Dr Ushuu: Monstercat Releases, French Bass Power, and Global Ambitions on the Virtual Sessions 4/26/23

Dr Ushuu: Monstercat Releases, French Bass Power, and Global Ambitions

In this Virtual Session, The DJ Sessions host Darran Bruce connects with Paris-based producer Dr Ushuu, an artist quickly making a name in the bass and dubstep scenes with releases on Monstercat and electrifying festival debuts. Inspired by his grandfather’s wish for him to become a doctor, and with “Ushuu” symbolizing “universe” in Japanese, his name reflects both heritage and a desire to create a sonic universe for his listeners.

Dr Ushuu describes his music in three words: emotional, galactic, and energetic – qualities that shine through in his tracks like Save Me, Madara, Love Me, and his latest Monstercat single Don’t Let Me Down. Known for his ability to produce tracks in just a few hours, he blends speed and precision with emotional depth, creating powerful records that resonate globally.

The conversation highlights his US debut at Forbidden Kingdom Festival, a milestone that pairs him back-to-back with longtime friend SweetTooth, as well as upcoming appearances at Bass Canyon and support dates for Spag Heddy’s tour. Dr Ushuu also shares his philosophy on the industry, calling for less reliance on social media metrics and more focus on the music itself.

From his biggest break with Constellation after recovering from a coma to inspirations from Ivory and legends like Afrojack and Martin Garrix, Dr Ushuu’s story is one of resilience, creativity, and community. With a growing reputation and ambitious plans, he is set to become one of the standout names in the next wave of bass music.

Show Notes –

Host: Darran Bruce
Guest: Dr Ushuu
Location: Virtual Studios, Seattle WA & Paris, France

Overview:
Darran Bruce sits down with Dr Ushuu to discuss his Monstercat releases, US debut, creative process, influences, and his perspective on social media and the bass music scene.

Topics Covered:

• Origin of the name Dr Ushuu and its family and cultural meaning 
• Defining his music as emotional, galactic, and energetic 
• Monstercat releases including Save Me, Madara, Love Me, and Don’t Let Me Down 
• Production process: finishing tracks in 3-4 hours and balancing mixing/mastering 
• US debut at Forbidden Kingdom Festival and b2b with SweetTooth 
• Upcoming performances at Bass Canyon and support for Spag Heddy’s tour 
• Views on the importance of record labels providing full support teams 
• Reflections on the overemphasis of social media in artist bookings 
• Biggest career break with Constellation after recovering from a coma 
• Inspirations from Ivory, Afrojack, Martin Garrix, and French bass peers 
• Pandemic era growth through Twitch producer feedback streams 
• Advice: don’t overcomplicate – focus on music first and authenticity 

Call to Action:
Follow Dr Ushuu on Instagram @dannyushuu and stream his Monstercat releases on all major platforms.
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[Darran]
Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the DJ sessions presents the virtual sessions. I’m your host Darran right now I’m sitting in the virtual studios in Seattle, Washington coming in all the way from Paris France we have a Dr Ushuu today Doctor, how’s it doing today? Thank you so much for being here today, and I know it’s a little late over there and But you know, we’re halfway around the world with each other so First and foremost, I know that You’re new.

I haven’t you know, I know you’re overseas and I don’t know know too much about you But you know tell our DJ sessions fans. Where does your artist name come from?

[Dr Ushuu]
so That’s the question that comes to most so dr. Dr. Usher it’s So it’s a mixture of things I was like DCR at the time and And it was just only literally like the initials of my name. So I Wanted to change to go to you know a dubstep and bass music more related Kind of like You know Project so I changed my name to dr.

Usher which mean which is the doctor comes from My grandpa, so my grandpa wouldn’t it wanted me always like always wanted me to actually become a doctor But I never really wanted to you know, cuz yeah, and and then I was like, yeah, so let me just like, you know Make it sure I contribute to my to my to my my grandpa and then you know If you actually check it With my name and like, you know, my my family’s name If my initials will be without the C will be the R so it kind of like, you know matches with my initials and then Ushu in Japanese and not written in the same way means universe So it’s more like in them.

I wanted like, you know to my listeners and like my music Actually be my universe so I I just wanted like to actually blend everything in and make everything my universe So so kind of dr.

