Sean & Soph Catchup Podcast - SYCCO Joins the show!

Episode Date: March 16, 2023

Hot off her collab with FLUME and performance at Electric ave, Aussie artis Sycco Joins me

This is a podcast from Rover. It is the Edge Nights, joined all the way from Brisbane right now by Psycho. Hello. Hello, hot off the back of performing at Electric Avenue in Christchurch. You're saying you just got back to Australia. How was Electric Avenue? It was lovely. Everyone is so nice over there.

Was it your first time performing in New Zealand? Yeah, and first time I've ever been there. And people knew the words. It was sick. and everyone was just dancing in their little circles. It was really cute. If you're listening, you're wondering who's psychoist. You recently teamed up with Flume on this song here at Ripple.

Obviously, no stranger to the charts before that. You've got half a million monthly listeners on Spotify. You're 21 years old. You've done some crazy things so far. Like, I don't know many 21-year-old artists who have toured with Tame and Pala, worked with Flume, open for Dua Leeper. Growing up, these artists must have been idols for you, right? listening you would have listened to flim you would have listened to tame and

pala so what was it like getting to like now put yourself almost next to them tamem paula especially were like one of my biggest inspirations and so being able to tour with them was genuinely a dream like i was every single show i was it was like a pinch me moment it was so so sick did you get any advice from kevin parkin and he say anything to you about like about your set or about music writing or anything or was you just kind of like quite you know Just small talk. He didn't really give advice, but like we spoke about Fortnite a lot, and I was trying to convince him to play Fortnite.

And he was like, I don't want to get poned by 11-year-olds. And I was like, okay, that's that. You're an avid Fortnite player, eh? Do you got builds or no builds? No builds. No builds. All right. I see.

I'm here for it. I'm going to get your tag off. Let's play. Let's squat up. Do you play? Yeah, I play casually. I'm willing to... It's so good.

Where are we dropping, Psycho? Yeah. My housemates and I like make these random rap tunes and the first song we did is called Where We Drop In. That's the kind of song that we get picked up by, because if you don't play Fortnite and you're listening, there's a part of the game which is like an in-game radio, like if you hop in one of their vehicles that radio plays. And it's a lot of artists like, it's a massive career text to get your song into the game of Fortnite. If you start releasing some of those raps, they might catch wind of it and make it into the game. That would be a dream come true.

That would be huge. I think that is our dream if we were ever to release the song. Everyone's like, my dream is to win a Grammy and play Coachella. Psycho's like, I just want to get in Fortnite. That's it. Yeah. It's all right. Exactly.

So just talking earlier about some of these artists you've had a chance to work with, obviously Flume, a huge one. The song here, Ripple. Such a good tune, by the way. I've had it on repeat since it drops. What was your first reaction when Flum reached out to you or his team reached out to you to do vocals on the song? Was it a little bit of like a process of like, hey, send us what you've got and we'll decide whether we want you or did they outright say, hey, we want you on this track? Well, I was in L.A. at the time and my manager was like, oh, Flum wants to do a session today.

E-down and I was like, yeah, everything, let's go in. and he initially like showed me another idea and I was just like cutting some vocals on that and he was like okay what about this song and then we instantly vibed and I was with stare at our and soon he was also in the room and it was just like it all happened within an hour and then yeah swim decided it should be for me and he'd just do prod on it and it was sick it was awesome wow so initially did you think you might be writing it for someone else yeah I thought I'd be writing it for flume so i was trying to like get some do some flumy pop melodies but then it kind of flowed into more of my world cross floon world but it's a co-lab right because your names are both on the song

yeah yeah yeah oh so you thought maybe he would just take it and not credit you well i thought that he'd like take it and it'd be like featuring me but now it's kind of like featuring him that's so cool who Who was the first person you told when you got out of the session? I've got a song with Flum, it's going to drop, this is crazy. I told my friends who were back in Australia and they were like, no way you were just in Flume Town. Oh, it's his house as well because he doesn't like, he just does everything from home, I? Yeah.

That's so cool. It's crazy. That's so cool. All right, well, let's play the song. It's called Ripple. What's the track about? It's about like having anxiety LA is a pretty isolating place

And I think I was just hearing with that a lot It was the first time travelling since COVID And so a lot of the songs that came out of that trip Were just like about the anxiety It was having that and like imposter syndrome But um Ripple's kind of like me being a bit more optimistic about it And feeling

Just feeling the feelings a bit more and not judging them Nice It's about getting that fortnight dub and realizing everything's going to be all right. Exactly. Changes live.