WATAPACHI

Trap music is pretty mental. We can all agree on this right? The reason for this, according to some inside sources, is that it's white people making, appreciating, and then dancing to, black music. Anyone who's been in a club with trap music playing has seen that white girl trying, and failing, to get a ghetto booty bounce going. Now imagine if you take this mental music, and get inhabitants of the most mental nation in the world (clearly Japan) to produce it.

Damn right, WATAPACHI are a production/DJ duo from Tokyo, Japan. Let the carnage ensue.

What I particularly like about them is how in tracks like the above "Play" they achieve the hard-hitting effect that is desired not through ostentatious, in-your-face high pitched leads, but rather through understated but definitively acidy broken up lead lines.

"Let's Get Ratchet" is the track that first introduced me to them, and I fell in love at first experience. The appropriately ghetto samples about phat asses and getting ratchet just get me in the mood to go full mental in a club. After repeat sober listening I'm starting to find the sirens a bit irritating, but I'm sure in the right (club) atmosphere they would really get me going.

Out in the street, this track is almost referred to as murder. Great sample, great tune. Full stop.

More acidy leads here, sounds sick as hell. Makes my face do that "OOOOOOOHSHIII" expression. Business as usual.


And now for something a bit gritter. Grind just gets so damn dirty, especially compared to the cleaner type stuff we saw above. Really really sick.

Just for the purpose of showing their versatility, here you can listen to a Floss-type, trapstyle rythm, and you can listen to some of their more chilled out/trippy stuff here, here and here.

These guys are sick, and this is just a selection of some of their many many great tracks, so check them out properly for yourselves at https://soundcloud.com/watapachi.

CRNKN- New trap

CRNKN is a 19-year old producer and a skilled maker of trap-influenced EDM from the very un-ghetto New Hampshire, USA. He has been making some waves with his recent productions, enough to get support from BBC Radio 1 and artists such as Flosstradamus and Foreign Beggars. Indeed, he's got big enough to merit collaborating with UZ on the sick track "Booty 2 the Ground".



Another huge track of his you should absolutely listen to is his remix of Die Antwoort's epic track "I Fink U Freeky". He keeps the flow of the original and uses the vocal track to perfection for a huge skanking classic.



For something on the more destructive, acid-lead side of trap, you can listen to his killer collaboration with Protohype,"Boom".



Not only is the man super skilled at producing, he's also got a sense of humour. Or at least, I assume that his Cascada remix is him trolling the shit out of us. The best part is, even if it is, it turns out to be a sick track. Until 1:20 it sounds like it will just be a cheesy remix of a cheesy song. Then he drops into crazy trap mode and evolves into a hard-hitting track which just makes me want to move.


He also puts a stroong mix together when he wants to. Listen to his Trillionaire Mixtape, enjoy.


All of these beauts have download links up in the corner of the widget.

Flosstradamus & Trap

Flosstradamus are a DJ/Producer duo from Chicago whose tracks come in a variety of musical styles. The Major Lazer remix displayed above is a prime example of the little known genre Trap, a variant of Dirty South rap music. They've had some big releases recently on labels such as Mad Decent and Fool's Gold, and have collaborated with big names like Diplo on tracks such as this remix of Usher's "Climax", another fine example of Trap music. You should also give this Ludacris remix a listen.

As well as big remixes, they have some astounding originals such as MOTA, a track from their recent Total Recall EP.

Another good example of Trap would be this sick Gotye remix.


Original Don remix download

Climax remix download

MOTA download

Hood Fantasy download