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Maejor (@maejor) has spent years operating across multiple corners of modern music.
His catalog includes work with Justin Bieber, Drake, Frank Ocean, Martin Garrix, and Disney, while his recent output has moved further into sound healing, meditation, and frequency-based composition. That direction continues with Earth Moods: Frequencies (Volume 1), a new collaboration with Hollywood Records and National Geographic built around solfeggio frequencies, environmental imagery, and restorative listening experiences tied to Earth Month programming.
At the same time, Maejor’s perspective on creativity arrives at a moment where AI tools are rapidly changing how music gets made and distributed. Finished tracks can now be generated faster than ever, but his answers repeatedly return to process, presence, experimentation, and the human qualities that technology still struggles to replicate. Rather than framing music purely as output, he treats the act of creating itself as part of the value.
That mindset runs through this entire conversation. For Maejor, the importance of making music does not begin or end with release schedules, streaming metrics, or polished deliverables.
The process itself still holds purpose, especially in an era increasingly shaped by automation.
Interview With Maejor
With AI making it easier to generate finished tracks, what still makes the hands-on process of making music valuable?
There is something in the human spirit that can’t be defined in words but can definitely be felt. Each one of us is a unique beautiful 1 of 1 expression.
What do producers learn from working through a track themselves that they would miss by skipping straight to a finished file?
It’s like the saying, “Life is a journey, not a destination,” just like a dance, the goal isn’t to hurry up and get to the end. For me I actually love the process of creating the music. It can be like a meditation.
The internet tends to reward the finished post or release. What does the private process still give the artist?
An opportunity to have a moment of presence and experience that can never be replaced or repeated.
How can making music still be useful to an artist even when the track never comes out?
Practicing and experimenting with new styles, exploring and coming up with different patterns and sequences that are unique.
What would you tell a newer producer who feels discouraged by how fast creative tools are moving?
I would remind them that they are not alone. I feel deep compassion for people in this new time as many industries are changing with AI and technology. I don’t have the exact answers but I will say that I am here with you and sending Love 📡♡〰️
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