[Darran]
Usher is kind of like Denny’s universe more like yeah, and You know if you could describe your music in three words What would you call it?

[Dr Ushuu]
I’ll say That’s tough, that’s really tough That’s three words. Yeah But I would say I would say it’s it’s kind of like emotional In both ways which means like, you know, it could be sad it could be happy it could be very like, you know Raging, you know very like in the Jerry energetic. So Emotional Surely galactic and Yo, the third word is it’s kind of hard to find it Emotional galactic and You know, I’m gonna put another word like to in a jet in a Jerry because it’s like very you know very like all over the place kind of Well, I was listening to your latest release don’t let me down which was released on Monstercat not too long ago Congratulations on that.

Thank you.

[Darran]
You’re welcome. We love the team over there at MC and Monstercat You know worked with Jacob Stone or Jacob Henry. Sorry another friend too many Jacobs in the world but Jacob Henry, you know just did an interview with him recently and worked with the team over there at ADE last year and Super excited for you.

That must be a pretty big thing Was that your first release with my with Monstercat or ID releases?

[Dr Ushuu]
Oh, it was so this one was like my fourth release Now my first release was save me last year in August last year, and then I did we did Madara with ivory and then This year we released Love me and now this is not Don’t let me down. So it’s my fourth one.

[Darran]
Thanks. How long does it take you to finish a production on average?

[Dr Ushuu]
It’s kind of weird but like I’ll say no as a whole I would say like three hours But yeah It’s pretty quick, yeah, it was super quick and you know, I kind of have like this ability of making, you know my projects a little bit more faster than other people and You know a lot of people actually also finish it, you know really fast but yeah, like I kind of like tend to finish my projects really fast and Yeah, I would say like three four hours of project file, of course then there’s mixing and mastering and But like the production was there three hours or four.

[Darran]
What’s the longest time you ever spent? Consecutively working on a track in the studio

[Dr Ushuu]
I’ll say I Think I think the longest that I’ve done It was like 20 hours 20 hours, but that’s Definitely like nothing compared to other people’s like, you know, but like project times Yeah, like was 20 hours and I was really upset about that about that I’m gonna lie, but yeah

[Darran]
How many tracks do you end up producing in a month and how many actually end up being? Released on average because it sounds like you can be producing a couple tracks a day

[Dr Ushuu]
It sounds like it like I mean there was a time like, you know during pandemic and like right after it There was a time that I could finish like, you know, three tracks in a month Because you know my inspiration was kind of weird it’s kind of weird to like I can you know finish a track for four hours or three hours, but like the The time that I will Actually have to actually you know, good jump on jumping in another cool idea We’ll like spend like, you know, I don’t know like two months So it’s kind of it’s kind of weird.

But yeah, I would say Three it’s three two to three tracks in a month.

[Darran]
Okay, how many of those end up being released?

[Dr Ushuu]
I Mean that’s the problem I Don’t know from every track every finished track that I actually Released I kind of like released everyone every single one But yeah some some projects that I do actually the end up but getting released at all Or never getting released at all

[Darran]
Oh He are you a hardware producer or software producer or both Software producer what what’s your favorite program you like to use when you’re doing all this?

[Dr Ushuu]
So my doll my doll is definitely like FL studio. It’s truly my It’s a it has been with me like since I’m like, I don’t know 16 years old so I’m never like going back to it

[Darran]
No, I I was using Fruity Loops 3 back in 2000 Play around with it back then I mean, I just loved it because I love sequencers and but then I started getting a little bit into hardware Yeah time and I got a role in MC 505 and a role in SP 808 Sequencer sampler MIDI does together and we just play around with it I’m not a producer in any way shape or form, but you know, we just be sitting back I’d be able to make music on the fly with MIDI and sampling and doing everything cool and You know, you could record on What were those called not with a zip there were hundred megabyte discs? This was like they went to floppy It was right before so you could really burn on CDs and I would use a hundred megabyte I think they call the zip disk It’s what it’s called but you can put the zip disk in the machine and stored all your samples and your beats and stuff and it was kind of fun stuff, but just dabble and then I got I still work for Apple and Logic is my choice to go to You know just because I’m Apple guy You know to be their own, you know, we’re making music music and you know, whether it’s hardware or software It’s what comes out at the end of the day. Um, here’s the question for you, you know being with monster cat yeah, what’s the most important thing that record labels should do for their artists and Are they doing a good job with that?

