Meet the Underground Expertise of Exterior Lands: Jackie Hollander [Interview]
by: Cameron DeFaria
Aug 4, 2024
“Exterior Lands has all the time been my dream pageant,” says Jackie Hollander, reflecting on her imminent debut on the San Francisco mega-fest. On Friday, August ninth, the Bay Space native will christen Exterior Lands’ beloved SOMA Tent, successfully slicing the pageant rope. Throughout an plain milestone, Hollander will have a tendency the identical decks as fellow performers SIDEPIECE, TSHA, The Blessed Madonna, Seth Troxler, and the listing goes on. Forward of performing on the pageant she grew up attending, Jackie Hollander sat down with Dancing Astronaut to debate her summer time tour, new music, her breakthrough launch in “All My Buddies Are Scorching,” in addition to what’s subsequent for the burgeoning tastemaker.
As soon as the pandemic dissolved and dance flooring reopened, Jackie Hollander endured a steepening rise onto the scene. At present, she boasts releases on high performing dance imprints, together with Gorgon Metropolis‘s REALM Information, Nervous Information, W&O Avenue Tracks, Insomniac Information, and even a one-off placement, “Freak,” showing on LP Giobbi‘s Femme Home Vol. 2. Most just lately, the producer turned in “The Life” on Insomniac’s IN / ROTATION sublabel. Says Hollander,
“I really completed [‘The Life’] in a single session. If I don’t bang out a music, or a minimum of the music’s template in a single session, then normally I’ll transfer on to a different thought. That’s what occurred on ‘Cross You By’ with Ellis Moss; we actually completed the entire music in a single session.”
“My Life” marks Hollander’s fifth single of 2024. Subsequent on the discharge schedule is “Cross You By,” a joint effort alongside Consultants Solely signee Ellis Moss. The group examined ID is formally due August ninth, the identical day Hollander will open at Exterior Lands. As the one US artist on Palm Artists’ unique UK roster, Hollander finds herself frequenting London to work on music. There, she and Moss exported the ultimate minimize of “Cross You By” after what had been a “magical session.” “I feel [Ellis] is totally genius,” Hollander emphasised, including,
“It was an enormous objective of mine to collaborate. My staff bought in contact with him, and we completed [‘Pass You By’] in in the future. It’s like my favourite music I’ve ever made. I’m going again [to London] in December to do a two-week [writing] camp, simply me and him, making songs each day… It’ll be so enjoyable.”
Earlier than “My Life” and the tour announcement, Hollander delivered what would change into her highest streaming music thus far. Touchdown on Mike Weiss’ historic dance music label, Nervous Information, “All My Buddies Are Scorching” caught fireplace. Hollander remembers,
“‘All My Buddies’ really took a very long time to complete. I needed to hone in and actually work laborious on it. Earlier than the discharge, I used to be getting so many DMs about it after enjoying it dwell. It could go off. It’s enjoyable to check your songs, both earlier than they’re signed or earlier than they arrive out. ‘My Life’ additionally bought insane reactions. In the end, it’s a little bit of a guessing sport. You by no means actually know who’s going to attach as soon as the music comes out. However that’s a part of the sport; let’s throw some shit on the market and see what occurs!”
On July third, Hollander took to Instagram to announce her first ever summer time tour. Ten days later, she kicked off a slew of high-profile gigs at Echostage for Elrow‘s Washington D.C. showcase. Now donning a sizeable uptick in month-to-month listeners, Hollander continued to enjoy her newly conspicuous catalog at Pioneer Sq. in Seattle, after which in San Francisco—her house base—the place she carried out at Gorgon Metropolis’s Halfway Block Celebration.
“In Seattle, a bunch of individuals ran as much as the entrance after I bought onstage. For the primary time, I felt like individuals knew me. It was so cool to see who my followers are; they’re all individuals I’d hang around with! Essentially the most superb individuals with one of the best vitality.”
A product of the Oakland rave scene, Jackie Hollander is aware of the significance of connecting with the dance flooring,
“I feel it’s so vital as a result of these are the moments I all the time bear in mind. Folks deserve a connection that makes them go, ‘Oh, they’re really an individual and never only a robotic!”
After Exterior Lands, Hollander plans to deliver that very same vitality to appearances at The Brooklyn Mirage, The Concourse Undertaking, Nocturnal Wonderland, and different impressionable dwell settings. Formally a touring DJ with notable bookings, Hollander credit Peggy Gou and Charlote de Witte as two huge sources of inspiration; whose manufacturers align with inventive integrity above the “feminine DJ” archetype.
“It’s not about them being feminine DJs. They’re artists. They’re leaders of the trade. That’s what I hope to develop into. They’re my position fashions. I like how, sonically, they’re so completely different, and but they’re so well-respected as tasteful manufacturers of their respective lanes.”
Hollander’s profession trajectory is a promising one. Trying down the road, she plans to launch her personal file label in “three years’” time. Whereas uncertain of the unborn imprint’s title, Hollander maintains a transparent conceptual grasp of what her model ought to and can embody, “I don’t know what it’s going to be known as, however I do know what it is going to be about.” She provides,
“I like combining mild and darkish. I need the imagery of that. I’d need my occasions to be held at dawn or sundown. Perhaps you arrive whereas the solar’s happening, when it’s extra chill. Then it will get darkish, and also you get all these tougher artists, relatively than the extra chill up-and-coming artists that performed at first. I need to incorporate nature in that means. I need that to be my factor. We’re already creating visuals.”
With new music across the nook and revealed present dates via EDC Orland on November eighth, Jackie Hollander is on the point of a fruitful latter half of 2024. Browse Hollander’s summer time tour dates here, be looking out for the August ninth launch of “Cross You By,” and buy tickets to catch Jackie Hollander’s Exterior Lands debut—12PM within the SOMA Tent—on Friday, August ninth.
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