EXRON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: VINCENT

On Friday night, Vincent had the crowd at Myth Nightclub in Jacksonville, Florida going wild. His new EP, “For You,” has taken the world by storm and for good reason.

Before the show, we had the opportunity to talk with the young and thriving producer, Robert Hughes, himself. Getting to know Vincent made his show seem even more authentic than it already was. During this conversation, we caught up on what started his journey to become a producer, his new EP and what he’s planning on doing next.

Exron Music: How old were you when you realized you wanted to be a producer? 

Vincent: I think I was 13 or 14 when I first picked out a production software. When I was first starting electronic music, it was really big in the United States, but it wasn’t a big thing in Canada yet, I’m from a small town there. And I was watching live streams of Ultra and all these big festivals thinking, “Okay there’s a market for this.” I’ve been into electronic music, Skrillex had a big influence on me for understanding what the music could have been. In seeing festivals and seeing people that I looked up to, I realized there’s definitely a culture for this. And there was a way to branch out and do it as a job. So eventually, I realized, “okay, to hell with it, we just have to try and do it and try to make something happen.” And if it worked out, great but if not then whatever.

Exron Music: Can you explain what your newest song “Falling, Fading” means to you and what inspired the making of the song? 

Vincent: That song I ended up making on a plane. Not the entire thing, but the idea for the bass itself and the drops were made on a plane. I came up with a weird bass sound I thought was really cool that I could develop a little bit. I was kind of freaking out on the plane thinking “Oh, I have to finish this.” When I got home it was 11 p.m. and I worked on the song till 8 a.m. and then woke up at noon. Then I worked till 3 or 4 a.m. and this repeated until I finished. Other than the story of making it, there’s no reason why I made it. I was just thinking that I have to make more music and then that came about and I was like, “Wow, this is a lot more than I thought I could do.”

Exron Music: What kind of effect do you hope to have on listeners when they listen to your music? 

Vincent: Whenever the people who sang on my songs came to my apartment, I would usually get to know them beforehand, because I’d never met them before we started writing that day. I would just talk to them and understand their story of where they’ve been emotionally or what situations they’d been through. We would find a common topic of, “Oh, I’ve been in that type of situation before, let’s write about that.” Those songs have way more attachment to me. I remember talking to these people understanding where they’ve been and them understanding where I’ve been, and then finding some common ground to write a song about where it was something that neither of us had really talked about and making it feel deeper. Having those types of emotions go into my music brings out a lot of myself. I think that’s what I hope people hear from my music.

Exron Music: What was the vision behind your new EP, is it the same vision that you’ve had for most of your songs? 

Vincent: Sort of, I don’t think there really was a vision in making it. The people would just come to my apartment every day around noon for a few hours and we’d talk, write an intro into a song, the first drop and maybe the chorus. Then I would work on it some later that night. We did this every day for three weeks and then eventually narrowed them down to the songs that we enjoyed and then finished those.

I had an idea for the art direction before the EP started. Because I had the tattoo idea or the similar visual imagery I thought was really cool. And I knew that going forward, I could expand on that.

Exron Music: In your opinion, what’s the first song you released that got a noticeable amount of attention? 

Vincent: The remix I did for Alison Wonderland.

I think I was 18 when I made it, but I’m pretty sure it took me four hours start to finish. I remember going to Coachella for the first time and running in the second day when Alison played. Within five minutes she dropped it and I was just standing in the crowd awestruck because I’d never been to any type of major festival and because there are thousands of people there, all losing it. They had no idea it was me and I was fine with nobody understanding. I still go to festivals and watch it and I don’t care if anybody knows if I’m standing in the crowd and knowing that that’s me. But seeing the reaction from people for something that I spent four hours on is something else.

Exron Music: What has been your favorite part about the “For You” world tour? 

Vincent: Seeing people come out to the shows that actually care about my music. Oh and the other thing is that the people that seem to come to the shows on this tour have been really open and welcoming to anything that I’m playing, but also to each other as fans of the same person. I’ve seen people that have bought drinks for friends or made friends at the show. And everybody seemed more together, it’s really wholesome. But that’s what I wanted from the fans, I wanted people to just care and be nice to people without me having to say anything.

Exron Music: What are your goals for the remainder of the year?

Vincent: We’re trying to come up with a new project. A “For You” part two, where I can put something like “Falling, Fading” with the tracks on an EP and not have it feel like it’s just thrown together. There definitely need to be some cohesion. I don’t even know if it’s going to be an EP, a label supported or not, I don’t know what it’s going to be. But that’s what I’m working on now is trying to figure out, quite literally on Sunday.

Exron Music Staff

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