I Can Give You Heartbreak [Exclusive Interview]

Posted on Oct 23, 2012 in Compilation Album, Exclusive, Interview, News

This week something truly unique was shared with the EDM world that not many people know about. One of the original moombahtonistas, David Heartbreak, released a brand new acid house compilation, entitled David Heartbreak Gives You: Acid.

The EP features seven future takes on the classic TB303 genre by David Heartbreak & Simon Sayz, Rex Riot, Nicademass, Jon Kwest, J-Kray, Blood Eagle, and Alexandre. Each original arrangement draws inspiration from a different side of acid. Tracks like ‘The Jaunt’, ‘Borg’, and ‘I’m On Acid’ are strongly rooted to the original sound and feel of the genre, while ‘Acid Youths’, ‘Crank This (Acid Motherfucker!)’, ‘Seven Or Less’, and ‘Hydrochloride’ take acid down the rabbit hole to completely new creative ends.

I Can Give You House is always trying to highlight innovative projects like this, so we got in touch with Heartbreak for an exclusive interview about his Acid EP:

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ICanGiveYouHouse: For those who are not yet acquainted, who is David Heartbreak?

David Heartbreak: I’m an EDM producer who makes genre-less music… I make what I like, and what I want to hear… I produce all electronic music from 70 bpm to 150. My thing is this when I produce, there’s no boxes, no boundaries, no limits, just music…

ICGYH: You started out producing hip-hop, what made you switch to electronic music?

DH: Hip hop to me is a past time, I grew up on 90s and 00′s hip-hop, so today its not the same. I no longer share the same love for it, that I once did. I always liked Daft Punk and sampled based electronic music. I even like The Prodigy, one of my favorite groups in the dance/rave music scene.

ICGYH: Looking at your soundcloud page, there’s not much in the way of “traditional genres” that people are accustomed to. Instead there are tracks labeled Left Field Music, Loc’d Out, Future Bass, Experimental Electronic. Can you explain?

DH: Most of the music I make is me failing at trying to create something else. I can not make a true genre, if i try to make an electro house record.. half way into it, I will get bored, and say hmmm.. let me add a half time break, let me add some dancehall to it.. what about some progressive house chords… it’s a weird process. I just hear things differently, and maybe that’s the hip hop background in me. Weird thing is I can play keys and chords, and compose beautiful melodies, but i don’t.

I like my music to be raw and aggressive, and choppy. I think when music is too clean it’s boring. Anger and aggressiveness is a feeling that we all have in us. People meet me and say dude your so cool nice and humble, but the majority of my music is raw rave/rage shit. I go to the club to rage and let loose, and that’s what i try to get across in my tunes, let’s rage, and let’s have fun.. and if we’re not going to do that let’s mellow out to some future bass and smoke haha….

ICGYH: You release almost all of your music for free instead of through labels. What is the motivation behind this?

DH: I started giving away my music for free, because no one knew who the hell I was. It was a hard sale to try to convince someone to buy my music. I started to give it away free and started noticing better results. As I got bigger, I had the same mentality. It was hard for me to do proper releases, because labels still take too long, even in 2012. My music is a current representation of the state of mind I have. So when I cut a record I want the world to hear it right there, and then, and not six months later. I have big releases coming out on two of the top EDM record labels, for those I will chill and not give away for free.. haha.

ICGYH: What attracted you to Acid House? What were some of the key tracks/artists/influences from acid that inspired you to put together this EP?

DH: I was watching a documentary on house music, and there was a hip hop guy named DJ Pierre, who had a 303 from a pawn shop, and created a genre out of experimentation. I fell in love with the concept, and then i did my research on the whole scene and fell in love with it. I’m all about the underground and aggressive sounds, so to me it was a win-win. I thought to myself, let’s make it current. Music does a full circle and a lot of the music from the 90s is resurfacing, music has become too happy and pop tart. I think the music scene needs that balance, and that’s where I come in. I have a different outlook on EDM as a whole because my background is hip-hop.

