Subtrax Derry DJ to Berlin

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Conor Lynch, also known as Subtrax, is a Derry DJ and producer with over 2.5 million streams on Spotify. Now, Conor is set to go international at the world dance capital, Berlin.

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00:00I'm Conor, or Subtrex. I've been going under Subtrex since September 2020 when I released my

00:06first release, Nightdraver. I don't even remember theirs, only four years ago. Nightdraver,

00:14and then went on to release, I think I've released now about 21 tracks, including one EP,

00:21and another track where I got remixes on from people. I've released lots of edits as well on

00:28Soundcloud, which is where I sort of started out. So, in September of this last year, 2024,

00:35I signed to an agency, Act Like Adults, they're also my management as well, and we've been working

00:42closely to try and find a way for me to go over to Berlin, and on the 7th of February I'll be

00:47playing in Berlin in Club Ost with a nicer line-up. It's a nice line-up, I'm really excited

00:54for that. I'm playing at 6am in the morning until 8am, so I'll be interesting to see how that works

00:59out, but I'm really excited for it, I'm really looking forward to it. I mean, playing at what

01:04is the greatest nightclub scene in the world, it must be a tremendous feat to yourself.

01:10I'm just really thankful for the opportunity, and I've always,

01:15Berlin, I think of it as the dance capital of the world, nearly. There's so many people who

01:21have went there and just went on to become successful, and I just hope that this could

01:26be the start of something for me, where I can take this opportunity and do something with it as well.

01:32Being from Derry, like another city which is full of and rich of music culture, it's just, it'll be

01:38good for me, I think, to do this for myself as well.

01:41Do you feel like you'll be very popular in Derry when you're over there?

01:45Well, hopefully I can, like I said, I got a DJ from Durham,

01:49anywhere I go, I'll always wear my heart on my sleeve, like I'm from Derry, I'll always be from

01:53Derry, and hopefully I can maybe go across, around the world and bring back some of that

01:59experience that I've earned around the world, and maybe put it on the Derry wee bit,

02:03just not bring it back to the way it used to be, but give it that revival that it might need a wee

02:09bit of, so hopefully I can do that. I started my journey in September of 2020, as I said,

02:16released my debut, released Night Driver, and I got that contact that reached out to this YouTube

02:20channel called Handpicked Music, I think it was, and I paid them £30 to upload it to the YouTube

02:26channel, just any way to get my name out there, and I think the video only got like 5k views,

02:31like but it was still getting my name out there, and like people discovering my music, which was

02:35important for me, because like I just wanted people to hear the stuff that I was making.

02:40I've always been like a creative person, so I studied graphic design and the tech, and then

02:44was going to uni to do graphic design again, but ended up dropping out to pursue music,

02:48so I've always been like someone who has created something and then showed it to the world,

02:53like so I think it was sort of inevitable, it was sort of inevitable that music was going to

02:59fall under the same sort of process. When was it that you realised music was the thing that

03:05you wanted in your life? Well, I grew up in a music household as well, my dad just made

03:12music his entire life, he plays music, he writes his own music, he's played in bands, and I've sort

03:18of always grown up listening to music and having music on in the house, so as I said it was

03:24inevitable that I was going to follow sort of in line with that musical career, but I think I only

03:31started creating music myself in 2018, down the road I found a studio when I was like 17, 17 aye,

03:42so I only started making it when I was 17, and the earlier you start the better, I think definitely

03:48because people always say it takes 10 years to make it, no matter what, like you will, well most

03:53of the time it takes 10 years, I can't really say it always takes 10 years, but most of the time it

03:57takes 10 years to make it, and the way I look at it is if you don't have that amount of experience

04:02over the course of 10 years, like where you've experienced like say playing like your first gig

04:08and stuff like that, and then progressing into where you are now, like you're not really gonna

04:13have that experience of knowing what's, it's hard to describe, like I always say slow success

04:21bulge character, but like fast and quick success will just create an ego. So where do you say that

04:25you're grateful that you kind of like work to where you are? Aye, well I'm still working and as I said I've

04:30only been doing it four years, like so I'm not even halfway there yet in my eyes, like so there's still

04:34a lot of work to put on, like but I'm happy with how it's going, and I'm happy with how people

04:39are supporting me, I can't thank the people of Derry enough, like my friends and family are just always

04:43supporting, and it's great to see because Derry is a musical city, and like it's good, maybe

04:49electronic music is, it's always been a musical city, front bands and traditional music, so maybe

04:54electronic music is just the new type, so it's great, I'm happy with where it's going.

05:02Last question, is there any else in the world that is like your dream destination to play?

05:09Everywhere, I don't say that lightly, I literally mean I want to play everywhere, like I've always,

05:15because like growing up I travelled extensively anyway, like we would have been

05:21very fortunate to go on lots of holidays and see like different countries anyway, so

05:25I've always to be able to tie in music and travel together, it's a life dream of mine.

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