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Meet Andrew Lux

October 24, 2024
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We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Andrew Lux a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Andrew, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

It was at Love Festival Jul 20th in Oahu Hawaii. I was 22 years old in my second year of navy stationed in Pearl Harbor when friends on the ship asked me to come with them to this festival, which I’ve never been to one yet. As soon as I was there I was surrounded by amazing people with nothing but positive vibes and the music bumpin. I saw DJ Craze and Flosstradamus and was blown away how music could be so sick and bring this feeling of complete happiness. The next day was a Saturday and I had to stand duty on the submarine USS Louisville, all I kept talking about was the night before. I was just yabbering away, talking about specific songs, artists and edm in general. I felt like a light went off in my head, cause at the time I was miserable as shit going out to sea, not breathing fresh air or seeing sunlight for sometimes months at a time. For that one night though I was so damn happy it was like taking a happy pill and just loving life.

I realized I want to make others feel that way too. As someone who’s been a little sad boy most my life, I wanted to make the sickest most energetic and happy music I could so others for a moment wouldn’t have to think about their shitty job, bills, debt, or just the pain in their life. Just for a night they can escape and feel human again. So yea every time I was not out at sea I was listening to live DJ mixes, practicing my own mixes then listening to them back while at the gym and critiquing myself. I took a stab at producing music on FL studio, but working 12 plus hour days sometimes 6 days a week on shore then not being able to bring a computer on board when deployed I decided to focus on DJing first as it was easier to pick up. I threw my first beach party for the University of Hawaii in North Shore and played a 1 hour set and was like, yep I’m doin this shit haha I was the opener too cause I was too afraid to headline and had friends who I knew could spin better and wanted to put on a good show for everyone.

So yea shout out to the USS Louisville crew and Ali our rave queen who got us all into EDM, changed my life!

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

So quick rundown, as I mentioned I was in the navy for 8 years, and through the navy I built my confidence and passion in music. First djed live in Hawaii on that beach, then practiced non stop when stationed in Florida for a year and half in my dorm on a BOOM speaker and DDJ-WeGo, which I still have both by the way! Then got stationed in Maryland where I met the most talented, influential, and voted sexiest DJ in Baltimore Ralph Howard. He got me my first gig and gave me a shot, then once he saw my insane djing talent he hired me on his team. From there I made a checklist of bars and clubs I wanted to play, and with the help of friends and promoters I checked off all those spots within the first year. I had no confidence it would happen by the way, I thought it was gonna take years. So then the time came to either re enlist for another 4 to 8 years, or get out and follow my dream of music.

End of 2019 I turned down my re-enlistment, declined a 100k starting work role at the NSA where I was currently contracted at, sold my house in Baltimore and drove cross country to LA and said fuck it, I got one life to live and I’m not going to regret shit.

I cried. Aaaaaaalot haha I left a great career in the navy, a huge job opportunity, and so many good friends as well. All the spots I was the resident DJ for I gave up. It was wild, like what a dumb thing to do and give all those great deals up. But the only thing I could think about was, I just wasn’t happy. I’d never be happy unless I went for it. I had no backup plans because I had no plans on failing. Now remember it was end of the year in 2019, and only a few months in LA while I was attending the music college ICON Collective, the world shut down March of 2020.

I thought I made the biggest mistake of my life. I lost my life savings, which wasn’t much to be honest, couldn’t afford rent, and was a drunken mess. I was sad, angry, and just beating myself up at leaving such a comfy life to come to what I thought was complete failure. I’m very thankful my girlfriend and I were living together or I for sure wouldn’t have been able to pay rent so thank you Emily for that. I applied for unemployment which I was sooooo embarrassed to do, but if I hadn’t I wouldn’t have survived.

So yea I decided not to leave LA and say fuck all the signs that told me to quit. I still can’t believe how much good has come from all that, just not giving up. As my old mentor Petey Clicks would say, you cant lose if you don’t quit!

So now I’m still in LA living my dream! It’s still hard as shit but damn its exciting, just not knowing whats going to happen next and the possibility of losing everything I worked so hard for. I love it!!!

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

I’m still learning on this, but any success I’ve had is probably from being kind to others online and replying to every DM and comment. As for content, I try to stay consistent and make people laugh and distract them while they listen to my music haha. Also show your daily life and stuff cause my favorite people are those I feel I know even though some I may have never met yet.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me its the people I’ve met because of music. I wouldn’t be here without Petey Clicks pushing me to send music to AC Slater. AC Slater believing in my song To The Beat and bringing me on his label Nightbass. Carle finding me from Nightbass and taking a chance on me, giving the biggest opportunities in Insomniac I would’ve never thought possible. Miranda and Naar booking me for the sickest venues in LA. Dr. Fresch for signing my biggest songs yet and taking me under his wing bringing me on tour with him which was iiiiinsane! Orlando from House Call records for the huge advice and opportunities that have paved my way forward wouldn’t be this far without. Flinch giving amazing industry advice and having me understand the roots of edm. Roman Perry for teaching me how dope ableton is. Matt Bang for giving me real and sometimes very… honest advice you could say haha. Vito for always having such good insight and understanding on how to successfully be an artist. My professors over at LA Film Mitch Kenney, Robert Delgadillo, Nick Tashjian, Tara Giannini, Sarah Gano, Daniel Eaton, Russ Mitkowski, Jacob Brueckner, Johnny Gorenc, Mohammad Salim, Arthur Schlenger, Chuck MacLeod, Cezar Luchian, Joey Lee, Jimmy Fahey, Lance Csarmaszkuyper, Ran Helms, Emmanuel El Helou, Michael Snyder, Donna Loyd, Quintin Pooler, Tracy Swearingen, and Marquette Hawkins.

I know everyone reading this may not know who these people are, but they’re really important to me and I owe them my career.

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