Native to Santa Cruz, Michael Petzel is swiftly approaching a decade-long career producing and performing a diverse scope of bass music under the intergalactic guise Shlump. Grazing freely between varieties of glitch-hop and dubstep, Petzel’s style composes influence from west coast hip-hop and early 2000s breaks as depicted in early projects, such as Hydro released via MalLabel Music in 2014.
Maintaining a proclivity for quick cuts and hip-hop sampling, Petzel has leveraged the modern era of bass music as a point of transition for his own style, shifting towards the untrampled grounds of leftfield bass in 2016, marked indistinguishably with the release of his Fracture EP via ShadowTrix and the closely preceding Like a Drug EP via Wakaan Records.
Shlump envisions the exploration of a vacated foreign planet in his latest System Crash EP as his voyage dives deeper into the experimental nether. Jagged ranges of mountainous bass scatter the surface of the distant domain providing the immediate perception of depth, while slanted digital crevices provide an overall exquisite texture that permeates each track from the project.
Be sure to check out Shlump’s four-course audible feast below, out now via Wakaan Records.
