Today we’d like to introduce you to Elliot Luke.
Hi Elliot, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
Born and raised in Colorado, I grew up in a musical family. My father owned and ran a piano business specializing in the sales, tuning, and restoration of antique pianos. I only attended piano lessons for a few years because, even at a young age, I was determined to teach myself and have a more exploratory approach. I picked up a guitar in middle school and joined choirs and musical/theatre performances as well. I was a pop-punk/emo/indie-rock kid at the time- I had a lot of emotions. In high school, my taste in music expanded exponentially as I began listening to everything from hip-hop/rap to modern/alt-rock and more. In my later years of high school, I was a guitarist/vocalist in a 9-piece ska band, and we even won the Denver Battle of the Bands in 2009.
I became heavily committed to theatre and choirs as well throughout high school, as well as explored a growing love for film production. I had my first brush with music production in my later years of high school when I started working for an entertainment/event company and started to learn to DJ at 16. When learning the ropes of DJ’ing, I studied music history quite a bit so I would be familiar with the standout tracks from many genres, bands, and eras of music that I wasn’t around for. I went to college in North Carolina in pursuit of a film degree, but it wasn’t long until I started getting into EDM music. I started regularly DJ’ing at bars by the end of my first semester, and started taking production seriously that year as well. I worked for the school doing Audio/Visual, and learned a lot about live production in my time there. Throughout the years I also picked up a recording arts minor and continued working on music production, and set my sights on Los Angeles.
After graduating college, I moved to LA and began working in Live Audio/Visual for corporate and entertainment events. In the ten years I’ve worked in LA, I’ve grown to become specialized in the visual side of live events- programming LED walls, video switching/engineering, and projection mapping on a freelance basis. However, my love for music production has remained the whole time, and I’ve devoted a lot of my free time to developing my personal music project, MELOMATIC. Under that name, I’ve played many shows at different venues in LA, including Academy, Exchange LA, Avalon, Catch One, and more. I am looking to take my music production and performances to the next level now and will be attending Icon Collective Music Production School in 2024. It’s been something I’ve wanted to do for a while now, and I’m finally at a place financially where I can make it happen. I’m excited for what’s next!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Of course not! I don’t think there’s anyone out there pursuing a career in anything creative that hasn’t experienced many challenges and struggles along the way. For me, I’ve struggled with a few difficulties I imagine are fairly common for a musician trying to make it a career. One has been finding the time and money to commit to putting out quality music, or content on social media. Unless you learn how to do everything yourself at a professional level, you are better off hiring other people to fill in where you fall short. Online marketing and social media for example, has been difficult to devote the time and research into on top of everything else. I have also struggled with becoming complacent and comfortable with my freelance A/V career. I enjoy that work, but it’s not what I want to do for the rest of my life. It has been a shadow career for me, parallel to what I really want to do with my life. I’m happy to be at a point where I can make a different choice and try something else and commit to my passions.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I’m a music producer/remixer/beatmaker specializing in melodic EDM and bass music. I have been releasing music for the past 10 years or so, including a bunch of singles and remixes alongside a couple of EPs as well. I have also produced music/beats and done remixes for other artists, businesses, YouTubers, and libraries over the years. I would say the project I’ve been most proud of was my last EP, Transmutation. I think it’s the best representation of my production work to date, but I’ve got quite a few new things in the works that I look forward to releasing in 2024!
My focus and specific style of music I love to make is a mix of melodic bass electronic music and cinematic scores. Think Hans Zimmer meets Skrillex. The cinematic orchestral scores help convey stories and emotions well, and the EDM side of it brings energy and power. I feel like my tracks all tell a story, whether or not they have lyrics. In my live sets, I strive to have seamless transitions not only of tracks but in energy and movement. I also craft a lot of edits and mashups that I use within those sets to be able to squeeze the most out of the time I have for a set, and it adds to the variation of genres and energy I can have within a single set.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
I think my drive and motivation is the most important factor. As someone who’s always working on a project (or three), I feel lucky to have the motivation to continuously show up for the things I love. LA undoubtedly has a “hustle culture”, so it feels like a great home base for me at the moment. There’s a lot of room for networking and meeting the right people for a team who share your interests. I know that as long as I keep showing up and putting in the work, my long-term goals will continue to become a reality.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.melomatic.co/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialmelomatic/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMelomatic/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliot-luke-76248b37/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@officialMELOMATIC
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/officialmelomatic
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