that around 2017. I stayed on mobile using different apps until I stumbled upon Auxy around mid 2018. Man I loved that app, and I still miss the community that we had. Auxy was easy enough to understand, but complex enough to create awesome music. I used it every day for a summer. 👀 Eventually though I decided it was time to move to more powerful software. I bought this awful little MacBook from Facebook marketplace and downloaded FL in 2019. I, like a lot of producers just starting out, thought it was going to be easy. I could just apply what I knew from band to create tracks, right? Hell no. Fruity Loops has humbled me every single day for the last 7 years.

In 2020 I graduated high school and had no idea what to do with my life. I wanted to pursue music, but I really didn’t want to DJ or put on shows. I just wanted to produce produce produce. Well with there being no money in that for me at that time, I did the only thing that most people would do in my situation and joined the Marines. 😭 I won’t go into detail about my time there here, but it gave me amazing opportunities. I went everywhere and did everything, eventually being stationed in San Diego, California, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I’ve met some amazing producers and DJ’s (people that made me think, “hey, maybe I CAN play my music out”) here.

It was in SD, 5 years after I started producing, that I bought my first decks. I also met one of my best friends BenYourFriend, who really pushed me to be better. (I also played my biggest show right along side him) When I got out of the military in August, I didn’t go home. I stayed to be in this beautiful city. Since then I’ve been working hard trying to follow my dreams. Ben and I plan on throwing a lot of shows this year, and our music taste is very similar, so please send your tracks because we would love to support you guys ands play your music out. Right now I’m really focusing on improving my sound and getting to the next level. I mostly produce future house/bounce and bass house. Usually remixes of those 2010’s POP songs. I’m working on a few right now, so stay tuned! If you guys made it to this part of the post I want you to know that I love you. If you skipped this whole post and are just reading the last few sentences, well that’s okay, but I don’t love you as much.

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