[Dr Ushuu]
So being with monster cat has been like super crazy in the way that there’s literally a team for everything I Know I get like, you know, not every record label actually has not the means to actually have a team for everything but like Something that is super good with the monster car that it’s like they have a Specifically team for everything like if you like for the marketing area for the AR for for Just simple, you know other stuff they had literally have like someone to handle every single stuff that you actually need and that’s super cool because Sometimes you have in some levels you have like, you know Someone that actually handles almost everything, you know and something and sometimes they kind of likes, you know forget or you know, sometimes they kind of like just Cannot do anymore because they are tired, you know, because they actually handle everything alone, so having Having a team like an actual team that actually handles everything makes The artists more comfortable, you know and more and like they actually communicate between them so it’s Also super cool. So, you know, it’s not like, you know It’s not it’s not I’m gonna say like it’s not over There’s no like like super Hard things to do when you have like a team that handles like everything so Being on a monster cat actually helped me realize it, you know Having like a team for everything like everything it’s the best way and you know, you you end up Meeting all those persons and it’s super nice to meet like meet them and like, you know continue and work with them It’s it’s like amazing This is something that a lot of I mean, I know that’s you know You need means for you for it and stuff But there’s something like a lot of labels need to to do it is like have a team that actually handles Anything could be five people, you know, those five people actually like Have a difference of you know, like make a difference from you know on people handling everything

[Darran]
Absolutely, I mean I just posted something on Facebook I’ll read this and it’s so funny that people don’t understand what it takes But I saw this meme of a friend from friend of mine’s the other day.

It says Artists trying to be their own curator press and marketing team administrator technician studio manager art handler social media manager web designer application writer Archivist and foot photographer who documents the work all at once. Yeah And then there’s this picture of this lady like laying in bed going So I came in I had to add in I go Try host accountant driver researcher producer camera operator of VR dev sales manager Writer trainer editor electrician distributor lawyer and rights and permissions manager added to all of that.

[Dr Ushuu]
Oh my god

[Darran]
That’s what I do the people don’t know what goes on in the background It takes a team though a team of people and you know I have people that I work with that I can sign some of these duties to but you know It can get really overwhelming that people don’t understand that You know a DJ or somebody going out there saying I’m a DJ I play music and I want you to do that all for me Those are jobs and they got it.

You got to pay them to do their job So, you know, unless you’re a big artist making money to pay somebody or you have a you know A great label a successful label like monster cat with worth revenue coming in. It’s Really hard to to not get burnt out, you know I’ve been burnt out a few times in the industry. Just trying to do everything myself until I got a clear set path and said Okay, this is the time of day that I work.

[Dr Ushuu]
These are the projects I take on I don’t get overwhelmed here and I get my sleep at night and I get to have a life of some sorts You know, yeah, or even like, you know get the Sun light on you for You know, you know when you wake up or something instead of like what like why are we going to work, you know on your computer? right after That’s that’s the best. That’s the best like actually like idea, you know having a team and like handle everything

[Darran]
Yeah, exactly When you have a lot of team of people and you know It might be one hour a week that they have to spend working on your stuff But if you had to do if you had a team of ten people But you don’t take all that ten hours of work a week on you Instead of even end up and it’s only a one hour a week for each of those people You know, it spreads it out, you know, and it makes it a lot more Accommodating to be an artist. So congratulations again on that, but there’s something else that we want to talk about.

That’s congratulatory to you on Forbidden Kingdom your first ever u.s. Debut.

[Dr Ushuu]
Tell us about that and how you got involved with that event So it was it was super kind of like super easy. So we have been working on the visa for for a couple months now with prison prison agency and and You know, we just literally had Booking a booking Offer for the States And we were like, oh my god, it’s forbidden Kingdom. You know, it’s like a big festival and you know, I was like so so happy and like so actually scared about like like getting those Bookings because I was like, oh my god, like it’s it could be and I mean it will be like my first U.s Show and it’s so I mean so scary. There’s only For someone that like actually like, you know still makes music making it like yes, and it still makes music in you Might my room in my bedroom and like go and make in place shows like around the Europe and like going Overseas, it’s it’s like amazing because it’s like it’s amazing and scary at the same time because you don’t know What will be waiting you and like what what is happening and The culture, you know, like I mean we got a lot of culture of like United States, you know from movies and you know literally like world Actually thought like like taught us like how how how America kind of works between what you you’re never there Like you never actually gone there.

