Madeaux's dark and brazen bass-house is making an Impact

Tell us about what you've been working on lately.

I’ve been working with a bunch of dudes from Atlanta. I love rap, but hip hop is so different from dance music. Everything is a hassle. People are crazy, you’ll have a studio session on Saturday at 6PM and they’ll say “I’m on the way... Oh shit, I got held up at the strip club,” then the next day they’re still saying they’re on the way and they finally show up on Monday afternoon. Their timelines are ridiculous.

There’s people from literally everywhere on my new album. I really went in on A&R-ing it, finding vocalists from almost every continent besides Africa (and Antarctica). I’m bringing people together from all over. I have a track with Viktoria Modesta, who is the Latvian Lady Gaga, based in London and now Mexico City. She’s an intersection of art, fashion, music and I got her on a techno record with Cakes Da Killa.

Where do you hope to see the Madeaux project in five years?

If I can sell Dior shoes with this, I’m set. My friend Poter Elvinger, one of his tracks was used in a 2015 Versace campaign and it was such a moment. It happening during a time when I was feeling a lot of pressure from my management and from EDM trends… but then Poter, on the other hand, he just came out so strong, believing he had the best cover art, the best tracks. Nothing was dated, nothing was boring, formulaic. Then Versace signed him on for a campaign. I realized that if you just are dope and just do dope shit all the time, then it can happen for you.

If you honestly, sincerely do all you can without compromising, bending to trends or certain sounds - just be the best you can fucking be, and stay true to that, it will get in the hands in the right people.

Tell us about your Impact mix.

I made it into an anthology of all the stuff I’m listening to lately. It sits mid-tempo, somewhere between Maya Jane Coles and Gesaffelstein. It's a pretty far range; I liked the darkness of Gesaf, but tempered it with a loungey, funky vibe. There's a good rotation of house music and tech house. I always think that if you keep the energy consistent, the genre and tempo doesn’t really matter. I want to coin the term "apocalypse wild", dark but really funky... but dark. Fabulously dark.

'Burn' will be release in the summer of 2017 via Fool's Gold

Valerie Lee is Mixmag's US Digital Editor. Follow her on Twitter here

Track List:

Louisahhh!!! 'Ego'

Phantoms 'Throw It In The Fire'

SHADED 'I Bump U Bump'

Bjarki vs. Descender vs. Autoerotique 'iwannaFREAK' (Madeaux Edit)

Depeche Mode 'Personal Jesus' (Madeaux Cover)

Madeaux (feat. Tommy Lee Sparta) 'Demons'

Dillon Nathaniel 'Sly'

Mark Radford, Marcellus Wallace 'Who Can Hang'

ANGELZ 'Devils' (Gerry Gonza Remix)

Madeaux vs. Madame 'KillVOLTAGE' (Madeaux Edit)

Madeaux (feat. Tommy Lee Sparta) 'ID'

Misogi (feat. Manman Savage & Madeaux) 'SWERVIN''

AGLORY 'Dobermann'

Maceo Plex vs. Kanye West 'sexALLDAY' (Madeaux Edit)

Madeaux 'Never Say Never'

Maddjazz 'Throw Your Hands Up'

La Materialista 'Chapa Que Vibran'

Jace Mek 'Laughing Matter'

Dustycloud 'Last Chance'

Black Atlass & Madeaux vs. Cuz Lightyear 'AtlantaLOVE' (Madeaux VIP)

Giraffage (feat. Thea) 'Bring Me Your Love' (Madeaux Remix)

LO'99 & Sinden '2NITE'

Dombresky 'Technikal'

Dombresky 'Utopia' (Madeaux Remix)

Strange Club 'Disco'

Reid Stefan 'SHIA' (Madeaux Remix)

ojivolta (feat. Jon Bellion) 'Game Plan' (Madeaux Remix)

Beach Season 'Tribes' (Madeaux Remix)

Taiki Nulight 'Double Agent'

Madeaux (feat. Kaleena Zanders) 'New Wav' (Wuki Remix)

Madeaux 'ID'