https://open.spotify.com/artist/5jIezbUKaNu88AelNBjMwO

1. Introduction & Musical Journey

For readers who may be discovering you for the first time, could you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about Nasko as a project? Who are you, where are you from, and how would you describe what Nasko is today?

I am an electronic music artist from Germany! My main genre is dubstep, without specifically narrowing down on a specific sub genre! I try to reflect that wider influence in my music by generally having very melodic/musical intros and breaks while the chorus/drops of my music reflect a generally more heavy and energetic colorbass/brostep coated influence!

Before you got into production, did you have any musical background - formal training, instruments, or maybe some influence from your family or environment? And more generally, how did music enter your life in the first place?

I picked up FL Studio and FL Studio Mobile back in 2014! I had no prior musical training or education and the first few years was just really trying to practically learn to make exactly the genre I was interested in, which at the time was dubstep/brostep! My mom does sing and she plays a few instruments, but I’m not really into instruments much besides maybe the keyboard, as it can simulate instruments virtually (especially with MPE)!

What originally pulled you toward bass music in particular? What did you find in that world that you were not getting from other areas of electronic music?

I find dubstep to be one of the genres that most embraces the seemingly infinite palette of sound and implied musicality behind it that continues to fascinate me today!

Did you have other musical projects or key stages before Nasko? And do you currently have side projects or parallel directions you are also working on?

Yes! When I first started back in 2014 using SoundCloud and YouTube as my primary platforms, I was briefly known under the alias sKoR, which I then rebranded to Nasko in 2016! :)

2. Influences, Taste & Style

How did you learn music production? Was it mostly a self-taught path, or were there also mentors, lessons, courses, or specific artists who really shaped your development?

Pretty much self taught + publicly available information, which at the time was mostly YouTube!

Around the time I switched to Ableton Live in 2016-2017 is when I started to take the fundamentals of synthesis and sound engineering more serious, which drastically elevated my understanding for dubstep as a genre and how to go about realizing my ideas best in technical terms.