Featured Artist 80
Ollie Jarvis
Oliver Jarvis
Ollie Jarvis - known to many of us as Oscar Ollie - has unmistakably made quite a development on Audiotool since he's been active. If his early tracks sound a bit dry and wooden, today he releases atmospheric Dub- and Chill-Step tracks with an obvious love for details and sound-design which should find their place in the top league of Audiotool producers.
Interview
Oliver Jarvis Place: Bromley, just outside South London (originally). Currently living on the Isle of Wight next to a beach! Age: 20 Job: I left college a couple years ago as a trained chef/waiter, as for now I'm taking a break, but may potentially start at a music college later this year.
- Musical Style
- More than anything, Dubstep, but if I can keep it 'fluid', then I'll try anything.
- Musical Background
- My background is pretty eclectic. I've been a member of 4 different choirs. I used to be able to play guitar, got to grade 4 on trumpet, and I can jingle fairly proficiently on the piano/keyboard. But my main passion (as hopefully conveyed by my music) is drumming or anything percussive/rhythmic. As many of my friends would attest to, I'm almost always beatboxing or tapping something out with my feet or hands.
- On Audiotool
- I came across Audiotool through the lil Tonematrix app on the chrome store around 2011/12 and I haven't looked back since. It wasn't until I started looking around the community on AT and listening to all this incredible music that these like-minded people were putting out that I realized 'Wow I wanna be as good as these guys one day'. So I knuckled down and started trying to learn about it. It's not often I truly stick at something. I'm one of those guys that gives up pretty easily if I can't do a certain 'thing', but I was determined to be someone that people wanted to listen to. Around the time I started, I was getting little to no sleep at night so my days were literally 'go to school, come back, go on Audiotool, go back to school'. It was basically my alternative free therapy.
- Message to the community
- Without including cliché after cliché in my message, I just want to start off by thanking the whole team for letting Audiotool be a real platform and creating a totally unique community. It truly is something great here. All I can say (as someone that isn't committal in the slightest), keep trying to make music. There are literally no wrong answers when it comes to music. If you and your ears like something, then stick with it. And please please don't conform to the charts, or bandwagon onto the newest genre just to get favorites. You keep doing what you're doing and your audience will find you. Oh and just because I've seen it posted so many times; Yes, for any kind of creative person, whether its music, writing, drawing or what have you, having on and off periods is totally okay, it happens to everyone. Just don't decide to 'quit music' because just temporarily you don't like your own sound. If it helps, when I'm at a 'block', I listen to all kinds of genres for ideas. Inspiration can be found everywhere.
