Hit the Decks! It’s Louis the Child Music Connection Magazine – Music Connection Magazine

The men of acclaimed production duo Louis the Child both got their starts early in life.

"I got into DJing after my parents bought me some DJ software for Christmas when I was in 6th or 7th grade," says Robby Hauldren. " I wasnt super into electronic music yet but I was starting to get curious about DJing. I gotthehang of it and started recording myself making mashups intheDJ software and uploading them to SoundCloud. A year or two later I met Freddy through some friends at school and heard he was producing his own electronic music. We had a very similar taste in electronic music and decided to meet up one day and make some music. I had played in bands before and recorded myself but I didnt know much about producing electronic music. Freddy taught me a ton of what I know now. We started to release some music on SoundCloud and just kept at it. I think things started to get pretty serious once we got a manager and he showed us how to really get our music out ontheinternet and heard."

"I started producing in 5th grade, I was already a fan of daft punk, and had heard a song ontheradio called 'Dooms Night' (Timo Maas Radio Edit) that kind of blew my mind at a young age, and some of my camp counselors showed metheCaspa Remix of 'Cockney Thug' by Rusko, and I was pretty hooked on dubstep and dance music," says Freddy Kennett."I was producing nearly every day from then on. I was taking drum lessons and playing saxophone intheconcert and jazz band, and was taking music theory classes and playing in a jazz band at Midwest Young Artists in Chicago. In 8th grade, when I heard of Robby making mashups and live edits of songs, I reached out to him to get together and make some tunes!Theday we got together, we startedLouistheChild."

Haulden likes to associate LTC more with a feeling than a sound.

"Theres certain 'sounds' or drum pockets people might associate us with, but intheend I know its aLouisTheChildsong when I get that feeling," he says.

"We usually make bubbly, vibrant dance music with a songwriting and melodic focus," adds Kennett. "We jump between any tempo that inspires us. We see genres as guidelines to utilize or break free from. We dont like being put in a box, and we like to experiment."

Louis the Child's latest release is "Believe It."

"We made 'Believe It' with Madeon, who is one ofthefirst artists we bonded over when we formedLouisTheChild," says Hauldren. "Overtheyears hes become a close friend and we decided to get together a few months ago to make music. When weve worked with him inthepast we always started from scratch, but this time he wanted to write over something we had already started. We played him a few ideas and this one beat really struck a chord with him, and we spent most oftheday just writingthevocal parts. We knew we wanted something simple, and we worked really hard at refining every line we wrote to getthemost out of them."

"This is our new song featuring Madeon, who was one of our idols forthelongest time, and still is," says Kennett. "Robby and I first were introduced to each other at a Madeon show atthebottom lounge in Chicago.Thesong itself is quite a happy and fun house tune that Hugo and I are singing on. It has a light and transcendent, dance energy, were super excited to play it live attheupcoming shows!"

As for gear:

"Weve used Ableton live for a long time," says Hauldren. "All you need is a great sample library, some software synths like [serum, kontakt, analog labs, or synplant], and most ofthetime a midi keyboard.A lot ofthetime ontheroad we just usetheMacBook keypad as a piano, which somehow is completely usable! I usedtheMacBook keypad to playthemelody from our songs Fire and Weekend, and multiple others. Sometimes its fun to make songs in various places that arent a professional studio with nice speakers. Thats an amazing part ofthedigital age, you have a lot of freedom to create anywhere youd like. You can even take your laptop tothebeach. Havent tried that yet, haha."

Looking ahead, the guys have plenty planned for 2024.

"We have a tour planned fortheFall that were really excited for," says Hauldren. "Going to try and keep putting out music afterthealbum too."

"We have an album ontheway," adds Kennett. "Very excited! Were done withthecreation process so we feel relievedget ready!"

Photo by Joey Vitalari

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