We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Hotboxx aka Hamid Tabibi. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Hamid below.
Hotboxx, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have done to speed up your learning process? What skills do you think were most essential? What obstacles stood in the way of learning more?
For me it started as a child, I was always interested in music. Playing various instruments and singing in choir, really involved in music how ever I could be and once I turned 18 I started producing and Djaying and fell in love. My brother who is the lead guitarist for a band called the associates actually was the one who got me into the production side, he was using reason for more hip hop style beats at the time and showed me the basics and got me my first copy of reason and that little by little turned into my obsession. I always had a love for electronic music, being from Miami its in my roots since I was young so when I started producing and spinning this was naturally the direction I went in.
Hotboxx, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Hotboxx is an alias I created and I have been a part of the prominent Miami dance music scene for more than 10 years, I think I try and bring a unique style to every track I make and set I play and really have one objective when I am doing either one and that is make people dance. In that way I think I am unique, my goal is to make sure whether it be through my production and releases or through my live shows, that I cater to what people want so that they have a good time, dance or have new favorites to add to their playlists.
How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?
I think artists need to do a better job of supporting each other. People easily support the biggest artists in the world without even asking for it, reposting the new Drake album etc. Which there is nothing wrong with at all but why not do the same for other artists that are growing and may be music you really like but don’t go and post because its not the “trendy” thing everyone is posting. So absolutely I think artists in a lot of ways can do more to help promote each other and collectively build their brands because youre now combining fan bases and that grows things exponentially. More artists need to understand that and work to help build each other up instead of competing against each other.
Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?
I would just say in the last 2 years I really began to treat my music and passion as a business and have seen much more progress by doing so. So for all those that are getting into it or not investing time or even money to promoting yourself, marketing etc. really treating it like a business begin to do so. If you put together a plan as you would for a business it helps you organize your goals as an artist and a brand and will help you make strides much faster.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/hotboxxofficial
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotboxxofficial/?hl=en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hotboxxofficial/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/hotboxxofficial
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHDwewFpXn0
- Other: https://www.beatport.com/artist/hotboxx/487548
Image Credits
Pedro Farias AKA Snaps