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The Addicting Sound of Colorado Producer, Space Jesus
[dropcap class=”kp-dropcap”]T[/dropcap]he Boulderite known as Space Jesus, trap-hop and EDM producer and all-around musician, has gone from experimenting with software and learning how to produce, to touring the world supporting musicians like Zeds Dead and Die Antword. Throughout it all, he keeps his cool, remains down-to-earth and humble, and always remembers to give plenty of love to the great green herb.
“My dad got me this crappy music making program when I was 12,” he told us. “Through my teens I kept working on making beats, learning how to make beats, and as that progressed, I finally got something together and figured out how to make tunes.
Since those days, Space Jesus has worked hard to make beats that people will dance to and establish himself within the EDM community.
“Right now I am on tour–I play with [an artist named] Minnesota tonight and the show is sold out,” he told us. “I just recorded a full-length album, Close Encounters, which comes out on November 20. I also finished an EP for the label Wakaan by Liquid Stranger and I’m working on another one–his label is very cool and I’m excited to be working with him.”
Throughout all of his tour plans and non-stop music making, Space Jesus always takes the time to relax, smoke and appreciate all the goodness cannabis has brought to his life.
“I always use cannabis differently,” he admitted. “Sometimes I use it as a creative spark, sometimes I use it to kind of re-analyze something, to shed a new light, open up a new perspective on a way of thinking about it. When I was young and I started getting into cannabis and listening to music I’d be able to see it—it always created that perception change to me to where when I smoke I can visually see the music. I’ll start working sober and then get high—do all these kind of happy accident things where I am feeling through the high and working on music – then come down and listen to it—then get really high again and listen to it. I also love in Colorado that you can go around the corner to a dispensary and ask for a recommendation based on the tune you are working on.”
In addition to loving the cannabis in Colorado, Space Jesus finds the Denver and Boulder music scenes incredibly grounding, even though he lived in New York City before relocating to Boulder and has been all over the world touring.
“Both are amazing,” he said. “The music scene in the Denver Boulder area has always been a hub for electronic music—the scene in Denver compared to the rest of the country is a lot more mature compared to what many people like. People have a higher standard of things that have to do with electronic music more so than in some other places. As a whole in Colorado there is a more condensed maturity about the EDM scene. And the cannabis scene can’t be compared.”
Although Space Jesus’ most recent record just came out a few short weeks ago, keep your eyes peeled for more releases out soon, and look out for his name appearing on the bill at a Denver or Boulder venue once he returns from his tour in a few months.
