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BALTIMORE BORN DJ/PRODUCER ALEX EPTON (AKA XXXCHANGE) GREW UP SURROUNDED BY ART AND MUSIC. BOTH PARENTS WERE ARTISTS AND EPTON CLAIMS ‘SUPPORTED ANY VAGUELY CREATIVE ENDEAVORS ON MY PART.’ TOO BUSY TAKING MUSIC CLASSES, HE WAS SURPRISINGLY NOT VERY INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL CLUB SCENE. IT WAS REALLY ONLY WHEN HE LEFT BALTIMORE FOR BOSTON’S NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC THAT HIS INTEREST GREW. SO MUCH SO THAT HE DITCHED SCHOOL AND MOVED TO NEW YORK TO PLAY IN ELECTRONIC PUNK OUTFIT ZERO ZERO. THE BAND, BEING PRODUCED BY DFA, SPARKING ALEX’S FASCINATION WITH PRODUCTION, AND HE SOON FOUND HIMSELF TRANSFERRING FOCUS TOWARDS STUDIO WORK. DFA TOOK EPTON ON AS AN INTERN, AND ALEX THEN BEGAN SPENDING ALL OF HIS SPARE TIME ON ZERO ZERO’S PROTOOL SETUP, APPLYING HIS NEWLY LEARNT PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES TO HIS OWN PROJECTS.
WITH FRIENDS NAEEM JUWAN, RONNIE DARKO AND CHRIS DEVLIN, ALEX FORMED THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SPANK ROCK. HE PRODUCED THEIR FIRST ALBUM YOYOYOYOYO AS WELL AS SUBSEQUENT SINGLES.
ALEX EPTON NOW FOCUSES ON DJING (AS XXXCHANGE) AND PRODUCTION. HE HAS DONE REMIXES FOR THE LIKES OF THOM YORKE, BECK, !!!, AND LADY SOVEREIGN. EPTON HAS ALSO PRODUCED ALBUMS AND TRACKS FOR THE KILLS, KID SISTER, AMANDA BLANK, NAEEM JUWAN (SOLO WORK), AND PASE ROCK.
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