No.1 How would you describe this week in a sentence?

There are a lot of things happening.

Would you like to elaborate? 

I kind of… how [would] you say that? It's like, there was a past phrase of my life, and I just finished it and turned to a new one. So now there [are] a lot of new things coming in and a lot of projects I’m working on. And then there are a lot of people that I'm meeting, like you. So I'm kind of excited about the future here, and in my life in general. It's a good thing, because it's also the start of 2026, so I feel like it should be a different year, you know? 

No.2 An artwork that inspired you this week. It can be anything, a song, movie, quote...

[There] is a cute album [made by] my friend's friend, and we became friends after my friend introduced me. That guy is from China, and he's making the cutest music ever. I can show you. It's like jazz, but not really. You can say it's free jazz, but super cute free jazz. It's organized-cute, I don't know how to describe it, but you can listen to it. 

We had a short listening session.

Very cute.

When I listen to this, I feel like whoever made this, they can be forgiven for everything [laughs]. It's like, whatever you do, I forgive you because you made this music that is so pure. It's interesting, it's so cute. I listen to this and get my belief back a little bit.

I haven't been making music for a long time, from last year to this year, about six months, and when I don't do music, I don't feel like I exist, or that I'm real, or that I know who I am. But when I listen to this, that's when I realize, oh, there's the power of doing the stuff that you love. He's not even a musician, he's a game designer. But he did this and expressed himself, and then made me realize, oh, I need to trust the power of what I'm doing, and the music, and what I want to do.

That's beautiful. Thank you. 

No.3 A memorable moment from this week.

I was on the train, and there was a small kid, and before he left the train he turned to me and said something like, “I hope you have a good moonwalk”. I was like, what does that even mean? And then I asked ChatGPT and he said it’s a kids' thing, moonwalk, like Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, it’s a cool thing. So he just hopes you have a good, exciting moment of your life. And I was like, oh, that's so cute. And I memorized that for a bit; ‘hope you have a good moonwalk today’.

That's so nice! I love the subway-  I mean, some subway interactions are nice..

Most of the subway interactions suck. like, it's crazy. And then children… their minds are too pure to live in what I think is the current world right now. Because after you've been through a lot, I've been through a lot of things, and I see a lot of stuff, it's hard to believe the pure good energy, the cute music, the innocent things in your life. And suddenly you find something like that, and it's like, fuck, how [have] I become like this?  I should trust the beginning energy.
It's like me getting the feeling of suddenly realizing that I've been lost for the last year, a couple of years,  and now I'll be aware of that and try to pick it up a little bit. Sorry, It's hard to express that. 

No, thank you. It's beautiful.

No.4 This is a two part question. Feel free to answer either or both.
A motto you swear by and or any advice you received and would like to share.

We discussed some phrases and talked about how this question can be a challenging one to answer quickly.

What I've been thinking, what can describe my life recently.. I think it's this one. I’ll say it in Chinese- 

Yes, please.

经常听听吧
你本来是对世界充满期待的 
本来很少事情 很多可以开心的事
为什么学习了这么多别人的规则
学得把自己脑袋装满
再也感觉不到快乐了

It's like - listen to more music, please, and you are supposed to fill yourself with hope for this world and expectation. You were born without many things and there are a lot of things that you can be happy about. And why now, [when] you learned so much and you've been through so much, you can't feel happy anymore? Please don't fill [up] your brain anymore, just leave.

No.5 What would you like to share about your upcoming projects?

I want to share my upcoming album. I got to release the EP first, but the album is the real thing, and I've been preparing this since Berklee. The album is called That Kid. It’s what I describe as the initial me. When I was a child, there were a lot of things that you could be happy about, and there was a lot of expectation of [how] the world that you thought [of] was going to be, and a lot of things to explore. And when I grew up I realized that it's not that funny, the world is not that interesting. But I want to shape the world. I want to encourage people to believe in what they believed before, the colorful world, the interesting world. That's why I made this album. It has all the fantasies of me when I was a child and I try to describe it in music language. 

