About
Logan Voss is DeltaX.
A wizard of sound. 15+ years of dope records.
Work
DatPiff to dance music.
I started making music because of DatPiff.
In high school, I was obsessed with finding new hip-hop records and mixtapes. I spent hours digging through DatPiff.com looking for the latest releases, and eventually, listening wasn't enough. I wanted to make something of my own.
I had no idea what I was doing, so I taught myself. I found beats, wrote lyrics, recorded songs, figured out how to release them, and slowly learned how the entire process worked. I started making music under the name LOVO, and those early mixtapes became my introduction to being an artist. You can still find them on YouTube.
Then my taste started changing.
Throughout college, I became increasingly obsessed with electronic music. I loved the scale of it, the energy, and especially what could happen when production itself became the centerpiece of a song. Eventually, the beats took over completely.
That evolution became DeltaX.
Once again, I was starting from zero. I taught myself electronic music production the same way I had taught myself everything else: by experimenting, breaking things, studying what worked, and making a lot of music.
Sampling became a huge part of that process. A lot of my favorite work starts with pieces of existing sound that I cut apart, reshape, layer, and combine until they become something completely new. That process of transformation is still at the center of how I make music today.
You can see how I build songs as DeltaX on YouTube.
Background
Two states. One love.
I was born in San Francisco on Christmas Day, 1995.
At age ten, I moved to Chicago, which is where my love for hip-hop was born. When I moved back to California for college in San Luis Obispo, my love for electronic dance music blossomed. No matter the genre, music has remained an important aspect of my everyday flow.
Reach
Music is created to be heard.
After receiving almost no response from releasing my tracks for multiple years, I decided it was time to let go of the way I thought things needed to be for my success in the music industry. Part of my process for letting go involved putting my entire DeltaX discography on Pixabay for people to download and use for free.
This kicked off a viral marketing campaign, racking up millions of streams and hundreds of thousands of downloads. I was really nervous to give away my precious collection that I worked so hard on, but it was time. And wow, did it pay off.
Now
Still cooking.
Things have gotten a lot more busy lately. With music taking off, I've been spending more of my time exploring other artistic disciplines.
One of the things I've researched during this time is AI music production. While initially, I was turned off by the entire idea of clicking a button to make a song, I've warmed up to what's possible with the new technology.
This research led me to create Champagne, an AI music mastering application that makes thin, weak sounding AI songs into full-bodied, radio-ready masterpieces.
I'm still not sure if generative AI fits into my workflow as a musician, but I'm happy that I was able to contribute a tool for aspiring artists to make their work better.