Meet Ixn of California

Today we’d like to introduce you to Ixn.

Hi ixn, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Ever since I was super young, I always had a deep interest in music. Going as far back as to elementary school, I would spend time listening to music way more than the people around me, and I felt it was more important to me than it had been to others. I started wanting to make music myself after I discovered the whole 2016 SoundCloud era of rappers that one of my friends at the time put me onto. I first started recording music when I was around 10, with my biggest inspiration being XXXTENTACION, shortly after he passed away. I was a big fan of his music, and creatively it still has such a strong impact on my sound. I would take Lil Pump or Juice WRLD type beats off of Youtube and would record demos off of my phone and GarageBand using an Apple headset mic, but everything I made was complete garbage, with trash lyrics and quality, and I didn’t really put any real time into it until like a solid 5 years later, when I started making tracks off of Bandlab in January of 2023. I worked on my sound for about 2 years, making heaps of songs that just for the sake of expressing myself and my thoughts, and messing around seeing what I could do, until it became a sound I thought was listenable. I switched to making music on FL Studio after I taught myself how to use it, and started releasing songs on SoundCloud earlier this year. I put my first solo song out in March. and later released “echoes of someone i loved”, the first song of mine to go up on all platforms, and the first to mark the new direction I have been going in as of recent. Ever since then, I’ve been consistently dropping a couple songs a month, promoting myself and my music on all my socials so I can make myself heard, and it’s garnered me a small audience that I’m continuing to grow by just putting more out and posting it everywhere.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
So far, it hasn’t been too bad, but that’s not to say there hasn’t been some challenges. Seeing my numbers increase and decrease is always challenging. It kind of destroys your motivation watching something you put all this time and effort into go nowhere. But that comes as a part of being an artist, so it’s whatever. It’s also definitely hard to be proud of my creations sometimes; I have such high expectations for the music I wanna put out and so when it’s not as good as I think it can be, I end up hating it. Having to have so much patience teaches you a lot though, and that’s what I have learned.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I make several different genres of music. I started off with a more hyperpop sound, inspired by someone like 2hollis, but over the past few months I really lost interest in that type of sound as I started to feel I couldn’t get the message I wanted to across, and so now I focus on more a more shoegaze, alternative rock sound. People admire my music a whole lot more for that sound. My biggest song right now is “dopamine overdose” which currently has around 4000 streams on Spotify. Along with many other of my songs, I produced, mixed, and mastered it all myself, which is really how I bring my vision to life. That’s what I think is the best part about my process creatively, I, figuratively, have the pen in my hands and I put it to the paper all on my own, bringing exactly what is in my mind to life. A lot of artists do that, but I feel like I’m different in many ways. Over the past couple of months, I’m real proud of my growth. More people have been listening, and now I have to make sure that continues so I can keep growing. Some people geniunely like the music that I put out. And that’s one of the greatest feelings I’ve felt. Having people tell me that they want to see me succeed, they have my music in their playlist, they want to hear more from me, etc. It pushes me to keep going.

What’s next?
I’m gonna continue putting out songs consistently. Keep putting out EP’s. Eventually I’ll get to putting out an album. Also, I’m keep expanding genre-wise, and keep sticking to the sounds that people already enjoy. I gotta keep marketing myself as well, continuing to make myself be heard. I’m planning to work with more live instruments as opposed to working off of a DAW for everything. Hopefully in the future I’ll be working with a band. Overall, I just plan to become as great as possible, and to never stop.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ixnixnixn/
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@ixnixnixn
• Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/PrcgdiMJZVKeZ5hOqH
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/70YudMW976K7qkkL42AZhY