We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful JP Taylor. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with JP below.

JP, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today 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?

I learned to produce music mostly from a self taught perspective. It all started when I decided to stop gaming and became curious about GarageBand. I was making music on an IPad2 in the beginning. Building my production process and through that finding sounds that reasonate with me to make my music. For inspiration, I look for a sound on a song or group I like and try to emulate that.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My musical background for most of my youth was a tangential one. I think I’m what most would consider a late bloomer. I grew up in a home filled with all types of music thanks to my mom. We had a decent Kenwood receiver paired with a Sony 6 disc changer and a very decent off-the-shelf Montgomery Ward speaker set-up.

The genres of the CDs she collected ran the full gambit. And with that sound system at my disposal when she was away thus my journey into sound began. The local jazz festival in Clearwater, FL where I grew up, is one of my fondest memories. I even spent a little time playing the trombone when I was a kid. Over the course of the years kind of became a halfway decent drummer when I moved to the PNW in the State of Washington, near the Seattle area in the late 90s.

My understanding of what music really could be, and what it could mean to people started to expand. I continued to be a heavy collector, a voracious consumer of music, and attendee of shows.

I knew in my heart that making music of my own was something I wanted to do, being a part of that wonderfully beautiful moment that you can share as a creative with a consumer of your art, especially in the environment of a live music venue or festival. The Gorge Amphitheater in George, is one of the places that solidified that feeling in my heart and soul. This was a feeling I understood really only from a primal perspective from my time as a career hospitality professional.

As I’ve grown as a person and producer, I’ve come to understand that relationship from an honestly spiritually fulfilling place. I feel so blessed and fortunate to be able to share the skills and talents that make me happy to facilitate the experience and happiness of the people around me and thus in my community.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I will say I’m just happy to be in the conversation about having a music career and being able to make people dance. Nowadays, it’s all touring and merch. If someone called and wanted to book me for a tour, I would not say no to that. I’ve gotten a few likes from people I’d like to play with on some of my posts. I’d also like to tour at some point too, we’ll see. I’ll be ready for the road when the call comes. Which hopefully it does from this wonderful interview.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most rewarding prospect would be to be fully supporting myself and my son with my music. Whether it’s through touring, merch, or even better a sync deal with a production or software company, living off of my art in a way the helps my son be everything he can be in life.

The rest, the doing of all that, shows, touring, that’s my dream. Being able to make art and touch people on the inside is the biggest reward. Everything else is for my son. I already know how happy just being there playing a set makes me, I don’t need much beyond that.

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• Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/jmpudNlCblTnQv0Zk1