So you don’t know. How’s the culture even in dubstep? you know, I mean like there’s a gap between European dubstep and like culture and like, you know American dubstep culture and they’re like, oh damn like oh My god, like it’s happening.

But how like what I’m gonna do what I shall do but at the same time I’m back to back in with sweet tooth like and he’s been like, you know one of my best friends over the years so Back to making with one of my best friends in an insane festival. It’s just like mind-blowing, you know, I mean Yeah, I’m super happy about it and I just can’t wait Nice nice and what’s gonna be the follow-up to that?

[Darran]
Is there any is there anything else planned after that?

[Dr Ushuu]
You can tell us about or announce so We just announced that I we announced a base Canyon In like yeah, it’s like it’s a big festival from from excision scene and like, you know You have literally everyone there It’s awesome. And we have also Announced a support of a support and special guest of the spaghetti store And we’re gonna hit up like a bunch of cities in America And there’s a lot of things like to be announced to that. I’m super excited for it.

[Darran]
So it’s gonna be easy win Let’s go Yeah, I got a I got a chance to talk with spaghetti over in 80 Yeah, that was pretty that was pretty funny. That’s pretty nice. I’d never been over to Amsterdam.

I’ve never been overseas I’ve never been out of the States like that over overseas. Yeah, so it’s kind of excited to be over there and You know interviewing people from all over the world. I’ve had a lot of great people got a lot of great interviews.

So Really cool stuff going on over there You know if you could change One thing that bothers you from the electronic music scene What would that be? And and how would you go about it?

[Dr Ushuu]
Oh My god, that’s that’s a tough question, too Because to be honest, there’s like a Million things that could be changed in the electronic dance music scene But I would say, you know, you know, I’ll say I’ll say we we could have changed like the importance of social media Yeah Yeah, like how how social media actually like is Like like, you know actually hits in your in our know Our community, I think that’s the main point, you know, because I mean pretty sure You know, we have a lot of positive things with social media.

You know, I’m not trying to sound like a boomer or something but like There’s a pretty stuff I got known with social media, you know, if there was social media I wouldn’t even been here. But like There’s also a lot of things that actually like, you know Can hurt a lot of careers a lot of like people working in the industry and you know and sometimes like people just do Stuff for for the cloud or something, you know, it’s more it’s not I mean, I know it’s not it’s no No more about like the music itself, but you know, it takes That human part of music, you know, I mean of people actually enjoying Music and like people sometimes it’s just they just like don’t enjoy Music because they they saw somewhere on On Twitter that these artists music is included because it’s not technical So I would say yeah, maybe less social media

[Darran]
Will be awesome less social media. Yeah, that’s been a big one over the years when I’ve talked with a lot of the the You know pre social media big name DJs that you know It’s like it gets so daunting. You got to keep up with it staying on top of it But also in the industry how people are Engaged on their ability to be booked because they have a certain amount of Instagram followers.

Yeah You got you might have somebody down the road who doesn’t care about using Instagram, but they’re a phenomenal DJ or producer But you have somebody over here and they have 40,000 Instagram followers and They’ll get booked before the person with no name, you know The zero followers gets booked just because I tell my team all the time. You’ve got to get your socials up You know people look at those they use those as a gauge of how the popularity contest is, you know And it it’s I remember back in the days of my space, you know, you got there you go You got 15,000 40,000 50 80,000 125,000 people following you on my space Yeah, I went into Facebook in 2009 and I started adding all my friends because I wanted to get those numbers up not knowing that Facebook capped yet 5,000. Yeah, and Do I really have 5,000 friends?

No, I don’t think anyone has 5,000 friends, maybe 5,000 17,000 fans 20,000 fans. Yeah, that makes sense But I wish you know if Facebook would have capped it back and said look we’re really only gonna let you have 500 friends or you know something, right? I don’t think that rush to popularity would have been so big as opposed to making say a fan page and then okay, great Yes, you do have a lot of fans.

