Actual identify Pim, Sebastian Kamae talks about ‘Sebastian Kamae’ making music that’s chill, ‘KAMAE’ creating extra danceable tracks that feed the soul, and his nameless alter ego ‘Intoku’ becoming a member of the combination.
The next recaps an interview with Sebastian Kamae as a part of Downtown Music’s collection, The Music Trade Lives Right here. Downtown Music is an organization DMN is proud to be partnering with.
“My identify is Pim, and I make music as Sebastian Kamae and KAMAE.”
KAMAE reveals a number of genres have at all times influenced him. At the moment, he’s mixing soul, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, and digital music into one cohesive sound. “Lots of my sound revolves across the keys. There’s at all times a component the place you possibly can acknowledge it’s me due to that little half. It has heat to it.”
Talking in regards to the evolution of KAMAE, the artist says, “Sebastian Kamae has been a venture that I’ve been growing since I used to be seventeen, and has a really distinguished sound. Dusty drums, lush keys, and chill sounds. It’s like a heat bathtub.”
The sounds he creates are distinct beneath every avatar. “The place Sebastian is chill and within the background, KAMAE is extra danceable and has a soulful, heat really feel. Then there’s this alter ego known as Intoku, which is totally nameless. The BPM is decrease, and it’s virtually ambient music with drums. It’s a special realm.”
Talking in regards to the distinctive sounds he produces, Pim reveals he mirrored on the idea of branding and made some adjustments. “I used to be form of all over, so I made a decision that Inoku goes to have this gradual tempo, chill. Sebastian Kamae goes to be my instrumental producer venture, the place it’s jazzy, it’s enjoyable.”
As for KAMAE, Pim wished his artist profile. “I wish to do dwell reveals, DJ, and it must be a mixture of all my backgrounds. It additionally must be a brand new wave of influences and digital music. That’s the place my music resides proper now.”
Revealing the intricacies of the Amsterdam music scene, KAMAE explains how it’s distinctive, restricted, and has its challenges. “I really feel like if we have been all to come back collectively to hang around, it might be a bunch of fellows within the park. It’s not like tons of.”
His first venture was a crossover collaboration known as Mainlanders with artists Styn, Bertholet, Dontcry, Nokiaa, Sleepermane, and Sinh. “We dropped that tape as a result of it was a enjoyable factor. Then everybody thought, Why aren’t we collaborating and placing out beats each week?”
That realization led to a interval of 1 launch each week. “It caught the wave of Lo-Fi hip hop changing into tremendous widespread. We have been making beats for enjoyable.”
In the end, the folks he labored with moved away from Lo-fi and took on different initiatives. Everybody was shifting in a special path, and KAMAE was prepared for brand new adventures. “I wished to see the world and do stuff elsewhere.”
KAMAE has at all times been a fan of the Chicago hip-hop sound, so he knew the place everybody was recording. “I made a decision to e-mail 150 studios.”
“An insane quantity of emails to L.A., London, Chicago — all of the cities that appealed to me. Chicago was in all probability prime of my record, and I in the end accepted an apprenticeship there. It was an unpaid internship for 3 months.”
KAMAE established a relationship with the studio’s proprietor. “He had me clear the flooring and the bathrooms and shit like each American studio would. However in a short time, he let me additionally produce for artists on the label and sit in classes and be the fly on the wall.”
“I’d give him info like, yeah, it’s important to signal this man. He’s wonderful. I in a short time turned a part of that little ecosystem. I used to be residing in that studio for 3 months, so everybody bought used to me.”
“My love for the US was already there. However what I at all times missed within the Netherlands was with the ability to work with rappers or singers that have been residing what they’re speaking about, and sound genuine.”
Being surrounded by unimaginable artists was what KAMAE wished, as a result of he noticed the chance to construct with them and ‘faucet into their vibes.’ “Lots of people within the Netherlands who tried to rap in English, you possibly can nonetheless hear they’re competing with U.S. artists, and it’s not the identical.”
After the proprietor offered the studio, KAMAE felt it was the proper time to maneuver to LA and started collaborating on initiatives in San Francisco and California.
KAMAE says his dream could be to arrange base in LA. “I feel the community and alternatives are insane.”
Talking about his first interplay with Downtown, KAMAE says all of it started with an e-mail from Rod Linnum. “He cherished my music. I feel he discovered it via a group with Glimlip.”
“Rod actually has bought one thing — an entire wave of music that’s streaming extraordinarily properly, has the potential to develop larger and larger over time. But in addition a group of pleasant folks, and simple to work with.”
“Now I don’t need a hundred distributors to work with, so I work extra with Downtown. It’s good to have one firm that’s extremely responsive after I want them. The KAMAE branding is now changing into clearer to me, and I’ve a clearer imaginative and prescient of the place I wish to go. ”
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