In Session: Matrixxman

While Matrixxman has now carved out his sound, he spent a number of years flitting between styles, growing up on broad diet spanning hip hop, drum ‘n’ bass, dancehall and garage, and producing for rappers Le1f and Mykki Blanco in his earlier works. But as time went on, he began to be drawn more and more towards the futuristic potential of techno as a genre.

“You could literally go out and get a field recording of static hiss and weird noise and put a kick drum on that and, if you manipulate it right, you can have a compelling techno track. You can’t do that with rap, you can’t do that with other traditional genres,” he commented to RBMA, noting his inclination to techno as the ideal outlet to express his conceptual interests.

He’s also moved around a lot geographically in his time. After growing up in Virginia, he cut a path all over the US and lived in Japan for a while, before relocating to Berlin in 2015 where he currently resides. Although his debut album, released in the same year, was titled ‘Homesick’, it doesn’t relate to personal feeling. Just yesterday he stated he is “fucking really glad” he left America in light of the election of Donald Trump. The German capital also provides a charmingly bleak setting that is perfect to channel into his style of music, as this tweet reflects.

Matrixxman’s In Session mix is not for the faint-hearted. It's defined by dark, hammering beats that hit with the relentlessness of rocket-fuel powered piston, and features unreleased material, from himself, UVB and Pris. Lock yourself in below.

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