Hey! I’m Tyler, full name Tyler James Ayres and I make Indie music under “Tyler Jayy” and I post music reactions/reviews on YouTube under “Insko”!
This part of my website is just me yapping about who I am, what I do and it’s all written by me in my own way (so we’re scrapping the professionalism for this bit lmao)
If you’re bored, enjoy this page and maybe you’ll learn a thing or two about me that you didn’t already know!
Enjoy 🙂
I, Tyler James Ayres, was born on October 29th, 2000 in Margate, Kent, England.
I was brought up mostly by my Mum as my Dad wasn’t around much as they parted when I was really young. My Mum and my Nan were always the closest people to me throughout my childhood.
My Mum worked an office job and my Nan, various jobs, but no one in my family are musicians at all.
However, growing up I was surrounded by music. I remember my mum playing Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne CD’s in her car on our drives. But even before that, when I was 4-5 I was given toy drums, guitars, for christmas/birthdays.
I always loved music.
Fast forward a few years, when I was 10, a friend of mine had a YouTube channel that he would post Minecraft videos to. My cousin made me my own email address about a year prior so I used that to sign up to YouTube to start my own channel. The email she set me up had “Tjayres2000”, which is just my initials, last name, and my year of birth, but this would be the name of my first YouTube channel.
Our first videos were that day, at a sleep over. We were making videos of us 2 singing, messing around, being kids. We called them “Stupid Kids” videos.
I always loved gaming, so I quickly started posting Minecraft videos from my mum’s pink laptop, that ran the game at about 5FPS and was absolutely awful, but I loved it. I’d edit them together in Movie Maker with traditions and such. I loved commentary, I loved talking to people online and just posting random clips. Skyping my friends, recording videos. It was fun.
For my 12 birthday I got an Xbox 360, and a camcorder, which I set up a tripod aimed at the TV and I’d film even more gameplay videos. Minecraft was always my favorite game though and I got it on Xbox too.
In 2013, my mum became friends with someone at work who’s husband was a DJ, well, done it as a hobby. He DJ’d on vinyls and had a huge collection. It was him that introduced me to EDM and DJing and that’s when I properly became interested in it. He gave me a USB stick of a bunch of EDM artists and songs, Martin Garrix, Knife Party, etc. I listened to a bunch of songs on YouTube, and that’s when I found Monstercat and became a huge fan of all of those artists. I downloaded Audacity, and would create my own mashups, which as you could guess, was awful because I knew nothing about music.
All this while still posting those random Minecraft and gaming videos on the YouTube.
Also in 2013 I got my own desktop gaming PC for my birthday, which was the best present.
I got to record my videos properly, edit them properly and take it serious. No more laggy laptops.
I spent 2014 doing just that, I made a lot of videos, I gained over 200 subscribers on the Tjayres2000 channel and every video was getting a few views and that meant a lot to me!
I was posting things I enjoyed and it seemed to slowly be paying of.
However, in 2014, I was getting bullied at school. A friend of mine had a clan, so I created a new channel, with a new name “N3RDF1RE”. I posted about 10 videos here, when the bullies found out that channel to. So my response? I permanently deleted them both. All the videos and progress, gone. Forever.
However, in 2015, through another cousin of mine, I made friends with 2 guys, Adam and Randall. Randall had a YouTube channel and I started helping him make thumbnails and edit his Call of Duty videos. After I deleted the channel, he asked if I wanted to join the channel, the clan, “Insane Gaming”. I became “Insane Cobra”.
Me, Adam, Randall and my friend from school Jake, all became “Insane” members, we played together on Xbox and I recorded SO many videos together with them over 3 years.
Around the same time, through another friend, I found out about producing music and FL Studio and I began my production journey there.
In July 2017, I saw Martin Garrix for the first time. Which was my first festival, first EDM show. MTV Crashes Plymouth. I was 16, and this really changed my life. I cried, I got goosebumps, I sang, I danced. I knew in that moment how much music meant to me, and how much I wanted that to be my life.
Earlier on in the year, in March, I put out my first ever “Kobrah” remix of Ed Sheeran – Shape of You. Not officially of course, just on Facebook. I was never a popular kid at school, but this got about 40 likes from people from school so it felt cool to me at the time, even though as you can imagine it was pretty awful.
Also in 2017, I started college studying Music Tech.
Throughout the summer I released a few small remixes to YouTube and SoundCloud under Kobrah, until I got a message on SoundCloud from someone called Kobrah, claiming they own the name, and that was enough for me to get scared into a name change. So I went back to “Insane Kobrah”. One day, I was trying to make a logo for this artist name, I put together: “I N” and “K O”, first 2 letters from each, then randomly the “S” and that spelt “INSKO”. I googled that, no one had it. I was now “Insko”.
In October 2017, I put out the first “Insko” song, “Kraken”. A really bad house track, but my first original song.