

I grabbed an Apogee Duet 2 in 2013, and considered that to be a huge purchase and step in improving my production value. I wasn’t much of a gear purchaser in the beginning. What was the first serious piece of kit you bought?

I continued with that same setup until about 2014, and started upgrading once I began releasing records.

In my parents’ basement I had a laptop, an M-Audio fastrack, a two octave midi keyboard, and some passive speakers a friend lent me. What was your first ever set-up, when you started making music? I dropped out after two years, and never went back. I was self taught on most instruments (piano, guitar and drums) with some lessons as a kid, but then ended up attending University for composition. Following the release, we sat down with him to chat studio set ups, how he approaches production and inspirations outside of music.įirst off, what’s your musical education?
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Now he’s followed this up with his first full EP Simstin under the new guise, continuing to peddle a more refined sound that blends delicate synth lines, tight compositions and layers of melody. Signalling a more personal and complex sound that he feels is truer to him, at the beginning of 2020 he released his first single ‘Up To You’ into the world as Patrick Holland on his own Verdicchio Music Publishing imprint that he runs alongside Jump Source, 2 Responsible, Rest Corp and 8prn. Having first cut his teeth in the city’s underground, releasing lo-fi house under his previous pseudonym Project Pablo, he’s since transitioned away from that sound and scene, and with that came the choice to begin releasing music under his given name. Last year saw Montreal-based producer Patrick Holland begin a new chapter in his musical explorations.
