Kaytranada's forward-thinking production has subtly shifted the sound of pop culture, even if he’s too humble to admit it
temperature in Quebec City in March is 33 degrees Fahrenheit, with a low of around 18. That’s apparently of no consequence to the locals, who have chosen the month for an outdoor music festival appropriately dubbed Igloofest.
KAYTRANADA GREW UP in Saint-Hubert, just outside of Montreal. A middle child in the family, he showed musical talent early on. After he graduated high school, he was invited to a beat competition called Artbeat Montreal, which he ended up winning. Soon after, he’d make a name for himself playing shows around his hometown alongside his brother. They started out as a classic rapper-producer duo and went by the name the Celestics, a play on their last name, Celestin.
As he started to experiment with the nascent digital-production tools that emerged in the early 2000s, Kaytranada got much of his inspiration from J Dilla, whose intricately chopped samples might be his clearest point of comparison. “I really studied Dilla,” he says. “Instead of studying for school, I studied his music — him and Madlib were producers where I was just trying to understand how they would chop a sample.
“In my heart, I always wanted to be the producer, but the Kaytranada thing just … I wouldn’t say got out of control,” he says. “More like, ‘Oh, that really works. Continue with that.’ ” After the show ends on the earlier side, around 11, we head to the apartment of one of Kay’s friends, a local club owner and promoter, to hang out before Kitty Ca$h’s set later in the night. In the car on the way, Kay and Lou sit in the back seat riffing about hip-hop.
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