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Innovative Style Leads to Success for New Young Irish Artist
Success for New Young Irish Artist
Emmet Glascott is a music producer and song-writer from Waterford, Ireland.
He has achieved success with his compositions that have audiences streaming in thousands all over the world.
Speaking to ‘thehearup’, Emmet had told us the recipe for his success is to create a distinctive, consistent melodic style in a contemporary fashion so that when the listener’s ear gets accustomed to one sound they’ll almost automatically like subsequent releases.
His debut single ‘Take Me to Paradise’ has almost amassed fifty thousand streams on all platforms. Beating the likes of superstar James Arthur, dance music giant Marshmello, Felix Jaehn, and singer Avril Lavigne to claim Spanish radios number one song, while streamed on all major platforms his music also has spun on traditional radio stations both in Ireland and abroad.
According to his website, www.emmetglascott.com he sources inspiration from Kygo, Calvin Harris, and Avicii who all also have a distinctive sound. Glascott first started listening to music through the acoustic sounds of Ed Sheeran, who Emmet describes as the reason why he has picked up a guitar and has used many acoustic elements on his tracks.
While mostly making original music, he has also over fifty thousand streams on his remix of Tiesto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora’s song ‘Ritual’. With also a new song ‘Sorry’ on the way, holding some guitar riffs and an explosive dance sound, surely this is a recipe for success?
The future looks very bright for the young Irish producer. ‘Sorry’ has been signed to ‘DaCosta Records’ owned by DJ Louise DaCosta. Louise has opened for the likes of Calvin Harris, Don Diablo, Benni Benassi, and Pete Tong.
DaCosta has previously been the A&R at Full Tilt Recordings before founding her own label. Louise DaCosta is Ireland’s number one female DJ & award-winning international artist. LDC has been entertaining crowds in Ireland and the United Kingdom for almost a decade as well as touring various countries around Europe, middle-east and Asia. Emmet’s song ‘Red Light’ featuring Italian vocalist Khaino and American rapper Micki Ronnae has also been signed to The Netherlands record company ‘Wolfrage Recordings’.
He has received appraisal from international superstar DJ John Gibbons, who has added Emmet to his playlist a numerous amount of times. Gibbons’ co-producer Franklin has called Emmet’s sound ‘’unique & fresh’’ comparing Emmet’s sound to that of Dutch DJ and record producer Martin Garrix, who Franklin gathers as one of his biggest inspirations. Ex Hometown boyband member Dayl Cronin has said Emmet’s music ‘’is really really cool’’ and Irish DJ Welshy has called Emmet’s track ‘Red Light’ ‘’a cool track and very unique’’. With over eleven million YouTube views on his remix of Karen Harding’s song ‘Say Something’, Zac Samuel describes Emmet as having ‘‘some great talent’’. Radio presenters have compared Emmet’s sound to that of Avicii.
Glascott has worked with vocalist OMZ who has amassed twenty-eight million+ Spotify streams, has worked under the likes of dance group Swedish House Mafia and has tracks signed to Universal, Warner, and Sony.
With contacts like megastar Tiesto, Martin Garrix, the One Direction boys, Julia Michaels, Irish DJ Mark McCabe, ‘Moon Song’ hit-maker Isaac Butler, Kygo’s ‘Stargazing’ singer, Justin Jesso, rapper Sean Paul, Pitbull, and MC Pat Flynn, it sounds like there is a superstar in the making.
According to recent social media posts, there is much more music to come in 2020. So one no doubt even more record labels will be carefully watching!
Sebastian was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Saad Mushtaq has contributed to many online publications including the PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Saad Mushtaq earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Saad Mushtaq follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.Thanks