John Summit
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122 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Yeah, I was working at Ernst & Young here in Chicago, actually.
A year and a half until we mutually parted ways. Okay, so you got fired.
Yes. I mean, I'd show up late to work every single day with like bloodshot eyes because I'd be DJing at night. Yeah. Yeah, I was a terrible employee.
Yeah, because I wasn't making any money DJing. And so it was kind of just doing it as a hobby and a passion. And so, yeah, counting during the day, DJing at night. And then I was always releasing music on SoundCloud and everything like that, too. Then it started going more and more viral. And then I started touring. I was only making like $200, $300 a night.
And then it wasn't really until COVID and the whole world locked down in 2020 where all the TikToks and stuff started going insanely viral.
so your music on tiktok yeah so as a dj you actually got bigger during covid oh yeah when everybody else was like well i can't i can't dj because there's no crowds anywhere exactly but i was like literally broke living at home and then i think everyone else especially like entertainers like took it easy and like rested with their family and friends and stuff where i was like putting out new songs every single day yeah and just like going 100 were you working in accounting still then
That was like the sound went viral, but it was more so like just getting the fans and community and like growing from like 1,000 followers to 10,000 to 100,000. So it wasn't like one specific song. Right.
Well, so I wasn't producing for TikTok. So I'd like actually release on Spotify and all of that stuff too. But I would like heavily market it on there and then do funny shit. And like, I would like go on Instagram live every day, chugging White Claws to my music. And people thought that was funny for some reason.
It was like back when like, I was DJing on Twitch every single day, you know, like when everyone was just sitting at home getting fucked up. Yeah.
I definitely hid the hobby there's only like a couple people that knew but then once eventually like I played Coachella in 2022 and like my senior manager came to the show no shit yeah that's pretty cool yeah like some of your co-workers like do they text you being like you I hate you now pretty much yeah
like watching your vlogs you're jet-setting around the world and well they try to convince me like like like you know to stick with the accounting and stuff because they try they don't like just fire you right away especially in like big four accounting they try to coach you through it but i was just like genuinely terrible yeah wait so you that means i mean that you pass your cpa right that that's a hard test yeah it wasn't fun yeah so did you pass your first time
uh pretty much all on my first time i had to do like the tax one like three times okay now were you hiding your accounting life from the people that you were hanging out with at shows yeah oh yeah no way i talked about that it's like a full like batman like lifestyle for me do you uh do you ever miss anything about being an accountant like anything at all the stability i guess i mean come on dude it's
Yeah, no, no, I really don't miss anything from that.
side project something that I'm very passionate about too oh my god this is now going to change my life and I'm going to do this and be really good at it for a long time I don't know I was pretty delusional and I like convinced myself I was always going to make it especially when I left the accounting world in 2019 and like to me when I was like DJing like 200 person clubs I was like oh my god I'm huge I'm a big
famous DJ blah blah blah and like but then it just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and then yeah it wasn't until like after COVID when all the festivals opened up and I did like Lollapalooza for the first time in 2022 and I did the Perry stage there and that was like actually insane and I was like oh shit I think I can really make it with this yeah that is cool so what is your songwriting process like?
So I usually like for, I just did an album last, it came out last July and then I write that in London. So I usually go there, write out like the chords and stuff with the vocalists and kind of just work from there. And then I do all my production in Miami right now.
But I literally, I was just telling you before this, I produced in Chicago, just like a couple of boxes from here for like eight, 10 years.
It's just like super basic chords though. Cause then you can just write lyrics and like melodies off that. And then you just get in the lab and start adding textures to it, all that stuff.
That's a very good question. And that's what most people struggle with. And, um, and I'm very good at finishing tracks. Like in 2020, I literally did like a hundred tracks that year. And then, um, You kind of just have to hit a certain point when you know it's good and you have a good group of people that I send out to and they tell me that it's good and just kind of move on.
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