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dj/producer (2010-) with 150K+ streams & pure love of trap, house, dubstep, moombahton, future bass, riddim, glitch hop, edm, jungle terror, nuwave, jazz, the art of electronica
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About XOXO
2001-2010
I’ve played the guitar and piano since I was a kid – from the early stages of life becoming fascinated with the artform of music especially between juxtapositional elements & subgenres and becoming classically-trained. Beyond theoretical implications, I went through multiple phases [even a classic ’70’s/’80’s Rock one – as my nightmare epic Beatles hair and ‘stache prove XD] and jammed to artists from AC/DC to Nirvana to Guns N’ Roses to Metallica to KISS to Heart to Led zeppelin to Slipknot to Linkin Park to Van Halen to classical symphony orchestrations dating back hundreds of years and exposure to my cultural South Asian motifs dating back thousands. From heavy solos in jr. high battle of the bands to Bach/Beethoven piano recitals (+ a brief stint on the drums!), music has always been an integral part of my life & story.
2010-2013
Ah, the awkward teenage years of 8th Grade – back in 2010, I first began hearing tremors and noise about electronic music production software like FL Studio & Logic Pro X later on. The amaranthine possibilities of billions of different sounds was like nothing I could’ve ever imagined – changing everything we previously knew about music, bloom-evolving comparatively boring centuries of music and bringing forth a new zeitgeist of genres and sounds that never before could’ve existed to the world. I was heavily into rap – especially newcoming revolutionizers extrapolating the genre beyond violence and gangster parables like 808’s & Heartbreak Kanye West & Take Care / So Far Gone Drake.
2013-2021
Back in 2012, I first heard Level by Avicii, and it changed my life. The producers were finally getting their due: the fame, money, and celebration their work merited when once previous genres like hip-hop/rap saw them disrespectfully subjugated to the background despite being 95% of makes a hit song. It also gave the iprovisation and endless possibilities of guitar solos and rock and finally achieved what retro disco wanted to do, but couldn’t with technological limitations. One of the most revolutionary songs of all-time, it was nothing like I – or the world – had ever heard before: pulse-catalyzing through scientifically-engineered BPM, orchestration, & electronica. College, Graduate, & Medical School saw me begin DJing at fraternities and nightclubs in Atlanta, GA, Boston, MA, and Washington, DC under the pseudonym L.I.C. (Life In Color). In February 2021, I changed my name to XOXO.
