Brandeus Q&A
For Rappfox readers, who aren’t familiar with Brandeus, tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is Brandon Williams, I'm 23 years old and was born in Tamworth NSW but was raised and currently live on the Gold Coast QLD. Coming from a Brazilian background on my mothers side of the family, I had come up with my artist name BRANDEUS (English pronunciation BRAN-DAY-ES) as DEUS means God in Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. I just thought it had a nice ring to it and isn't a common artist name either.
What made you get into music? And in particular R&B music & hip hop?
I remember back when I was in primary school I used to listen to Green Day, Blink 182 and Metallica. I used to watch their live shows on DVD, so by the time I was 12 I had taken up playing guitar and used to watch YouTube tutorials and used the program Guitar Pro to learn.
As I went into high school, all my friends listened to rap music, particularly Eminem, 50 Cent and by 2010 Drake. My love for Hip Hop grew and since 2014, Hip Hop and R&B music has been global with a huge place in the music charts today. So my goal is to blend and vary my style with all music genres that I love, modern and old, Hip Hop and rock.
Your song War has been performing pretty well on Spotify with over 100k streams and really nails that new R&B/trap sound. Tell me about the process of making the track.
When it comes to writing, whatever I am feeling at the time, I come up with a concept first. I initially wrote War in August 2018 and during this time I was living with a lot of anxiety and depression, I felt lonely and at a crossroad or quarter life crisis, not knowing what to do or where to go with my life.
And I thought to myself I'm in a war within myself, telling myself I have no right to feel this way, I should be happy. But it's okay to feel this way, you shouldn't have to be happy all the time so if you want to freak out, just freak out. With this concept in mind I came across a producer from Denmark on YouTube and heard one of his productions and just vibed with it straight away. I came up with the hook first, I figure the flow and delivery just by humming and then come up with the words. Next the verses follow (flow, words, record). Last is the ad libs and then I mix the vocals with the production, the final master and finished, War has been written, recorded, mixed and mastered.
My name is Brandon Williams, I'm 23 years old and was born in Tamworth NSW but was raised and currently live on the Gold Coast QLD. Coming from a Brazilian background on my mothers side of the family, I had come up with my artist name BRANDEUS (English pronunciation BRAN-DAY-ES) as DEUS means God in Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. I just thought it had a nice ring to it and isn't a common artist name either.
What made you get into music? And in particular R&B music & hip hop?
I remember back when I was in primary school I used to listen to Green Day, Blink 182 and Metallica. I used to watch their live shows on DVD, so by the time I was 12 I had taken up playing guitar and used to watch YouTube tutorials and used the program Guitar Pro to learn.
As I went into high school, all my friends listened to rap music, particularly Eminem, 50 Cent and by 2010 Drake. My love for Hip Hop grew and since 2014, Hip Hop and R&B music has been global with a huge place in the music charts today. So my goal is to blend and vary my style with all music genres that I love, modern and old, Hip Hop and rock.
Your song War has been performing pretty well on Spotify with over 100k streams and really nails that new R&B/trap sound. Tell me about the process of making the track.
When it comes to writing, whatever I am feeling at the time, I come up with a concept first. I initially wrote War in August 2018 and during this time I was living with a lot of anxiety and depression, I felt lonely and at a crossroad or quarter life crisis, not knowing what to do or where to go with my life.
And I thought to myself I'm in a war within myself, telling myself I have no right to feel this way, I should be happy. But it's okay to feel this way, you shouldn't have to be happy all the time so if you want to freak out, just freak out. With this concept in mind I came across a producer from Denmark on YouTube and heard one of his productions and just vibed with it straight away. I came up with the hook first, I figure the flow and delivery just by humming and then come up with the words. Next the verses follow (flow, words, record). Last is the ad libs and then I mix the vocals with the production, the final master and finished, War has been written, recorded, mixed and mastered.
You released your EP Reverie last year, what is the inspiration behind your music?
The inspiration behind Reverie was the concept of my own big daydream/fantasy where each track is a thought placed in chronological order. It begins with Faint which represents working full-time mixed with drug and alcohol abuse. This leads to War, becoming depressed and full of anxiety not knowing how to fight it. Double Clutch Speeding is coming to a realisation for a change and to start a new with Bruce Wayne representing 'if you have a dream or a goal, you can fulfil it.'
I like to try and have a story to tell and I've gained this inspiration from artists like Kendrick Lamar and John Mayer where each of their albums have their own concept or story being told in order.
What else do you have planned for 2019?
What I have planned for 2019 is to release more music with a different concept to Reverie. I will just be releasing singles for a while and hope to gain a big enough following to be able to perform live and be featured on Triple J. I also have plans to move to Toronto CA to try and make it in it's ever expanding new Hip Hop wave.
Follow Brandeus on Facebook, Soundcloud and Spotify to stay up-to-date with his music!
The inspiration behind Reverie was the concept of my own big daydream/fantasy where each track is a thought placed in chronological order. It begins with Faint which represents working full-time mixed with drug and alcohol abuse. This leads to War, becoming depressed and full of anxiety not knowing how to fight it. Double Clutch Speeding is coming to a realisation for a change and to start a new with Bruce Wayne representing 'if you have a dream or a goal, you can fulfil it.'
I like to try and have a story to tell and I've gained this inspiration from artists like Kendrick Lamar and John Mayer where each of their albums have their own concept or story being told in order.
What else do you have planned for 2019?
What I have planned for 2019 is to release more music with a different concept to Reverie. I will just be releasing singles for a while and hope to gain a big enough following to be able to perform live and be featured on Triple J. I also have plans to move to Toronto CA to try and make it in it's ever expanding new Hip Hop wave.
Follow Brandeus on Facebook, Soundcloud and Spotify to stay up-to-date with his music!