“I live life to excess, I don’t do anything by half measures.”
Xces is a tremendous inspiration to us all. Originally from West London he has worked in production for the past four years and has successfully established himself as an amazing Hip Hop and R&B Producer, producing fantastic talents such as JMC, 112, D-Block Styles-P, Sheek Louch and many more.
His inspirations include Timbaland, Kanye, Premire and Alchemist, yet he also says that he is “inspired by and influenced by a lot of people old and new, anyone who musically thinks outside the box and has me like “I should have thought of that!”’
Whilst working with JMC and Vault Music in London, Xces’ work impressed some major U.S. names, opening the doors to more opportunities and broadening his network across the Atlantic. His outstanding reputation and talents as a music producer will hopefully attract even more major artists to work with him, such as Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, Wiley and Kano. Xces is working on several projects at the moment including producing JMC Safecracker Mixtape and a new R&B four piece girl group Espree, who have toured with U.S. sensation Joe in all of London’s major venues, as well as winning the Natoinal UK Unsigned Competition. Many of these tracks can be heard on their myspace WebPages.
The UK Hip Hop scene is strengthening yet there are still difficulties for many new talents to break into the industry, compared to the U.S. Xces states that to accomplish this it is important for people “to start to work together and network better, making quality music should be the focus not the money, jewels and chicks.” He also emphasises “managers please do the job your artists are relying you to do and most importantly U.K fans of Hip Hop need to start buying OUR Hip Hop and not just saying yeah he’s good but I wouldn’t buy his album or go to his show cause he used to live on my road get me!” .
In ten years Xces sees himself as still producing existing and new talents of the industry. He is also passionate about helping Britain’s youth off the streets and by doing so he has founded a number of music programs within schools, councils and communities. These have been created to develop their already existing skills “from the artistic to business.” Xces is driven to make a difference within our communities and is using his abilities to change the lives of our youth and keep them off the streets. These tremendous opportunities will enable the dreams of many talented teenagers to come true. His advice for those who want to break into the industry includes:
“Stay focused this industry is a way of life not a job or a hobby be as skilled as you can at as much as you can keep your eyes wide open for opportunities the smallest things could turn into a major break.”
We can learn so much from Xces and his passion to make a difference. His fantastic music productions and position as a great figure of inspiration will hopefully encourage the many of you to believe that you too can do the same.
For more information check out www.myspace.com/xcesmusic
By Alexandra Hudson
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