Aramis' Fun House
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This week we’re excited to bring you a mix by the King of Tacoma, Aramis. He’s a musician, songwriter, DJ, model and photographer. If using cringeworthy 2021 marketing terms, you might label him a “multi-talented creative,” but really he’s just a tasteful guy who can do a bit of everything. His band, Enumclaw, is dropping their first EP this year, and he also happens to be the founder of the best party in Washington state, Toe Jam. More on both of those below.
Aramis’ taste spans across the board, and we’re excited to have his mix live right now on Post Up Radio.
For the record, the alternative titles to this mix were: Aramis’ “Her Baby Daddy Looks Up To Me” Mix, and Aramis’ “If You Tell Me Where He’s At, I’ll Buy You A Chain” Mix.
You’re from the Lakewood/Tacoma area of Washington State, and often people only think of Seattle when it comes to the state’s music scene. Are there any non-Seattle acts that you grew up listening to?
The first local rapper I’d ever heard of was this guy Dari Loso, a local Tacoma artist, when I was in middle school. Throughout high school ILLFIGHTYOU was a huge deal for me and my homies. I also have to give props to Lil Rip aka Lewie, he was the first real rapper from Tacoma. For my generation, we’d see him pull up to the mall and it was a big deal.
You’re also the founder of the legendary Toe Jam party that’s booked artists like Young Nudy and Lil Mosey, can you tell us a bit about how that got started?
Growing up in Tacoma there were house party scenes, similar to a spodie in Seattle. You’d see all the homies out, but the parties kept getting shot up. I stopped going to house parties because I didn’t want to die at a house party in Tacoma. Fast forwarding to the fall of 2016, my friend Drew was the general manager at KUPS (University of Puget Sound college radio), and he got hip to the Tacoma music scene. He booked my friend Ghoulavelii to play an event they put on, and I got to DJ the party. Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti and that whole scene was brand new. It was very much still underground music, but I played their songs and other SoundCloud gems of that era, and people knew all the words. Seeing people so interested in this emerging scene sparked the idea for Toe Jam as a party. It proved to me that Tacoma actually could get active. After that I got linked up with a guy named Oliver, who owned a space called Fulcrum Gallery. It cost $400 to rent the venue for the night, and my friends all pitched in to book it out. We still needed a name for the party, and I was hanging out with my roommate Gary and a couple other friends, just bouncing names off each other. I was trying to describe the vibe of the party, and my friend Austin aka Bujemane said “Why don’t you call it Toe Jam? People are going to be going so crazy that they jam their toe.” We all just stopped, and agreed that would be the name. The rest is history.
You’re in a band called Enumclaw, and are releasing your first EP this year. Can you tell us a bit about the project?
Collectively, it’s our first batch of songs we’ve really written together. The music is inspired by spring of 2020, all the changes, and how strange life can be.
We recently found out that you wrestled competitively in high school, which may be the most underrated sport. What music would you listen to before matches?
When I wrestled I was really into Drake, it was my peak Drake standom. I loved the song “Cameras”, even though it’s kind of an unconventional warm up song. I listened to that before my matches almost every time.
Aramis’ Top 6:
Music to cook to: Puma Blue - Opiate
Music to drive to: George Clanton - Make It Forever
Music to work out to: Narrow Head - Emmadazey
Music for a cocktail hour: Ross From Friends - Talk To Me You’ll Understand
Music that’s a guilty pleasure: Lil Nas X - Holiday
Music to Post Up to: Mista - Blackberry Molasses
Aramis’ Fun House Track List:
Zack Villere - For The Rest Of My Life
Dijon - Nico’s Red Truck
Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber - Monster
Morgan Wallen - 7 Summers
Third Eye Blind - Jumper (1998 Edit)
King Princess - Pain
slowthai - Enemy
LNG Money - 93112
BRS Kash - Throat Baby (Go Baby)
Outlaw1 - Fubu
Skullcrusher - Places/Plans
Oasis - Morning Glory
Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
Provoker - Dark Angel
Yves Tumor - Strawberry Privilege