MUMBAI: Spryk is a brainchild of Tejas Nair’s solo project. His music is literally dope. The dreamer, urban drifter, and music producer grew up in Mumbai before flourishing in Australia. He has been a part of the independent music industry for about two years now. This cross-continental connoisseur produces genre-hopping ‘Future Music’ force of tunes that he terms as ‘forward thinking sounds’.
In a conversation with Radioandmusic.com Tejas shared his journey so far, his music, and the approach of electronic music in today’s time and much more. Read on to know more.
Speaking about his early days and about his experimental futuristic sounds he said, “It started with a much younger me playing the Tabla and studying Hindustani Classical for about eight good years before discovering and trying to learn many more styles of music. My sound is and has always been about expressing. As a producer, experimentation helps me widen my taste and knowledge. As for when I’m performing, the experiments are to serve newer sounds to the audience.”
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Tejas thinks that the fusing of various elements and styles is only natural. While talking about the vastness of electronic music, his method of fusing various elements and various styles, he shared, “I’ve always been driven by different kinds of music over the years from learning Hindustani Classical music when I was much younger to pop, hip-hop, and RnB as well as heavy metal, glitch, drum n bass, footwork and much more in my latter year. What I produce and play out now is a culmination of music I’m feeling at the time irrespective of its genre, language or viability.”
He thinks that electronic music and the internet have made the ‘scene’ quite a small world, which makes it not all that different from one place to another. As these days the industry is growing and local talents in both places, there are a lot of young people that are all finding their own tastes in music and art in general.
Bollywood mainstream music takes the biggest piece of the pie and then comes regional music. When we asked him how difficult does it become for a music producer who incorporates sound for his originals to succeed in this market. Talking about it Nair said,”It’s not that I don’t incorporate mainstream Bollywood music or regional sounds into my music. I’ve used a whole bunch of Indian music on my first independent EP Emergence. If you look closely, mainstream music in India is an amalgamation from all over the world and that’s amazing. I’m definitely influenced by it in more ways than one.”
Tejas also owns an Audio Production House, Press Play, in Mumbai where he works with music for games, Ad films, films and also projects that require lesser explored forms of sound like Binaural Sound for games and Virtual Reality or Augmented reality. Currently, he is working on a game titled ‘Antariksha Sanchar’ which is based in South India. He is writing original music for the same and it is heavily influenced by South Indian culture, Carnatic Classical Music and amazing works by pioneers of South Indian Dance and music such as M. S. Subbulaxshmi and Jayalakshmi Eshwar among many others.
He released his last EP SLOW / FAST in January, with High Chai Records. When we asked him about his upcoming projects, he said, “Honestly I’m taking it one release at a time. Doing SLOW / FAST with High Chai was really cool. However, the forthcoming stuff is definitely not with the same label,” he signed off.
