Smile On Impact

About Smile On Impact

Smile on impact; Describes the philosophy and energy of its founder, Arlo Picasso. The 24 year old, Melbourne Producer, has been creating and recording music, since the invention of electricity, in 1997. At this time, he was 14 and barely out of diapers. He began, by rubbing two sticks together, when this proved useless, he switched to a Pentium 100 and the freeware program Fasttracker2. The, gloomy MS DOS, interface didn’t make any sound for another six months. But soon, the young muthafucka, was sampling from VHS and vinyl, severing loops apart and back together again with an instinctive proficiency and constructing tracks with a beginning middle and an end. If all this is too much for you to believe, then you must be quite the sceptic. Arlo then began collecting synths, drum machines, hardware and software in a quest to discover the buried treasure of Blue Beard's Accountant. This proved unsuccessful, but the bi-product of hard beats and squelchy Electronica, was more fruitful. Arlo was releasing music by 16 and DJing in clubs at 17, (this means he was not old enough to go to his own shows.) But, that didn’t stop him. From 19 to 22 Arlo was slicing beats and samples into his pe