William XMS

36. Resurfacing. I've been off the grid for what feels like ages now. Lots of changes in life and my overall mental and physical health. Bought a house, moved again, & started working full time at my venue ripping shows every weekend with the lads. Let some things go, watched new things grow. Not sweating much of life anymore, and that's been nice in ways I can't put into words. After so much hardship, peace is... different, but in all of the best ways. See you guys, gals, and non-binary pals again soon. 🙌🏾🥤

The Emptiness Machine. I've been busy a lot recently, made @youtube partner, new venue to work at, new tour coming soon, but I've also been tinkering and getting new gear. For ages I've been trying to figure out how I want to capture my music playing, and then I finally got my @insta360 and this finally helped me to get the angle unlock the future of how I want to try and do my content. Drum covers, guitar covers, vlogs, shows, I'll be able to capture it all now in the way I've been looking for. No, this isn't an ad, it's just my thought process finally making sense to me. This is a first of many... and I hope you'll join me, give me feedback, and most importantly: I hope you enjoy it. Drums: @donnermusic_official Snare: @rolandglobal Pedals: @officialtamadrums Throne: @mapexdrums #Linkinpark #Drums #Drumcover

35. I know I haven't posted much in a while, hell I haven't had a real post since November. I took some time to try and get myself together. I moved, I got a new job with a new company, I've been traveling, performing, learning new skills, and streaming on YouTube! (Like, comment, and subscribe 👀) I've also been trying to face my own mortality and seeing how different things have been over the last 5 years of my life. Friends have come and gone, an entire pandemic, a car accident that should have truly killed me, lost loved ones, and chapters of books closing and opening before new books began. Am I doing ok? I think I'm doing alright. Am I content? Being content has always scared me because of the fear of failure vs imposter syndrome... But I'm satisfied in the moment. Can I get better? I absolutely believe so, none of us know everything so we can all continue to grow and mature and evolve. But today? I rest. Something I have always had trouble personally doing. Tomorrow? We're back at it again with shenanigans, full sending. Thankful for today, a hopeful thanks for tomorrow, and of course, a toast, to another lap around the sun. 🥤

All Night. .. .. Let's take a step back into The DRMVRSE once more: The @nghtmre & @officialrezz collab track is one of my favorite to ever perform to, with the trippy vibes and mostly monochromatic colors on my end, we brought a lot of punch with @mikesheck slaying the lights, @arengoldd being an iconic TM while also controlling SFX, @bryan__bigb making it all sound flawless, and @nicelasers killed it even further with lasers that pew'd all over faces. We rocked the hell out of this venue with well over 8k people just JAMMING with us in San Francisco. This team was incredible to work with, and I'm thankful for being able to have spent a year crushing this project. let me know what else from the tour you'd like to see or know about, lads. Here's to more antics down the line, and more pixels to be crushed 🤝🏾🥤

Eternal Now. .. .. With Thanksgiving winding down, I have a lot to be thankful for: I'm alive and healthy, top of the list. There's been a few instances, including this year, that I could have been gone with the the snap of the finger, I'm very fortunate to be alive and I appreciate that daily. My career has been full of incredible experiences, including being able to have spent most of the last year of my life learning, traveling, and performing with incredible people including @nghtmre @arengoldd @rayvolpe @crankdat @killthenoise @nicelasers @mikesheck @capn_chuck @trevor_s_w and so many more people. I've been very blessed to have been able to live my dream and while I took a break after the DRMVRSE tour to get healthy and help family, I'm back in the game, full send, and 2024 is about to take off. Here's to you and yours 🥤 Happy Holidays. 📷: @nicelasers 🙌🏾⚡

Fall Into Me. .. .. Now that some time has passed and my health is better, I'm taking a look back at a lot of unreleased videos and antics I never posted from The DRMVRSE tour and my time traveling with @nghtmre and the lads. I'm posting over on TikTok & YouTube as well! So if you'd like to drop a follow over there it'd be appreciated as I'm gearing up for the next few months of taking bookings, streaming, shenanigans, and over all just posting more on all my platforms. This clip is from The Finale of the tour in Denver at Mission Ballroom! It's also a reintroduction for those who may not be familiar with what I do, welcome! I've been a VJ for over 13 years now but this was my first tour ever and what a hell of a way to start, eh? The show goes on, let's back back to work. See you all soon 🙌🏾🥤

