After featuring Ju-Lion The Voice on the Re-Ex podcast in 2025, we wanted to highlight his approach as an independent producer. He's proof that you can achieve serious results with a minimal setup through grit and self-belief. We explore how he navigates the challenge of a small marketing budget and how he utilises RepostExchange for the honest feedback he needs to constantly improve his tracks.

How long have you been producing music and how did you learn? 

So I been making music from when I was small, but didn’t start truly producing until three years ago! When I finally got tired of having so much dependency on others to make my music, I decided to do it myself.

What DAW(s) do you use and why?

I used BandLab. It completely feeds my creativity with just the different things you can do, so I’m glad I stuck with it all the way till now.

What are your favourite pieces of gear and why?

I don’t really use much gear, but I do love using treatment for my microphone and the room for better quality sound. Also, having a proficient microphone is key, and a stand to have my lyrics, to jot things down…I know these aren’t typical things people care about, but they are the ingredient to my creative process. Got to have a Scarlett Focusrite 2i2 and keypads for easy looping

How would you summarise your approach/workflow when creating a track?

• Make or get the beat first, absorb yourself in it, listen a couple times and then brainstorm ideas.
• Write the lyrics, chorus and understand the direction of the song first practice it until I have the cadence, admits, inflections, and tone down.
• Record with ease, cause after pre-gaming, it’s all about bringing it to life!
• Clean the vocals.
• Mix, add effects, and sounds
• Master it and done

What resources do you use to improve your craft?

Any and everything, YouTube, books, articles, videos, people, mentors. If something somewhere can help me understand my craft better…it’s fair game, I’m always learning to improve.

What is the last YouTube tutorial you watched that you would recommend to other Re-Ex Members?

This one because Eline Vera simplifies things so wonderfully: 

What knowledge or advice do you wish you'd learned earlier?

• Inflections make a track more dynamic and adds story.
• Ad-libs shouldn’t be useless words or sounds.
• Not mixing and mastering a track to have clear quality but make sure it’s according to what you want it to sound like, is like not making the track at all… No one wants to hear half done music!

What challenges related to making music do you face and how do you overcome them?

Marketing funds, they are the one obstacle that is hard to get around. I eventually got to a point where I’ll invest in things to make my own creative ways to market and use the free resources on social media to drive traffic. I’ll beat funds with consistency and creativity!!!

Can you share any killer tips or techniques?

Drink honey and OJ or some kind of drink good for the throat before recording to be at your peak.

CapCut doesn’t get enough credit. You have a full dive creation suite at your fingertips that is able to send out content to any platform with features to help have a faster output…use it!

Do you try and get feedback or suggestions to improve your music? If so, how?

Yes, you need it… it helps to know what to keep and discard or build confidence. I get feedback from people I know who are listening to my music, from RepostExchange community, and from playing my songs out loud around my mentors.

Which track are you most proud of and why?

Trick question, lol? I love all my tracks but if I had to pick one, it would be the track where it all clicked for me that I wanted to really do this. That track is called What I’ll Become. I’m proud of it not because of the production, but because of it’s impact on me.

Has RepostExchange affected the way you make music? If so, how?

RepostExchange helped me see I can truly do this as a career. My first album I promoted on the platform was a collab album, York Meets York, and the song S.O.S.S almost blew up on Spotify. I also made it on two Official SoundCloud Playlists (lo-fi and for hip-hop), which has opened doors to interviews, collabs, magazines covers, radio play, and opened up my mind!

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This interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.