Scrolling Through SoundCloud: iBizzet
On “Scrolling Through SoundCloud,” we profile up-and-coming artists and producers who should garner more attention based on the quality of their music. So do them a favor and give their songs a listen. You won’t be disappointed.
IF YOU’RE A FAN OF…
Whethan
k?d
Fox Stevenson
NOTABLE TRACKS…
Don’t Give In
Drowning
Remember to Look Up at the Stars
Growing up on a healthy diet of classic rock, love songs, and a Monstercat-filled adolescence, 19-year old Jared Dunlap is beginning to make waves in the future bass scene with his personal brand of songwriting. He plays every position on the team: producer, singer, and songwriter, and even creating the companion art covers and videos. What stands out in Dunlap’s songwriting process is the fact that his tracks begin as poems before any melody is written, before touching any instruments. Now enjoying support from industry mainstays like Hybrid Trap and PRISMO, the Denver University student has big plans for 2019. Check out our interview with him below:
On the first song to give him chills
It’s not the same as it used to be, but back when I was 12 this hit me hard. It’s called “Talent Goes By” by Tristam. This came out in 2011, but honestly most songs by Tristam since then have given me the chills.
It’s all about where you listen to a song for the first time. Most of the songs that have impacted me, I’ve been alone. I don’t think you can completely internalize a song if you’re with somebody because you’re constantly worrying about what they think.
On catching his first break
Within this last year I made a song called “Drowning.” And my best friends told me it was finally getting good enough to where I needed to send it in to people. My dad taught me when I was little that you have a two-percent success rate, so why not up your chances? If I send it to 300 labels, that’s six right there.
Right off the bat, Haj [from Hybrid Trap] was super into my music, but when I looked into their artists, I realized that I do not make “hybrid trap.” Some of the music that they release the day before or after mine is just completely different.
I was nervous, because I didn’t know what their followers were going to think. It ended up hitting number one on SoundCloud’s New & Hot Trap Charts for a couple days straight.
On his track “Don’t Give In”
That is my favorite song I’ve ever made, and I’m constantly trying to top that. This is one of the few songs that was a poem before it was ever a song. The lyrics started out as a poem I wrote about suicide.
A lot of my songs start as the song name, then I work around that. I carry around this little journal with a list of song names. I honestly don’t record many melodies or lyrics before I start writing. Before “Don’t Give In” was a poem, it was just a song title. How can I capture those three words in a song?
On why he makes music
The whole mission is to scrapbook my life. I don’t keep a journal and I don’t write much unless I’m taking notes for school, but in this day and age you can make music and just release it to the world forever. Hopefully when I’m dead my music will still be around. I want to listen back to my music when I’m 45 and have children, like “alright kids, come here. I’m gonna show you some stuff that was going on in my life back then.”
Currently listening to…
I’m listening to a lot of TYNAN. His sound design is on another level. And because I’m seeing her live in two days, REZZ. There’s something beautiful about someone who doesn’t know how to play an instrument or any music theory, who just bought a laptop one day, got Ableton, and over the years got obsessed with making music. And now I get to see her headline at Red Rock two days.