My music is kind of a sound design-hyper-pop. Rap is my material, and I also sing a little bit. Those are [my] materials, but my primary material in my music is sound design. I use sound design to create this environment, create this feeling of being a child and the imagination of the world.
The album is… there are a lot of different genres of music there, but it's all me doing sound design. The sound design is the thing that connects everything together.

I listened to your latest EP [TECHBLUE VOL. 1 Beneath the tree 3000 silences], which I loved.

Oh, thank you. 

And I wanted to ask, what inspired the titles and the cover art? If you'd like to share.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. It's interesting. The cover is my mom's drawing. My mom is, what is it called? I should translate it. You write letters like this - 

Calligraphy? 

Yes, but some people do it professionally. They train. Because in Chinese, the word is kind of complicated. It's more than the letters. We got traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese, and when you write in traditional Chinese, there are a lot of things you can express when you write, and there's a different style of writing there. And she is very good at it. I tried to have something that is chill, and also something that is cultural. That's why I got my mom to write the cover for me. And I was like, ‘oh, that's so cool’, and I used it and just PS-ed [photoshopped] it a little bit, and [made] it as a cover.

The reason why I did that is [that] the title is a phrase I made up. It's not a grammatically correct phrase. It's called Beneath the Tree, 3,000 Silences. It's like a picture. When I made all of those songs when I was in London, I wasn't thinking about [if] there's going to be an EP or something. I [was] thinking about a place. It [was] kind of an escapism, because I didn't like my life when I was in London. And then I went to a class and it taught me about, when you make music, you can think about a location. You think about a place and then you think about what happened in that place and what you experienced when you were there. And then I thought about when I was ten or something, I went to this GO class. There's a type of chess called GO, it’s a Chinese thing. I've been to a lot of classes, just because my parents didn't want me to stay in the house and play computer games. I went to a lot of places, and every time I went to the class there was a tree under my teacher's building. It was a big tree and I remember standing there, wind blowing in my face, and I watched the tree. And it was kind of holy, you know what I mean? It made me feel… it's chill, it's quiet, and there was a place that allowed me to think by myself.
And under the tree, the silences are a safe space. And it's not being polluted. I feel like a lot of places nowadays are not pure. Like when we walk on the street in New York. It just feels like this place, there are a lot of emotions here, there are a lot of things that happen here, and it's never innocent anymore. And when I think about the place under the tree, that place is... There are no colors there, it’s like a plain picture. So I tried to have this emptiness, ambient feeling of there. And I tried to express it in music. Like what I said  before, it's pure, and ambient. It's like floating.

I use a lot of synthesizers to recreate the ambience feeling. I put a lot of field recordings, like noise. The noise field recordings [are] materialized into the composite, and then I add my vocals. I shouldn't add my vocals sometimes, but it’s like.. I wanted to make this EP like a place, like a feeling, and then I[‘d] give it to you, and you can feel my emotions, and you can feel; you stay in the same place and maybe it can help you think, drag you out of the current environment and think about the ambience, the emptiness of somewhere in the same space, and remind [you] of some chill place you've been to. That's the idea of why I made the album and also why I had my mom write the cover. It's kind of complicated, sorry about that. 

No, no… It definitely transports you and that's the beauty of music.

Yes. It's like…. Have you ever heard something [or] written something and anything you see or listen to reminds [you] of a place you've been to? Like somebody listens to this folk song and it reminds them of a California beach, and that song brings them there.
The whole EP I made is trying to bring people to that place, the place under the tree.
Basically, I made emo music. It's very obvious. I try to express a feeling, so whatever I can do to express a feeling I do it.

We had an album listening session and we watched the accompanying visuals before resuming the interview. 

First of all, I love it. 

Thank you. How do you think [of] describing the feeling of listening to it? How do you feel? 

It transforms you somewhere. It is its own world.
It's a full experience. 

