The Perfect Strain of EDM for Futuristic Animation

It feels like you have to have some sort of schtick to stand out these days in the world of electronic music. Skrillex has the whole spaceship thing going on with his live performance, while deadmau5 has always had the big mouse head. A lot of it is branding, but it's understandable why someone would see a need to try and carve their own niche in a genre that is expanding with new artists by the second.

Recently RL Grime decided that his new album was going to be known for killer sci-fi, space age warfare stuff. Every single release from his recently released album Void has been accompanied with some form of crazy futuristic airborne theme. It's hard to imagine any other type of music other than trap being played as the soundtrack to his animated movies, but suffice to say, the rhythms do the visuals justice. It's half head nodding tribal goodness, half loud raucous bass. Not sure about what you think of that mix, but in my eyes, that's a formula for awesome...#Valhalla

Scylla Gets After It, Filling RL Grime's Upcoming Void

RL Grime's new album Void comes out on November 17th. Why does that matter you ask? A month back RL gave us the first good reason in the form of Reminder and now he has taken our modest expectations and thrown gasoline all over it with Scylla.

My goodness, between the bass and aggressive synths, the track below gets AFTER IT! My suggestion is to have that seatbelt fastened when you hit the drops around the 1:08 and 3:25 marks. Unless you are feeling like getting a speeding ticket or wilding out like nobody is lookin', I'd exercise extreme caution and consume accordingly...#Scylla

RL Grime - Scylla

RL Grime Reminds of "When You Were Mine"

...speaking of stepping outside of an artist's usual sound, I did not see this coming from RL Grime. After hearing his latest single, Core, I was pretty convinced that RL's upcoming album (Void) was going to be chalked full of loud, bangin' trap music. Then I heard his new track Reminder, which flipped the script completely, similarly to his album announcement video (below)...
Featuring the vocals of Justin Timberlake How to Dress Well, Reminder is more of a power ballad than anything. It's methodical, emotional and sounds more like a track The Weeknd would have put together. Whatever the case, it's an intriguing development in the sound of RL's debut release...#RLGrime

RL Grime feat How To Dress Well - Reminder