What So Not spent the better part of a decade outrunning his own shadow.Today, he turns around and embraces it with his new EP, I SAW A TRAP DJ AND IT CHANGED MY BIO CHEMISTRY.
Ad 0:00 Click for sound 0:00 / 0:00 The project serves as the Australian producer’s reckoning with the trap and future bass movement he helped architect in the 2010s.In May, he wiped his socials to announce the project, admitting he’d been “running away from a sound I helped create.” The singles ‘Everest,’ ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘Candy Flipping’ arrived across the summer, each sharpening the vision.
The six-track EP opens with ‘Candy Flipping,’ where slippery basslines coil beneath bars from NERVE, a Brisbane rapper forged in Australia’s grime circuit.He’s countered by Ukrainian vocalist Alina Pash, whose self-described blend of shamanic tradition and hard electronics runs through three of the six tracks.
‘Mona Lisa’ sees What So Not uniting with Mr.Carmack, a fellow architect of the era, whose wonky trap sonics collide with flashy braggadocio.
What So Not has said he kept processing the track’s central riff “harder and stupider,” delighting in its mounting absurdity.It shows, gloriously.
The record breathes on ‘Wires and Webs,’ a light, airy breakbeat cut with Elohim built on warm, wafting synths and relaxed vocal work, before ‘Trash’ blows the doors back off.Pash returns to close ‘I Don’t Wanna Leave Yet’ with an angelic half-minute outro.
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