We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Felix Imhoff and Ian Scholz.
Felix and Ian, 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?
We learned the craft through slamming our head into a wall over and over again, In all actuality we had many friends contribute to helping us learn as well as many, many, many hours spent practicing and watching a plethora of Youtube videos on how to DJ and produce.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
We met at THE GARAGE in 2010 while we both were in our adolescence and during that time we developed a tight knit friendship that has lasted over a decade and continues to this day. During this time THE GARAGE was offering a Live Sound Engineer Course hosted by Paul Shanafelt and Steffan Soulak that we decided would be fun to pursue. Throughout this time we developed and discovered an intense passion for music and music production. This catapulted our journey into the music industry.
After 2 years of working as sound engineers for THE GARAGE it unfortunately closed its doors. During this time we finished high school and ending up going to an EDM music festival called Safe in Sound that was hosted here in 2014 at the Myth parking lot. It was during this festival that we discovered our love for EDM which then swiftly brought us to the idea that using our skillset we could start DJing and producing our own music.
After meeting Freddy Gallardo and Cooper Gillick at the Skyway Theatre, Freddy agreed to teach us how to DJ on CDJs as we had practiced for over a year on a Pioneer DDJ-SX2 controller. After this mentorship we got our first booking to play the 2016 Terrorfest Pre-Party as well as Terrorfest itself. That was the moment we realized we could pursue this path professionally.
Since then we have played over 50 shows at the Skyway Theatre, The Loft, Bar Fly, Keller bar, Uptown VFW, Far east bar, La Katrina, and Kathys Pub, and The Cabooze. Produced 32 tracks and have over 12,000 plays across them all. Our most proud achievement would be just recently playing the Skyway Theatre main stage for the Barely Alive Better Off Dead tour as well as our own song What The ! and our recent remix of Wish You The Best by Yatta Bandz reaching over 1.5k plays each.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
The best thing to do to support artists would be to just support them, Its as simple as that, This can mean liking, commenting, and sharing the art created by the artists online or even as simple as spreading it word of mouth to your friends. Showing your appreciation for the art can mean the world to the artist and help them maintain their motivation to keep striding towards their goals. So next time we post about a show/song you better share that shit, Respectfully.
[feel free to cut the last sentence if its too much we find it funny :)]
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
The love and reaction of the crowd to our sets and our songs. Words of affirmation can go a long way something as simple as that was sick, good set, or a hug can be the most rewarding aspect of this career.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/flexzoneofficial
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flexzoneofficial
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlexZoneOfficial
Image Credits
Charile Ingebretsen aka Camp Lynlake Robert James Shores aka Mukwa Media