Yes, your engagement is there rather than your friends It would I think it would have set a cap, you know

[Dr Ushuu]
Especially now it’s even more hardcore because you need to get Like a lot of Instagram followers and then a lot of Twitter followers and then a lot of like tik-tok followers and then a lot of like I don’t know like a lot of followers for No reason because you know, I mean yeah, and Now like it jumped in like, you know when I started doing music It jumped into having like a proper song SoundCloud account To having a proper Spotify account and then to have it like for having like a Facebook like a proper Facebook and Twitter account to having a proper Facebook and like Twitter and then TikTok and then like I don’t know like vine and then Instagram and then you know a lot of accounts and you’re like Oh my god, what’s happening?

You know, I mean it’s cool for a lot of young like, you know like young artists like me and I had a lot of homies that actually like got known through Twitter Tik-tok and like that’s that’s super cool because you also you know, it’s not there’s no bad ways because he’s actually like, you know showcases some talent like some hidden talent, but like at the same time it’s just like Very like over Overwhelmed like, you know had like a lot of things Yeah

[Darran]
Yeah, it does. It does. It does have that impact.

I mean, that’s it’s it’s kind of that whole right? I remember somebody came to me once and They were trying to tear us up on our show and they said yeah, I went to your YouTube channel You don’t even have any viewers on YouTube And I’m like, yeah, cuz we stream and store everything on Twitch YouTube is not our preferred platform I don’t like it and YouTube has the copyright rules and on top of that We’re not licensed with our music to stream anywhere But twitch if you knew the industry, you’d know why I don’t use YouTube as a platform, you know No, I’m streaming a YouTube right now. I’m doing the interview. There’s no copyright on what we’re doing right now So I’m not worried about it being taken down Whereas what we were doing in the past I know I put a live stream up on YouTube and Facebook and YouTube would flag it in like 20 30 minutes I’m like, why am I gonna even send it there?

You know exactly and people just didn’t understand that but they try to attack Yes but the haters and trolls you got to deal with it like I think somebody said to me once you’re not gonna be able to Please everybody in the world You go out there and sell water and somebody’s gonna complain about it. You’d sell air and somebody’s gonna complain about it.

[Dr Ushuu]
Yeah

[Darran]
That’s just the truth, you know, but um, you know talking about influencing and influencers You know and in social media who’s been your biggest influence when it comes to your career as an artist and why

[Dr Ushuu]
I have like a couple of people First like actually first person that it comes to me as only an influence will be forever It will be forever Ivory it’s I don’t know if you met him in Amsterdam.

It was it was back to back when we with with with spaghetti Yeah, it will be ivory because you know ivory was like he started like, you know, I always liked his tracks Back in the day when I was started producing like, you know Dubstep and stuff and and then like I started emailing him We kind of like created like a super cool relationship with like I can see him literally like, you know, like as my big my big brother, so I’ll literally like, you know, it’s kind of like my career model, you know, and like I kind of like You know see him always at the top, you know, every time he releases something Every time he doesn’t move every time he you know, it shows me a track I’m just like, oh my god, like bro. I want to be like this You know, I mean like I want to be like this and and so so he’s been like, you know a very good and super Awesome inspiration and influence to to to my project, you know, and then there’s like, you know the basic EDM legends Over the world, you know that goes like I don’t know from from Afrojack to to Dioro to you know, Martin Garrix and You know all of those guys that actually like, you know shaped me like made me love What like EDM today, you know, and that’s that’s the best thing ever Uh, but yeah, I have a lot of I mean I would say that all my homies are You know how all the french is my my inspiration too because you know, they are We’re we’re just like together and we kind of like, you know, make everyone Just you know Go up and we kind of like, you know, uh push everything together And and while being an individual, you know, like while being alone we kind of like push everyone, you know And be like, yo guys we’re gonna do this and Those are my my inspirations, you know

[Darran]
Yeah, I was I was going through your bio and a name stood out to me. Um I brought it up. It is such a large world out there But it can also be a very small world out there and you had mentioned okay in your bio Yeah, and i’m literally just put in a request his management company.

