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Here’s a video excerpt of the interview with King Dom.

Below is the full transcript of the interview with King Dom

Good Evening, my name is Dominic Ramsay and tonight we have a very interesting sort of interview. Tonight we are interviewing the man who goes by the name King Dom. King Dom is a multimedia artist, known primarily for making electronic music, namely dubstep and techno but recently he’s branched into short filmmaking and livestreaming and also has began dabbling into an interest in cosplay. We’ll be speaking more about his ventures shortly but let’s get to know him a little bit.  

How are you doing tonight King Dom? 

King Dom: I’m doing ok. It’s a little funny because I know I’m speaking to myself in a way but also this is the first time I’ve actually been allowed to speak directly as King Dom so thank you for having me. 

Dominic: I get the sentiment about feeling weird speaking to yourself but there is a bit of you that is different from me. I know I gave a short overview of yourself but would you mind putting it into your own words? 

King Dom: yeah so as you have mentioned I am into making electronic music I have been making dubstep and techno from about 2018 under this name but I’ve been making all sorts of different genres that fit into electronic music so house music, drum n bass all sorts of different styles but you can just label it under the umbrella of electronic music my specific look is a really energetic eclectic sound eclectic style but my visuals are very minimalistic in a way I usually go around performing in a like white button up shirt with black tie got some black jeans you know very simple stuff and my visuals are usually just like bright bright neon colors sort of thing going on so yeah that’s that’s the whole basis around my image some clean cut looking guy mixed with eclectic sounds that’s my whole deal.  

Dominic: Well, it’s interesting that you say like that that you’re very simple but…you have to understand that you are part of me you’re like a persona to me. 

King Dom: yeah that’s right that’s right. 

Dominic: OK so if you’re a persona to me then why do you have a different name like why are you considering yourself a different sort of person? 

King Dom: well funny enough I actually do consider myself very distinctly different from you Dominic because I do what I don’t think you have the capacity to like put yourself forward as you know like I embrace the fact that I make electronic music and such but you consider it like a separate part of you. I don’t have to worry about whatever is being thought of at the time for the music that’s being made I just kind of just put it out right…and my performing comes from just that anything that I feel like putting outside just put out I don’t have to second guess it into a brand it’s just sort of …whatever is coming out that needs to be coming out it gets transformed into art and I put it out there that’s why I’m focusing or rather not focusing on so many different styles and genres and mediums and such that’s why my music video is very that’s why I incorporate all sorts of different influences into my sound this is really weird that’s stemming from. 

Dominic: I get that but isn’t it a little unfair to say that you’re different from me wholly? Like you have your interest based off of my interests, the only difference is that you’re really just putting it out into your image like that’s the whole of you but couldn’t you say that the whole of you is just an aspect of me? 

King Dom: And I would say to that that yeah I am an aspect of you but because I have taken that as my whole image and made that my identity that makes me succinctly different to you we do have the overlap of being in the same body but we are not the same person you cannot step out the house looking like me you know my, my whole visuals my image that’s all me. you would be kind of ridiculous to be stepping out to the whole stressed in like a uniform every day unless you had a reason to. 

Dominic: I guess I understand that so is it that you feel more free being this whole uninhibited version of myself? 

King Dom: Well like I said I don’t consider myself a version of you I consider myself a separate entity because of the freedom that being a persona kind of allows me to be you know there is something liberating to being able to just exist personally I’m not sure if it’s something that you can understand because you only consider me to be a part of you but I’m as real to me as anybody else is to themselves. Right? The only difference is that I have a name put to it I’m sure that there are other people out there that with their whole separate lives that have their online personas and they think of those as two separate entities what’s really the difference there we’re all just like promoting a version of ourselves that is more in their eyes more optimal than their normal lives you know? in some sense I’m a little bit more true to myself because at least I embraced the whole of me than you. 

Dominic: Well color me impressed that sounds honestly borderline pretentious but you know that’s your..your viewpoint. 

King Dom: hey hey don’t go around accusing me of being pretentious you’re the one that actually made me you know. 

Dominic: well this interview is getting a little out of hand but let’s just try and um slow it down to something a little bit more simple what do you have next going on for you? 

King Dom: well shortly I am going to be putting on a project of an album that’s going to come out by about next year the whole premise behind the album is that it’s going to be a collection of music being put out on a daily basis between I believe December and next year December and then by the end of it there’s gonna be like a whole years worth of music that’s being uploaded every single day so that’s a very big project that I have coming up but the whole point of it is just for growth and development maybe if I grow from this project more than you’ll consider me more of a person I don’t know. 

Dominic: All right well thank you for coming on, King Dom very interesting um perspective that you have there well this has been like I said very interesting interview with King Dom and I hope you all enjoyed a bit of it and thank you for listening.