Today we’d like to introduce you to Litronix.
Litronix, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I’ve been playing music since I was five years old when my Mother began teaching me guitar and piano. I had private violin lessons from the ages of 8 to 12 years old. When I hit my teens, I began to hate the violin and just wanted to rock so I picked up the guitar again and started writing my own songs and singing. At 15, I started my first punk band with my good friends from my high school called Earplug. The first time I stepped foot on stage, I knew this was it. I fell in love. It was a beautiful power. And even to this day will never go away.
And so I played in many many bands throughout the years such as Radar, Dance Disaster Movement, 60 Watt Kid. After 60 Watt broke up in 2011, I was completely fed up with band arguments, creative differences, and emotionally unstable personalities including myself…haha. So I made it my goal to do everything I could possibly do, to create a one-man band that sounds good. It took me years to master, and here I am in 2019 Litronix, and it’s running smooth.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
There has been many many struggles. Sometimes it’s money. Not making enough to support the tour or your album or anything. Sometimes it’s people. Negative people. People with no passion except selling themselves. Promoters who only care about what the next hyped thing is and forget about all the good musicians out there that sacrificed their lives to play good music.
Sometimes it’s the music scene. A scene where a community of people supports each other and everything seems awesome like something special is happening until time passes at the blink of an eye, like anything else in life, and the scene completely dissipates. People go their separate ways. People move to different cities, get married have kids…etc…. and then whole new genre of music and transplants move in. The new people forget about what was before or have no idea it existed. They might even have no respect for the old happening.
And this is a good lesson to be learned. Never rely on any scene. Always strive to be your own. Your own entity. Scenes pass. But I don’t.
We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
Litronix is my entity. I work with Loop Pedals. No laptops. I like looping. I’m a natural at it. It’s a whole different way of thinking and writing. I am also limited in some ways in comparison to using Ableton Live or any other computer live programs. My music isn’t Karaoke. I don’t just press one button on my mouse and come out and dance and sing. I’m controlling up to 5 different loops. Some are synth loops. Some are vocals. Some are beats. Some are bass tones. Some are in sync. Some are not. Then I sing and play guitar on top. Dancing is a free section bonus.
I’m proud of myself for persevering through the rubble and never giving up. Always getting back up on my feet. Sometimes failing over and over but never letting that stop me. I’m proud of myself to never have to rely on anyone to make my own music. DIY Do it yourself.! And always striving to create music that’s never been done before. Striving to be unique. Sometimes that can seem impossible. Obviously, music is universal and we all become influenced by sounds we hear or heard somewhere. But the trick is to listen, experiment, and be open. Live in the now. Let the stream of consciousness come to you. Listen and receive. Never force. Just listen.
If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
Probably to take care of my ASCAP and be on top of my music business stuff at an earlier age. Another huge lesson to be learned.
Contact Info:
- Website: litronix.bandcamp.com/releases
- Email: [email protected]
- Other: https://larecord.com/news/2019/06/05/video-premiere-litronix-kenter-canyon?fbclid=IwAR30dg5EtTB4TUWgIAqv-VlUi9ZdQOAoXlfXmMAh1QaxespTh7KOHTEr0A8
Image Credit:
Dan Busta, Stefano Galli, Masha Pershay
Joe Lyman
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