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‘It’s Been a Long Dream’: Making Beats with Producer OddKidOut

To hear more of Butch’s beats, check out @oddkidout on Instagram. For more music stories, head to @music.

There’s a reason drummer-producer Butch Serianni refers to himself as OddKidOut (@oddkidout).

“I always felt like people didn’t understand me, nor did they understand that I wanted to do something different,” says the 20-year-old Drexel University sophomore and co-host of FACT Magazine’s #FACTInstaBeats series. “From where I am [from], people don’t necessarily grasp the idea of being a musician. It’s kind of taboo.”

No matter. Being on his own just allowed him to build up his skills, first on the drums, which he began playing at the age of six, and then in electronic production, as a teenager. The chronology makes more sense when you check out his videos, where he can be seen gliding across a Native Instruments system, tapping out a beat in real time.

“The format I used to learn drums, I took that concept and transferred it,” says Butch. “Being able to play the drums is one of the big reasons why I can play this electronic drum kit.”

Like producers before him, he credits much of his overall sound to the late, great J Dilla. Butch still remembers the first time he heard Jay Dee, sitting behind the wheel of a car, on his way back home from a music conference.

“The name of the beat was “All Good,” and I just listened to it back-to-back to back-to-back,” recalls Butch. “Then for the next eight months I just listened to Dilla on repeat all the time. I downloaded all the albums I could and just studied the heck out of him.”

The Philadelphia native’s next move is to release an EP under the OddKidOut name — a dream more than a decade in the making.

“The first couple years [music] was definitely a hobby,” he says. “I realized once I had a knack for it and it was making me happy, it became a serious thing. I think the day I said I wanted to be a musician, I was probably eight or nine. So it’s been a long dream.”

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