ICGYH: Tell us a little bit about the other artists you brought in to work on the compilation. How do you know them? What made you think they were well-suited for this project?

DH: Everyone on the EP I know personally. All the artista make great music, some are known and some aren’t. What I like to do is introduce new people to new ears, no one on the EP has ever made acid before. I sent out a text message, saying hey, everyone’s making trap and hard style, let’s make some rave acid music, and everyone was like dude WTF… and I’m like yeah acid.. not too many are doing it lets’ do it. That’s what music is all about. Not following trends but creating the next trend. People are going to love and hate each project i make but that’s good. A lot of people are callous because they want to get ahead and they dick ride… I only work with people I have a respect for and like their music. Whether your Skrillex, or the dude that lives across the street, there has to be a mutual respect.

ICGYH: We’ve always been huge fans of your Moombahsoul series. Any chance of another volume making an appearance?

DH: The Moombahsoul project was an accident. I just stumbled upon it, trying to make something for people to relax too. In person I have two sides; and aggro side and a relaxed side. The Soul Series was music, that i made for people to smoke too, have sex too, and just get in touch with their emotions. I know that sounds real emotional, but that’s why i did it. The Soul series is cool. I no longer make Moombahsoul, I kinda re-invented it, and called it future bass/future soul. It’s the same concept, but at 140 bpm. It’s more relaxed, and personal vibes. So this is the stuff that I have been making for a year or so, and probably in another few months, I’ll make soulful house at 128 bpm, I move around a lot with tempos, I don’t like to give people the same thing over and over again.

ICGYH: Speaking about Moombahton in general, you were one of the pioneers of the genre alongside Munchi, Nadastrom, etc. What are your thoughts on the genre as it exists now? Do you think it has burnt out now that “trap music” is the new buzz-genre?

DH: Yea, I am a pioneer of the genre, and I’m responsible for a lot of its growth. Moombah was my introduction to EDM, my first taste of the EDM scene. I no longer make it anymore. I think that moombah has a lot of potential and hasn’t even scratched the surface, I think right now it’s having an identity crisis. A lot of people that ran to moombah were looking for quick fame and not looking for the betterment of the genre. I fell in love with moombah because it was a whole bunch of producers creating something new and fresh with no egos; As of lately the scene has changed and has become slightly disillusioned. The initial love is lost, but the music is still intact and will eventually come back.

I think moombah will make a huge resurgence, it’s the bridge between hip-hop, dancehall, and electronic music. It makes perfect sense. A lot of people say that all the songs sound the same, but if you listen to any genre that can be said once you get to that fifth song. The trap movement is cool, it’s nothing new that hasn’t been done, but it’s a perfect break from dubstep. Dubstep got out of control, so trap is the same tempo and has that new vibe. I think that moombah and trap are both hip-hop fused but two different things. People are making good money off trap, and it feels good to hear in the club. It’s not my scene, but there are a lot of pros and cons too it. Only time will tell what happens next in trap, but as far as the moombah, it’s here to stay.

ICGYH: What’s next for Left Field Music?

DH: Who knows? I don’t make any true genre, my thing is I want everyone to party together, so I try to fuse genres together where the crowds don’t match, but musically it makes sense. I just make music that I feel. Some of it is genius, some of it is crazy and retarded. But I’m not afraid to be Heartbreak. I make electro, dancehall, dubstep, progressive house. I listen to all music, so that’s why i make it all. I love pizza, but i don’t wanna eat that shit every day, sometimes you need a burger, or some Chipotle… music is like food, so many tastes…

ICGYH: It’s almost Halloween, tell us the scariest thing that has ever happened to you.

DH: One time I got chased by Freddy Krueger in a dream. He got caught me and stabbed me, and I woke up and threw up. Shit was next level scary… but then again I smoke a lot, so it might of been real, who knows haha.

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