ARKTKT is known for consistently blurring the lines between radio-ready pop and modern electronic music. As a producer, songwriter and vocalist himself, the New Jersey-based artist draws upon his classically-trained jazz background and creative sound design methods to push boundaries with each and every release. With additional writing credits for the gold-certified YBN Mixtape, there’s no denying ARKTKT’s deep set…
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The first beat of the song hits. Your pupils dilate and the hairs on your arms stand at attention, saluting the sounds much like an armed service officer honors a flag. A cold chill rushes up your spine like electricity giving you that almost unobservable little shake as your body settles into the same frequency as the vibrations that are…
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Baltimore producer, Runnit, has been absolutely tearing up the underground bass music scene lately. With massive originals and collabs (see ‘Mug Club V1,’ a huge 9 person collab Runnit orchestrated), he is paving his own lane with forward-thinking, trap influenced bangers. Runnit fuses a lot of hip-hop vocals into his productions, but also implores a gritty sound design that remains delightfully…
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“I’ve been waiting for a couple of months to release this one and I’m so excited to finally get to share it with you. I set out with a goal to write a song that sounded like if Flume and I were to collaborate together and I couldn’t be happier with how the track turned out.” It seems as though…
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Some of the best electronic remixes are crafted from tracks that fall way outside the wide umbrella of a genre, or fall within the grey area between electronic and pop, hip-hop or indie. The reason for this is that artists are given so much freedom to re-envision these tracks without being influenced by the original too much, allowing them to…
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Skrillex season is in full effect. The last month has seen the legendary producer unleash his Show Tracks EP before releasing his second collaboration with TroyBoi, and the months prior have seen a steady flux of new music from the production wizard. Furthermore, 2019 marks the official return of Dog Blood, where Skrillex and Boys Noize have taken the world…
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Back in 2017 we featured an incredibly talented artist by the name of Keenan Mathias. His songs ‘maple,’ ‘busta bus’ and ‘East Coast’ showed immense promise, drawing inspiration from artists like Mr. Carmack and QUIX. Despite becoming a SoundCloud favourite, the producer seemed to nearly disappear, without any releases for nearly an entire year. In May, he gave us a…
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Zachary Camner, also known as Camnah, has seen incredible amounts of growth both in his own career and of his merry band of fellow Spicy Bois in 2019. Right before the beginning of the year he released his first collaboration with Old Gregg ‘Run It Up’ onto the label to major praise for his sound design and organization. Now, just,…
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Decap & JNTHN STEIN Go Extraterrestrial With ‘Which Planet R U From?’
by Victor Lovoby Victor LovoIt’s not often that an artist comes around who is always comfortable trying new things and cannot be held within the confines of genres, and Decap truly embodies those characteristics. The San Fransisco based artist pulls elements from a variety of genres to including pop, hip hop, and electronic music to create his own musical space and genre know as…
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“Me and A$AP Ferg preaching back to back on the verse, Hit-Boy on the beat so bitch you gotta go bezerk” – Big Sean Fresh off dropping ‘Overtime’ and ‘Single Again,’ Big Sean returns with another heater in ‘Bezerk.’ The track sees Sean trading bars with A$AP Ferg over a snapping Hit-Boy beat. With top-tier chemistry the emcess trade bars…