Chilling with Diego

welcome we're going to be doing a special day here in the studio just hanging out see what it's like a day in the creative process we're going to be sitting down with Diego and we're going to be uh he should be here any minute there you go hey hey what's up hey hey how's it going welcome yeah yeah come on in hey how's it going nice to meet you oh I'm okay here's Diego right yeah all right I'm Diego bashevkin Diego all right thanks for coming I got a call from your the producer producer he said that he wanted wanted to work on some music together initially I was thinking we're gonna work on some music because I just put out a new album do you know that I put on a new album I do okay okay yeah it's called Uh Dogma is that I was right there on the screen all right so I would love to just basically just go through your album with you track by track yeah and yeah there's a lot of great stuff yeah and I would love to learn about the process the creative process really foreign by you uh two songs are written by me okay two and a half actually okay and uh the rest is uh from all different people okay so let's listen to your first song [Music] oh so in general like on this song there's a lot of like Omar adam-esque moaning and whimpering like especially on the course I mean Omar Adam was kind of down on it that's like straight up IDF PTSD no no no it's really W door he's doing the vocals so that's the inspiration not really yeah really because I was hearing I was hearing Omar Adam it's actually funny you mentioned this part because we actually wrote that we got the that's uh Steve Blumenfeld who produced the album big shout out to three by the way um we were here actually here right here in the studio and he said this it needs a third part what we had wasn't really coming together and right here by this piano it was actually right behind you so like we can do a post course with that like an open field where it's like um I'm sorry it's called uh it's called the third part a third part yeah reverse chorus one two and then third part and by the way who you said to be who presume himself yeah let's work on that third part we came from foreign did he did he produce any of your other albums or no okay no he's the keyboard player and band leader for frelach band oh okay yeah yeah sure yes let's go to the next one what was the next one called a cold Sahara oh yeah that's that's the funky one that's the base yeah that's the base one I'm just curious you were going for like the dance a dance track you want it to be like a is this considered horror you think yeah horror is like the main part of the wedding hmm am I am I is that true you're right it's a good question yeah so I'm just curious because I hope like you would think the style changes over time because like I know it's like I said like a lot of weddings I see like the intro turned into like this cringe 20 minute like Club Music Vibes and it's like I don't know what that's about I really don't it's really and like made by the Hassan's friend who downloaded songs from like Avicii right yeah it's it's kind of strange no that's kind of strange it's really weird I honestly whenever I'm at a wedding when the intro goes on I usually head out I'm like I'm not I'm not ready to witness this cringe right people just start losing themselves I mean you see people jumping in the crowd where if you would just video them individually and show them the video after like this was you by the way the guy would never do it again I guarantee you only by Intro by horror people are more or less intro music people just start getting out of pocket real quick wow like you can be a one-person that's true yeah you got to have a you know it brings active brings actors it brings that I mean it can't be done solo you try to do a horror I've tried I've tried I've tried I need four people at least for that spin that spin clap advanced level two people at least you could do it it's hard you're already going to like Baltimore territory you're very dizzy if you're doing that with two people too much clapping and kicking I don't know yeah um but my point especially if you do that you do the spin in the horror yeah that's that's tough my my point the father-in-law's friends they come in they start yeah they start pushing other people out of the circle yeah for me the worst part outside weddings like you see like that like 60 or 70 something year old guy starts doing his push-ups like we get it man that that amazes me every time it really because for me I'm like there's kids trying to juggle dude grow up you're like 70. okay do three push-ups and go the guy's like no no hold on I'm up to like 55 who's cam like no dude this is not about you guys like sitting there like yeah he's like off all sore having like half a heart attack afterwards it's like that's all it's called all because you have to go show everybody your push-ups get a YouTube channel bro I wish I wish for myself that when I'm that age you know I can do at least one or two push-ups and you're doing a lot of weddings huh yeah so you're seeing a lot of weird Behavior a lot of weird human behavior on a daily this can't be healthy for you yeah I talk to my therapist all the time about it I I would admit I would probably need a therapist on call if I was had to witness like the stuff like first of all the intros and yeah the case of moroctum is just [Music] I'd say this is like I mean there's only a second song but from listening to through it I think this is definitely one of my favorites way out there this was uh produced by Network Army okay from Sama Fame okay so I'm uh you know summer and Israel the kind of yeah they do concerts so he's the he was