Over the last few years, Tape B has consistently found himself mentioned on lists of the top up-and-coming bass music acts.While the EDM.com Class of 2025 star is still fairly new to notoriety, his recent two-night headline of Colorado’s iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre solidified that ‘up-and-coming’ is no longer a necessary descriptor when ‘world-class producer and performer’ applies just the same.
Hallow Rocks 2026 offered nearly three and a half hours of Tape B performances across October 8th and 9th, with each evening built as an homage to a different corner of a project that has become increasingly difficult to convey in a single set.Thursday belonged to ‘Driptapes,’ his beloved series of rap flips and mixtape sensibilities, while Friday’s old-school/new-school set dug deeper into dubstep history and his expanding catalog of originals, especially those from his new album, Ghosts in the Static.
Both nights felt complete.Night one announced its intentions immediately with a Halloween-ready mashup of Kodak Black’s ‘Halloween’ and ‘Codeine Dreaming.’ From there, Tape B moved through a parade of hip-hip touchstones from artists including Future, Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne, filtering familiar vocals through the powerful low ends that have made him arguably the preeminent bridge between 2010s rap nostalgia and contemporary bass music.
Scroll to continue more from edm 5 of the Best Moments From John Summit’s 2026 Experts Only Festival Rap flips have become ubiquitous across SoundCloud and live bass sets, but few producers fuse the two with Tape B’s buttery smoothness and filthy sound design.On Thursday, he even brought out Tape P, the previously unidentified SoundCloud producer whose remixes have periodically surfaced in Tape B sets, including a particularly nasty rework of ‘Hot One.’ Friday immediately felt different.
Tape B emerged with a heavy riddim mashup that eff...