Trap/Twerk

Josh Pan, Medasin, X&G – 3 of the year’s most original and interesting talents. For SoundCloud fiends seeing them come together for a tune was a fantasy. That is until today, when it became a reality. ‘no face’ is a menacing and icy tune that conjures images of walking through a snow dusted forest at dusk (with something looming in the distance). Josh Pan’s…

Toronto trio Keys N Krates dropped their third single from the upcoming Midnite Mass EP. ‘U Already Know’ features a crazy drum arrangement to open the track combined with a nasty vocal chop and keys that lead to an incredible drop. When you hear it there’s no way you can not go buck to the horns on this banger. ‘U Already Know’…

TroyBoi recently linked up with BYP to make a banger sure to bump hard in your speakers. The track features trippy sounds combined with hard hitting drums while BYP drops the perfect party bars. TroyBoi’s collaborative tracks keep getting better from the production side and its clear the boi won’t stop anytime soon.

One of the year’s most inventive musical minds, Woolymammoth, has finally unleashed his debut EP. Tricks fuses hard hitting bass with experimental sound design, transporting listeners into a dimension of darkness. The opening vocals of ‘butane’ are encouraging (“don’t be scared”) but the hopeful optimism is obliterated by a buzz saw warning that’s coupled with ample low end bass. ‘goom’ builds anxiety through a…

Noisey, the main music arm of the ever-expanding Vice Media, has just released a worthwhile documentary about Glasgow-born producer Hudson Mohawke. The celebrated producer is well known for his hard hitting beats, innovative sound and collaborative project, TNGHT, with Montreal-born producer Lunice.  HudMo quickly rose to popularity around 2010 shortly after the release of his first studio album Butter in 2009. After being…

When Herobust announced his upcoming EP I’m Aloud with the release of ‘Smother Shit’, he told fans that he wanted to be the change he wanted to see. This meant really pushing the envelope, leaving the safe and tried and true sounds for something more creative. Although ‘Smother Shit’ proved he wasn’t playing, it’s his second single, ‘Dirty Work’ that really illustrates…

Toronto based artists Drew Howard and Birthday Boy just released their new collaborative EP via The Fader, and it captures the 6 perfectly. The soundscape in the city of Toronto changed in the past six years when producers started creating more trappy beats moving away from the boom-bap influence of East Coast rap. The six track EP features smooth Trap…

I first encountered Branchez in 2013, when he made me fall in love with a Rihanna track. Since then he’s continued to impress with stellar reworks for What So Not and Wet, plus one of the hottest originals of 2014 (‘Truth’). Today, the NY producer is back with another one that guaranteed to leave your brain blown. ‘Cuenta’ packs everything from verbal gun shots,…

Brilly Twonka aka Yung Brillionaire aka Netflix and Brill aka Brillz is back with something massive. Geekin is a four track offering that’s guaranteed to appease the bass gods (and heads!). The title track kicks it off with a true trap feel. Knockin 808’s, an abundance of bass, sinister horns and Que as ignorant as ever all combine and culminate…

Woolymammoth and Tsuruda are both highly regarded for their immensely inventive and often dark sounds. So when the two come together for a song it’s only fitting that those attributes are magnified exponentially. Working on a remix for Crooked Colours, they drag the already downtempo ‘Step’ into a deep abyss. A minimal backdrop allows the haunting vocals to take an even…