Tell us a bit about yourself
I'm Sam, also known as Eyes, a 20 year old producer/songwriter from
near Brighton! Music is pretty much all I do, wouldn't have it any other way,
other than that I'm a pretty standard 20 year old!
How did you get into DJing?
Always been a huge fan of music, started playing guitar when I was
about 12, played in bands and eventually decided I wanted to get into producing
to record my band's music. From there I just ended up getting more into the electronic
side of things, remixes and stuff, and DJing was the logical choice.
What do you look for in a song you want to remix?
First thing is vocals usually, has to have a vocal that gets
people's attention. Doesn't have to be huge and in your face, could be quite
soft, just as long as it sounds nice.
What equipment do you use?
My main piece of kit is my MacBook Pro, do pretty much everything
on that. Have a few bits of kit but rarely need to use much else. Having masses
and masses of plugins helps a lot though!
What are your views on music being shared and sold online?
Very difficult question, I don't think there's an option that
doesn't have its fallbacks. I don't agree with the insane crackdown on
copyright infringement at the moment, but I wouldn't, being a remixer myself! I
believe it should be shared, and that people DO still pay for good music even
if they can get hold of it for free. YouTube is an awesome tool, as is
SoundCloud, and iTunes seems to be a good system. It'll be interesting to see
where that area of the industry goes over the next few years.
What is your greatest achievement?
Not sure! Either hitting 5 million hits on YouTube. Or playing
Ministry of Sound was pretty insane. I had a remix on the Cher Lloyd Swagger
Jagger EP which got up to number 2 in the album charts, and the single went
number one, so that was pretty cool.
What inspires you?
Good music, and meeting other people who are just as passionate as
me about what they do, I love being surrounded by other people who love music.
But in terms of actually making music, producers like Skrillex, Feed Me and the
Noisia guys are a huge inspiration. Seeing Skrillex win those Grammys the other
day was very inspirational.
Best and worst gig?
I've not done that many gigs as Eyes, been spending too much time
in the studio! The ones I've done so far have all been awesome fun though,
Ministry was the best, couldn't say what the worst was.
You've nearly hit 2million YouTube views for your recent Ellie Goulding remix, any feedback from the good lady herself about it?
I haven't actually! I've met her a couple of times but never really
spoke about it, might try find out what she thinks!
What have you got lined up for the future?
Loads more original stuff, some more remixes, more gigs, 2012 is
exciting already. I've got a single out early March called "Tonight",
going out on the Quantum label, it's featuring Ryan Keen who has been having
some mad success recently, really talented bloke, so that's the next thing on
the agenda!
Excellent, thanks Sam, and all the best with the new single.
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/sameyes
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/eyesstv
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/EyesOfficial
SoundCloud - http://www.soundcloud.com/sameyes
No comments:
Post a Comment