Interview: London Rap Artist/Producer Lynx Cane Talks About His New EP "Garden of Gethsemane"
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“I just love music, and I feel like listening to a whole bunch of stuff has helped with my sound and creativity.”
Who were some artists and/or producers that influenced you early on when you started creating music?
Oh Eminem, MF DOOM, Earl Sweatshirt, Nas, Kanye, The Alchemist, Mick Jenkins, Action Bronson, MIKE, Jay Electronica and Tyler, the Creator for sure. There's so much more but yeah they're probably the most influential to my sound in terms of people in Rap.
I would also cite Melanie Martinez, Sade, Tinashe and Lana Del Rey as big influences on my sound also. I listen to a whole bunch of stuff though, like one day I'm listening to Yugoslavian dance music, the next day I'm listening to German progressive rock, the next day I'm listening to Gospel, and the next I'm listening to Jazz. I just love music, and I feel like listening to a whole bunch of stuff has helped with my sound and creativity.
Congratulations on the completion and release of your new EP "Garden of Gethsemane". Tell us about your creative process for its five songs and how long it took to complete.
Thank you and to write and record the whole thing it took about a month to do. I usually try to write something every night. Whether it's a verse or poetry just something about how I'm feeling or how I've been doing. Which honestly has helped a ton, writing is literally therapy for me at this point.
I also had the theme of the biblical verses of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane already, so inspiration wasn't too much of a problem for me. The difficult part was finding and creating the right sounds for the EP.
I wanted it to sound soulful and at the same time like my view of what summer sounds like, and for a while I couldn't find the right collection of beats that sounded cohesive together.
I made "NINETEEN" first and as soon as I finished it, I knew that this was the direction and sound I was looking for, so I just thank Wilf Merson for that beat for real. The song "Prayers" was made after that. Me and waldero have always mentioned working together for months but never really came up with anything until that track. I was just making that beat and then I was just like, "waldero would kill the bass on this I just know it." A lot of his projects have songs with a dark or melancholy vibe and I just knew that it would be perfect for him.
When starting a project I usually start with getting all the production first, and I had 1 song and 3 other beats to record to definitively on the project but for the longest time I couldn't produce anything that I thought would fit the vibe to be a fifth track. So I hit up Swordbearer and literally that "Willpower" beat was just the icing on the cake. That's when I was like, "Ok cool, now it's time to actually start making this thing for real."
Were there songs that you recorded that did not make the final track list? If so, why did they not make the cut?
Yes there was actually. It was this song produced by Lord Glacier. Super talented musician from Canada, he's production is just soul touching. I wanted to put it on the EP but it was just way too soon to the release date when I got around to finally writing for it. It's definitely coming out though. It's coming real soon. I love that song too much to not release it.
For the beats that you produce, what software/hardware do you use?
I use Soundation. It's pretty good, I've been using it since I was 14 and it's improved a lot since then. I use it to mix my vocals too. It's not as well known as say FL Studio or Ableton but it's actually pretty decent.
With the EP now released, what's next for you musically for the rest of the year?
Damn umm I don't know. Probably gonna drop some more freestyles and stuff like that on my YouTube. Have something with Kenny Aries too that might come out some time this year as well. I don't know what else.
I'm always open for features and I think there's some coming out soon. Really, I'm just trying to keep pushing this EP and do more shows right now, but hey who knows, I change my mind a lot when it comes to putting out stuff, so only future me knows to be honest.
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