Portland welcomes Toronto based DJ and producer Grandtheft tonight at downtown’s Whiskey Bar. With him will come a spate of dance music genres that are bound to elicit a couple of “HEY” chants from the crowd – a sampling of his songs have been added to the Pump U playlist, listen below for trap (Technicolor edit, Keep it 100 ), jersey club (Heavy Hitterz), big room (Close remix) and some top notch top 40 remixes.
Moscow based 813, real name Alexander Goryachev, is apparently a firefighter who also spends his time creating frenetic-future-club music. It’s high energy, near-ADD sounding stuff that continues to impress me the more I listen. The first song I heard made me realize I have an affinity for unintelligible vocal samples – at 1:27 an amazing chorus kicks that I completely do not understand. I picked out a couple of other favorites and put them in a playlist below:
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