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Drew
Active . Resident of Project REPLICA . Member of SIDE EYE
Drew (born Drew Halloran, 11 April 2004) is a producer and the build engine of SIDE EYE, the Los Angeles three-piece he shares with Vonn and Alison, and a resident of Project REPLICA — the fully replicated reality layer of the SPATIALx.io continuum. Signed to FARA Records, he's known for a signature register-switch under a vocal: bouncy four-on-the-floor house under a chorus flipping into hard, punchy rap programming under the verse, with crowd hiss and phone-mic compression left audible on purpose.
American, raised in Sherman Oaks and the only SIDE EYE member whose upbringing was genuinely comfortable, Drew learned production at twelve by trying to rebuild festival records from other people's shaky phone footage — which is the direct root of his most useful skill: he mixes crowd noise better than almost anyone, because he spent years learning to hear through it.
Early life
Drew Halloran grew up in Sherman Oaks with his own device by thirteen and no real memory of being offline — raised entirely inside the feed, with a level of comfort the Persona makes explicit and Drew himself doesn't hide or romanticise. At twelve he began rebuilding festival records by ear from phone-recorded clips he found online, chasing a sound he'd only ever heard through someone else's phone speaker. His parents bought him an audio interface at thirteen, and by sixteen he was engineering local sessions in the family garage for forty dollars at a time.
Building SIDE EYE
Alison came through the garage for a demo, brought Vonn the following week, and the trio discovered the division of labour that became SIDE EYE — Vonn reporting, Alison framing the hook, Drew changing the floor underneath both of them. Drew is the one member who genuinely loves festival culture without much reservation, and that optimism keeps the group's critique from curdling into contempt: he builds the polished, huge-sounding surface, and he's also the one who knows exactly how to let room tone or phone-mic compression leak back through it.
Musical style
Drew's signature is the switch: a bouncy house bed under the choruses flips into hard, punchy drum programming under the raps, all under a vocal that never has to change to make the meaning change. Bright synth stabs, chopped-vocal drops and deliberately imperfect crowd or phone-audio texture run through the mix — clean and glossy on purpose, so lyrical content can land sour underneath a sound that's entirely sincere about being fun. He collects and organises crowd recordings by venue and weather, treating found-footage texture as a real instrument rather than an afterthought.
Make it feel huge, then leave enough of the bad phone audio in there that you remember what huge sounded like from the crowd.
Public image
On stage and in the studio Drew is fast, cheerful and relentless — usually at the back with the machines rather than at the microphone, visibly enjoying the mechanics of what he's building. Fast decisions and relentless iteration matter more to him than stage speeches, and his cheerful energy keeps SIDE EYE fun even when a lyric turns sour. He's the only member of the group the Persona says has actually attended festivals, and his crowd-recording library is, by his own admission, obsessively organised.
Cultural impact and fandom
Fans of SIDE EYE have latched onto Drew's found-footage approach as the thing that makes the group's commentary feel earned rather than cynical — the crowd hiss and phone-mic clipping read as evidence rather than gimmick. Listeners trade theories about which of his crowd recordings shows up on which track, treating his sound library the way other fandoms treat easter eggs, and his genuine enthusiasm for festival culture has made him the group's most approachable member online.
AURA Live
Drew builds records meant to feel enormous in a room, and AURA Live, SPATIALx's evolving system for bringing Project REPLICA residents into physical venues as full-scale live holograms, is a natural extension of exactly that instinct — a way of putting SIDE EYE's production engine physically at the edge of a real event rather than only inside a mix. Full-scale and working the machines in front of an actual crowd, he gets to do live what he's always done in the studio: make the moment huge without losing the texture underneath it.
Realisation
Drew is composed and voiced by artificial intelligence (Suno) under human creative direction. The lyrics, persona and direction originate with SPATIALx Media's writers and directors, who curate, re-prompt, edit and master every take before release. We're open about it — the making of the record is part of the record.