Rising Stars: Meet Steven Kane

Today we’d like to introduce you to Steven Kane. 

Hi Steven, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My journey with music always started young when I think about it. I can remember in grade school cutting a hole in the wrist cuff of my sleeve of my hoodie and feeding my headphones through my sleeve to pretend I was just resting my head but really, I was listening to music in class. Growing up I listened to everything possible from 80s hair bands like poison, led zeplin, queen, to rock like limp bizkit, red hot chile peppers, rage against the machine, and then MTV brought me into the world of hip hop and pop with Ludacris, biggie and snoop dogg. I played a couple instruments growing up – saxophone and violin, but long forgot everything about how to play once I started playing baseball. Baseball was my life until after college. I was really good I was drafted twice once in 2013 and then in 2014. I turned those offers down to go to the university of Tennessee and pursue more exposure but baseball did not work out for me there but I did graduate so that I am really proud of. 

After college, I was drawn to Vegas with some of my best friends already living there and working at the beach clubs where you are in that party environment with big-name DJs. This is where my path to music started to form. Moving to Vegas I met who would like that become one of my greatest friends and absolutely talented producer Anthony aka Jabbs. We lived together for 4 years in 3 separate houses and spent countless hours messing with music and going out downtown to enjoy music as well. Jabbs spent so much time showing me how to make music and listening to my work along the way which really helped me find my passion to explore musical creation. 

This project is just getting going but honestly, I am so proud of where I am at with it. I never thought I would be able to make something that was even good but now I sit here and listen and I love my music. It really comes from the heart and soul because most of the time the vibes are what I am feeling and it’s my way of getting those feelings out. 

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Not at all. Getting started you are so desperate to write something good that it can be frustrating. Sometimes you ask why even try, but that’s obviously not the right way to look at it. You just need to keep going and enjoy the moment of creating and getting better every day. The other hard part is getting exposure especially at the beginning it is a struggle but I can only control what I can control so I am going to keep making tunes because I love to and hopefully one day, I will be performing my music in front of thousands of people. 

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
My music is mostly deeper bass music with a lot of cultural theme to it. I love sitars and middle eastern instrumentation. My sound comes out very chill and I love flow. I have a couple releases on The Widdfam label run by The Widdler. Next one coming out on Christmas. I think my sound stands out because I don’t try and copy a format. I let the song build itself and the result has been very unique and that is what I am most proud of on this young journey in the fact that I am sticking to who I am. 

Alright, so to wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to share with us?
If you don’t know about some of the homies that are killing it you need to check out these creatives: 

Jabbs 

Yoko 

Skinny Limbs 

Backleft 

Sweet Sounds Collective (Sweet Spot) 

Contact Info:

• Email: muteddiagramsounds@gmail.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/muted_diagram/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/muteddiagram
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/muteddiagram
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/muteddiagram

Image Credits
Bryce Cole