Quitting School & Chasing Music Dreams with Wisconsin EDM Producer RUSKER - Doug Life Podcast #176

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Zac Rusk aka RUSKER is a EDM producer out of La Crosse Wisconsin. Zac creates heavy bass music and who started drumming as a teenager. As Zac got older he decided to pass on his division 2 scholarship for football to chase his music dreams. Fun fact he opened for ATliens later the same day this was recorded at Skyway Theatres main stage in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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TIME CODES
0:00 Zach Rusk
1:11 Playing at Skyway Theater Main Stage
2:50 Climbing up the music ranks
3:50 Producing with Ableton
4:35 Make bangers with any DAW
6:04 When Rusker Started Producing
7:30 Starting a Band Vs. Becoming a DJ
8:40 Melodic intros and aggressive transitions
10:50 Quitting Football in College to make music
13:05 Dealing with stage freight
14:40 How Rusker got his name
15:52 is Riddim Dubstep
17:14 Minimum BPM for dubstep songs
18:15 influence from Zomboy
20:37 Going to Lost Lands music festival
21:44 Working on tracks for too long
22:32 Releasing tracks that suck
24:00 Having Friends keeping you accountable
25:06 How Polite Boiz got started
29:14 Venues paying people with exposure
32:02 How to break out of the local music scene
32:54 Playing it safe instead of taking a risk
35:27 Getting permission to use other peoples songs
38:37 Ruskers upcoming shows for fall 2021
41:32 Moving to Wisconsin
42:00 Playing copyright music on live streams
43:38 Preforming on a live stream compared to playing on a venue
45:00 Family and girlfriend support
47:00 Open questions from chat

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