Gabriel Robella Perspective on My Melody
This release plays a lot with sounds from the 80's in those classic arpeggiated basses. The vocals also have a lot of Swedish House Mafia and the melodies maybe a bit like Deadmau5, which I try not to imitate sometimes but when looking for chords and melodies that are not so common they end up coming out very well produced and can sound similar. Also a lot of inspiration comes from various eras. A track sometimes starts with one idea in the head and ends up coming out with another. You know where it begins but not where it ends.
When I was 6 or 7, I listened to my father's records and I really liked playing his guitar and trying to copy the melodies. But the problem came when I was 15, when I left high school, I passed by a record store every day and I started going in and listening to some records from that time, like Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, A-Ha, Yazoo, Kraftwerk, New Order, Depeche Mode, etc. I ended up buying several of them that I still own, hahaha.
Having been producing underground music for many years, precisely for the artists I have shared the booth with and additionally having left music a bit to dedicate myself to my other passion, acting, where I have participated in several television series such as (Netflix's Cobra Kai - Season 5), Snow White, Stranger Things, extras and doubles for others too, etc. At the time of the pandemic and being locked up I had to get rid of the stress and nothing better than returning to music since I have it in my blood and my whole family has always been connected to music in some way, my father was a guitarist, grandfather was a saxophonist, etc. So in the pandemic I decided to return but with something more dedicated to the people, something more commercial and melodic, that's where Miami Alien was born. My other musical side. So together (me and I) we worked on this track (My Melody) in just 1 day, during the process of making it we sent it to the label (Gameroom Records) thinking that they would say they didn't like it and so we would continue working on it the next day. But the surprise was when they liked it. So I fixed the smallest details and that same day we signed the agreement. Sometimes when you spend a lot of time on a track, it becomes more full of elements and things that make it not so good. That's why as they say, back to basics, a good arpeggio, a good bass and good percussion mixed with a good idea always wins.
I am a DJ and music producer with more than 25 years in the industry. I started playing music at small events at the age of 17 in my home country, Uruguay. Without realizing it, everything happened very fast and I noticed that a lot of people started following me and when I was 18, I was already playing at events and clubs all over the country. At 19, I got my first residency at Montevideo News, a very elegant club far from the city where only high-income people and people of international standing went. There I did the warm-up for invited international artists such as Carl Cox, Darren Emerson, Sasha, John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo among others. That was where my name started to sound in different places and I started to travel very young, already 20 years old, to countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia (here I was personally chosen to do the warm-up for Sandler Kleinemberg at the convention center in Cartagena). Later I moved to Miami where I began to produce my own tracks and continued sharing the booth with international DJs and various events such as the Winter Music Conference (Miami Music Week) where my current home is.
Well, I think that since I was 18, when I was a resident at a club playing music every night, I realized that I was never going to be able to stop doing this, whether it was playing music and seeing the connection I achieved with people as well as putting a little bit of myself into each musical track and giving people a little bit of my soul packed and bottled in a musical track.
With so much evolution and different artists added to artificial intelligence, each track becomes more challenging to find a new sound, a direction to the hearts of the people who are going to listen to it, but fortunately artificial intelligence is still learning, so we still have enough room to be able to create and enjoy the music we make as well as those who listen to our finished work.
Being a musician I adjust a lot to the sets of who I have to share the booth with, although I don't always prepare my sets in advance, I always like to leave a little space depending on how the people react. Also having done many warm ups for important artists and DJs I have learned a lot to respect the other DJ. Personally I think I have played with almost many of the ones I like, Eddie Amador, John Creamer & Stephan K, Chus & Ceballos, etc. Maybe it could be Bob Sinclair or Danny Tenaglia. Although I have been in the same club as them or having played in a different tent at big events never in the same both. It could be something interesting for me and an honor.
A lot, I even really like trance, hip hop, etc. I think that in each of my tracks there are several styles mixed together that come out whether I want them to or not. But they almost always range from underground, tribal and progressive with a bit of techno.
It's a mix of everything. Kraftwerk meets Erasure, Daft Punk meets Deadmau5, and depending on the sunset, Deep Dish mixes. It depends on the day I have to produce.
Avicci. I think he was very talented and very young. He had a lot more to offer. He was a mix of various musical styles as well. He didn't just have the classic tracks that we all know, he had several tracks from before his success that were very underground. An artist that will be remembered by many.
