Shlohmo On His New Album 'Dark Red' and Music Video Directing with HYPETRAK

When did you start working on Dark Red?

About two years ago, right after I had finished the music for Laid Out.

When did you know it was going to be a full-length album, and how was the process like?

I knew that’s what I set out to do the whole time. I had stopped working on it and started mastering at the end of last summer, so the process took about a year and a half.

What has changed in your personal life since the last release?

I grew up a lot. I made Bad Vibes when I was 19. I had finished a few more by the time I turned 21. I’m 25 now and it feels like I’ve learned some sh*t. My life is very different now, back then I had just dropped out of college and started realizing that being a musician could be my job, more than something that I did for fun.

How much of it was actually planned?

None; it’s really been a really weird f*cking snowball. It’s been really slow-scale; it started out from literally nothing. The musician life is over-glorified by others — I drive the same car I drove since high school, I go to this studio that’s covered in ash, I live in a first-floor apartment. I’m leveling up, but it’s as they make it seem.

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