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o†l[_†_]l†o is a California based producer, producing at a rate of 3 – 5 tracks a week. He and his Soundcloud will keep you busy in your ongoing quest for new music. #GetFamiliar with one of the many new producers jumping on board as we trap to the future.

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Please introduce yourself.
Wussup, its o†l[_†_]l†o, aka T, the symbols just mean T, its what
everyone calls me in real life, i wanted to just use a cross when i
first was making a name (for t), but that was taken. Im 23, I smoke
spliffs a day, and I’m also an Econ major at chico state. I used to
have a buisiness but i got stopped by the lapd.

Are you worried at all that your name, being that it has no actual
letters, is not readily searchable? naww, its on purpose, i kinda
hate internet people. its counterstrike gamer tag inspired. also i
liked a “new age” ho at the time, so i was like “this would be sooo
trendy, she would totally suck my dick after this”…. but it didnt
work. I kept it tho cuz i liked the way it looked, if people cant find
it that sucks.

Of all the trap out there these days, who was the first trap artist
you heard first and inspired you to get in on the game?
I used to make minimal music, but then about 2 years ago i saw kingdom
in LA and switched up to more hip hop swa666er, I used to go to lots of
raves in LA when i was in highschool.
My biggest overall influence is lil boosie, i can relate to his music
more than any other rapper.

Any artists your following these day? Give us something to search.
YOUNG CHOP, DJ MUSTARD, LEX LUGER, Metro zu , $ludgehammer,
Sophisticated Ignorance, my homie resneps,
Problem, iamsu, hbk gang (iamsu), timbalias, sgp, chief keef 3hunna, NHT boyz,
FREE LIL BOOSIE
FREE LIL BOOSIE
FREE LIL BOOSIE
FREE LIL BOOSIE
FREE LIL BOOSIE

Did you begin producing after listening to trap or had you already
been doing so? And if so, what genres?
before i was makin trap beats i was making minimal, i was really
inspired by claude von stroke, trentemoller, extrawelt, h man, art
dept.

I started producing pretty much right after I went to my first raves,
i really just wanted to make people trip out to techno and get hella
bitches so i told my parents i wanna become a superstar dj like
tiesto. My homie Dj Lead from SF showed me fruity loops in 2007 and
since then i stopped playing dota.

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What is your studio comprised of and what are you looking to add to it?
I’m savin up for a new pc, right now i run ableton on my macbook pro,
i have sum yamaha monitors, and a roland midi controller, i use nexus
a lot if u can’t tell, waves suite and izotope for mastering.

What was your biggest musical guilty pleasure growing up?
mc hammer, Michael Jackson, the la bamba song, green day “brain
stew”, and of course limp bizkit, and linkn park, the first cd i ever
bought was the Spice Girls CD in like 2nd grade, but it was for the
cover…
the next CD i bought after that was the Mortal Kombat soundtrack.

Do you think trap music will be one of those guilty pleasures later on in life?
well i never really liked any of the UZ inspired shit so no not
really, i will always go ham to bangazzz no matter how old i am, i
like to hear music about husslin, it motivates. UZ is cool tho, but
theres lots a clones.

There is some almost drumstep, really heavy shit coming out now in
trap music. Are you into that / what are your thoughts on the heavier
elements to the genre?
THATS THAT SHIT I DONT LIKE

You don’t have a Facebook page or Twitter do you? Best place to keep
up with you on Soundcloud?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ol__lO/265714013484048

thats my Facebook, yea i upload like 3-5 songs a week on sound cloud.

Thanks for the time. Much appreciated. Anything you’d like to sign off with?
shout out to all my homies, HWDP, and $/<3.
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