![]() ![]() ![]() “My band was signed to a major label, but they tried to form us into a One Direction, asking us to wear all the same clothes and stuff like that. “16 is a very malleable age,” he says, revisiting the beginning of his career in music. Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Toronto-based Chet Porter was introduced to production after a career with his former band was cut short. “I could piece together loops and arrange my own songs.” “They had an Apple computer, which had GarageBand,” he remembers. Manila Killa, who graduated from an international high school in the Philippines, recalls evading a family vacation in Bali and holing up in the air-conditioned lobby of the hotel. Give or take a few years, and SoundCloud might not have been the platform they needed to garner followings for their Lana Del Rey remixes or Foster The People bootlegs. As the music industry worked tirelessly to catch up with the streaming boom, the digital realm of music was a great unknown frontier for these kids, allowing bootlegs and unofficial remixes to populate SoundCloud and inspire a new generation of bedroom producers. There’s no argument: the collective as it is today is a product of a right time, right place situation. For a group of kids who, at the time, were simultaneously juggling senior exams and final papers, it’s an impressive feat - and all thanks to the magic of the internet. Their roster expands across the globe with New York’s Jai Wolf, Canadian producer Chet Porter, Singaporean and OWSLA signee Mark Johns and Australia’s Dugong Jr. ![]() Moving Castle’s reach has rocketed since its start with the four producers only three years ago. "But we were inspired by groups like BODY HIGH, Soulection, WEDIDIT – their crews and how they supported one other." "We didn't know what we were doing at that point," Robokid says with a laugh, reminiscing back to days spent typing back and forth to one another in 2013. to Boston – the four sprightly producers first connected online in a Facebook group, brought together by a shared love of music and an eagerness to link with likeminded people. Based all across the East Coast – ranging from Connecticut to Washington D.C. In any other generation, Robokid and AOBeats, along with fellow co-founders Manila Killa (Chris Gavino) and Hunt for the Breeze (Faysal Matin), might've never found each other. Taking the hypothetical to real life, Mixmag sits with Robokid (Ethan Budnick), AOBeats (Andrew Okamora) and Brett Blackman, two of the co-founders and current head behind the Moving Castle collective. In the often divided world of electronic music, Moving Castle are the ones who'll gladly invite you to sit at their table too. Across the way, there'd sit a rowdy group of EDM hot shots the musical equivalent of a jock gang, all trying to play their remix of Ed Sheeran's latest radio hit louder than the other.Īnd in the middle of all this would be a table filled with a group of younger boys and girls, dressed in an array of colored tees and accessorized by DIY cut offs, bold hairstyles and refreshingly diverse faces, brought together by a mutual love of producing in the free-for-all digital music world of SoundCloud, Twitter et al. Techno mavens would replace the goth kids, draped in black and black only, inexplicably alluring as they whisper trade secrets and sought-after IDs to one another. If dance music was a stereotypical, all-American Breakfast Club high school cafeteria, it'd be easy to imagine the divisions among the sprawl of lunch tables. ![]()
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