Yeah, it's an experience.

But transformative is not the word I'm looking for. 

I know what you mean.

It transports you. It exists in… It's its own universe.

Oh, I got what you mean. It creates a new space. 

It's very impressive to me because, not to make it about myself, but my background is in instruments, and this is something that you created yourself. Where do you start? What is the first thing? 

We picked a few tracks -

I’M JUST TIRED
One that stuck out to me is I'm Just Tired. 

I realized that you liked the I'm just tired one. I think [it’s] because the vocals are very good. It's my friend FLOCO, she's from London. When she sang this, and my friend JAY helped her record this, I was like, shit, this is gonna be next level. Because all the song started with just this one - [plays an instrumental part of the song]. The whole song started with this snippet, this short clip.
I made that song [when] I was in London. At that time, I just broke up. The song is interesting, because she sang in English, [and] I sang in Chinese. The original demo was just me saying like... “I'm so tired, I'm so tired. I tried not to care, but I lied to myself. I couldn't not care.” And I just kept mumbling this, ‘I'm so tired, I'm so tired,’ and I realized that there's something different from a singing melody. It's more [of the] mumbling words. I [added] a little bit of a Chinese instrument in there, and [it] made it like a floating feeling, kind of sad. And then this came out - [plays the intro]. It's very soft, but there are lots of small rhythms and melodies underneath. It’s got a feeling like my personality is falling down. It's like I'm dying. On the surface, it's chill but underneath, there are a lot of small feelings. What I said in Chinese was - “I'm tired. I miss you. Are you okay? Are we okay?”. She [also] just broke up, and then we got this song.
At first, it was just a demo. One minute of this [plays an instrumental loop]. You can tell the vocal is very muffled, because I recorded it with my voice memo [app]. And on the way back to the place where I lived, when I was on the bus, I was like.. [humming the melody]. Then I exported it to the computer and tried to put some instruments on it and then I fell asleep. And the next day, I said, ‘that shit’s hard, actually’, and I made it into a full song.
[With] most of my songs, I try to catch a little bit of a special feeling. And I realized that [when] the song catches a feeling or a real emotion, [I] always end up with a song that's very good. Even not [necessarily] very good to other people, but very good for me.
I listen to it, that's something. It expresses something. It means something. You always start with a feeling. Then I capture it, record it, and then I extend it to a full song. 

What software do you use?

I use Logic, FL Studio and Ableton. So it's weird. My workflow is weird. I usually do the drums in FL Studio. Now I don't do it anymore, because I try to simplify my workflow. Then I record it in Logic. And if there's some synthesizer I want to use, sometimes I use RealGear, sometimes Ableton, and I combine them together. I used to have two PCs, one [for] FL Studio and one [for] Logic, and I explored between two computers. And my friends were like, ‘Why do you do this? You just use one and get to know how to make drums in Logic.’ I was like, I don't know. 

That's your process

Yes, because I started making music with FL Studio. [But] with songwriting and singing I had to change to Logic. But I couldn't make a good enough drum in Logic, so every time I make drums, I still think about FL Studio. This is something I need to change. I need to be better.

All of them have a very strong visual element. What inspired them? Or did you have the visuals as you were making the music? 

This visual is from my friend Nobel. He's my best friend [from] when I was in London. That's his visual of the song. But when he made it, I was like, ‘no, this is not what I was thinking.’ [Then] it was [about] collaborating with each other, and trying to get to the point that we all felt this one can describe the song and then we all felt good. But when I recorded the song, the vision was not like this. I had my own vision when I recorded the song. But I'm good with audio, I'm good with music, better than visuals... I just couldn't do it. I had a visual in my mind, I could describe it, but I couldn't make it for other people to realize it. So I told my friends and they helped me do it. When they did it, I'm like, ‘yeah, that's the one.’ 

What is, in your opinion, and then I can share mine, the ideal way or environment to listen to [your album]?

Can you describe it in more detail? 

