Ray Volpe is cooking once more.
For months, bass music followers lined across the block ready for a style of his aptly titled banger, “SONG REQUEST.” Properly, opening day is right here and Chef Volpe is able to share his newest creation with the world.
“I think bass music is such a sound design-first genre compared to others,” Volpe tells EDM.com. “There’s a massive emphasis on sound design and creation but not as much on songwriting. I try to emphasize that by making these cooler, catchy ideas that feel easier to remember. I think that’s the recipe for me.”
Bass is Volpe’s specialty however he attracts from post-hardcore, metalcore, rock and pop-punk influences. He has an urge for food for catchy choruses and hooks. It is one thing he leans into when producing a style of music that’s typically mild on good singalongs.
“I just want to have the same feeling. I just want that catchiness,” Volpe explains. “So I try to make things that are short, sweet and to the point. I think it’s easy to get really convoluted and very overwhelming with ideas and try to get really complex.”
A viral video and spins from world-famous DJs like Steve Aoki elevated “SONG REQUEST” to one in all 2024’s most anticipated digital music releases. Even Busta Rhymes busted out a dirty bass face when listening to the music. If an image is value a thousand phrases, then his face on video is a priceless co-sign.
The overwhelming pleasure for “SONG REQUEST” is drawing comparisons to Volpe’s career-making 2022 hit “Laserbeam,” a music that graduated from an in a single day pattern to a pantry staple. However he is far more snug nowadays with the suspense.
A quiet confidence is filling in for the place nerves used to take the reigns. Volpe welcomes the formidable comparisons between his new music and his greatest hit as he works in the direction of his second musical Michelin star.
“‘SONG REQUEST’ feels like the first real sequel,” Volpe says. “It feels like the first really big one. The main difference at the beginning when I made ‘Laserbeam’ is that I thought it was a really cool song. I didn’t know it would do as well as it did.”
“But when I thought of the idea and I put it down on paper for ‘SONG REQUEST,’ I think I knew. Not to say I was cocky, but I remember telling my team and my immediates around me that, ‘This is it. This is the song.’ I felt like there was something special going on here.”
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Volpe debuted “SONG REQUEST” whereas ringing within the new yr with Crankdat at Countdown NYE’s “midnight moment” earlier than sharing a clip on social media in February. The response, he mentioned, was overwhelming.
“Social media changed my career. It hands-down did,” Volpe said. “I began off making music in 2010. I began getting on folks’s radar in 2016. That’s once I began taking part in exhibits. I used to be doing alright. I had a cool factor going after which issues went very stagnant in a short time. I had nothing to essentially excel.”
Volpe’s knack for social media marketing and love for catchy tunes is serendipitous. There’s a misconception that producing viral moments requires insincerity. Sure, there are best practices and replicable formulas, but there is infinite room for creativity. It’s more cooking than baking.
Take professional wrestling, for example, something of which Volpe is a major fan. There’s a common belief that the most successful characters are extensions of the performers dialed to 11. Volpe encourages other musicians to accept that social media and music have intertwined, shed their stubbornness and figure out how to extenuate their real personalities.
“I do not suppose I’ve ever been cringe in my social media method,” Volpe said. “I think a lot of people look at doing social media with their music career as cringe. The thing is you don’t need to jump around with a funny face in front of the camera to do it. I’ve never done that. I’m not knocking people who have done that, it’s an approach. But a lot of people hate on that. I see a lot of my peers in EDM and very much specifically in bass.”
“You don’t have to. Think of another idea. They just don’t want to think of another idea. They just don’t want to think of another idea because a lot of people—this is kind of a rant—want to do this with a hobby amount of effort and get a full-time career result. It’s not gonna work.”
Watch the total interview beneath and discover “SONG REQUEST” on streaming platforms right here.
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