After a decade spent outrunning the sound that made him, the lure pioneer’s six-track EP sprints again into it.
What So Not spent the higher a part of a decade outrunning his personal shadow. At present, he turns round and embraces it along with his new EP, I SAW A TRAP DJ AND IT CHANGED MY BIO CHEMISTRY.
The undertaking serves because the Australian producer’s reckoning with the lure and future bass motion he helped architect within the 2010s. In Could, he wiped his socials to announce the undertaking, admitting he’d been “working away from a sound I helped create.” The singles ‘Everest,’ ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘Sweet Flipping’ arrived throughout the summer season, every sharpening the imaginative and prescient.
The six-track EP opens with ‘Sweet Flipping,’ the place slippery basslines coil beneath bars from NERVE, a Brisbane rapper cast in Australia’s grime circuit. He’s countered by Ukrainian vocalist Alina Pash, whose self-described mix of shamanic custom and laborious electronics runs by means of three of the six tracks.
‘Mona Lisa’ sees What So Not uniting with Mr. Carmack, a fellow architect of the period, whose wonky lure sonics collide with flashy braggadocio. What So Not has stated he stored processing the monitor’s central riff “tougher and stupider,” delighting in its mounting absurdity. It reveals, gloriously.
The report breathes on ‘Wires and Webs,’ a lightweight, ethereal breakbeat reduce with Elohim constructed on heat, wafting synths and relaxed vocal work, earlier than ‘Trash’ blows the doorways again off. Pash returns to shut ‘I Don’t Wanna Go away But’ with an angelic half-minute outro.
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