He’s been on the show before but I was um I actually just put in a request just to yesterday or today to have him come back on the show So when I saw that name i’m like, oh, okay No pun intended But you know, yeah, definitely. I mean obviously that’s awesome to have a definite support base Um of people you can go to or talk to I think I think that is when we’re mentioned talking about social media One of the things that has opened up and especially when I was just doing an interview with a darude Um last weekend and you know something that was allowed to be done before that didn’t really happen before the pandy You know was that producers djs were able to get online and actually talk with fans and really like i’m making a track right now, let’s jump in and listen to this track or Like a robert babasich babasich. I don’t know if you know robert babasich, but he holds a an online session Where he will let producers send his track into him.

He’ll listen to the track And he’ll go and get free feedback on it.

[Dr Ushuu]
Yeah from this

[Darran]
I mean worldwide produced big name producer giving you that free feedback On a track is just prices that wasn’t happening three four years ago necessarily Not not everyone in the world that may have been happening here or there and small little pockets But when everyone jumped online they tried to they found their niche and yeah, a lot of djs went to okay I’m live-streaming my dj set But what if you weren’t a dj and you’re a producer?

How could you utilize an online social media platform to reach out and stay engaged with your your people because Djs aren’t buying tracks because we’re not playing in any clubs You know, we’re not you know, they’re not really releasing tracks because there’s no events to put them on at so It was just interesting to see people use technologies like twitch to do that or jump into facebook and and kind of Revitalize kind of what I would say a stagnant Um, well, it’s not stagnant the word I guess i’m looking for is use new tools to stay in touch with their fam

[Dr Ushuu]
Yeah, I kind of like that’s how Basically, I got more like more recognition through the music industry was like There was a time that you know artists like most bandles And a couple of other artists even okay Did you know a lot of like? twitch streams like feedbacking People and that was like, you know, there was nothing to do and I was like always, you know Grinding the the the production so I would like finish a track Go and just like, you know being every like streamer I produced a streamer that I I liked and I was like, you know dropping my links and you know bundles, uh You know found me and then you know most have found me we we got we we got We we became friends and you know made tracks together and that’s how I kind of like, you know, my name was out there on the industry was like yo Yo, you ever checked like this stream?

I’m on my stream that was like this producer and like, you know, that’s how how it happened Actually, that’s how I actually got a fan base, uh to begin with was like, you know during pandemic, you know grinding the streams and being like every Stream like, you know interrupting my tracks and that’s literally how it works or worked, uh before you know before before everything actually

[Darran]
Yeah, absolutely it like I said, I it was so funny to tell people this story often it’s you know Pre-2020 I’d say oh we’re a live streaming show that features djs People would say who wants to watch djs online? And then i’d say oh we’re a twitch featured partner and they’d go what’s twitch? But now i’m like, oh, yeah We’re a live streaming featured partner with twitch and we stream djs and do interviews with people from all over the world They’re like, oh, yeah, I know what twitch is.

That’s really awesome. You got a twitch it like yes, I have for 13 years I mean it’s also it’s also People know about us, but it’s just awesome. You know, what what’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?

[Dr Ushuu]
Oh my god To be honest like there’s There’s like an advice that someone told me It was like don’t over complicate like stuff you know Even though you can overthink, you know Overthinking is normal. I mean especially for people For for for people that are in the music industry, you know, like it’s overthinking. It’s super normal I I wouldn’t actually say that you know that was like that that isn’t normal because it’s literally like It’s kind of like a goal actually like if you overthink it’s a it’s because you’re in a in a good way but like Uh, i’ll say don’t over complicate stuff which means that you know, even your productions are even career wise Don’t over complicate stuff.

You know, sometimes you just want just the people that find they try to find the best way to actually like uh You know, uh have more More recognition through their music they were like yo i’m gonna find the best way and i’m like You can just literally like post your track and see what happens you know and you know, I mean, of course you can you can think about a conceptual a conceptual way to You know post your track because it isn’t it isn’t like, you know I would say six years ago where you just drop a link like a soundcloud link and people were like, yo, let’s go you know, I mean But nowadays you can just like, you know Of course like do a little off promo, but like don’t actually over complicate the problem, you know it’s always about music and Until here it will always be about the music and not you know The how cool you are or something So yeah Don’t overcomplicate stuff.

