Hey Music Mag - Issue 4 - February 2019
Hey you! Welcome to the fourth issue of Hey Mag! Discover more about Ava Max, the super-fresh newcomer who’s slayed charts worldwide, how Jamiroquai have super-charged their kaleidoscopic funk grooves, and meet the Kurdish singer born in a Syrian refugee camp who wants to put diversity on the music industry’s agenda. World-renowned DJ and Detone boss Darren Emerson (ex-Underworld) offers his six tips to running a successful record label, while we've sussed out the best underground parties in Paris, and trawled the archives to bring you a selection of must-see music documentaries. From new artists you need to hear to music legends past and present, the February issue has it all. Enjoy the issue.
Hey you! Welcome to the fourth issue of Hey Mag!
Discover more about Ava Max, the super-fresh newcomer who’s slayed charts worldwide, how Jamiroquai have super-charged their kaleidoscopic funk grooves, and meet the Kurdish singer born in a Syrian refugee camp who wants to put diversity on the music industry’s agenda. World-renowned DJ and Detone boss Darren Emerson (ex-Underworld) offers his six tips to running a successful record label, while we've sussed out the best underground parties in Paris, and trawled the archives to bring you a selection of must-see music documentaries.
From new artists you need to hear to music legends past and present, the February issue has it all.
Enjoy the issue.
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“Putting out those<br />
songs into the world<br />
is very scary, they’re<br />
like your babies”<br />
about it. You have to be very vulnerable<br />
and I’m not like that in real life. But once I<br />
got to know the producers and everyone<br />
I was working with, I knew I was safe and<br />
didn’t have to be worried. Putting out those<br />
songs into the world is very scary, they’re<br />
like your babies.<br />
Move is a phenomenal track and the video<br />
is so insane…<br />
Move sets the tone for my new stuff. There<br />
are influences from TLC, the ’90s, but it was<br />
so much fun to shoot!<br />
so much since then, I’m ready for the next<br />
batch of music.<br />
Describe the creative process behind<br />
the EP.<br />
It was a collection of stuff I’d written over<br />
the years, but when I do a body of work<br />
I like to work with one or two producers.<br />
I like working with someone I can connect<br />
with, so it feels cohesive.<br />
What was the hardest obstacle to<br />
overcome in the process?<br />
Being able to open up to people I don’t know<br />
that well. You can have quite raw and fresh<br />
emotions, stuff you haven’t even told friends<br />
about yet, and you’re in the studio writing<br />
You supported Rita Ora and Raye on tour<br />
last year. How was that?<br />
To have that under my belt is amazing.<br />
Being surrounded by such strong females all<br />
supporting each other is really nice. I hope<br />
that one day I’ll be in a position to bring<br />
someone along [on tour] that I really<br />
believe in.<br />
What’s your usual routine before you go<br />
on stage?<br />
I have some crazy warm-ups, but before I<br />
go on stage I like to be by myself, to channel<br />
and centre myself.<br />
What’s on your <strong>2019</strong> ‘to-do’ list?<br />
I’d love to play [London venue] KOKO but<br />
that may take two years! I just want to keep<br />
growing, release more music, maybe another<br />
EP, and play the Great Escape Festival and<br />
Coachella. So, more festivals, more headline<br />
shows, more writing…<br />
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