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"Diplo, Skrillex, Kaskade, A-Trak, and Daft Punk\u2014we love their sound and jam to their beats, but it may take a scratch on the head (and a quick wiki look-up) to tell you the actual names behind these artists. Twenty-two-year-old producer Ryan Hemsworth, on the other hand, chose to take the old-fashioned route and skip using an alias for the stage. \"I tried a few random ones like DeFame and The Blind Dead, but it felt unique to have my own name instead of a moniker.\" And thank goodness for that! The Canadian musician started out playing guitar and drums in high school rock bands before moving on to producing hit remis of Frank Ocean's \"Thinkin' Bout You\" and Grimes's \"Genesis\". Now, he's gearing up and getting ready to get on the road for the Magical Properties Tour joining other heavyweights like Daedelus and Salva.\n\nBefore he packed his bags for the big bus tour, Ryan chatted with Teen Vogue about how to stand out as a producer and what R&amp;amp;B ingredients go into his remis.\n\nWhat album made you decide you wanted to pursue music?\n\n \"When I was younger I was definitely into Either/Or by Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, and John Frusciante\u2014classic teenage boy influences. In high school, I got more into rap and dance, and that shifted my interest toward computer-produced music.\"\n\nWhat inspires your sound?\n\n \"I'm from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and everything that I got inspired by was through finding it on my own on the internet or just finding stuff at record stores. There wasn't too much of a scene in Halifax.\"\n\nWho would you most like to collaborate with?\n\n \"It would be cool to work with Drake somehow and I've always wanted to work with Future. I feel like the way he writes songs would work really well with my production style.\"\n\nWhat's been your biggest oh-my-gosh-this-is-really-happening moment?\n\n \"I did an Australian tour in September and each show was packed with about 500 people. That was really surreal. But also, just the last couple of months, the people I've played with are unbelievable. I was with Disclosure in Toronto and I've also played two shows with Riff Raff. All these things are coming really quickly!\"\n\nCan you tell us about the Magical Properties bus tour?\n\n \"It's headlined by Daedelus and he's bringing along Samo Sound Boy and Salva. We've got a few other amazing people on it as well. It begins February 21st and basically runs through all of North America until April 5th, from Toronto down to Texas\"\n\nWhat albums or songs do you have on heavy rotation right now?\n\n \"For whatever reason, I'm still in a Craig David phase. I've been listening to a lot of R&amp;amp;B in general lately, so anything like R. Kelly or the late '90s to early 2000s like Mya and Brandy. I really want to take that route from this point on for singers. I'd love to kind of go back to that golden time.\"\n\nWhat's the creative process like for remixing a song versus making an original track?\n\n \"With remis it's just like, 'Okay, I like this part and this part and I'm just going to expand on that,' or it's really whatever I feel could be missing. Whereas with original tracks, I start from square one with an idea for a melody or a sample in mind that I want to mess around with. It's really just putting tons of stuff together until I have too much to work with and then chopping away at it until I feel that it's a nice, dynamic song.\"\n\nDo you have any advice for aspiring producers?\n\n \"When you're just starting out and trying to produce, send beats to a million people whether it's writers or rappers that you want on your songs. It's always good to stay levelheaded and prove yourself in some way or another from the beginning. Now everybody has access to technology to produce and make music, so you have to find your own way to stand out from everybody else. I think that's the most important thing.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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