Alex Lasater

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**Alex Lasater**, known professionally as **Alicks**, **A L E X**, and **Sojuda** is a lo-fi and ambient artist and Twitch streamer from Georgia.

> I want to invite 10 or 12 people to come and sit on bean bags in a dark room. We listen to the absolute best drone and ambient music that exists for 8 hours until the sun comes up. Maybe we talk every now and then, maybe we don't. We just exist in that space together for a bit.
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> Alex Lasater, Twitter

## Career

### Pre 2014

For a complete list of their music (including released, unreleased, and lost tracks), see Alex Lasater/Discography
Before their release of *Inanimate*, Alex "didn't really take music that seriously."

They lost a hard drive containing some of their earlier music. However, the collection *a mess* containing all these unreleased tracks is available on YouTube thanks to "LockedInEden".

Between 2012-2013, Alex began to create music and share it with their friends through MediaFire. "After that [they] started to upload to soundcloud[↓]," but later "deleted most of these songs to make room for the next wave of music." Alex says that "most of these songs are lost (probably forever)."

After that, Alex made a song called *beneath the surface* which received a lot of attention. "And due to that a lot of songs from then onwards were uploaded to youtube via "promoters"," Alex says. They also created their Bandcamp[↓] around this time. A lot of their music from 2014 has been saved on YouTube by "MiXeR", but there "were a few songs on bandcamp including an entire album [they] made with [their] old friend Senbeii," that were not archived.

### 2014–2015: *Inanimate*, *Help Me Out*, and *Fell*

Alex released 3 albums from 2014 to 2015, focused around ambient music.

### 2017: *Everything Is SO Beautiful* and A L E X

In 2017, Alex released their fourth album *Everything Is So Beautiful*.

They also began creating new works under the alias **A L E X** (sometimes stylised as **a l e x** ) through Beatsupply.

### 2018-2019: *Growing Up* and *1997*

Among others, Alex released the *Growing Up* trilogy, which they started in 2017, which was focused more around instrumental and lo-fi hip-hop.

### 2020-2022: *The Reaper* and *Maybe*

In December 2020, Alex released *The Reaper*, and acoustic bedroom pop album focused around a guitar and piano.

*Maybe* was released in January 2022.

## Musical style

Alex's music focuses heavily around the genres of lo-fi and ambient. They also have incorporated elements of bedroom pop into their music, as seen in their album *The Reaper*.

## Personal life

Alicks has been active on Twitter since 20 January 2017 and often posts about new music and livestreams.

They used to live in Virginia.

### Anonymity

> I’m sure there’s a lot of people who wonder why I’m so anonymous, and to be frank I’m not really sure. It just feels like that’s the right way to release music. I don’t want the music I create to be associated with me or my personality. Not that I dislike myself or my personality, but I feel like when someone listens to a song that resonates with them, they build their own relationship with that song. I made the song, but the feeling that someone gets from that song has nothing to do with me, and that makes the song theirs in a way.
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> That's when it hit me that I can’t take responsibility for my music or the effects of my music. It would be detrimental to my life if I tried. Because of that, I try to think of music (and art in general) as just this very spiritual, otherworldly thing, that humans as artists can shape into something more “real”, which helps others appreciate that beauty. Basically, artists don’t create art, they shape it to be more accessible.
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> Alex Lasater

## References

1. ↑ Alicks on Bandcamp (English). Archived from the original on January 7, 2022. Retrieved on February 12, 2022.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Lasater, Alex. Alex's Lack of a Website (English). Archived from the original on March 21, 2022. Retrieved on March 21, 2022.

## External links

- linktr.ee
- Autobiography
- Alex Lasater on Twitter
- Alex Lasater on Instagram
- r/alex lasater on Reddit
- Alex Lasater on Bandcamp
- Alex Lasater on YouTube

### Alicks

- Alex Lasater on Spotify
- Alex Lasater on Apple Music
- Alex Lasater on Genius
- Alex Lasater on Soundcloud
- Alex Lasater on YouTube
- Alex Lasater on Discogs

### A L E X

- A L E X on Spotify
- A L E X on Apple Music
- A L E X on Genius (as Alex Lasater)
- A L E X on Soundcloud
- A L E X on YouTube
- A L E X on Discogs

### Sojuda

- Sojuda on Spotify
- Sojuda on Apple Music
- Sojuda on Genius
- Sojuda on Soundcloud
- Sojuda on Discogs