I like to make limited runs, usually 50 to 150 copies.” I pack them with songs that are on the album, videos explaining the songs and random pictures. Every album that I’ve come out with now have had USBs.
So I eventually Googled how to create a USB album and ordered a bunch of blank ones. I was going to work with him to create some for my first album but we didn’t have enough time. They’re really beautiful USBs that you plug into a computer.
“I was inspired by one of my friends, he would actually physically create these USB cards that were about the size of a credit card. Aside from the typical streaming platforms and a DIY vinyl release, Limbo has created limited edition USB drives for each of her albums. The prevalence of information has led to her innovating a bit as well.
Now, being in her late 20’s, Limbo is firmly of a generation who was able to use the internet’s full potential of information to really create, refine and correct her musical and technical abilities to essentially launch a music career. “I watched videos on how to produce on YouTube. In the beginning she inspired me to really do it all myself. She produces her own stuff and makes her own album artwork. There’s not a whole lot of female producers out there who are doing all their own stuff. “I really look up to Grimes, she inspired me. Somewhere along the way I just wanted to make people dance to my own music, not to songs that I was just DJing.”īut before she could get to the stage of recording and releasing music herself, she first needed to teach herself how to write the music she wanted to play. “I first started the Limbo thing as a DJ.
Having played music more in a singer songwriter vein as well as DJing at events, at some point Limbo decided to merge the two. “I’ve been producing and recording my own music, mixing everything myself, booking my own shows and tours, I make my own merch, I make my own vidoes for the most part.” The singer, having taken the name from an age in her life when physical and emotional limits struck her as being in a fluid state of limbo, as well as a childhood skill she had growing up around two musical brothers, has taken the DIY ethic and model seemingly to an extreme. “It can be super overwhelming! I’ve been doing it all myself for six years,” laughs Limbo, a producer who has a knack for creating dreamy bedroom pop anthems that can take a kaleidoscope of emotions and lyrics written with humorous double-meanings, and distill them into a collection of sounds with the end result being deceivingly simplistic and catchy songs.