Where and how do you want people to listen to it? For me, it would be at night with headphones.

Yeah, that's actually what I'm thinking. Music like this, like this one specifically

In a car

Specifically when you're alone, when you have the space allowing you to think about stuff. Because if you listen to it at a party, you can't feel shit because there are a lot of people around, it's hard for you to think. Most of my music, I wish [for] you [to] listen to it by yourself or in a safe space, so you can have your emotions out. Exactly what you're [saying], that's exactly the place I hope people listen to my music. 

In what kind of a space would you want to perform this music? 

I never thought about it. I mean -

Maybe you were not planning on performing it. 

I performed it a couple of times when I had a show, but I don't feel like a club, or the place I performed this song before, is a good place.
I want people to listen to it as the song now. I don't want to make a live instrument version of it. Maybe in some quiet place, under a tree or something like that. And we set up five speakers, and you can sit in the middle and listen to it. But I don't want to sing it in real life. Because I feel like I'm just part of the story, so I don't want to be singing to you my song. The audio is the whole thing. If I'm sitting in front of you and trying to perform something like that, it's not right. I think I'd rather be hiding under a tree, and just play the piano there, and you can listen to it. The whole experience is [what] I'm all about with this song. 

It's your creation, and some things can't be replicated in a live performance. 

My music has a lot of emotion in between. Sometimes it starts with a chill thing, and then suddenly it's like… [makes a sound]  And then it goes… [another sound] And at the end it's like…[another sound]  A lot of my music is like that. It's like an emotion road, like a journey.
But I also realized that making music like this is not that relaxing. I also think about, would I want to listen to my music when I'm free? Sometimes my music is super easy to listen to. People can just listen to it without thinking about it. But this one is definitely a heavy song. There's a lot of emotions in there.
Some music, like tour music, DJ music in the club, gives you emotions to hype you up, or make you feel sad, or something like that. It's not telling a story or giving you space to think. But I like the music that gives you space to think. 

I feel like the music speaks for itself, and I don't want to add anything that is irrelevant. It's so impressive that you've created a world. And you don't need the visuals. It really exists in your head with headphones under the tree at night. 

That's what I'm trying to do. But also having the visuals is easier for other people to understand it. 

And it's an opportunity to collaborate with more people. 

Yeah, exactly.

Drink All Your Favorite Drinks on Yizhong Street

Yizhong Street is a street in Taiwan. rjpasin … he's an influencer, but he also makes guitar [sounds]. He has a lot of picking skills and he made it. And then I did the rest of the production.

Where did this song start? 

That one.. it all started with a - [hums the guitar part]. The guitar is so cute. And then I thought, I should sing something with it. And I just [started] singing. This song is the type of song [where] I don't try to express anything. This song is cute to listen to, but the lyrics are kind of sad again. It's about my ex, ex, ex-girlfriend, but she was the one that we've been [together] for the longest time, five years and a half. And she was with me the entire time when I was in Taiwan. Her favorite place was Yizhong Street, Yizhong Shangquan. It's a place [where] you got out [and there are] food trucks around one area. And you can just go there and eat a little bit of this, a little bit of that, drink a little bit of this, and get your whole meal. You get your dinner [from] like five different stores, and it's not expensive at all.
Every time I brought her there, she was so happy. She [would] drink a lot of bubble tea, after bubble tea. I just missed that time, when we could be happy like that, you know, just that easy. Now it's like, hard as fuck. It's super hard.
A lot of my songs are [about] remembering the old things, the fun happy time [of] before. I also put a lot of heavy drums in the song, just because I thought it's cool.

It is!

But what do you think about that song? Or do you think [of] reviewing another one? 

You could feel that it's happy and uplifting. It makes you want to dance. I love the guitar.

Yeah. The guitar is so cute. There are a lot of dynamics there. It's very, very soft. And then it's - [repeating the guitar sound], it's not really sustainable.

