Shlohmo is the 22-year-old, LA living electro producer mixing and re-mixing his way into musical recognition.
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Born Henry Laufmann, Shlohmo is the unabashedly devoted Drake fan who’s every bit as charming and passionate as any line from a song by his favourite artist. After featuring him in our Summer 2012, The Lights, Camera, Action Issue new music round-up, when he was passing through Toronto recently, i-D online got to find out about a few of his favourite things….
Top three remixes…
James Blake, ‘Drop it like it’s not‘ Harmonimix < It’s always on
Groundislava, ‘Super Bass‘ Lava Mix < It’s fire
Mary J. Blige, ‘Real Love‘ Remix < That’s one of the best remixes
Top four things you’d like to know your listeners are doing to your music…
Making out, making babies, making friends and holding hands.
Top five artists you’ve worked with or would like to work with in the future…
The Weeknd, Drake, Little Dragon, Chris Brown and R. Kelly.
Top six cities…
Toronto, Montreal, New Orleans, London, Cologne was really tight and we had a great time out in Bucharest, Romania. Shouts out to Romania!
Top seven musical influences…
Drake and 40 collectively. The Pixies. Tom Waits. Burial. M83 or Boards of Canada. Three 6 Mafia
There’s lots of Drake in there…
I consider Drake to be the Confucius of our time. I feel like everything he says is like a fucking fortune cookie. Probably not a day goes by where something that happens in my life reminds me of 50 Drake lines. His connection with 40… there’s just something there that is so fucking special.
On that subject… Top five rappers…
Drake. Camron. I love Project Pat so much. I used to listen to a lot of Mobb Deep, so I’d say Prodigy. Missy Elliott
Top five producers…
40. Probably a bunch of my friends. Groundislava. My friend Jasper makes really awesome stuff. My friend, the other Henry. He goes by RL Grime. My other friend D33J. These people are all on the collective (wediditcollective.com) too so check them out! And Burial. Nobody can make shit that sounds like Burial
Text: Hazel Ong
Photography: Paolo Azarraga
