'I love this generation we're in with music now. Anything can happen. It's so fun.' hearteyes
"I played in post-punk bands and made techno and dance music in university," Santiago says."Everything in Sydney was all in the same spectrum. They overlapped because it's so tiny. You have the dance kids or the club kids going to hardcore and punk shows, and then you have the punk people going to club nights and house raves. Everything was intertwined and meshed. Through that small, Sydney community, you'd just meet everyone, and everyone is down to help out.
Years later, when Santiago created music as Hearteyes, it opened new roads of possibility for him."Doing Hearteyes is a liberating thing for me, to finally be able to do what I want, to show the world that I'm not just that person people from Sydney are used to me being, the guy that's into 'punk.' I'm into so much more than that," he says.
The mixtape was recorded entirely on a 15-inch Macbook in a spare bedroom of his parents' house, and Santiago used white Apple earbuds as a microphone for all vocals on the album. The backing guitars and instrumentals were"old samples of music" first recorded as a 20-year-old college student."No one can tell me if my music is good or bad, right or wrong," Santiago says of his makeshift three week-long creation process."It feels right to me.
Post-release, Santiago says he wants to use his time in quarantine to build community with other musicians, and to break down common misconceptions behind mixing, mastering and recording software. Mainly, that music production isn't something only professionals with top-tier equipment can execute. He's been hosting tutorials on Instagram and sharing Ableton lessons with other aspiring musicians over Zoom.
Santiago continues,"Now more than ever, the market dictates what music is popular, good and bad. Fuck labels, engineers and all the gatekeepers, it's now down to kids and TikTok –– they pick what becomes a hit. I love this generation we're in with music now. Anything can happen. It's so fun."
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