Chewbear is sixteen, and he's been teaching himself since before most people his age knew what they wanted to do.
School didn't fit. He's autistic, and a classroom was never going to be where he found himself. So he found it somewhere else — in front of a pair of Technics 1210s, with a stack of records and nobody telling him how.
He learned to beatmatch by ear. He learned to mix on vinyl — the hard way, the way almost nobody his age still bothers with. Then he taught himself to produce: Ableton, in his bedroom, one track at a time. No lessons, no shortcuts. Just the thing he couldn't stop doing.
The sound is long-form progressive house — big breakdowns, records that take their time to go somewhere. Five releases out. He's got a long way to go and he knows it. But he got here on his own, and that part's already done.
