Saka is Driving By Rush Hour: L.A.-based worldwide producer Saka obtained his begin DJing when he was in school in 2014.
“Once I first began DJing, it was in school again in 2014,” he says. “On the time I used to be principally enjoying tech home, and it was positively extra informal. I didn’t begin producing till after I completed faculty & was working a full time job. I began making 4 on the ground, obtained uninterested in it, and began making extra beat-oriented stuff a la lofi hip-hop. I positively obtained hooked on the method, nevertheless it wasn’t critical till I began my present undertaking, Saka, within the Fall of 2018.”
Saka says that his sound comes from a wide range of locations and areas.
“I draw inspiration from my very own experiences / heritage, many corners of leftfield digital in addition to hip hop,” he says. “Whereas I feel I’m primarily identified for my ‘halftime’ drum and bass cuts specifically, I feel my sonic id usually sits between 128-172 BPM. Wherever from swampy, sludgy bangers to melodic, cathartic soundscapes.”
The artist says that digital music is at the moment in an fascinating place.
“There are thrilling issues occurring in pockets, in addition to stale concepts being recycled in different pockets (pockets normally extra gilded than the previous),” he says. “That being stated, I’m tremendous excited for the underground in the meanwhile, esp. in terms of bass music that doesn’t essentially match beneath the ‘brostep’ umbrella… drum & bass and 140 (dubstep w extra UK tendencies) is on the rise and it’s actually cool to look at unfold!”
His newest launch is the Rush Hour EP.
“When Carl (Black Carl!) and I first met on SoundCloud again in 2018, we joked that if we ever collabed on a monitor that it’d be referred to as ‘Rush Hour’ as an homage to the film, significantly bc we have been the one Asian / Black individuals in our circle of producers on the time and since we had an analogous dynamic to the Jackie Chan / Chris Tucker duo,” he says. “4 years later, our one monitor changed into an EP, together with options from a few of our pals (The Lie Inside Callie & our tourmate Protial)! We watched the films and wrote tracks based mostly on totally different scenes of the film (with out truly sampling something out of copyright fears) and put collectively our sonic palettes for the tape.”
Wanting forward, Aka has a lot deliberate for the remainder of the yr.
“The Rush Hour tour continues till the tip of November, and I’ll be supporting Peekaboo in addition to Slander on a couple of dates with competition appearances at EDC Orlando and Countdown NYE,” he says. “Acquired my first merch drop on the way in which as nicely which I’m very excited for!”
Saka is Driving By Rush Hour: The Rush Hour EP is out now.
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