Your Name: Nameless aka Jay Rivera
Your location(country,city): USA, Las Vegas
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest music career achievements in 2017?
Nameless: Getting my original mix 'fragments' signed to OHM Music
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest personal life achievements in 2017 that make you extremely proud?
Nameless:Hitting new career goals, and learning new things with music production.
1) Best Track from other artists:
Deadmau5 - Strobe
to this day im still in awe...it is definitely a timeless song.
2) Your top 3 2017 personal productions
Fragments, Sweet Synapses, and The Shadowmonster (all coming soon)
3) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
Top three would definitely be Deadmau5, Eric Prydz and Porter Robinson
4) Best Remix from other artist:
OUTER SPACE FEAT. DECLAN JAMES FEAT. LYCII FEAT. NOVEL (OHM Music)
5) Best Remix that you have produced?
I currently have several remixes in work at the moment.
6) Best Remixer:
EDX, his belo horizonte remix of angel on my shoulder still resonates within me to this day
7) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
I'm a big fan of Malaa, his production quality in bass house is unreal.
8) Best Electronic Music Album:
Worlds - Porter Robinson
9) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Deadmau5 - We are friends
10) Best artwork/cover of an Album or Compilation:
Porter Robinson - Worlds
11) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track (it can be your production or from other artists)
Kaskade - Angel On My Shoulder
12) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Haley
13) Best Electronic Music Label:
OHM Music. I love all of the new talent that they are bringing to the forefront of Dance music and the support they are receiving is awesome.
14) Best Electronic Music Video:
15) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
16) Best Twitter or Facebook message or Instagram message you received from a fan or friend or you have read on someone else’s account:
Just the general outpour of support from friends and ppl that take the time to listen to what I am making is absolutely great.
17) Best music composition software:
Ableton Live hands down...I've tried many DAWs and Ableton is the most user intuitive to me.
18) Best Club Event or Open Air Festival:
I had a great time at Coachella. loved the different genres of music, very inspiring.
19) Best personal Dj Gig:
Playing After-hours in Las Vegas
20) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Porter Robinson and Madeon's Shelter Tour
21) Best country that you have played in 2017 and where did you met the best festival/event crowd:
I have only played in the US so far, and still have yet to play a festival. But my fingers are definitely crossed!
22) Best Radio show or Artist Vlog?:
I loved Eric Prydz EPIC radio series. just the mix of progressive with techno is very inpirational
23) Best Radio station:
BPM
24) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Beatport, Headliner Music Club
25) Best music related website that you visit frequently:
Dancing Astronaut, Flux BPM
26) Best Smart phone or smart phone application:
iPhone, and dropbox
27) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Serato DJ, definitely changed the DJ game...I still remember how painful it was to carry crates and crates of vinyl records to club gigs...
28) Best new sound or sample that has been used in Electronic Music this year perhaps introduced first by you?
Echo Sound Works has some fantastic sound patches. highly recommend using them.
29) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
Resolve your melodies and using dynamic range to make your compositions sound better
30) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2017:
Don't stop making music. You can't get any worse for being persistent in the craft. Only better.
31) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2017:
Music production for sure.
32) Best holiday destination for 2017 either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
I love to snowboard with friends, so I love visiting Breckenridge and Keystone for the holidays to get my fix in.
33) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
Future Music. i love the content have especially when its has new VSTs or instruments coming out
34) Best Movie of the year that may inspire you to compose a track:
Blade Runner 2049
35) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
Resident Evil VII was so good!
36) Best soundtrack for video game of the year:
Zelda Breath of the Wild
37) Best electronic music related joke you heard this year and make you still laugh:
The ranking system of dj mag....gets me every year! lol
38) The saddest electronic music news you heard this year and still makes u cry:
That Porter Robinson and Madeons shelter tour was just a one time thing. kinda sucks but I totally understand why.
Dimitri: Finally, please tell our readers your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Nameless: I have my debut release 'fragments' on OHM Music, December 8 with and awesome remix done by Profetik. I also have several original mixes and remixes still in work. stay tuned!Thanks to Omair Mirza at OHM Music for organising this interview
Additional info:
https://www.facebook.com/INamelessMusic
twitter.com/nmlss
soundcloud.com/nmlss
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