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Love her or hate her, you can’t deny that Billie Eilish is a massive part of the contemporary music scene, if she’s not putting out attitude-driven earworms herself, she’s inspiring other artists and making them realise that it’s okay to play around with the darker side of aural experimentalism.

One artist using Billie Eilish as an influence in their Witch Trance EDM soundscapes is the up and coming German artist FUREA. Their latest single “This Can’t Be Happening” is the perfect introduction to their fiery and melodic yet volatile approach to sound.

Even with the wavy transcendental Trap House vocals the sentiment behind This Can’t Be Happening will hit you like a brick. The single perfectly encapsulates the anxiety which many generations have already grown up in. Our culture breeds fear, but thankfully, it also breeds artists such as FUREA who make the existential dread a little more tolerable.

You can check out FUREA’s latest single This Can’t Be Happening for yourselves by heading over to SoundCloud now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Enig_Mos’s latest mix “Take Me Away” may start out as a hazily rhythmic offering of ambiently explorative Electronica. Yet, the up and coming artist deviously throws you into a mix of harsh experimental Drum n’ Bass House mid-way through the track, and you start to appreciate the futility in the attempts to predict just what is coming next.

With the 4-minute mostly instrumental mix you get little warning before you’re thrown into high-octane servings of bass, so, it’s probably better if you just let yourself surrender to the constantly evolving rhythmic pulses as they move through the seamless progressions of Trap, Drum n’ Bass, and ambience.

You can check out Enig_Mos’s latest release Take Me Away for yourselves by heading over to SoundCloud now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

If you really want to give your headphones a run for their money, crank up the volume and hit play on the latest single “Stab It” from the breaking artist, DJ, and producer JP Backhouse.

The hard-hitting reverberance of the bass rattles through a multiculturally-inspired mix where you’ll find plenty of influence from Latin and Caribbean rhythms. But don’t worry, you’ll still get all of the accessibility of a solely Western mix yet, the exotic vibrancy replaces the sterility which is often easily found in EDM music. The lyrics in Stab It may be few and far between, but the beats alone will feed you all the visceral emotion you need in this captivating aural storm of a track which club DJs will surely want to make a playlist essential.

You can check out JP Backhouse’s latest drop for yourselves by heading over to Spotify now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Combining electronic beats with experimental sound effects that converge into a final futuristic pop style, Chinese producer/songwriter Sihan has just released his new single ‘In My Space’. 

Following his previous project ‘Just My Type’, ‘In My Space’ ranks as his first International single once again featuring Hong-Kong based artist Celine. Her vocals complement the ambience feel and achieve a unique pop-EDM solution.

Inspired by artists such as Skrillex and Diplo, who have definitely placed their footprint on his style, Sihan started producing music at 14 and has created music for brands as Vogue and Sephora. As for today, he counts over 20 million streams across Chinese streaming platforms.

Futuristic EDM Pop producer JsapDaMusikNerd’s latest mix “SummaWav” hasn’t failed to amass plenty of attention from fans looking for the freshest summer beats to add to their playlists. Despite the momentum contained within “SummaWav” the single is still smoothly melodic through each ebb and flow of euphoria. The female Pop vocals also offer an incredible dynamic to the mix, while they don’t offer a strong narrative, they’re incredibly effective when it comes to pouring plenty of sun-kissed imagery into SummaWav.

The incredibly danceable beats which were cooked up by the Kansas City-based artist allow you to appreciate a simple, yet incredibly immersive soundscape. Usually, when artists incorporate futurism into their tracks, the accessibility can be stifled. Yet, with over 100k streams on SoundCloud alone, it’s safe to say that plenty of listeners would agree with me.

You can check out JsapDaMusikNerd’s latest mix SummaWav for yourselves by heading over to SoundCloud now.

Review by Amelia Vandergast