The EP landed at #2 on the US iTunes Dance Charts and #1 on Beatport. In October 2012, Montalvo released his Days to Come EP on Skrillex's OWSLA imprint. After a few weeks, Skrillex personally contacted them to sign the future EP, and that was the beginning of their relationship. Seven Lions' management team Golden Ratio Management met Skrillex at a rock festival in Germany and passed along a few demos for him to listen to. Shaz Sparks, was also featured as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World.’ But it definitely got their attention, and now they’re wanting to work with me more.” Also around his beginning year of 2011 he had released other remixes to Florence and the Machine's "Cosmic Love" and Oceanlab's "Satellite".Īfter releasing his debut Polarize EP under Viper Recordings in April, Seven Lions had several Beatport #1s (four in the dubstep chart) with remixes for the likes of Above & Beyond, Matrix & Futurebound, Paul Van Dyk and Delirium. I don’t know if they were expecting the track to do as well as it did. The track sat at #2 on Beatport’s Dubstep chart for over 6 weeks, second only to Skrillex’s remix of Avicii's “Levels.” After winning, he had stated, “I won the official remix competition, which is how I got involved with Above & Beyond. Seven Lions' contest-winning remix of Above & Beyond’s “You Got To Go” served as his introduction to the dance music world. I like stuff that really takes you out of somewhere you are and puts you somewhere else." He had also commented on who his favorite bands were: "Ensiferum, Månegarm, obviously Opeth, Storm Corrosion, their side project with Steve Wilson, stuff like that." I’m always into Viking Metal, I like folky stuff. I mean I'm only really listening to electronic music when I’m looking for songs, actively, to put in my set. "I don’t listen to electronic music regularly, I still listen to metal honestly. Although he produces electronic music, he doesn't always listen to it. Montalvo stated that he is a metal and fantasy fan, and inspired by Viking metal as well as his favorite band Opeth. My transition out of playing with a band was because I got tired of waiting for my band all the time - I wanted to just start making music so I started composing electronic music by myself.” He took the initiative, and after a friend gave him the program Fruity Loops, he was set to become a producer. Montalvo had explained, “For me, it was the most accessible thing, to start picking up something like drums as opposed to something like electronic music. He was raised as a metal and punk-inclined drummer, but he eventually segued into electronic music production. Jeff Montalvo found an interest in music production by the age of 7 when his father came home with a Macintosh and keyboard. His alias 'Seven Lions' originates from Latro in the Mist, a fantasy novel written by Gene Wolfe, in which a character in the book was named Seven Lions. He is an American musician, DJ, and music producer, making a large name for himself in the Electronic Dance Music Industry. Known as Seven Lions, his professional stage name, Jeff Montalvo was born March 31st, 1987 in Santa Barbara, California.
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