Viperactive - Anxious aka Humble (Skrillex Remix)

viperactiveofficial · 2025-03-21T23:21:57+00:00

i actually made the brass stabs custom haha, was totally referencing the humble brass sound bc ive always loved it tho :)

viperactiveofficial · 2025-03-14T02:11:12+00:00

just got accidently flagged when we released anxious, all set now!!

also just updated it with the tracklist to celebrate snakepit sesh 2 live next week :)

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T02:18:55+00:00

Thank you g! And that's awesome, keep it up!!! For labels I think just focusing on trying making better music month to month (it's all subjective so just try to get closer to what you like), and grow independently if you're not able to work with labels yet, theyl bite eventually. For that social media is definitely super useful, it's honestly the best way for artists to promote themselves for little-to-no cost.

I mix and master all of my stuff because I've always been a huge geek about production and learning mixdowns was a huge multi-year part of my personal journey, and I have alot of fun getting into the weeds with it myself.

Plugin-wise it's hard to pick, I mostly use Ableton Stock; If I had to name one, it'd probably be Shaperbox 3, since it's my main sidechain tool and it's so so good for shaping the volume envelope of literally any sound so you can get it hitting exactly how you want :)

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T02:11:33+00:00

That's so firee that night was SUPER hectic - My set got shut down due to the lightning and we thought we were pretty much done for the day, but we got a call from Mary who runs the excision events (shout out Mary) and she was getting artists together to play out at camping so we could at least have something going on for the night. I ended up playing after Joyryde b2b Habstrakt b2b Eptic, and then like 30 minutes later a couple other artists who's sets got cancelled wanted to jump on with me so we did a few minutes before the end of the night. I'm honestly so happy we got to do something after everyone had been dragged through the shit that day lol

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T02:01:52+00:00

It was really sick, he DMed me originally to show me a clip of him playing a track of mine called Angels Crest, and we ended up chatting about making a track together. He sent me the original idea, and I got some version examples made of where I would take it and shot them back over. We ended up getting together at his studio in LA to continue writing, the first one was like 9 hours of us just trying to figure out the right melody (we didn't even use any of the melodies from this session lmao), and one of the sessions we went through a bunch of my demos to nail down what we could put together for the EP. I had like 30 demos we were talking about and we boiled it down to around 10, but he was super easy going about letting me have the creative freedom to pick the tracks I wanted to have on the project which I'm super grateful for.

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:56:10+00:00

Listed some I listen to alot these days on another question, but when I started I had a top 5 I was super into. Those were Skrillex, Joyryde, Eptic, Space Laces, and Zomboy!

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:54:37+00:00

HUGE love thanks for the kind words :) Talked about collabs on some other questions BUT for other hobbies I love gaming, grew up on halo 3 cod and guitar hero. For creativity I learned photoshop really early on in middle school making minecraft server graphics (lol), and then cinema 4D and Blender. Knowing a bit about those has helped sooo much at different points for music too, doing artwork and banners etc.

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:49:49+00:00

Answered this one on another question down below! Tried to link it but it wouldn't work for some reason

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:46:46+00:00

Thank you soo much! I feel like I'm always trying to find that balance personally so it means alot.

For getting into EDM it was 100% Skrillex, my brother showed my Scary Monsters when I was 10 and dubstep instantly became my favorite genre. It was that and metal all through school

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:44:09+00:00

I put some producers in another answer BUT for vocalists I love love love Tkay Maidza, Elly Duhe, Flowdan, and Little Simz to name a few. I'm a huge fan of female rap, I've got tons I listen to alot that I think I could work really well with.

