Balancing his career as an actor and musician, Elgort wants to make a record that people still talk about five years from now.
- Sep 9, 2015
AceShowbiz - Ansel Elgort is now also a recording star. The "The Fault in Our Stars" actor has signed a record deal with Island Records to release his music under the alter ego Ansolo. "He is one of the hardest working people I know, balancing his career as an actor with his love and passion for music," Island president and CEO David Massey said in a statement on Tuesday, September 8.
Elgort talked about his budding music career in an interview with Rolling Stone. "The whole thing ...it's more than just writing and performing," Elgort described his passion. "It's engineering and producing. It's magical. It's something on your computer you can do all by yourself. It's the same thing as piano and voice, but now you have tracks that are 70 channels. You can write lines for all these different synthesizers and make unique things. With a piano, everyone's heard what a piano sounds like, but with dance music, every month there's a new track with a sound that everyone's like, 'What is that sound? How did he do it?' That's so exciting to me."
The DJ will release "To Life" as his debut single. "I already have an EP done with just four tracks," he gushed. "I'm going to work with some top-line writers to get vocals on top of them. For 'To Life,' there are a lot of real instruments in the track, which is a great way to mix nostalgia and this new thing. I'm going to try to get disco-inspired musicians and people playing great bass lines. The next EP will be like a new version of disco that will also have my groovy, clubby sound. It's something new."
Speaking of goals, Elgort said, "My goal is to make the records that people know and people love that will last for more than a year. I want people to say, 'Oh, wow, that Ansolo record ... remember that one from five years ago? That one's sick'." He had played in such music festivals as Electric Zoo and Ultra.
