Tokimonsta | Artist Spotlight Interview

Written by Dan White on October 29th, 2012 20 Comments

Today we’ve got another brand new interview with Tokimonsta, a fantastic LA-based producer and member of Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder crew. We chatted with her about what production tools she uses, and got the inside perspective on her remixing, performing, and songwriting processes. See the full video after the jump!

We’re excited to see what Tokimonsta produces as she continues to rise in notoriety – and our congratulations to her on getting signed on Ultra Records! If you want to learn more about Tokimonsta and support her by buying some of her music, you can check out the tracks that were featured in this video on Beatport:

You can also keep up with Toki on her website or Twitter:

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Tags | Ableton, ableton live, absynth, apc 40, brainfeeder, counterpoint, daw, djtechtools, fl studio, fruity loops, interview, remixing, songwriting, tokimonsta

LoopCat

Cool little interview.
http://darylfritz.com Daryl Fritz

This was great. She seems very down-to-earth and open about her process. That’s awesome.
http://twitter.com/1000cutts 1000 Cutts

Great little interview, she seems sound..Loving her tracks though, will be checking her out on Neatport and SoundCloud for sure. Pity her festival tent only had a few people in it…I liked the point about NI Absynth being warm…will be checking that out as I likes a bit of warmth….
Joshawott

Jennifer! =D
http://spencerthayer.tumblr.com Spencer “Thunderball” Thayer

I play her shit all the time on my Funk/Future Garage show on WNUR.
http://news.beatport.com/blog/2012/10/29/more-shm-related-concert-chaos-plus-rinse-goes-indie-rock-and-videos-from-deadmau5-spaceape-kaskade-and-tokimonsta/ More SHM-related concert chaos, plus Rinse goes indie rock, and videos from Deadmau5, SpaceApe, Kaskade, and Tokimonsta – Beatport News

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Eoghain

Great interview! I suggested you interview tokimonsta a long time ago on a previous interview you featured. Glad to see her great live and comes across as being really down to earth, just wish she would come to Europe more often!
http://www.facebook.com/andrew.northern Andrew Northern

Very nice
http://www.facebook.com/rglassman1 Ryan Glassman

YES! Tokimonsta is the shit. So glad you guys did this.
tony

yawn,its getting so boring over here,come on guys
Razzlesnaz

I know nothing of her but you can tell she approaches production with grace and intellect and style. I love her plug on be yourself.
Dude

Great Interview. I met her a few years ago when she was performing in the club I was bartending at. She is the only “Prime-time” DJ that i know that ever came up to the bar and talked to the bartenders. Nice person and real down-to-earth.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=43200665 Speezy Speez

cool interview although i call shenanigans on her / anyone being able to tell what DAW a beat was made on by ear.
r_afa_el

DAW´s sound different ! it´s impossible to know what DAW the music was made, because in the mastering process it goes thru some hardware that gives their own sound, but when working in different DAW with same loops and plugin´s you can hear their differences.

P;S High-End gear needed for this, ( and most obvious trained ears, lot´s of hours)
Anonymous

When’s your show?
Steve

This is how all your interviews should be conducted. Well done.
shibloonz

well in an A/B between ableton and reaper with the same samples when i inverted the polarity of one and then mixed them together the result was complete silence so i guess agree to disagree.
http://www.facebook.com/rowingrunder Rowin Grunder

max 30 people attending a show of tokimonsta? (see 3m00s) come on?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706105079 Mitch Wade Cole

I dunno man, there are some factory samples or synths that are a dead giveaway. I hear Reason factory presets on adverts all the time. It’s unreal haha
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