It makes you want to go places. I feel like some of them are better listened to isolated, but this one, you want to go out. You might want to dance to this one. I'm glad it's an album, because it's so nice to have a piece where you can go through that emotional journey. The contrast between those two is really cool. 

That's dope. Actually, I thought about it the same way when I designed it. I wanted to put those songs into an album, cause it's like a journey. Sometimes you feel happy, sometimes you feel sad, but it's all you.
It’s me. And it's like you, you got different times, different phases, different emotions. And so it's the album. It's all emotions, directed; this emotion, this emotion, all emotion. Emo music [laughs]

Emotions and places

We continued talking about album structure, playing songs on repeat, and the difficulty to explain one’s art, and left our thoughts for the review section. 

When I make music, I always think if it is worth it for now to make this music, or, is it worth it for another situation that people listen to it just because it's catchy. But I always end up feeling like I want to express something real or something meaningful. Then make a catchy song. 

I think that's the best kind of music and the only good reason to make music. You can make a catchy song if you want to, but I feel like the ones that matter and worth listening to, and make me excited for our generation of artists, are the ones that people choose to be vulnerable in, and find a way to express themselves. It's really hard. You can have an idea and not know how to execute it. So having a piece like that, where you can share your emotions and transport people to new places through something that you created is the coolest. 

I never thought about it. I have vulnerability and I share my emotions and help people to transcend it to other locations. That's something that's like shit! I actually want to do it! And I never know how to describe it. Thank you for helping me give the conclusion to it, because I don't know how to say it like in my language. We should include that in the review for sure. That's so dope. 

Thank you! It can be splashing color on a piece of paper, or taking a picture or writing a song, and saying it in a sentence is not going to be helpful. It might even be harmful. [For] some things you have such a clear visual of and you don't need the words for that. It's just the visual. Or for the music it can just be the mumbling to your iPhone. You don't need to say it explicitly. It's hard to find those ways to express yourself, but if you manage to, it's really impactful. This is why you make music. 

That's interesting. Some forms, just leave it as it is, cause that's how you want to express it. How you meant [for it] to be. 

I think about it a lot of time, and then I realize that sometimes I should really do more stuff. Even just a voice memo or make a full production. But like whatever, just do more stuff and then you will find yourself in a better place. I know it's weird to say, but just like, if you don't do stuff, you're stuck. …

For me, the hardest thing is just not moving. It's like, not  letting the circle run and then [get] stuck in somewhere. That's the hardest thing. But other than that, if I keep doing stuff, even if it's good, it's bad,  whatever I do, I do it for me, and then I will find myself gradually in a better place. 

At Supperclub, we are proud to shed light on true independent artists, those who, by being as independent as possible, allow themselves to make their own rules. In a reality defined by genres, labels, short attention spans, virality, hits, and singles, it is especially exciting to celebrate a new, upcoming album.

Larry Xu’s album, That Kid, is a musical and emotional journey. Fully produced by Xu, who also sings and raps throughout it, the album combines hip-hop, pop, hyper-pop, and emo music.

It’s a world tour in the palm of your hand, and between your headphones. You can visit New York, London, and Taiwan, the places that inspired the album and where the tracks were written and produced. It is also an emotional journey, an opportunity to explore different feelings and phases through a new soundscape.

Xu creates a unique and compelling musical space, impressive in both technique and the emotions it evokes. It speaks for itself, and the best way to learn more about it is to simply listen.

It’s an album that can be experienced in one sitting, but it also allows for skipping, as encouraged by the artist himself. Xu has carefully structured a project that takes the listener on an emotional journey, but if you are hesitant to feel everything at once, you are welcome to skip to your favourites.

We recommend a pair of headphones and a quiet room, or any space that makes you feel comfortable.

That Kid -
Emotions, places, sound, spaces, journey, ride, road, expression.

Keep up with Larry’s upcoming projects -

https://www.instagram.com/mr.x__u/

That Kid comes out April 26th, 2026, and the link to the album will be added once it’s out.