the guy who just called you yeah he just called yeah yeah he calls you on a daily basis like that uh when we were working he called me I wouldn't answer but he would call me really yeah you know just to show that you know this should really show them who I am oh that you wouldn't answer why don't you just like pick up like first put on fill and then we'll talk do you put on children today I got I have a feeling right here if you need no I did you did I did yeah no we're in Lakewood it's pretty much like a Haven for its film there's like a lot of people who put on Twitter oh yeah so yeah with the name like Diego's wasn't sure yeah I wasn't sure yeah I know it's cool racial profiling it's cool but it's always important to ask no that's fine I just want to check and see how you're feeling so far this interview is going well it's going well for you yeah I mean I think it's going okay okay yeah it's a free country not forced to do I look do I look like I'm not okay no you look fine I just you know sometimes I mean if you want we can go all like Yakov linger and start talking about like anxiety we can do that that's kind of trickery for me so let's let's continue with this one yeah all right you want to just make it a dollar this is a really special song so why tell me about it tell me about this song What what makes this one more special you know what's funny something funny yeah I was listening to uh you know I have like a music player on my phone it just plays whatever MP3s are on my phone okay you know it could be from WhatsApp and I come across the song and I have no idea where it came from I mean people send you songs yeah this demo and I recognize the voice titsy Barry and I sent him a song I'm like is this you he's like this is your song he's like yeah it's my song I'm like I really like the song I do an album I would like to if the song still available a few months later was available and that's it true story but who sent it to you who's on your website I don't even know and it was like a random number I couldn't even find the WhatsApp yeah I got it that's really cool because I had a similar thing where I sent songs to singers before and I didn't get any like friendly reactions back actually they didn't recognize and then afterwards I could play a song or two for you that I made oh yeah yeah nice um that's really why I'm doing this whole thing because I'm hoping like if I just become friends and say nice things to singers and maybe they're gonna kind of see me in a different light sure yeah that's a great way nice cufflinks by the way oh thank you all these songs are so good [Music] when you do that Thumbkin album this song should be on it is this like a middle eastern sound yeah it's like a blend of Spanish Middle Eastern I'm Spanish Middle Eastern by the way no really it's gonna say yeah but now this is like heavy Chabad like I smell the Vodka on this one it's kind of it's very stereotypical to associate with vodka I smell the Vodka breath on this one I'm not gonna lie if I bring in mode for bringing I'll take late night for bringing um no it's actually onions tomatoes with olive oil oh my God yeah it's yeah I'll pass I'll put on film but I'm not gonna it's reminding me of something I'm sorry I can't I can't please I want to hear the chorus on us Yiddish enough yeah I don't mean to keep bringing your family into this but I hear like Benny Freeman really on that meaning that Cadence on the I can't say those words that fast but the way the way it's like rolling off that interesting yeah I worked hard on that so far music videos You did music videos uh yeah right I haven't done music video yet uh you have any suggestions yeah I think you like stand by like pretty much any body of water okay you should wear a scarf all right but no coat okay just like have it blowing in the wind it's just like a montage of that it's like a bunch of shots like that that's a that's a total I think it'll be fresh it'll be something different yeah I get a million views in like a day yeah like it's just something a little bit that nobody else did before I think that's great that's that's great it's brilliant you also like have to like filming like a glasses store like an obvious sponsor like something that you wouldn't like like we're in Evergreen now just randomly like we like we decided to film it in here that's great there's no sponsorship yeah involved wow we should do are you available for like uh you know for um consult like yeah because I do direct music videos that's one of the things I do yeah oh okay all right I'll have my people reach out to uh I don't know you could just be normal like we can talk to each other we're sitting right here all right what number what's your fee what do you charge for like just for Consulting not for a production yeah no sure I'll tell you you can reach out to my people for that let's go let's go this is the why did you decide to put this as your main like this is you chose that the album named Dogma watch that why this song Wild word just like sounds like an IPA beer like Dogma or something yeah you know craft yeah crafting into craft beer no no okay I'm not into craft beer but I could kind of see that if there would be like a Chabad guy who makes craft beer in Crown Heights it'll be called Dogma Dogma Dogma is great it's just a fun fun world it's got the g in it you know Dogma okay so let's let's just go let's move on [Music] [Applause] okay I just who who came up with that I thought Avicii died like a few years ago what are you trying to say that I stole this from like music [Music] need something you really uh you're Ally Marcus brother eighth day's brother that's right thanks yeah all right good to see you