[Darran]
It’s like the best advice i’ve given i’ve been giving like every time Nice, and you used to mention something about you know, you used to be able to drop a soundcloud track and people like yeah, let’s go You know, what do you consider to be your biggest break that launched your dj slash producer career? uh Wait, I didn’t actually understand like what was like the big like the the biggest like track Oh, no, it could be the biggest track the biggest release or the biggest opportunity What was the one thing that said I just went from here to here Yeah, what what what changed that? What was that catalyst that the biggest break you had that made that?

[Dr Ushuu]
I think I think the biggest the biggest one I mean that actually determined my my my career kind of was So it was like in 2020 uh I released a track called constellation and it was you know, a super cool track and but like with the meaning I mean there was like Several ways that made it like, you know through people’s you know Ears First one it was like it was my first like the first track that I released after my coma and and And I remember I I woke up from a coma and like we I still like two or three weeks Additional weeks and at the hospital and then once I I got out I literally like just released that trap and You know people, you know people that knew me from my my other alias were You know, they were like, you know, then it just came back like it wasn’t coming It was just came back and people were like yo, who the fuck is then it was like Yo This was this kid and then you know people actually paid attention More on me and then It led me to work more and be like yo All right now i’m gonna try to work on an ep so We did like a lot of stuff and it was super cool because it was like, you know um A super Uh self-release tune, you know, like there was nothing actually Super crazy, you know that I did. I just literally like, you know Posted the track and be like yo guys.

My track is out now Can you guys check it and people were like, yeah, let’s go and that’s how that’s how actually happened uh, but yeah, I would say between this and like my first ep as like, you know like like like myself Release ep was also, you know, super like a super cool way to people actually check on me be like yo Do you see this is how you You know how it went, you know so Yeah I would say that I would say constellation was the track

[Darran]
And congratulations on the ride so far it seems like it’s been hanging on How do you envision your life 10 years from now

[Dr Ushuu]
Oh So 10 years from now from now.

Uh I don’t know. I just hope Like in 10 years, uh in my 34 I’ll be like leaving 100 from music You know, and i’ll you know get my family you know, like like peace, you know from you like like from the The music the music’s money, so Yeah, i’ll say in 10 years for you for now. I just hope I still do music and I still actually, you know be living off this and and being like, you know, just chilling in my corner making Making beats and be like yo, let’s go.

I’m i’m super happy about it. You know, I mean and that’s that’s that’s literally like what I Hope it will be in 10 years Awesome.

[Darran]
Well, it’s gonna be a great ride either way just a couple little follow-up questions here. Are there any um, regular podcasts live streams radio shows that that you listen to and if so What are the top three ones that you would suggest people listen to?

[Dr Ushuu]
Oh, so live streams. Uh I I like I stopped like kind of like, you know A little checking on live streams because like a lot of people stop doing it but like i’ll say I’ll say first one first one would be like grocery boys uh streaming Uh, like like they stream like, you know feedback sessions every every wednesday or thursday Yeah, one of both they kind of like they they they do they they invite people to actually like, you know feedback other people and that’s super nice and sometimes when I can jump in I’ll i’ll just jump in and like check with me with them like how like like like the new producers trucks and like how like the feedbacks and it’s that’s one of the Because things that they did they’ve done also Yeah, um, I kind of check It’s not really a podcast but like for people that actually like Love music. Uh, I mean it is a podcast kind of uh, there’s virtual writing virtual riot doing like, uh Studio time with virtual riot on on youtube and it’s such just such a cool thing for producers You know even you know established producers.

They’ll be like, oh my god, you do these tapes because like, you know, what’s wrong? It’s like a little like like why not a little big influence to to the edm scene more especially in bass music So, you know having that legend doing like studio like like studio times. It’s the best one And yeah, uh, and the third one I don’t know the third one.

Uh One of the like I like I like, uh I like to More too. I mean they kind of like Not the same but the same time like this in the same country, but there’s like, uh, fast music factory and Gunfingers they they are they are trying to showcase, uh, you know bass music in in europe And like and I did an interview with Fast music factory and like they they’re super cool and gunfingers. They’re homies too with which they are they’re just like, you know showcasing bass music and And like doing like fun videos like last time they did like, you know a video about uh, Double drops.

