Tag: Jon Hopkins
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By 15, I was hanging out with Skrillex: the idiosyncratic club music of reformed EDM kid Villager
From DC streets to the club charts Villager, the Washington, DC-born producer who once hung out with Skrillex at a young age, has quietly staged a comeback that is both personal and musical. His story reads like a map of early electronica ambition colliding with the real-world grind of a life spent chasing sound. While…
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Villager’s Reformed EDM: From a Skrillex-tinged Past to a Subtle, Idiosyncratic Club Sound
Origins in Washington, DC Villager, the artist once hailed as a prodigy of the club scene, grew up in and around Washington, DC, where city nights and a melting pot of genres shaped a singular ear. By his mid-teens, he was already dipping into the rougher edges of electronic music, driven by a hunger to…
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By 15, He Was DJing Fame: The Quirky Rise of Villager, the Reforming EDM Kid
From Washington, DC to the Club Echo Chamber The electronic music scene rarely hands a newcomer a passport to the main stage the way Villager did. Emerging from Washington, DC, this reformed EDM kid has built a reputation on hazy melodies, jittery rhythms, and a storytelling approach that makes club music feel intimate. His early…