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Speaker 1: Hello, Jason Brown from The Fred Show, and I am

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Speaker 1: here with an artist that I have been obsessed with

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Speaker 1: pretty much all year, so I'm very excited to talk

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Speaker 1: to him. Askar Medkay, how are you today?

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Speaker 2: I'm very good. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: You're all the way across the world right now. What's

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Speaker 1: it like in the future? That's what I always like?

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Speaker 1: You're right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay?

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Speaker 1: How is it there this time?

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Speaker 2: It's it's pretty nice, kind of rainy today, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: all good.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for joining me. And I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about your song make Me Feel, which is like everywhere

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Speaker 1: right now, and it's a song that I literally bug

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Speaker 1: my program director every single week that we need to

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Speaker 1: play because it's just it's the vibe, especially right now

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Speaker 1: for the summer. But I want to get to know

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Speaker 1: you a little bit more. You're a producer, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're just so talented. What what made you start of

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Speaker 1: get in this lane of music production? Was it always

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Speaker 1: sort of like intan you that you always wanted to

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Speaker 1: do that, or how did you sort of decide like

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Speaker 1: this is the lane I want to be in.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like when you do it for a while,

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Speaker 2: it kind of comes together like yeah, and naturally and yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm just always kind of made electronic music and so

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Speaker 2: so like along the way you kind of figure out

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Speaker 2: like yeah, yeah, what you like and what you what

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Speaker 2: you're not like, and just go with that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, And as I was sort of diving

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Speaker 1: through obviously, I heard Make Me Feel first and was

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Speaker 1: upset when I started going through the rest of your

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Speaker 1: music and I was adding like every single song, I

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Speaker 1: was like adding to my favorites, adding to my favorites,

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Speaker 1: adding to my favorites, because like it's such your music

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Speaker 1: is such a cool summer vibe, like and you can

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Speaker 1: tell that, you know, you have a very consistent sort

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Speaker 1: of like what you try to put out there when

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Speaker 1: it to just like I don't know, it's not tropical,

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Speaker 1: but it's just kind of like chill vibes, but also

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Speaker 1: like electronic, you know, like I don't know, like what

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Speaker 1: makes you sort of like decide that like this is

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Speaker 1: the lane of like I guess electronic music that you

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Speaker 1: wanted to do, because there's like the real like hardcore

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Speaker 1: dance stuff, and then there's like you know, like we're

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Speaker 1: coming short out with Allalooza, which is like I've just

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Speaker 1: heard you know, like like yours is still like really

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Speaker 1: good and really intricate and just like the really cool

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Speaker 1: things you do with production, but it's not like raide

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Speaker 1: your face off, Like when you're sort of crafting a

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Speaker 1: new song, how do you sort of say, like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is sort of the vibe I want to go down.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I like it when it's kind of chilling.

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's it fits in so many scenarios,

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Speaker 2: like if it's on parties and just when you want

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Speaker 2: to chill at home or drive car, and yes, so

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Speaker 2: it just fits everywhere. And I mean and myself, I

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Speaker 2: have tried making like songstar are a bit more heavy

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Speaker 2: or or more sounds, but I kind of get like

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Speaker 2: exhausted just sitting there for ten hours with all those sounds.

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Speaker 1: So a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah cool.

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Speaker 1: I guess like you have the perfect music that like

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Speaker 1: if you just want to like hang at least in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: it's like hang out in the summer, You're on a rooftop,

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Speaker 1: you're drinking. It's just like I could just see like

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Speaker 1: you DJing on like a roof top here like just

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Speaker 1: having like the best party. Like I was like, I

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Speaker 1: need to make this happen. If not this summer, next summer,

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Speaker 1: you have to come to Chicago. You have to do this.