I was there as as the crowd and they were like, you know, they just put like samplifier and Raffi and like they were just like, you know Doing double drops and at the same time they were just like competing with each other and like it’s super fun content content to watch And to get like, you know uh In the gut and you get to know What’s happening on the overseas? Scene, you know, like I mean dubstep scene in america. It’s big like that’s also seen in europe But it’s also big and we kind of don’t show it like often.

So those two guys like those two Uh pages are showing people What’s happening in europe?

[Darran]
Awesome Now one other thing completely off topic That I saw when I was going through your socials today Is I realized you are a big big fan of something that i’m a big fan of And you were doing something recently i’m not sure how long ago it was maybe a few days ago Maybe a few weeks ago that i’ve done probably about eight or nine times Since I became a fan And I wanted to ask you how big of a nerudo fan are you?

[Dr Ushuu]
Uh I’m i’m a really Big big nerd of naruto and like i’ll say like I I would say i’m a really big fan of naruto. There’s i mean i’ve been You know, I grew up with naruto and it was all like it was this show for me, you know, and Uh, I was talking that with like my friends last day like well yesterday and it was like talking about like How naruto actually helped me, you know? focusing on On what’s good in life?

so Yeah, i’ve i’ve watched naruto from the first episode to the last one the very last one for like seven or eight times And that’s that’s how big fan I am And yeah, I I just watch it all the time. I’m just happy to watch it. It’s super cool

[Darran]
A friend of mine back in I think I want to say 2007 2008 ish He had them on disc the first seven seasons or no the first first nine seasons Yeah, and I went through those first nine seasons probably 10 11 times You know as I was waiting for a new episode to come out new episode, you know, and then I got into shibutan and then Then I got so caught up I’d have to wait till next week and I just say, you know till another episode came out and i’d be like, okay um, i’m just not gonna wait i’m gonna i’m gonna just Stop for a while And then a couple months would go by and i’d start the whole series all over again So when I caught up I had to watch like 15 episodes all at once All again, you know i’ve done that probably like you said eight or nine times myself

[Dr Ushuu]
It’s always fun. It’s like super cool.

[Darran]
Yeah Well Is there anything else you want to let our dj sessions fans know about?

[Dr Ushuu]
Uh, everything actually was was covered like, you know, everything was super Super good. But yeah, I must I must say uh for you know for the Something that on the on the cover it’s more like the french in I think like People sleep on the french team. I mean, you know, they they kind of like understand that you know french people are like french producers are super good, but like they they they still Never like you actually go and cover up and i’ll say yeah, guys, don’t Don’t really like sleep on the french team because there’s a lot of amazing producers out there And yeah, they they’re gonna rule the world.

I’m just kidding Will you be over at ade this year um, maybe I don’t know yet, but um, i’m happy to if I go there i’m happy to To be there. I never been to I it’s been a while since I’m Yeah, it’s pretty it’s pretty awesome.

[Darran]
Um, and I know I hopefully the monster cat team over there has something set up again Like they did last year. Yeah, just which was just really amazing that you know, they’re uh They’re just really really really cool cool people cool stuff going on over there So thank you again, dr.

[Dr Ushuu]
Whoosh Yeah, I hope Yeah, yeah, you got that, right?

[Darran]
Awesome coming in all the way from paris and uh, we’ll be talking with you in the near future here Oh, by the way, don’t forget and go to go and check out his instagram at Danny shoe Any issues yeah on instagram awesome, thank you for coming on the show this is Afternoon for me. Yeah On that note don’t forget to go to our website the dj sessions.com find us on tiktok twitter twitch instagram Facebook we’re out there just type in the dj sessions in google Find us and go become a dj sessions member be entered to win free prizes guest appearances on the show Guests meet and greets all that fun stuff, but you can find out all that information and more plus 600 news stories a month exclusive mixes interviews And you know something else i’ll cook up up my sleeve all at the dj sessions.com I’m, Darran coming to you from the virtual studios in seattle, washington.

That’s dr Who shoot coming in from paris france for the dj sessions presents the virtual sessions and remember on the dj sessions the music never stops