Music Producer Callum Ball Callum Ball is an up and coming young Tasmanian music producer specialising in hip hop production. He’s been busy working on a range of recording projects, including works from Tasmanian rappers ‘Dunn D’ and ‘Promise’. Callum describes his journey from being a young beat-maker with friends, making a mix of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) and hip hop beats, to taking the plunge and becoming a full time producer. Callum talks to us about all things music, hip hop and what to expect from an emerging young music scene! What sort of things do you get up to with your music? I mainly work as a music producer, working from home: mixing, mastering and I make hip hop and EDM beats. I try to dabble in a large range of genres. I really enjoy mixing heavy metal, but the majority of what I do is hip hop. When did you first feel that music wasn’t just
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about listening, but that there’s a lot more in it? I was about 20 years old. That was about three years ago, when I picked up Logic and started producing. I just started doing it for fun. I was making music with my mate Huon, and we were just bouncing back and forth. He’s a rapper so I was making hip hop beats and started to realise I was doing it for like six hours a day or more! Just for fun, because I love doing it. At that point, after a month of doing that, I thought, ‘Hang on, if I’m doing this like a full-time job just because I love it, I should actually try to make it a fulltime job (haha)!’ So I un-enrolled from what I was doing in university and went straight to the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. How did that go for you? Did you meet people straight away or have people around that you would consider as mentors? Oh yeah, definitely! Tonnes of people played a huge role in me being able to do
