Not Just Friends, Superfriends

Here’s another track that I ‘ve really grown to love over the past month and just haven’t gotten around to posting. I’ve waxed poetic a few times about ZHU’s uniquely awesome mix of funk and EDM and I can think of no better case in point than Superfriends. It has a few edgy screwed up Hip Hop samples sprinkled throughout with the high pitched vocals we’ve come to expect from ZHU tracks.

I’d liken the track to San Francisco weather. It may start out sounding like an upbeat dance track, then ten seconds later it sounds like a Hip Hop track. But then a little later it adds in an intriguing chord progression, followed by more Hip Hop and finishing with a calmingly refreshing percussion led fade out. In other words, you can go a few seconds (blocks) and have a completely different sound (weather). Semi-confusing analogy aside, if you haven’t checked out ZHU’s debut EP, you’re missing the bus…#NightdayEP

ZHU - Superfriends

"Baby I'm Faded, All I Wanna Do is Take You Downtown"

Mysteriousness can be a cool thing when you're talented. I say that because It seems like the usual path to recognition for a musician these days is paved through lots of promotion$ and non-$top quality $ong$. A few weeks back I mentioned how much it grinds my gears that the top 1% of artists in the music industry make 77% of the profits. That's more broken that the distribution of wealth in the US, which is also a growing issue.

Needless to say, when someone comes out with a fresh, innovative track and doesn't even reveal their identity, that's something you've got to admire because it goes completely against the common path to success. Who knows maybe ZHU thought his remix of Ms Jackson would fall on deaf ears? Either way, he's got a new track out called Faded that resides somewhere between disco and house on the EDM spectrum. It's upbeat, deep and sultry vocals will reel you in like a helpless fish. Whoever ZHU is, I'm digging his style and he just released a debut Nightday EP on Sunday that I'll be checking out shortly...#ZHU

ZHU - Faded