Element. It's been a while since I've posted anything outside of stories, I've been recovering, resting and decompressing. Touring for a year does a lot to a person who had never really toured before. Over the coming weeks I'll be posting a digest and Insight into my view of someone who had never been on a tour before, as well as a lot more clips and stuff from shows and artist I had the pleasure of working with over the last year. I'm looking forward to getting more opportunities to share my vision and passion with more artist as I head into my 14th year as a VJ. This picture of me was taken mid set at the final @nghtmre show of the DRMVRSE tour in Denver Colorado at Mission Ballroom. TM: @arengoldd LD: @capn_chuck Lasers: @nicelasers PM: Larry Lurker MGNT: @brycebruck & @cg_rossetti

34. .. .. This last year has been a gift in every way. I spent the last year with @nghtmre as his first personal VJ and I had the luxury and honor to wave my guiding hand with his to help bring the DRMVRSE to life, more on that in a separate post later. Now that my time has come to its end doing that, I look forward to content creation, more shows once I'm done taking a break to catch up on rest, and more time to myself for the first time in a literal year. Times change, life moves on, & we carry on strong. I can't tell you how excited I am for the future. Here's to another lap around the sun 🥤

Don't Give Up [part one] .. .. I can't even begin to wrap my brain around the last month. - Mexico - Dubai - Abu Dhabi - Miami - Home It's been an absolute joy and privilege to be able to continue to chase and live a dream with friends and artist who are doing the same. EDC Mexico, TWO Ultra's on literally opposite sides of the globe, with a SMASHING of shows in-between all of that, ending with an insane weekend full of 11 sets!!! Clubs, venues, & stages were melted, soda was sipped, little sleep was found, and family was seen. Good lord, what a time. More post incoming, but if you are new here, please say hi in the comments! So many of you have joined the ride, can't wait to show you what's next 🥤🙌🏾

The Grid. .. .. Aspen was an incredibly soul changing experience. Went snowboarding on Snowmass, almost broke my leg (I'm not even slightly kidding, It was bad) but I still had an incredible time in the city with my team. The views were absolutely breathtaking, I couldn't take enough pictures & videos. Ran it back at @bellyupaspen with @nghtmre for an incredible intimate and incredibly haze filled show 💨 To top it all off? I got to attend the X-Games in person for the first time ever. The entire trip was magical, I can't wait to come back. Remember kids, stay safe on the hills, the mountain can be ruthless, haha 🏂🥤

Tech Noir. .. .. With a new year comes new quest, new goals, new objectives... I'm very proud of all the work I've done so far, not just being a part of team @nghtmre but mostly on myself. I sometimes sit in disbelief as to how fortunate I've been, through all the incredible highs and, more importantly, the crippling, seemingly insurmountable lows... I'm still here. Chasing, and living, my dream. If you're new here, I'm entering my 13th year as a visual artist this year. It hadn't been easy, especially as one of the few POCs in my field. I'm here to tell you, it's possible. Don't give up. Chase that dream. I hope to see you out there one day with a huge smile on your face doing what you love the most. 'Til then, Happy New Year, gamers. 🥤

Money in the Grave .. .. Just throwing out some more fire for you all to enjoy some after Christmas heat 🔥🙌🏾 I was obsessed with this song every time it came up in the setlist, we worked hard during previs to bring the look and feel all together. I'd say if paid off, yeah? 🔥 DJ - @nghtmre 🤝🏾 VJ - @WilliamXMS (that's me! 🙌🏾) LD - @mikesheck 🤝🏾 Lasers - @nicelasers 🤝🏾 Sound - @bryan__bigb 🤝🏾 Photo - @scottyknowss 🤝🏾 TM - @arengoldd 🤝🏾 🎥 - @jveronephoto 🤝🏾 Happy Holidays, friends. See you lads again soon 🥤