J’Kerian Morgan, known professionally as Lotic, is an American electronic musician based in Berlin. Lotic rose to prominence through her involvement with the Janus Collective in the early 2010s as well as with a string of EPs released during this time. She was invited by Björk to produce two official Vulnicura remixes in 2016. Her full-length debut, Power, was released in 2018.
My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed.
I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.
I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.
It's better to look for the people that look like you and do something with them, create something new - the mainstream isn't that special anyways.
It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.
I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.
Everyone knows the idea of moving to another country is really hard, but when you're actually in the situation - and you don't know the language and you don't know anyone - it's like you don't even know what questions to ask.
I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time.
There's top 40 R&B/hip-hop, which is probably sexy but you wouldn't listen to it for a musical awakening.