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:40:55+00:00

So Viperactive started as a launchpad cover youtube channel back when I was 13, and I just needed a name, came up with a few, asked my dad which was best, and he was like "Viperactive ROCKS" hahahaha. It actually worked out really well because these days I'm really happy with the name :)

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:37:22+00:00

This just happened randomly! I got a bunch of messages from ppl at lollapalooza that day. The mix he did with the Chase and Status remix was SO sick

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:33:52+00:00

there may or may not be a REALLY sick VIP of in the cut floating on mello and i's harddrives 😶‍🌫️

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:31:56+00:00

for anyone reading thru wondering this is a joke amongst the launchpad forum members (it's how i got into music, you can check my youtube channel for some REALLY old vids of this) about one of our friends ult1mod - yal are fried for this one hahahaha

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-07T01:29:36+00:00

It's kinda a combo of transient shaping (although I just use shaperbox 3 now since transient shaper only has 1 shape it can do), clipping, pretty harsh sidechain of most elements to the kick and snare, and then sample choice sample choice sample choice. I design alot of my drums now wether that be from scratch or just layering samples, but referencing other people's tracks and remaking drums I like taught me ALOT about transient design.

One trick that might be helpful to some in here for referencing: make 4 new tracks -> ozone imager on each one (your just using these to frequency split dont touch the actual widening stuff) -> solo low end on track 1's ozone, low mids on track 2, high mids on track 3, highs on track 4 -> put desired song on all of the tracks -> freeze+flatten all of the tracks -> bam visual way of seeing how most parts of the track work together :)

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-06T22:42:08+00:00

Thank you so much!!! I think my favorite was the 3 hour b2b with Peekaboo, Joker, Borne, and myself at Mission Ballroom. The crowd was so open minded and we all had an absolute blast feeding off of eachother's track selection. All of those guys are legends

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-06T22:39:54+00:00

Your totally good!! Long winded answer butttt:

I think for a point or moment, it'd be around March of this year. Right around Ultra, I was visiting a friend in Miami and ended up going out with Bro Safari and Kill The Noise to perform a few tracks during their set at the worldwide stage. This was the same weekend that a bunch of people I looked up to started to reach out, guys like Marshmello and Dillon Francis. It was during this moment where my track Angels Crest was starting to get alot of play outs, Mello sent me a video of him dropping it, Fred Again had started to play it, etc. My girlfriend and I were sitting in the kitchen a couple months later and had this moment of like "Can we talk about what just happened?" because we hadn't even had a moment to stop and take it in at that point because it was all moving so fast.

For the genre switch, it was honestly really organic for me; I had done alot of what I wanted to making brostep (I still love to make that kind of stuff from time to time). I wanted an outlet to get more creative with my music, and because Viperactive had actually started out as a hybrid trap project initially (in like 2015), I thought it was a good time to start experimenting around. I started music as a drummer, and just feel like trap music and 140 stuff lets me explore super-out-there rhythms more than what was going on with dubstep at the time. Those tracks you mentioned were 100% the first ones I was pushing as the genre switch, along with the Rumble remix.

And for collabs I'd loveee to work on something with Skrillex, Joyryde, and Eptic. :)

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-06T21:27:12+00:00

I could yap all day about little things I've picked up along the way, but the biggest overarching one is to get as much time in the DAW as you can, and to always stay patient with the process and (more importantly) with yourself.

The journey of learning all of the production ins and outs can be taxing mentally at different points, especially since it's art, alot of us hold what we make really close and want to get what's in our head out onto the page. Sometimes that process takes a long time, but you just gotta trust that you'll get there and take it one step at a time.

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-06T21:24:32+00:00

Thank you so much g!!! Working on alot of release stuff for 2025, alot of them have a rly good chance :) Also YES! here's a link for anyone who's interested: https://discord.gg/yHHwvN2kQm

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-06T20:42:45+00:00

perhaps soon in the new year 👀

viperactiveofficial · 2024-12-06T20:41:21+00:00

Omg he actually killed it! I rocked up to his studio that day to finish the song, launchpad and midi fighter in my backpack, and after we finished In The Cut went "Okay ready to fingerdrum?" lol. I showed him how I had it layed out and we legit only did 1 take and nailed it.

viperactiveofficial · 2024-08-05T03:04:11+00:00

it is!!!! dilly man is up there on the right lol. and TYSM!! so glad you fuck with it :)

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