MASTERIA Debuts New Music & Mindset with “Escape Actuality” [LISTEN + INTERVIEW]
Immediately, Detroit-based expertise MASTERIA unleashes his newest manufacturing, “Escape Actuality.”
Darkish, high-intensity music is the identify of MASTERIA’s sport, however there underlies a deeper which means — escaping from actuality and inspiring listeners to create their very own. The producer’s new single supplies simply that, additionally embracing the intention of the MASTERIA challenge at its core.
The discharge seamlessly blends parts of techno with MASTERIA’s signature darkish bass home sound to supply a end result that’s certain to move listeners into an entire new world. With warehouse-ready, acid-laced design, “Escape Actuality” units the bar excessive for immersive music experiences.
MASTERIA shares:
Music has at all times been an escape from actuality for me. Whether or not it was making it by robust instances as a toddler or discovering a technique to push by the day on the company jobs I resented, music was at all times there. My objective for this challenge is to create artwork that gives that very same escape for my followers and evokes them to beat no matter constraints life has positioned on them and create their very own actuality.
He expands on all this and extra within the interview beneath. Pay attention right here and scroll all the way down to make amends for all issues MASTERIA!
MASTERIA – “Escape Actuality”
First up, how has it been spending a yr in lockdown and now seeing that gentle on the finish of the tunnel?
This previous yr has had its ups and downs for certain, however total I believe it’s been a blessing in some ways. One of many largest advantages is I’ve been in a position to join with far more of my followers on-line. Whether or not its music suggestions streams, DJ units, by my Patreon web page, or simply chatting with them in my MASTERIA’s Underground group on Fb, I believe the pandemic has introduced so many people a lot nearer collectively due to the web.
You describe the MASTERIA challenge as an escape from actuality, are you able to increase on that?
For so long as I can keep in mind, music has at all times felt like an escape from actuality for me. After we hear music we love, I believe it does one thing particular to us. It will possibly transport us some place else, away from all of the stresses and worries of our on a regular basis life.
I began this challenge to create that very same escape for my listeners. To create artwork that makes them overlook concerning the tasks from their job, their stresses about college, their worries concerning the future or the rest that takes them out of the current second. I need them to be fully immersed within the music, residing within the current and loving each second of it.
My objective for this challenge can also be to point out individuals that you simply don’t have to simply be a byproduct of your actuality. Oftentimes the expectations or opinions of others maintain us again – our mother and father wanting us to be one factor, our buddies pondering we will’t do one thing else, ect. It took me a very long time to comprehend how a lot I used to be letting the opinions of others maintain me again, till I began MASTERIA.
It made me understand that we’re able to something we put our thoughts to, and that the one limits in life are these we placed on ourselves. I need my challenge to point out folks that they actually can do something, and that they’ll overcome no matter features of their actuality are holding them again.
Proudly hailing from Detroit, what’s it like representing a metropolis deeply rooted in dance music?
It’s such a blessing. I’ve at all times lived near Detroit, so I used to be uncovered to digital music at a reasonably younger age. My first music competition was Motion in Detroit, which occurs downtown yearly within the coronary heart of town. It opened my eyes to so many numerous types of home and techno music at a younger age and I’ve been completely hooked since then.
Dwelling within the coronary heart of town these previous few years has been wonderful.
Each weekend we have now so many various types of DJ’s taking part in across the metropolis, and being that that is the birthplace of techno, there are such a lot of legends come by which is simply unreal. It is usually fairly inspirational to simply see how passionate individuals in Detroit are about digital music and the way supportive everyone seems to be within the scene right here. It actually feels a bit like an enormous household the place we’re all linked over our shared curiosity of this artwork.
As one in all our Artists to Watch, what can we anticipate from MASTERIA in 2021?
It’s an absolute HONOR to be positioned in your Artists to Watch listing. Significantly, so grateful. However this yr you possibly can anticipate a whole lot of new music, some massive collaborations, and lots of extra remixes. I’m additionally engaged on some actually particular merch and a few massive reveals throughout the nation. Keep tuned!
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