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Speaker 1: Is any of the songs, are they your vocals or

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Speaker 1: do you kind of pull vocals from other places or

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Speaker 1: is it a mixture?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pull vocals. So so sometimes I work with singers

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Speaker 2: and sometimes I just sample and just pitch up and

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Speaker 2: down and stretched shreads, stretch, Oh sorry, yeah, just mess

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Speaker 2: around with them. Yeah, and yeah, it just I just

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Speaker 2: mess around until I think something sounds cool. And it

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Speaker 2: just starting with that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so make me feel is the song that

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Speaker 1: is probably on everyone's TikTok for you page currently? What

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Speaker 1: did that sort of feel like? Is you sort of

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Speaker 1: like because obviously you had so much music and so

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Speaker 1: much success prior to that song, but with this song

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Speaker 1: right now like just blowing up everywhere, how did that

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Speaker 1: feel that you just start seeing it being used and

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Speaker 1: all these people are discovering it and and I can

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Speaker 1: just imagine, like especially with how music is spreading nowadays,

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Speaker 1: like you just open your TikTok one day and like

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Speaker 1: a thousand people using your track? Like, what does that

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Speaker 1: feel like?

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it, It feels amazing and it's weird

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Speaker 2: as well, because you know, I made it and it's

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Speaker 2: special to me, and everybody else has like their own

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Speaker 2: connection to that song. But like, it's it's really really

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Speaker 2: cool to see that people likes it and listens to it,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, that's what it's all about, you know, making music.

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Speaker 1: It's the dream, right, you want people to discover your music. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure. How is like, have you had a positive

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Speaker 1: experience when it comes to like the virul having a

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Speaker 1: song sort of go that viral and social media being

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Speaker 1: able to take it and do what they want with it.

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Speaker 1: Is that all been positive for you? Do you like

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Speaker 1: that or do you wish we were like ten years

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Speaker 1: ago when we sort of like you could just like

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Speaker 1: drop something on SoundCloud and like let it go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what I mean, And no, I like

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Speaker 2: it acid is now for sure. Yeah, just so much

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Speaker 2: fun going on my TikTok for your page and just

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Speaker 2: see all kinds of people just vibing to the song

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Speaker 2: and doing stuff and yeah, so yeah I like it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well I think it changes like how people not only

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Speaker 1: experience music, but also artists can get exposed, right, like

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Speaker 1: because it's like you don't have to be signed to

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Speaker 1: a major label and have that giant push in order

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Speaker 1: for millions of people to hear your track, right, Like

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Speaker 1: if you know it can organically just sort of happen.

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Speaker 1: But then I think you that's really how you gain fans,

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Speaker 1: right because like if people are choosing to use your

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Speaker 1: song or they hear or they say their favorite creator

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Speaker 1: using their song, like they're gonna want to back you

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Speaker 1: and and to me, it makes it feel more authentic, right,

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Speaker 1: Like you know, these people are using it or interacting

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Speaker 1: with it because they genuinely like it because it's good, right,

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Speaker 1: not because there's the you know, big machine sort of

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Speaker 1: telling you what to do. What is coming up? Are

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Speaker 1: you doing shows? Are you when are you coming to America?

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Speaker 1: What does the rest of twenty twenty five look like

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Speaker 1: for Oscar Metkay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're starting to do some shows. I have

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Speaker 2: a show in Oslo on Saturday, Okay, so that will

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Speaker 2: be like my first show.

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Speaker 1: What's a live show like you with you? Like, what

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Speaker 1: are the vibes? What can we expect from like a

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Speaker 1: live experience?

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Speaker 2: Oh, just a great experience, good music and yeah, just

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Speaker 2: me playing some of my favorite songs and mostly my

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Speaker 2: own songs. And yeah, so if you're in a slow

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Speaker 2: stop by doing all kinds of stuff all year, and

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Speaker 2: I think we're going to America next year in February.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well hopefully there's a Chicago date because we need

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Speaker 1: you to come here yeah and be in studio, and

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Speaker 1: next summer we need you on a rooftop somewhere. That

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Speaker 1: needs to happen because your vibes are insane. Many new

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Speaker 1: music coming out that we should be on the lookout

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Speaker 1: for that you could tell us about, and we have.

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Speaker 2: We have a few songs ready and we'll release it

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Speaker 2: pretty soon. So I'm excited. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Cool, Well, Askar mikay, thank you for joining me. For

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Speaker 1: anyone listening. Make you Feel is the song. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you've heard it, but that's a song right now. And

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Speaker 1: then it looks like more to come and then maybe

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Speaker 1: an American tour of some sort next year. So really excited, Oscar,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me, and congrats on everything and the music,

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Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see what you have coming next.

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Speaker 1: It's really good, So I'm really excited for you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you,